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Help Identifying Queen Victoria Stamp

 
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Posted 05/16/2012   1:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add stamp4life to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Could someone please identify this stamp for me with a Catalog number.

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Posted 05/16/2012   1:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Wadmalatz to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I may be wrong, but I guess this is part of a newspaper wrapper.
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Posted 05/16/2012   1:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stallzer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
1890 Great Britain Newspaper wrapper.
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Posted 05/16/2012   1:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mhc99 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I just noticed that the postmark on the Queen Victoria newspaper wrapper is dated 1912. I have a book that stated Queen Victoria and Edward VII stamps were no longer valid for postage about a year or so after their deaths. Queen Victoria died in 1901 so should this wrapper still have been in use in 1912?
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Posted 05/16/2012   2:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamp4life to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank You Wadmalatz & Stallzer


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Posted 05/16/2012   2:11 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamp4life to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
mhc99 I just saw your post. Here is a picture of the envelope and yes I believe the postmark says 1912.

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Posted 05/16/2012   3:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mhc99 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Stamp4life, thanks for uploading a scan of the envelope. With regard to the date of the postmark, I have a book entitled "The story of Great Britain and her stamps" by James A Mackay wherein on page 51 he reports about the demonetization of Queen Victoria and Edward VII stamps after the deaths of the monarchs. The following sentences pertain:" Within a year after Queen Victoria's death her stamps had been demonetized and replaced by the Edwardian series." Further in the same paragraph, Mackay also states: "The Edwardian series was gradually superseded and demonetized (i.e. no longer regarded as valid for the prepayment of postage). No such demonetization followed the obsoletion of the George V series and, in fact, all British stamps since the ˝d and 1d of 1911 are still valid for postage."
This is why I am wondering about the 1912 postmark on the QV wrapper.
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Posted 05/16/2012   4:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I understand this demonitisation was a gradual process and the official last date for accepting Queen Victoria stamps was 30th June 1915.
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Posted 05/16/2012   4:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi stamp4life,

I'm intrigued why you have hidden the addresses on this cover. I can understand doing this for very recent private addresses but not for a commercial address from 1912.

I assume that the sender was the famous Whitfield King business and that old postal stationery cut-outs were being used up while they still had postal value and to make a favourable impact on his customers.
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Posted 05/16/2012   4:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add mhc99 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nigelc, thanks for clarifying thatthe QV stamps/postal stationery were still accepted until mid-1915.
Regards
Mike
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Edited by mhc99 - 05/16/2012 5:24 pm
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Posted 05/16/2012   6:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stamp4life to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Mhc for the input & Nigelc for the clarifications.
Nigelc, good question! not sure how to answer :) a matter of practice?
Yes, the sender is Whitfield King and Co. Interesting to read what you had to say about the cutouts!.

Ann
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