Great Britain Hand Cancel 1896 Help Please

I have what I believe is a Great Britain 1 Penny stamp with a hand cancel. This has 14 perfs both top and side. I am looking to verify what it is along with the Scott # and potential value of this stamp. Thank you!

It is actually a revenue usage of the stamp. The company that used it did so as a revenue tax stamp. Signed by the person in charge of that sort of tings, looks like for 2.8 pounds. I don't know the value of the stamp offhand, but the revenue usage is sometimes collected by specialty collectors.

Thanks for that helpful information! Hope someone else reads this and could let me know potential value.

Potential/actual value = zero.
One of the commonest of all UK Victorian issues, whether postally or fiscally used.

There were two dies used for this stamp, Die 1 has 14 dots in each corner D2 has 16 dots. Yours is Die 2, as stated it is the common variety. There are various shades and varieties of the D2 stamp. It was issued first in 1881 and is SG172 in Stanley Gibbons. The amount being 'received' would appear to be £2 and 8 shillings, in today's decimal currency that would read as £2.40.
DavidR

I would prefer the term manuscript (MS) cancel. To me 'hand cancel' implies use of a handstamp (as opposed to a machine cancel)which this is clearly not.

That does sound classy!

As already mentioned it is a S.G.174 172 (Scott#89) 1d lilac Die 2 with 16 dots in frame. Over 33 billion were printed from 1881 onwards and one percent being used for revenue purposes. It was the first GB stamp to have POSTAGE and REVENUE printed on it. The stamp was obviously used to pay tax on a bill of some kind and has a nice part signature and is dated. Not valuable in monetary terms but quite nice as an example of revenue usage.

Scotzm ~ Thanks for the additional information! I thought it was a nice looking stamp as well!

So, if you start collecting initials or hand-writing from revenue stamps or postal stamps used for revenue purposes you would have a nice example. It is better viewed without the hinge remnants present so am easy soak in water (or float perhaps) world do the trick.

Like mentioned above used to pay a tax for services and would be found on a document similar to this. I keep this one because in the upper right corner is the telephone number 5, yes, just 5.

Cool. I like the 'All Goods Manufactured at our Works, . . '.