Just Inherited (Kinda) A Huge Collection

The GB Queen Victoria penny ha'penny (1.5 penny, but you might as well learn to say it correctly) is worth at least a few dollars unless its damaged in a way that can't be seen. It could even be worth over a $100 in real life terms rather than catalog value, if it has an upside down watermark, which it probably won't have. The king George the fifth 2d (tupenny) has been privately overprinted ready to be used fiscally to make a receipt into an legal document. Don't quite know how it worked but officail receipts and paperwork were made offical by signing over a postage stamp. I remember seeing this done once in the late 1960s as a kid. Enjoy your stamps the value is nearly always disappointing but I find the cheapies are as entertaining as the high price stuff, they just don't come with "Bragging rights"

NooCassel, Thank you very much for your input this is a great forum. the ha'penny, I never ever in my life would of learned that had you not shared that knowledge, thank you!

The Orange tuppeny Commercial Overprint King George 5, is a lovely scan , well done.

Looks as if the Commercial Overprint Society link is down, or hacked.
http://www.cosgb.org/

John Barker

I remember being dragged into Barker's in Kensington (and many others) on visits to London in the '60s - the awful misery for a small boy of floor after floor of shopping!

https://flashbak.com/john-barkers-m...treet-55768/

The pronounciation by the way is Haypunny with the you almost omitted. a penny halfpenny 11/2d is pronounced threehaypnce. the d of course stands for penny, nothing like logic is there!

My experience was a little different, Mum worked in Haberdashery (Australia)
I'd visit on Saturday mornings, around morning tea, and get a Kitchener Bun, and a bottle of Coca Cola.... High Living!

I was fascinated by the compressed air shuttle, to get payments up to accounts dept, she would place the bill and cash in the air bullet, and whoosh!
you could hear the thing whizzing over to ceiling up to the first floor.

Donation = tax write-off. Just sayin'

Definitely some nice looking stamps in the collection and you are enjoying the activity. Great!

Q/ Are you sure that you were not fascinated by the vacuum air shuttle?

https://goscf.com/t/11871

For a capsule in a tube, the mechanics of pulling are more forgiving than the mechanics of pushing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach...atic_Transit ... though some systems were known to blow both ways

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Mostly compressed air.

May well be IP, I was just a tacker at the time, I do recall after the tube cover was removed, the capsule appeared to be sucked away.
My bad.

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For inter-office pneumatic mail systems, inserting a new piece would require either:

a) fighting the compressed air coming out of the tube, or

b) being assisted by the suction created by the vacuum.

I also remember these systems, along with elevator operators, from another world.

https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/p...ic-tubes.pdf ... ten excellent pages on the NYC pneumatic mail system

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey