King George V Stamps

Hello members,

I have the one penny revenue & postage stamp overprinted and on the back it looks like a Domino watermark with a crown. On the front you can see the cancellation made the domino watermark, please advice. Mara

Perhaps you could change your heading. This overprint is on an Edward VII stamp issued in 1902. The watermark is the Imperial Crown. I hope someone will show a copy of it for you.

It is a departmental (official) overprint issued 19 February 1902 for use by the Board of Education (SG nr. O83)
The basic stamp was issued 1 January 1902 (SG nr. 219 or 220, depending on the shade). It is a stamp printed by De La Rue on ordinary paper.

As 22crows already remarked, it is Edward VII and not George V.

Hi, thank you, but what about the domino
Shape next to the crown. Mara

That's just the cancellation showing through.

One small correction: to NSK, this is SG O84, not O83. It is interesting to note that the Board of Education overprints (both Queen Victoria and KEVII stamps received this overprint, designated as type O8 in the Gibbons catalogue) are, as a group anywhere from scarce to extremely rare. An ad in several editions of the SG Great Britain Concise catalogue, from a dealer in Paignton, Devon, says that his company purchased a copy of the KEVII one shilling green and carmine stamp with this overprint for a client for nearly 200,000 pounds in 2011 (the basic stamp without overprint is SG257, with the overprint, SG O87) That kind of money would buy you a pretty nice house in some of parts of the world. Unfortunately, some of the scarcer GB departmental overprints have been counterfeited, so you have to be extra cautious when buying them.

You are correct. It is O84. I seem to have been distracted and used the catalogue number from the entry for the 1/2d.

Considering my Specialised volume 2 from 1999 lists O87 for £ 45,000 mint, that 1 sh. stamp generated a nice return in just 12 years.

Thank you waddsbadds you sure know a lot.