1862 GB - Queen Victoria 9-D - Corner Letters?

Greetings --

I'm looking at an 1862 Great Britain QV auction stamp that has corner letters "A Q" at the top ("Q A" at the bottom). Seems to me that the "Q" is not right.

SG's Vol 1 Specialized says, "The letters were as usual, AA to AL in the top row and so on down to TA to TL in the bottom row (quoting lower corner letters only)."

Am I just being a paranoid and inexperienced dingbat, and missing something obvious for an "AQ" at the top of the stamp? Should there be such a letter combination?

Thanks for any help!

Hi Polimom,

A stamp with "AQ" at the top is usually referred to by its letters at the bottom, "QA".

This is because when corner letters were introduced they were only at the bottom of each stamp.




Here, SG means:

"The letters were as usual, AA to AL at the bottom of each stamp in the top row and so on...".

So the QA stamp (with AQ at its top) is from row Q and column A which is fine.

Ha! So yes, I'm being a dingbat. Thank you Nigel!