GB : Trading Stamp : Victory : ID

Can SCF crack this one ?

rod, what ship is depicted? Is that the HMS Victory?

I think it is Collin,
I googled and found the stamp on that
other stamp forum, so the owner is really trying hard
to ID it.
My bet, it's an early GB trading stamp,
may have had a very short history.

The curious thing is the value, at the apparent time of
production 1 shilling seems a lot of money
to earn as a trading stamp.

My reading of it is that the amount earned is silent. A shilling was spent, but do we know how much was earned?

It'll take a three-fifths-filled card, scanned front and back, before we know that for sure. (Which, around here, should take fifteen or twenty minutes.)

(No experience with foreign trading stamps, so I might be misunderstanding the process.)

[edit: Are we thinking World War I/The Great War era?]

That was mine, also.

I remember the old store trading stamps in the U.S. in the 1950's and 60's. The big ones in my area were S&H Green stamps, mor-valu and gold bond. You received one stamp for each 10 cents spent (later increased to one stamp per 25 cents spent). The stamps were pasted into their trading books which normally held 1000-3000 stamps. The books could be taken to redemption centers and traded for merchandise. Most of these were given for purchases in grocery stores or gasoline stations.

I suspect that this was a similar concept with one stamp per shilling spent. The stamp appears 1920's or early 30's?

That rates as a fairly good "clanger"

Yes 1/- spent
that makes a difference.
I agree with Russ, my guess between wars issue.

Looks like an image from 1884
I recognise her as one of the few ships that had 3 banks of guns,
ship historians will probably cut me to ribbons
but I do not recall any other ship with 3.
(Spanish Armada ships not included)

HMS Victory is the oldest ship still under commission.

It is definitely a attractive design when comapared to the rather plain designs that were common on the U.S. trading stamps.

So the current collective wisdom is that it has nothing to do with wartime, and it "might" be the HMS Victory? Or isn't?

We are all guessing, but yes,
nothing to do with wartime, and is most likely
HMS Victory (seen here alongside a photo of 1884)