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.
Parcel Post Labels from East Twerton, Bath (1896) and North Town, Taunton
(1895)
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A couple of early-ish Parcel Post Labels (parcel service started August
1883), beginning with one for East Twerton under Bath in September 1896.
The fra...
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