My GB Album Journey - Novice Version :)

Very nice pages Nora.

The 'Seahorses' are among my favourite stamps. GB collectors call these 'Seahorses' rather than 'Britannia.' I am surprised Steiner has spaces for the Bradbury Wilkinson printing he calls retouched. Most albums do not.

They also look good. As Rod wrote: that Waterloo St. Glasgow cancelation looks great. So Does the Manchester Exchange B.O.. I wonder whether the 'Branch Office' (B.O.) rather than just 'Manchester Exchange' implies it was postally used. That would be a big plus for that stamp.

Thank you Dianne and NSK.

NSK: Here is a picture of the full printed page. I was a little confused kept going back to my Scott and eventually I landed that these belonged in the 1919 retouched area?. interesting though that it is not the norm on album pages.

Also- a close up of the other stamp with the cancel. I would love to understand why that stamp being postally used, (not saying it was) would be a plus. Thanks all for viewing my progress. I have some more early stamps coming that I will share once they arrive. Mail has been slow.

The Bradbury Wilkinson stamps (retouched) have a printed height of 22.75 - 23 mm. The De La Rue and Waterlow printings have a printed height of 22 mm.
It appears the 2/6 has a small dot in the printed colour just above the printed area (just left of the 'O' in the cancelation). Such a dot - if it is one - always is a Bradbury Wilkinson stamp.

10/- was an enormous amount of money. The high-value stamps were mostly used for revenue collection. A lot of these were used at exchanges where large amounts of money changed hands and were taxed. A lot of the high value stamps have cancelations from one of the exchanges. Another common cancelation points at tobacco that was imported to the mainland from the Channel Islands. Because stamps - the correct terminology would be postage labels - were meant to prepay the carriage of mail, philatelists prefer their stamps used to pay postage, not to pay taxes.

Generally, fiscal cancels are frowned upon. True postal cancelations are sought after, especially on high values. They are rare on high value stamps. Parcel cancels, usually, they are smudgy, registration cancelations also are less popular.

Manchester Royal Exchange is a fiscal cancelation. But I wonder whether the Branch Office would mean the stamp was on an item of mail (maybe special delivery) at the post office.

ROYAL EXCHANGE BO MANCHESTER
is a new discovery for the database
The latest prior pmk was in 1890
This is the first with BO (Branch Office) (47 years later)

Other two examples of the Royal Exchange Manchester
were on high value 1 shilling and five shillings.

Postal / fiscal personally no idea.