How Many Collect Machins, Precancelled And Other

How many of you collect machins, Precancelled and others numerous varieties of similars stamps ( the Belgium Precancelled can be very intensive)

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yes Machins, but only with perforated initials, yes precancels too.

I have one or two machins to sort...

I have a fairly comprehensive Machin collection up until about 2008. After that I just gave up. There are so many and there is no end to them.

I have a good stash of them as well.

Dianne

I have quite a few pulled most of them from the Harris bag before they switched to the plastic bag. Started working and album with them using the adminware pages. I am not going into the detail of the phosphor bars just collecting by values with both the security cut and the regular stamp. I have been working on the Regional's I like those very well.

I collect used basic machins and Regionals. But no phosphor varieties, just colours and values. A never-ending fun!

I collect Machines well as Regionals, including phosphor bar varieties, since I already have a light for mineral collecting. It is something I do a bit of, and then come back to later when I feel the pull. I also collect precancels, not only of the US, but of Canada and Belgium too. And let's not forget perfins.

My collecting bone appears to be geared towards interesting varieties of the common issue. And no, there is not enough time to do all I want to do...but I am never bored!

I love Machins; their colors are brilliant, bold, and numerous as are their varieties.

Regards,
Stamplatopus

Are all current Machins self adhesive ? If so when did they stop using gum?

Thanks,
Tommy

Self-adhesive Machins began in the Fall on 1993.

Whenever I have a Machin Question, my first click is to SCF member Robin Harris' Machin Site
http://www.adminware.ca/machin/m_sa.htm

KirkS

IGood to know That Robin is member here, his work make me interested to machins, without his album I will not know where to start.

Not all Machins are self adhesive. A few are still issued gummed such as in booklet panes. These often throw up some new 'variety' for collectors mainly.

"A few are still issued gummed such as in booklet panes. These often throw up some new 'variety' for collectors mainly."

How true and how complicated it can become...e.g. the new Making of Star Wars booklet has a 2nd class security Machin (iridescent overprint) gummed stamp printed by litho which is a completely new variety. There are also 1st class security, gummed Machins on the same pane of stamps as the 2nd but 1st class gummed litho already exist from the Football Heroes booklet...but...the Football Heroes have a 2013 date code while the Star Wars have a 2015 date code... so that would only be a new variety if you collect all Machins with different year codes.

Some are more striking such as the 54p in the Classic album cover prestige book which has a different font and going back to non-elliptical perfs, the 10p from the Christian heritage had a unique 0 not seen on any other variety.
More recently the 5p and 50p from the Merchant Navy Prestige Book had inverted elliptical perfs.

Here is an item from a recent on paper mixture. It is a Machin meter, or mailing label for a letter receiving international tracking and signed-for delivery with a cost of 7.25 pounds. out of curiosity, I checked out the current cost for such service. It is 8.95 pounds.

The label is from 2017, as the background printing indicates. So, that is a jump of 23.4%. Wow.