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Help With Determining Origin And Price Of Penny Black / Blue

 
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Posted 05/02/2012   01:12 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add stargazer713 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Does anyone know where this framed Penny Black and Two-Penny blue comes from? Also, how much do you think this is worth? Thanks!

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Posted 05/02/2012   04:07 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add xyL to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is a buyers market at the moment, you have no chance of getting catlogue valuations, best advice is to hang onto it, until we all get out of the recession.
For an accurate evaluation you would need to determine the plate numbers and watermarks of the stamps.
The stamps come from England, the country that invented stamps and philately.
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Posted 05/02/2012   05:53 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rohumpy to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is somewhat difficult to tell, but the Two Penny Blue appears to have white lines below the word "postage" and above the words "two pence". This means that it is not the original Two Penny Blue, but the modified design. It properly belongs with the Penny Red, the color of the Penny Black being changed fairly soon due to the difficulty of cancelling the original black color properly.

I do see that the date under the two pence stamp is 1841, which means that the creator of the sheet recognized that the two pence stamp was not the original two pence stamp issued contemporaneously with the Penny Black.
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Posted 05/02/2012   07:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add djd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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I believe that this was one the Stanley Gibbons "Investment Advertisements" In the Eighties.
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Posted 05/02/2012   2:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stargazer713 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for everyone's replies! Gibbons? Hmm anyone know what this symbol is then?

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Posted 05/03/2012   08:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add xyL to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting to note that Gibbons refers to the 'two penny blue', when it is in fact a two pence stamp.
Penny is singular, pence is plural.
Shows even experts can have bad grammar.
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