Great Britain Stamps

I am making some order in my stamps , so ,my question is : are there interesting stamps in this 19° century British lot ?
Albert

Yes, There are lots of ways to look at these. There are many different plates numbers off most of the varieties you have posted. Many of us collect the post marks from different cities. You have some there that are socked on the nose.

It depends on what you mean by "interesting". I see plenty of number cancels, some socked-on-nose circular date cancels, perfins, wing margins, revenue cancels...

If you are interested in cancels, I'm sure you'll find something in there. The pic is way too small to ID any plates. But occasionally you will find a premium plate here and there in these lots.

All in all, it appears to be a fairly typical mixed lot that sells for 10% or less of catalog. The catalog prices are for VF sound stamps with clean unobtrusive cancels -- and even with that, the catalog prices are inflated. The supply of all but the rare GB stamps (>$1000) far exceeds the demand.

"The pic is way too small to ID any plates.....All in all, it appears to be a fairly typical mixed lot that sells for 10% or less of catalog."

Not much to add the above except anything cut, torn or very heavily postmarked would not have any value. Going by the pics, the value would be philatelic not monetary as there could be some interesting postmarks etc. As ever, condition is everything and there is a lack of detail to work with. As a rule (but not in every case) a GB one penny stamp will keep its value... one penny .

I have to agree with the others about value but I sometimes bid on similar lots on e-bay. Organization is the key.
I finally got around to making pages for all of the 1864 1p red plate numbers. A lot of my stamps are dogeared but they finally look good on pages in individual boxes with the plate numbers below.

Next I have to go through the balance and prepare pages for the postmarks.
You can find the book A History Of British Postmarks for free in Google Books if you plan to organize the oldies that way.

Now if I could only figure out the difference between the shades (rose red, brick red and lake red?) it might look like I know what I'm doing.

Now those are my cup of tea. Going through them with a Stanley Gibbons catalog might turn up some interesting stamps. I would not hope for anything very valuable, but who knows?

"....but they finally look good on pages in individual boxes with the plate numbers below."

I must agree with rascal as it makes good use of slightly sub-standard or duplicate QV penny stamps. It is the only time I use stamp hinges these days. I do the same with modern GB self-adhesives as the border makes them look pretty decent also.

thanks for your help , I was absent for 1 week ,so I could not answer earlier,
I will have time this weekend to work a little bit on it
Albert

scotzm,
I like the page you have here. Did you make that yourself? I use Scott numbers and need what you have there with Scott numbers. Any ideas?
Pat

I did not know stamp collecting is such a big work.I also understood it is nearly impossible in a normal british collection to have twice the red 1 penny from 1858 : you have to check plate numbers , letters and cancellations.Is this also the same for all stamps with control letters in the corners?
Albert

"I use Scott numbers and need what you have there with Scott numbers."


The stamps are all S.G.#43 which equates to Scott #33. I make my own pages as that is a simple option and can be varied according to what I want to display. The dates at the top of the page is possibly confusing as the process of these stamps being produced did begin in 1858 but most did not appear until 1864. I may change it or delete the dates and just go with the S.G.#43. The plate numbers are accurate in that they reflect what is available from plate 71 (the first) up to plate 225. Some plates do not exist such as plates 75,126,128 and a few more. I have included plate 77 in one sheet as it is supposed to exist...but in very limited quantities



edit: the header should read dates 1858 - 1879 and not as I have printed...work in progress. 1879 was the date of the last plate (plate 225)

In addition to postmarks and plate numbers, a stamp 'colour chart' can be constructed using slightly below standard stamps which have been positively identified as being of one of the numerous stamp colours. You will then have possibly the most accurate stamp colour guide obtainable.

Terry