I don't have a BOB for Great Britain and my catalog is 1991, so I could use some help with catalog numbers and near value. I also am not sure why the original owner put two 7d Machins on this beautiful envelope. Obviously for use (but never got used). Thanks in advance - Jeff
You have a GB postal stationery envelope, Circa 1967 with two Emerald Green defins [7d] Scott# 502. The extra stamps 1s 2d plus the 4d made it 1s 6d, the first rate cost of a letter to the USA at that time. So I imagine someone thought about writing to some far-flung nation, even adding the etiquette, then changed their mind.
It is enough to know that it was the amount for 1st class to US. Must have been somone visiting and was going to mail home, didn't and brought the envelope with them. And let it become mine.
Do you have a good and readily accessible source for GB postal rates? I don't see anything in my SG 2010 Concise and in the SG GB QEII pre decimal specialized (11th ed), it only seems to cover inland rates. Is it in one of these and I'm missing it or is there a good source elsewhere?
You will find domestic rates 1966-2006 including a page for PiP {Pricing in Proportion}. The latter should be a venture in itself.....so see you next year when you learned it !
International rates are only after 2000 except USA which is 1968-2000.
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Posted 01/31/2011 3:49 pm
