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hello friends, here I am posting some of the stamps I have and kindly request you to know me the actualy value and name of the stamp.i am relatively new to this scene.thanks-shekhar

All of the stamps you've shown are depicting King George V, and all are extremely common designs.

The first two 'red' stamps are Great Britain. There are lots and lots of varieties of the 1d ("red") design, so a particular catalogue number or value would not be possible.

The third 1d 'red' is overprinted for Ireland. Again, there are a few varieties. With a larger scan, I could maybe make a guess. I'm sure there are several people here who can make a good guess off of this scan.

The 3d is later, after a switch to the photogravure printing process. These are most easily distinguished by the dark background surrounding the portrait. Yours would be 1934-36, SG120, and it would probably sell for 25 or 50 cents (U.S.), if there was a buyer interested in it. These particular cancels are not attractive to my eyes, but they are very common on this material. If I needed one, they are so common that I would keep looking for a more-pleasing cancel. My opinion, only, though.

Condition is all important to actual value for this material, so any bent corners or tears would make them nearly worthless (unless one of the 1d stamps is an especially rare variety, in which case it might have some value as a spacefiller...unlikely, though).

This is one of the great enigmas of stamp collecting. At first glance, all of those are common stamps, that your eyes would pass right over; however, there could be certain characteristics of watermark or shade varieties that could make one of them special, with the right knowledge. There are undoubtedly some terrific rarities sitting in some novice accumulations, filling a common space in an album.

Your 5 stamps are..
1. Great Britain S.G.357 or S.G.419 depending on watermark and printed between 1912 and 1926. Catalog price is around £1.00 in fine condition with a CDS. You stamp is damaged so is of very little value.
2. Same as above. Very little value.
3. Great Britain stamp used in Ireland having a Provisional Government overprint. S.G.2 is the number. Catalog price is around £1.00. The stamps id damaged and of very little value.
4. Great Britain S.G.444 printed between 1934-1936. Catalog price £1.25 in Fine condition and a cds. Your stamp may be worth 10% of cat price.
5. Great Britain 1934-36 S.G.449. Catalog price is £1.25 in Fine condition with a cds. Your stamp may be worth 10% of that.

Hello Sonishekhar, welcome to Stamp Community.

The stamps are from Great Britain, the first country to have a postage stamp and thus the only country to be allowed to have No country name on their stamps.

The King shown is Hing George V (5th) (KGV).

The first stamp is ripped in a corner, bent in another, gouged away along the bottom. This is only without examing teh back for damage or watermark. Thus probably worth nothing in this condition. Cjeck for watermarks differences though and re-entries perhaps caused by re-engraving mistakes (scan at a high resolution).

Normally worth about 1 GBP, depending on condition and colour and heavy or light cancellation / postmark.

On all of the 1d stamps from 1912-24 the chance exists to have a reversed or inverted Q instead of an O in the ONE PENNY. These are worth hundreds of pounds.

The watermark can be reversed or onverted or reversed and inverted. Quite a study to look at these. use watermark fluid or lighter fuid carefully under well-ventilated conditions.


The next looks OK, so check the back, soak in clean water to remove the dirt accumulated over the many years, look for watermark also.

Stanley gibbons numbers are between 357-361 or 419 (1924-26) depending on colour.


The overpint looks to be from use in Northern Ireland I think, I do not know the number or value.

The 3d (pennies) (d= roman for denarius = silver penny) is numbered betwen 374 and 377 or 423, some shade of violet, valued at around 2 GBP. The watermark will determine a more costly stamp also with this one.

edit: all numbering is subject to verification by the more experienced and well versed gents previously spoken above.

The Stanley Gibbons numbers are...
1. GB George V 1d s.g.357 or s.g.419 (depends on watermark)
2. Same as above
3. GB George V 1d s.g.357 overprinted for Ireland and is Ireland s.g.2 in the Gibbons Stamps of the World catalogue.
4. GB George V 3d s.g.444
5. GB George V 1/- s.g.449

None of the stamps are worth much...if anything. I suspect if you put them on ebay for 99p there would be no bidders. As stamp fillers they also fail as good condition stamps of the type posted are available for pennies also. Sorry, sonishekhar, but condition is everything and your do not meet the grade.