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Posted 10/02/2023   09:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Snezdups to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Greetings from Minnesota!
I found these stamps in my mothers photo album.
Could someone please tell me a bit about them?

Thank you!

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Posted 10/02/2023   09:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is not a lot to see from those pictures. A scan is clearer.

Multiples, normally, signal very common stamps.

Photo albums that have sticky pages tend to destroy stamps.
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Posted 10/02/2023   10:06 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Snezdups to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for the reply! These stamps are not in a sticky photo album. They were saved to construction paper. I was having a hard time loading the original photos. I had to send smaller, so it decrease the quality of picture.
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Posted 10/02/2023   10:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Did you use this tool:

https://www.stampcommunity.org/image-optimizer/?

I see mostly very common stamps; United Kingdom, France, a Danish one, an Australian one. These were printed in huge quantities as they paid basic letter rates.

In the first picture, there are a 1d (blue), 1 1/2 d (green) and 2 d (red-brown) stamp with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. These are British stamps (1952 - 1967). The red-brown one is also in the second column in the second picture.

These are called 'Wildings' for the portrait photograph used for the design. The photograph of H.M. the Queen was taken by the studio of Dorothy Wilding. They come with three watermarks, two main papers, graphite lines on the back, and three types of phosphor bars on the front of which one came in two standard widths. Most are not worth anything, some have a little value. But it requires identification of the elements I listed above.

Here is a sample of 'Wildings' overprinted for use at British post offices in Eastern Arabia.
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Edited by NSK - 10/02/2023 10:24 am
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Posted 10/02/2023   10:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add olddutch2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Photo albums that have sticky pages tend to destroy stamps.

Is there any way to remove stamps from this type of photo album?
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Posted 10/02/2023   11:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add classic_paper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The story behind why so many of these particular stamps were placed into the album is more valuable than the stamps themselves.
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Posted 10/02/2023   11:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Use tweezers and be careful.

https://goscf.com/t/71683
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Posted 10/03/2023   08:06 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Snezdups to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for your help and knowledge! Greatly appreciated!
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