Penny Red Big Collection For Study

A big collection of penny red stamps 315 stamp most in extra fine condition I will work on them those days for study and I will share here photos in replies for every portion I finish I wish you all enjoy that
,i wish any one had an advice or a guiding comment for any stamp of them to reply with his opinion.

It depends what you mean by " study". Most, if not all, of these seem to be the issue with letters in each corner, in which case, unless you're interested in postmarks, the main interest is the plate number at each side of the design. Enjoy!

dear I mean postmarks , plate numbers, any varieties in the designs un recorded or something of interest and sure you know the combination of letteres in the corners with plate numbers and there is few studies about that.

If these all have letters in each corner, they all have printed plate numbers, which will be more or less easy to see. You can try to reconstruct plates if you have sufficient of the same number, although you'd typically need thousands of stamps to do that. Some here have an interest in postmarks.

@GeoffHa

yes all have letteres so all have plate numbers I finished identify first page I may finish all in one day, I will see how to make a set from them ,hard to reconstruct a plate because most of them are different plate numbers , I will do my best with them and but the results here, yes I dream some day to got thousands to reconstruct different plates, till now the first page got serial plate number 185-218 then plate 221 , 72,76,79,81-82,84,86,89,91-96,98,102,108 that is the content of plates of the first page I will check for plates first then move to position of them in sheets, I would you guide me for the postmarks of interest and how to work on it

second page founded plate numbers 106,112,113,120-125,127,129-140,144-160,162,164-184

till now my eye catch 3 good post marks one for london , one Ediburgh and the other contain Brunswick Star.

third page plate numbers found 100,102,105-108,110,113,117,119,122,124,125,129,130,137,138,140,141,143,145-149,155-159,167,168,170,171,175,177,179,181 and only one with stars to be tested, after rearrange all with all data I will send here.

i wish to add those 2 links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...standing.pdf

https://repository.si.edu/bitstream...&isAllowed=y

fourth page results is first three rows star stamps perforated to check later , the rest of page plate number founds is 72-74,76, 78-83,85-103,105-107,109-117.

the results of the fifth and last page is 10 stamps star perforated and the rest with plate numbers 183-185, 191-193,167,196, 198-210,213,214 ,the coming replies will be with photos after rearrange and add comments about them.

Good stuff Mottaz, It is nice to see such passion in one's collection. I am excited to see your pics

@Bubbachismo

Thanks dear I am working on them try to do my best , I wish when I put the photos here they are helpful for others, and I will wait your opinion.

@Bubbachismo
Hello dear, hello every one in the community I wish to add the primary study and am going to enhance it by checking more factors I sort from 315 stamps those set contain 139 different plate number , I tried to check cancellation am not an expert in victoria era cancellations so I need any one see an error to notify me any advise or guiding will be appreciated thanks in advance.I hope some one will enjoy my effort and feel it benefit for him or her.

I will repost photos after complete and enhance the study with more aspects.also I got some question I will post in a reply after a while.

Is this cancellation for inland section or sub office I am not expert in cancellation of uk.


and this one I think it is inland branch oval duplex



for this one is that a cancellation and for what



for this one D21 is it a uk post office abroad as the font of the numbers is the same for D22 used for office in Venezuela.

Good afternoon mottaz, you seem to be in need of a little help with regards to the British Victorian numerical postal cancellations.

From 1840 up until 1844 the type of cancellation for postage stamps was known as the maltese cross, but from 1844 a numerical cancellation was introduced.

A compilation of these numbers have been made so that you can identify them as to where they were posted from within in the UK, further cancellations were also made abroad with the use of letters and numbers.

The penny red plates you wish to study were first issued on the 1st of April 1864 and was in use for many years.

Other than the plate numbers and the cancellations another thing to look for would be the inverted watermark varieties as an added incentive.

I've always thought that when these plates were being laid down the stamps did not have adequate spacing between them and therefore a nicely centred copy is very difficult to find.

Here is a mint block of 4 from plate 199, found to be typically off centre.

Here is one that is more centralised printed from plate 221, and consequently more sought after.

May I suggest that you visit the Great Britain philatelic societies library, as there is a free article on the subject of numerical cancellations for the period you need.

https://www.gbps.org.uk/information/po-numbers/

I am sure that this will help you to complete any study that you may have in mind. WM