An eagle-eyed collector in Singapore has spotted something that two dealers handling his stamps failed to spot, and that is a constant flaw on one stamp on this pane.
It might have been a fleck of paper, except that it appeared on all the panes in my stockbook. And it might have been on every Machin pane - except that it isn't any of the panes I have with the dark 5p stamp, and it isn't on any of the panes in the books I have, or the FDCs. But it is constant on at least 20 panes!
More next week when I will have had a chance to scan it.
Watching the Coronation in 1952 and other commercial items
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It is sometimes the odd ephemeral item that is of interest. The sheet
below has a couple of items, the top one being an envelope from 1855 with a
printe...
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