Despite apparent evidence to the contrary we can confirm that the Machin definitive and country definitive stamps are printed in sheets of 200 on conventionally-gummed paper, and have cylinder numbers adjacent to row 18 as they always have been.
For speed and space I have only scanned one of each - apart from the position of the 'blob' in the grid (can two squares be a grid?) - all the sheets are the same, the number of cylinders being the same as in previous years.
Etchilhampton (Wiltshire) to Bath to Ryde, Isle of Wight, 1833
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The somewhat overwritten cover below was sent from Etchilhampton in
Wiltshire to Batheaston, and then redirected to Ryde on the Isle of Wight
in August 1...
Thanks Ian.
ReplyDeleteyou are great asset to us who speculate.
Roy