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Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Gibbons reworking U-Machins for next Concise catalogue.

Tucked away in the Catalogue Supplement in the April edition of Gibbons Stamp Monthly is news to bring a groan from all who collect or deal in modern definitives.

"Game of Thrones premium booklet.
The Machin pane and booklet will be listed in a later
Catalogue Supplement, because the machin (sic) set
is to be re-numbered for Great Britain Concise 2018
catalogue."
The next edition of the catalogue is expected in April/May.

UPDATE 1 May: A table showing the new numbers is now shown on this blog post.


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8 comments:

  1. petemk15 March 2018 at 09:37

    Thnx for that Ian, that will mean a huge supplement for the Windsor & other albums next year. A lot of stamps to renumber .

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    1. Anonymous16 March 2018 at 17:21

      I think it's at least possible that the 2017 Windsor supplement will have the renumbering. The SG website reports that it will be 56 pages. Also I seem to recall that when the Y series were renumbered, the Windsor supplement had the changes ahead of the Concise. I may of course be misremembering in my old age...

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    2. petemk17 March 2018 at 16:33

      Perhaps SG will incorporate all the different year codes & the change of colour of the 1st class in the main album & do away with the supplement they brought out in 2016/2017 cannot remember now.

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    3. Ian - Norvic4 April 2018 at 11:06

      I understand they are not adding new numbers of sub-numbers for all year codes.

      Contact me by email ian@norphil.co.uk for more details.

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  2. marcooni15 March 2018 at 14:56

    The problem with Stanley Gibbons numbering system is that it rarely gives space to number additional new Machins/Country stamps. They always seem happy just to add a,b,c,d,e,f,g, to a number until it comes down to renumbering all over again. Stoneham Catalogue doesn't have that problem.

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    1. Ian - Norvic15 March 2018 at 15:08

      Neither does our system which, at least for stamps with a face value, just could not be easier. Why Gibbons didn't adopt our system in 2011 (maybe they will now) I don't know.

      Self-adhesive stamps: 3xxx where xxx is the face value in pence.
      Gummed stamps: 4xxx ditto.

      As usual the figure after the decimal indicates the year. The only time this was a problem was when they changed the colour of a stamp, as with the £1 ruby (3100) change to brown (3101) and 50p grey (3050) change to slate (3051).

      Although I find the PSB panes useful in Stoneham I have found several shortcomings in it.

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  3. Anonymous15 March 2018 at 17:11

    There's also a reference to the renumbering in John Deering's Machin Watch article.

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  4. rogerthecollector19 March 2018 at 13:37

    Ok if that's what they think is needed, fine. What I would really like are new editions of the SG Specialised Catalogues but I doubt if we shall ever see them. Who would they employ to collate the massive amount of data necessary?

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