A Nice New Personal Acquisition :)

I've been looking for one of these since I started collecting again, and managed to get one a few days ago. My real name is Kevin Dalby..look at the bottom corner letters :)

Interesting! Is it possible for everyone to find their initials on a penny red? Or were some letters not used?

I think Warren Zevon is out of luck.

A treasure! Good on you!

Great looking Penny Red Maiden

Dianne

Maiden, nice acquisition - plate 90 ?

Good score! Really neat to have your initials on a real Penny Red! Wonder if their is an J F ?

Not possible for everyone unfortunately.

The letters are check letters for security. So a person could not cut apart a stamp and use one part with certain letters with another part with non-matching letters to make a whole stamp and use that for the postage required.

The stamps were printed in plates of 240 stamps each, of 20 rows of 12 stamps each.

Row 1
AA AB AC to AL

Row 2
BA BB BC to BL

Row 20
TA TB TC to TL

For those of us (like me) whose initials do not fit within the Queen Victoria era corner letters we have to make do with some other favorite initials or combination of letters.

A site called
Great Britain: Line Engraved Victoria Made Easy by Wm F Blank
http://kernunnos.com/Philately/GBQVLE.html

yup plate 90




http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...l-Categories

Type in "penny red initial initial" in the search function of ebay to find your own initialed penny red stamps for sale.

To wit:
I typed in penny red jj and got eleven examples! cool!

Rod, you are correct Warren Zevon is out of luck...now if anything happens to Bob Dylan my son will be devestated

On many levels. (I miss him!)

For someone who has been a lifetime intermittent collector (is that an oxymoron?) is this stamp Great Britain Scott#33 issued in 1864?

Some people take this to the extreme - here's an exhibit, nicely subtitled "The Vanity and the Insanity".

http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0106/index0106a.htm

Ryan

Wow! I thought a liitle side collection of my initials on stamps would be nice, but that is insane :)

The exhibit of the plates and covers of the penny black and the penny red imperf is impressive. I wonder just how much time was needed to get all the RF letters. Also, where are the sources necessary for the extensive searching? Also, pretty deep pockets were needed. All in all a great effort and exhibit.

Oh---didn't mean to forget congratulating Maiden on the stamp with the initials. Good for you.