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Bought a collection over the weekend and these sheets were included. Were hey actually used? Blue on white paper states "London" below the 15p Carmine on white states "UK" under the 25p Violet on blue states "Europe" and "AIR POST" Are these legitimate? I tries Googling the various captions. But came up empty. Maybe some kind of cinderella or fantasy item?     |
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Your stamps were issued on February 15, 1975.
By "Post Office Authorised Emergency Postal Services".
Areas covered: London, U.K, and Overseas.
Four varieties. Blue 15 p, purple 25 p, mauve (airpost) 25 p, and Black on yellow (airpost) 50 p.
Source: Catalogue of British Postal Strike Stamps. Gerald Rosen. 1971.
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That's pretty cool! I had no idea these existed.
Since I don't see these exact ones on that older thread, maybe I will re-post them there, and have the admin remove this topic. That way it keeps them all together in one place. |
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I would like to see ANY strike mail label that passed through the mails paying postage. |
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Thanks Don!
Looks like none of these went through Royal Mail. Therefore, I would think that it might be difficult to prove the authenticity postal use of any of these. |
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| Edited by bookbndrbob - 06/09/2019 5:48 pm |
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Follow up to Don's ebay link... Do not believe this envelope went through the Royal Mail. The "stamp" was issued by "Cambridge Emergency Service". February 15, 1971. One of a set of two. 15 p. Yellow and black. Brittania. One of five CES issues. |
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Spain1850...
Correction. The issue date for your stamps was 1971. (Not 1975.)
Sorry for the typo.
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What was the scope of the strike? Was any part the Royal Mail mail stream operating in this time period? If the entire mail stream was closed down, then 'alterative' mail streams would be the only available postmarks?
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My memory is that the strike was pretty thoroughgoing, as strikes were in those days. One of the unfortunate effects was that, as his mail-order business was under severe threat, Richard Branson started his awful chain of Virgin record shops. |
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Don.
Will scan and email you the first page of the Rosen catalogue. Believe it summarizes the scope of the
1971 postal strike.
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Here's a very brief summary of the 1971 strike from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_...rkers_strikeI believe there were thousands of different stamps/labels issued. I have a printed A4 catalogue by Clive Smith that in 200 pages covers just the postal services with names beginning with the letters "D" to "EM". |
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Thanks Nigel,
I am still unsure how the Royal Mail mail stream was affected; did they actually shut down all the mail processing equipment during the strike or, for example, did Royal Mail management run it in some abbreviated way?
Here in the United States a strike typically impacts some of the operations but rarely do they 'turn off the lights and just go home'.
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