Great Britain - Victoria Five Shillings, Value?

Hello! I bought this for £2. It has got a nice centering, but a quite heavy cancellation.

What would be the approximate value of this stamp in your opinion?

It depends upon what value you are asking about.

The value is £2 from the most recent sales transaction.

Are you looking for retail value, insurance (replacement) value, catalog value, or value if you try to sell it? There are many types of value.

I agree with your assessment of centering and cancel. The stamp appears to have faults (major vertical crease and upper right corner crease), which will significantly affect its desirability.

Are you a collector and intend to keep this stamp, or a speculator and want to "flip" it?

Hello and thank you for taking the time to reply!

I intend to keep it. :-)

I follow a number of US auctions that occur weekly and monthly. This stamp comes up very often, and used copies seem to sell for just over $20US. I have been looking for an excellent used copy of the 10 Shilling, but they are usually up over $75.

Here are ebay sold results:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/23739/i.ht...H_Complete=1

Given the creases your stamp has it appears that you paid about what the market says you should have paid.

The cancellation type is relatively common on these higher face value UK stamps.

If I remember correctly it's a registration cancel, but hopefully someone will chime in to confirm.

I'm almost certain a Registration cancel. Something very similar on my Scott 142.

Not a Registration cancel,
It is a rubber hand canceller, for Parcel Post applications.

Hence you generally see them on high value stamps.

Thanks Rod. A nice display!

Actually, the 5/- stamp in the OP isn't too heavily cancelled.

Remember, these read "postage & revenue", too. Something like the £1 stamp could be used to pay postage and duties at the same time. I really like those £1 greens with a neat SOTN Guernsey or Jersey CDS. But most of that amount was for paying duties and only a small part used for the postage. Valuation-wise, they still seem to get treated as fully postal usages.

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Possibly correct term should be "Packet / Parcel Cancellation"

Decent returns on readable cancellations.



corrected typo

Probably going way off the OP but here it is. I was thinking more of the steel die cancels like the Jersey one here:

(currently on ebay, and not my stamp)

Registration cancels of the period (and later) are ovals struck by steel devices, for the most part if not almost exclusively.

HB
with respect, I beg to differ, this is still a rubber packet /Parcel
cancellation, maybe the Money Order Department.
Albeit, it has black Ink (a scarcity) most were violet or red ink.

I have an open mind, but remain with my opinion until proven otherwise.

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emailed the Jersey Post Philatelic Bureau

Jersey and Guernsey circular dated cancellations on these high value stamps, mostly, were used for duties.