Sorting Through Great Britain Newer Issues

I recently purchased a collection and am going through it to fill in my empty spaces. I have gotten to Great Britain and the person who previously owned the collection had kept his albums supplements updated to around the early eighties and the set up numerous loose leaf notebooks with later issues. He did a great job of hinging everything in them. My problem is that he had collected perhaps a thousand GBs but no particular order.

Since it is GB and they appear to have never printed a year of issue on any of them. My question. Short of searching through my Scotts for each individual stamp does anyone have a method that has worked well for them to make the task less difficult?

There really is no proper alternative to working through a catalogue. Some of the subject matter will give you an indication of year of issue. You could separate the definitives from the commemoratives, then look at face value - very crudely, the higher the value, the later the issue.

You can always look at Stampwordl.
Anyway, getting a printed about 5 or 10 years old catalog, is not that difficult or expenssive.

1. Become aufait with British Royalty visages.
Queen Victoria
Edward Vll
George V
George Vl
Elizabeth ll

These shall all be Pounds Shillings and Pence (d) to SG#880

Thence to Decimalisation. (P)

Thumbing through a catalogue, is paying your dues in Philately, esp if you want to be a world wide collector.

This is the simplest catalogue of British stamps. You'll be able to find cheap, older editions on ebay

https://www.dauwalders.co.uk/stanle...168812-p.asp

What you all have come up with is pretty much the same as what I surmised. I could just skip it and go on to Greece but with the major countries I decided to incorporate into my collection the newer issues. Strangely enough Scott did place a list for French Comms at the end of the listing in the 2011 catalog. Does seem odd they'd do it with France and not Britain. No wonder the Brits dislike the French. Dreadful prejudice there, old boy, eh?

Thanks you all.

Yes I noticed that in the latest SG Catalogue, no list of comms, and SG is poorer for it.

I refute your generalisation, I like the French, indeed anyone, whom shows me the respect I give them.
You need to revisit your attitude.

My humble apologies Rod222.I was hoping that from the way I posed the end of the message that y'all would realize I was simply using my "tongue in cheek" sense of humour. I am from both British and French stock from each of my parents who were, by the by, both born north of the border and am proud of my heritage. The We here in the USA do kid aboot our Canadian (Canuck) brethren and they about us and the French/English thing has long been an, apparently, inside joke both with the Canadians (as is the word Canuck). I certainly meant no offense to you or anyone else for that matter. Least of all an Australian whose country I not only admire but it is my fondest wish that I would be able to visit there some day. Not likely to happen at my age but I can dream.

If you also need the Scott catalogue numbers you might have a long slog, I don't know, the British Stanley Gibbons concise catalogue has nice clear colour pictures of all the stamps and an Index that sometimes helps. For issues since the 1980s the SG Collect British stamps checklist is nice and straight forward with colour pictures of all the stamps. Other clues can be Decimal currency 1971 onwards. Millenium issues squarish with an explanation saying Millenium 1999-2000, Roughly Square shaped stamps 1983 onwards becoming more common towards the millenium. What is being commemorated eg D Day try 50 years on 1994, no stamp has a cancellation date from before it was issued. Definitive issues with an elliptcal perforation are after 1993. Some stamps do have the year of issue printed in tiny letters on the white edge of the stamp.
The other things you need are a supply of your favourite none addictive headache medication, and some music in the background.
Life would be very dull if the British couldn't insult their neighbours, we have to tolerate there attempts to insult us but they have the impossible task of trying to insult perfection.

Thank you Noocassel. Guess you understood my humor (that's humour to you) I pride myself in my "dual" citizenship though I have never actually applied for it. I might have to pay income tax on both sides of the border or so I've been told.

Lots of good information and since I am working with 1984 issues on the "checklist" will definitely fill the bill. Found one available over here on ebay for around $12 and snapped it up. Will definitely look more closely at those borders for dates and the cancelation dates are very helpful, too.

The albums I purchased are Scott and I have been using Minkus all my life so the few numbers that Scott actually put in their albums don't help me. I think that Minkus and SG had the right idea and Scott just dumbed it down without varieties.

Thanks a whole bunch. GBY (God Bless You)

All's is good here,
Thank you.
I felt uncomfortable calling it out, but am a passionate fellow against bullying, and try to end perpetuation of negatives, even veiled in humour.
I thought about it later, and concluded it was meant light hearted, but if it gets people to reflect, then that's good.
My apologies to you, for any hurt.