Great Britain - Help With This Stamp.

Hi wert,

The stamp in your first post is not an SG F19 because it has not been used postally.

I'm afraid used fiscally like this it has a much lower value.

Nigel, that's what I have a hard time understanding how you can tell if it was used as a stamp or some thing else...

Robert

Wert, when it has a signature and date written on it, it is used as a revenue stamp. Usually a postage stamp has either a cancel or the marker monkey has gotten a hold of it! In the latter case, that would be recognizable immediately.

Peter

Gotcha Peter...Thanks.

Robert

nigelc is correct in saying "The stamp in your first post is not an SG F19 because it has not been used postally."
It would be a S.G. L119 (S.G.F19) if it had been postally used. Had it been unused it could have been a S.G. F19 or a S.G. L119 as S.G. give prices and illustrations for unused postal/fiscal stamps.
So...if it could be a S.G.F19 (S.G.L119) if it were postally used it might also be a S.G.L119 (S.G.F19) if unused while at the same time it could also be an everyday Fiscal Stamp.
At least that is the position as far as I can tell
Easy isn't it!

YIKES....Now I am really lost...

Oh well, thanks for the (confusion) information...

As far as I know it is OK for you to label your revenue stamp as S.G.F19 and write it up as a fiscally used POSTAL/FISCAL.

Look anywhere on the internet and you will find almost everyone using that S.G.F19 label for that particular used stamp... mainly because Stanley Gibbons uses that label and that calalog is the most commonly used reference. Nigelc is correct in saying it is not technically a S.G.F19 so maybe a correct label would be S.G.F19 TYPE.

I use both S.G.F19 and S.G.L119. The F19 is used by me as a descriptive label and the L119 as identifying the stamp correctly used i.e postage and not fiscal.

Ok scotzm...I will mark it as F19...I guess...haha

Wert -
The second stamp you show is a postally used King George V issue. Note it says 'postage' and 'revenue', but since it is cancelled by a circular date stamp, this one went through the mails. There are two possibilities for this stamp in terms of ID, and it depends on the watermark. It could either be a 1912 issue (Scott # 163) or a 1924 issue (Scott # 191).

Your George v stamp is a Scott#214... solid background behind head = 1934 -36 issue. Postal usage as already mentioned

Thanks scotzm....docgfd...Sooooo...if it used used for a regular stamp with a regular cancellation then it becomes a different Scott or S.G. number...Interesting.

Robert

Scotzm is right.....I wasn't paying attention, a #214 it is.

OK...214...