Today's Mystery - E.e.b. Overprint

I am stumped - can anybody tell me anything about this overprint? Much thanks!

This is a revenue overprinting by a private company. Chances are good it's "E---- Electricity Board." There's a catalog for these, but I forget the name or author.

Doug is correct -- Eastern Electricity Board.

I recall someone posted an example of SEEB (South Eastern Electricity Board) in an old thread.

hmmm possibly Eastern Electricity Board - I would love to find that catalog you are talking about Doug!

I think I have one from Harrods on piece. (same wilding deonmination even)

These are referred to as commercial overprints.

Here's a link to a website where you can look up virtually all of the Commercial Overprints from Great Britain:

http://www.kw.igs.net/~mjbehm/overprints/

Excellent link, wt1!!

k

thanks wt1!

by the way is anyone else curious about the "thank you" cancellation?

Not really.
The stamps with the Commercial overprints were most often affixed to household bills and the 'Thank You' handstamp is quite common. I have a couple somewhere from my parents house when I was a child. I'll try to fish them out.

Londonbus1

"PAID WITH THANKS" is also a common one on a utilities bill.

So I sent the link of this thread to the link provided by wt1 and got this response:


"Thanks for the link! You might be interested in this: http://cosgb.blogspot.ca/

By the way, the "Thank You" cancellation is there because the commercial overprint was used to pay the excise tax charged on the payment of a bill. Thus, the "Thank You" cancellation is thanks for the payment of--in this case--an electrical bill.


Best regards,
Mike Behm"

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There you have it, mystery solved!!

This is why I love the internet! Getting to meet new people and learn new things.

I borrowed the followinf from Michael Behm's blog:

Gianni Sironi has created a catalogue of British commercial overprints! The files at http://www.filateliaspecializzata.it/genoa1.html are in PDF form for easy printing.

Of the 3 links given here, only the second works.
Can anyone update me what happened to the other two?
Thanks

The sites are probably gone forever. Some of us were looking for the identity of a similar item shown on SCF a while back, for which I can't find the relevant post.

Happily, found this while tracking down the above item:
http://commercialoverprints.com/
And what you probably want is the listing/catalog:
http://commercialoverprints.com/companies-a-z/
Realize that the listings are still being added to, so the listings are not complete and may never be complete.

Links are like bread, after a while they get old and stale.

Many times people link a page that is 'several levels deep' in a site. When a person links a 'deeper' page it means that the link is connected forever to that single file name. But the reality is that website owners often change file names over the years for various reasons and this breaks an existing links that might be peppered around the rest of the internet.

You can sometimes find the broken link by navigating to the opening page of the website and then searching for the renamed page you were originally looking for. But others time, like hy-brasil mentions, the entire site is gone.
Don