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Great Britain : On Steiner Pages.

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Posted 01/04/2023   09:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Downey Heads Dies
(The hand stops at bottom of the Caduceus staff)
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Brightmore Queen Victoria Post Cards Overseas 1892 and 1899

3 from the same sender at 18 Digby Crescent, Finsbury Park.
Crescent? Looks like a straight road to me.
What may that be in the road like a little Hutch.




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Posted 01/05/2023   12:34 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add 22crows to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
On the road might be a Bikehanger of some sort:

https://cyclehoop.com/product/bikehangar/

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Posted 01/05/2023   01:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow! I saw the bike image on the side, but it looked rather small
So a Community resource, I like it!
Thanks.



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Digby Crescent in Finsbury Park



The Crescent is the part that intersects with Brownswood Road. It then straightens out, until there is a slight curve towards the intersection with Queen's drive.
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Royal Mail's latest cultural contribution

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...al-12-stamps

Britain still lacks stamps honouring most of its major writers, but we have an endless series of tributes to inane pop groups, children's books and children's TV series.
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Posted 01/05/2023   02:46 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Aha! yes I see Digby now.
Would that be Georgian architecture 1714-1837 , or Victorian?
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The arched porticos are very much revival. I would say its Victorian.
Georgian architecture has simpler windows.
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Simpler, and more, smaller panes.

I've seen a few of the bike lockers around. Parking anything in London is a challenge, especially as most larger houses have been converted into flats.
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Thanks, I had them as Georgian, windows henceforth noted.
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I looked at one of the houses for sale. The descript said "Victorian." Also the Finsbury Park was developed from ca. 1860. Good chance the housing in the area will not be older than that, as it is not central London.
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STO (Stamped to order ) Stationery
Including an UNUSUAL STO Lettersheet example.
Any suggestions on colour? I have "Fawn" or "Salmon"


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How to waste 30 minutes searching for something that does not exist.

GB PERFIN GLVN turns out to be PERFIN GLYN

Glyn, Mills & Co, a London bank; a bank which eventually came under the ownership of the Royal Bank of Scotland

Time to search your GLYN perfins for the printing error.


Bib: Perfin Society
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Hi Rod,

Here are a few more GLYN perfins:

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Posted 01/06/2023   07:41 am  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You are the monarch of the Glyn, Nigel.
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