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.
Bristol Foreign Mail, Part 1
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This is the first of 4 posts with examples of Foreign mail to/from
Bristol. The first cover below is from Swansea to Adelaide, Australia in
1847. It we...
Thanks Ian.
ReplyDeleteyou are great asset to us who speculate.
Roy