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Posted 10/25/2012   11:02 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Zipper to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Can you see the stamp behind the postmark? I can't. Need help. Thanks.



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Posted 10/25/2012   12:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add timbres667 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I think it's Great Britain Scott #130
Scott 2007 value for used is $21.00
So it would be King Edward VII
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Posted 10/25/2012   12:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I concur, based on the neckline. The QV neckline is more or less horizontal.
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Posted 10/25/2012   1:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Queen Victoria 2d frames have stars in the top corners... Eddie Seven doesn't. And... Queen Victoria did not have a beard
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Posted 10/25/2012   2:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
"And... Queen Victoria did not have a beard" (that we know about). However,

From the London Times, January 4, 1887:

"...Mr. Harold Bumble, Chief Engraver of Thomas de la Rue Stamp Printers, Ltd., has been promoted and reassigned to Rangoon, Burma, to design and supervise production of Her Majesty's postage stamps, in the remote likelihood that any may be required. Mr. Bumble is famously known for his depiction of the Queen's portraiture on the Jubilee series of postage stamps issued on January 1, 1887.

Her Majesty graciously provided a letter of introduction to the Commissioner of Stables, where Mr. Bumble's equipments will be stored until after the monsoon, and at dockside, presented him with six fortnights' supply of impeccably-starched Excelsior shirt-collars, so that his demeanor may reflect favorably when representing the Empire..."
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Posted 10/26/2012   05:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zipper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks so much. Now I know where it goes in my album.
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Posted 10/29/2012   12:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Late to the party, as I agree with the i.d., but often the postmark gives a clue, too. 1905 is far more likely to be KEVII than QV (though QV stamps were apparently valid for postage until 1915, according to our friend, nigelc).

Early postmarks are better for ruling out later stamps, but later postmarks are still valuable clues...
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