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1881 Great Britain Queen & Several King Edwards

 
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Posted 08/28/2012   9:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add UFOAirMail to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Well here I am again hahahha I Scanned some old 1902-1912 Great Britain King Edwards..I see alot of these are very collectible
Any Opinions,thaughts on these babys? I really am liking these alot,,really cool to have King Edward stamps! wow thats going back some time there! Just having alot of fun going through the first album (Have 16 to go through hahahha) and also hoping to stumble into something really nice too!
Heres the line up,whatta you guys think?
Thank you all so very much for your input,I am really enjoying this and you guys are always here fast to answer also,which has amzed me right off the bat! Thanks again!
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Australia
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Posted 08/28/2012   10:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Nice stuff, but ordinary stuff,
Like the 8 bar 27 Postmark on the QV 16 pearls.
...and being from Somerset, I like the "Weston-Super-Mare" pmk
(home of the Helicopter Museum)
If you soak the QV, make sure cold water.
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Posted 08/28/2012   11:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add UFOAirMail to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Rod ya gotta help me out here,I am totally new at aall of this and just started digging into these albums full of stamps,,its really overwhelming but I am going to be persistant and tak emy time..but I dont understand anything of what you said there,especially the soaking part..can you help me out a bit on that and any idea on any values here?
I cant see how it can be ordinary stuff rod..so old so clean and still ordinary huh?? What the heck do folks look for then in stamps? I really need to know that much,,I keep thinking I finally find something great and its not at all ahahha..I guess thats whats so fun,,ya never know from stamp to stamp..keeps ya coming back for more!
Also wheres the weston mare postmark Rod?
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Edited by UFOAirMail - 08/28/2012 11:11 pm
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Posted 08/28/2012   11:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Tefloncinco to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
you are improving day by day keep up the good work nice very nice Downy heads
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Australia
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Posted 08/28/2012   11:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ordinary stuff in respect to being able to replace
the stamps with other similar issues at little cost.
No reflection of the stamps themselves.

Soaking. Most collectors like their stamps either mint with gum
or clean, yours has paper attached.
If you soak the stamp in cold water, that paper will float off.
If you soak in warm or hot water, the ink will run or "bleed"

In the turquoise green King Edward7 stamp
it has been cancelled twice, you can see "MARE" and "WE"
on portions of the cancelling hammer impression.
We know this to be WESTON-SUPER-MARE post office in Somerset, sth west England.

If you feel the samps are special, just retain that,
that's called the passion of collecting,
I go weak when I see Travancore stamps, others screw up their nose,
It's just what blows your hair back.

Hope that helps.

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Posted 08/28/2012   11:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add UFOAirMail to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks so much guys I have learned a ton on here the least few days already and I cant thank you all enough for taking the time out of your day to help me out like this..THANK YOU!
All of the stamps to be honest are blowing my hair back,,I have never really seen or spent the time with stamps like this before to be honest and they are truly amazing and highly interesting to say the least..hooked now thats for sure!
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Posted 08/29/2012   12:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Tefloncinco to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What hot rod222 is trying to say that they are common to serious collectors , I myself I'm new but I like blazin guns 2 . UFO sigthings. you got mail

























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Posted 08/29/2012   09:01 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Tefloncinco to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here are some more that my not be as common to others but common for me. you got mail.



























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Posted 08/29/2012   11:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I was going to say that that red QV stamp from Victoria had a fiscal usage. Then I realized it was a fiscal stamp.
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Posted 08/29/2012   11:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
UFOAIRMAIL... the first stamp on your list is the 1881 penny lilac. To get it into context, there were 34 BILLION of them printed (around 500 million with 14 dots in each corner and 33.5 billion with 16 dots). A very common stamp but worthy of study. Very commonly used for revenue purposes (around 1% of the total) so you often see them with signatures across them. First stamp to have "Postage and Revenue" printed on them.
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Posted 08/29/2012   4:24 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add UFOAirMail to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Learning alot on here every time I am here ! Thank you as always guys!
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