GB : The Prince Albert Stamps 1840.

Acknowledgement : The Stamp Collectors Magazine 1863

(Prince Albert was Queen Victoria's husband)

Note: All British monarchs on stamps face left,
from my investigations in the past, only two
SG493 KG6 and SG534 QE2 face right and frontal respectively.









The stamp :



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Great read rod, I have always been fascinated by the consort essays - Further info on wikipedia :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Consort_Essay

Drew

I knew nothing of them before today Drew,
only after I read the 1863 paper. :)
All I recall, is that Queen was besotted by him.

I found it intriguing with regards the vendors commission
on the selvedge

Wow! nice piece by Wiki..Thanks.

I for one, as a GB collector, am glad these did not become an issued stamp. I realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but to me they are just plain ugly.

I think thats the appeal - they were never issued, I'm a sucker for stamps that you don't see very often and have an interesting story attached : the 00p machins and withdrawn bible society stamp from South Africa to name a couple that I completely drool for. None of them particularly beautiful but I'm like gambling addict when I see these.

two more links -- much the same info.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pennyred/prince.htm
http://postalheritage.org.uk/exhibi...tion?slide=6

But Drew, the 00p machins ARE beautiful. Very beautiful.

Londonbus1....at least to me !

Any chance of an image of the South Africa bible society stamp(s). I tried ebay, but no luck.

Due to religious objections the 40c stamp was withdrawn. Post offices were instructed to withdraw the stamp but over 1500 stamps, first day covers and control blocks were sold to the public. The remainding stamps were destroyed.



The rest of the set



Drew

Drew,
correspondence reply to the original article,
just in case you are interested.

If there was a thank you button I would press it .... I wish I had two sheets of the consorts :)

Yes, well, this is a case for "facsimile man"
I print out out colour copies of the stamps
with adjacent history notes.
They make fabulous information pages in an album.

"virtual" collecting is not for the timid.
but conforms well with your avatar "stamp study"

Thanks for your edit, Stampstudy, and resurrection of this thread. There is so much to learn! The images and articles are a welcome addition to my digital reference library!

Brian

Here are some current links to the G.B. Prince Consort essay stamps. However, I am confused as to whether they were surface (lithography) printed or letterpress (relief) printed.

http://postalheritage.org.uk/collec..._P_141_22_02

http://postalheritage.org.uk/collec..._P_141_22_03

https://www.collectors-club-of-grea...onsort-essay

http://pennyblackstore.blogspot.com...rations.html

Hi jogil,

We seem to be using these words differently, but for me these stamps are surface-printed (= letterpress = typo.) as opposed to litho.

"Surface printed" is the traditional term for the non-engraved, non-embossed Victorian British stamps.

Scott refers to them as "typo."

I expect a printer would call them "letterpress".

Hi nigelc: My interest in this is that it appears to be the first attempt at trying dry printing on dry pregummed paper. Thus, the letterpress stamps were the first to be dry printed and India Scott # 31, Stanley Gibbons # 75, 76 is the first such fully issued stamp. It was much easier to dry print letterpress stamps that it was to dry print engraved stamps so that it happened earlier with letterpress stamps.