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Please Advise - New To Stamps, Just Found A Half Pence Used In Great Condition George V Stamp.

 
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Posted 04/07/2025   7:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Blobfish123 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Just found this stamp in an old book - would anyone know it's approximate worth?

Seems to be a green Henry V stamp with a tangier mark post office on it.

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Posted 04/07/2025   7:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Partime to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That is a Great Britain stamp depicting King George V. It was issued to be used in Tangier, hence the overprint. I wouldn't call it "great" condition as there appears to be a poor lower left corner. Value in this condition is less than a dollar, but I would keep it on the paper, don't soak it off.
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Posted 04/08/2025   02:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The stamp was overprinted for use at the British Post Office in the international port zone of Tangier. Since it was for use at the post office, there was no need to change the value. From memory, the four TANGIER stamps (Block Cypher watermark only) were issued in 1927. It was one of the Morocco Agencies.

Having readable cancellations for the BRITISH POST OFFICE TANGIER is a big plus. Used stamps only have value with a recognisable cancellation for the British Post Office in Tangier.

As Partime already remarked, it has condition issues. The curled lower left corner, in particular, is quite a problem. The sloppy manner in which the piece was torn from the entire is a negative. I am not sure if there is a fibre or large tear at lower right. It appears as if the lower right corner was severed from the stamp.

As for Henry V, he ruled more than five centuries before the stamp was issued. As Partime, already, remarked, it is King George V. The stamp is called a "Mackennal," or "Profile Head."
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Edited by NSK - 04/08/2025 02:11 am
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Posted 04/08/2025   08:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
.... and a second stamp has been peeled-off, taking most of the upper cancel with it.
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