England's First Decimal Stamps.

Oddly enough...these may be them.

(and not a Queen's head in sight)

What is a decimal stamp? Very funny stamps.

What's the story with the tan-colored one? It looks imperforate and not rouletted perfs like the other two. Also, it has no denomination. Maybe that was the type used in the previous month (January 1971)?

Timbres: means "decimal currency" - as in 100 pence to the pound; instead of pounds, shillings, crowns, half crowns and pence - a weird system that only the British understood.

Well spotted wt1,
the tan one was an image from a mail strike page,
hence no idea, but yes, very strange.
It could not be January, because the labels would/should have been in
denarius currency.

Decimal Stamp:
Under the old currency of pounds, shillings and pence, the pound was made up of 240 pence (denoted by the letter d for Latin denarius and now referred to as "old pence"), with 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings (denoted by s for Latin solidus) in a pound. Especially in an era before widespread computer use, monetary calculation, such as adding up sums of money, was more complicated than with a decimal currency.

The new currency (decimal currency) had 100 (new) pence to the pound.

Old currency = 5d = 5 pence
Decimal Currency = 5p = 5 new pence

Hope that makes sense.

I bet the Queen got the hump when she saw these !

Careful Lb, "got the hump" could be misunderstood in Aust

Interestingly, I note the Dromoderry post
is listed under "a stamp from everywhere"
(currently finishing on 5,195 places on the planet.)

I know these are not the "decimal stamps" but I saw these on an auction site today ... I thought it was rather clever that they used the wheels of the truck to identify the different denominations:

One of my favourites!
The "Morry Minor" (Morris Minor van)
a fantastic 4 cyl vehicle, one could stand on the
front mudguard, without nary a dent.
Great British Engineering.

Actully your stamps are mixed currency, so, in part
they are decimal stamps

Moonbird

Thank you for the explanation. I like your avatar. I look like this sometime and not only when I wake up. Daniel

There are more !
Go here to see the full set

https://goscf.com/t/7121&whichpage=3

I assumed this was one of Rod's jokes.

After all, the term for camels is correctly spelled DROMEDARY ... ???

KS

I wondered if they were for Derry (aka Londonderry) in Northern Ireland?