GB Qv Stamp Scott #125 Variation

Since today is my day for questions, here's another. 2006 Scott lists the stamps below as 125 and describes it as blue green. In a separate little note below the entry it mentions that 125 exists in a 'bright blue' as a changeling, but gives no further info. So any of the other catalogs, such as SG, give this critter a designation as a variety of any type? I'm not sure if the scan will show it well enough, but the right-most stamp is very definitely blue and NOT blue green like the others to the left.

Nice cancels on those stamps there. Yes, that last one sure looks to be blue. I do stand to be corrected though as I have not seen alot of this type of material.

The SG213 in bright blue is a colour changeling
caused by a constituent of the ink, used for some months in 1900

Gibbons says of this stamp "The ½d, No. 213, in bright blue, is a colour changeling caused by a constituent of the ink used for some months in 1900.' Gibbons doesn't list the changeling either, and I doubt that any catalogue would. It would be too easy to create a 'blue' with common household solvents.

Thanks! I figured that might be the case, I'll add it in to my collection with a note about the ink used. That's neat info, Tony!

-Mary

Interesting, Yes,
but look at his neighbour.
A beautiful leamington Royal Spa Squared circle postmark!
Never seen that style prior to today.

I posted regarding the history of the 3 inks used for this stamp in the following thread:

www.stampcommunity.org/topic...OPIC_ID=14304

Your color changeling comes from the 2nd batch of ink used.

I'm just starting to pay attention to the cancels in my collection, thanks to all the great info I've been learning here. The squared circles are very neat and catch my eye easily. I tried to find more info about the Leamington one but haven't found any that quite match it yet. Quite neat, I think, especially for something that I pulled out of a pile of kiloware.

That Leamington squared circle is not listed in my postmarks catalogue Mary, very nice indeed.

Could also be a Tennis Thematic stamp.

A slightly different Leamington Spa squared circle postmark is illustrated in the new edition of "Collect British Postmarks" as an example of the "one circle, two arcs" style although none of the illustrated styles show the bottom arcs appearing as separate dashes like this one.

So what would you do, if you were a pmk collector Nigel?
Would you contact the author?
How important are new styles in the scheme of things?

I'd like to know that as well! I'm not sure where to even begin with theses things, but it does sound like that new catalogue would be a good place to start.

I was told in 2008, but absolutely forgot it all ....