When the 2018 Concise Catalogue was produced there was a major overhaul of numbering of the security Machins. But even with those changes I feared that they had not left sufficient gaps to accommodate the higher value stamps which were bound to appear. And so it turns out. All gummed (ex-PSB) stamps above £1.25 (SG3089) have been renumbered, which consequently requires the revision of the numbers for the litho-printed NVI stamps (previously U3095-8).
The Marvel Comics PSB stamps are not included in the catalogue listing, but are mentioned in John Deering's Machin Watch column, so I can provide all the details here in a variation of our Checklist.
There are also changes to listings for the complicated 5p values.
The stamp from DY8, the Merchant Navy PSB, which has the eliptical perforations near the top of the sides rather than near the foot, is listed as U3072d - but it's original listing of U3073 is retained.
The associated pane, U3073l, is not listed with U3072d.
The number U3072d is also retained by a pane, but the contents have been 'rewritten'. They were U3072, 3074 and 3083 but are now shown as U3012, 3013 & 3021b which is a total nonsense. The pane is from the Beatrix Potter PSB, DY19.
The stamp from DY13, the 2015 Great War PSB, which shade is identified by Gibbons as deep red-brown rather than red-brown, is changed from U3072c to U3072a.
That from DY25, the RAF Centenary PSB with source code M IL instead of MPIL, is changed from U3072f to U3072b. There is no U3072c unless that is the correct number for the Merchant Navy stamp.
Other changes:
1p - Marvel PSB single is U3070a as it is M IL.
2p - U3071d changes to U3071a, this is the RAF M IL stamp.
50p - U3077 Gibbons have changed their colour description from slate-blue to slate; the less-blue shade in the Harry Potter PSB is U3077a and is described as grey.
I can see what they have tried to do: the variants are now all numbered with a,b,c, etc codes to keep them all near the start of the listing. The panes are now all listed separately from l,m,n etc as they are in pre-security listings.
I have written to Gibbons pointing out the errors in the latest listing in GSM and hope that they will publish a better listing in the next edition. Meanwhile the next edition of our Checklist will await this clarification.
Stamps
with ordinary gum
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Value
and colour
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Year
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Source
Code
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Year
code
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Issue
Date or EKD§
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SG
GB Concise 2018
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SG
No
GSM
May
2918
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Norvic
Number
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Comment
(incl
first printing date)
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2nd
class blue
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2015
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MPIL
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M15L
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17/12/15
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U3095
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U3150
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2901P.5
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DY15
Star Wars PSB
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2017
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M17L
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14/12/17
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2901P.7
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DY23
Star Wars PSB
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1st
class gold
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2011
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MPIL
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M11L
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09/09/11
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U3096
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U3155
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3701.1
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DY2
Aerial Post
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1st
class red (SG=vermillion)
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2013
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MPIL
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M13L
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09/05/13
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U3097
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U3156
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3702P
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DY7
Football PS
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2015
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MPIL
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M15L
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17/12/15
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3702P.5
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DY15
Star Wars PSB
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2016
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|
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M16L
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21/04/16
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3702P.6
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DY17
Queens 90th PSB
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2017
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M17L
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05/06/17
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U3067
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3702P.7
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DY21
Machin Ann: Grv
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14/12/17
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U3097
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3702P.7a
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DY23
Star Wars: Litho
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(prev
listed as deep scarlet)
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2018
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M18L
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13/09/18
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U3098
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U3156
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3702P.8
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DY26
World War I §§
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1st
deep scarlet (SG=bright scarlet)
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2017
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MPIL
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M16L
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15/02/17
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U3098
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U3157
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3702aP.6
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DY20
Windsor Castle
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§§
3702aP.8 is renumbered as 3702P.8 with the colour confirmed as
red/vermillion
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£1.25
green
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2018
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MPIL
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M18L
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04/12/18
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U3084
in suppt. |
U3089
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4125P.8
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DY26
Harry Potter PSB
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£1.25
light green
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M
IL
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|
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14/03/19
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?
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U3089a
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4125Pa.8
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DY29
Marvel Comics
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£1.33
orge-yell
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2015
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MPIL
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M15L
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14/05/15
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U3085
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U3094
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4133P.5
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DY13
Great War 15
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£1.40
grey-green
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2017
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MPIL
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M17L
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14/12/17
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U3086
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U3099
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4140P.7
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DY23
Star Wars PSB
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£1.45
dove grey
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2018
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M
IL
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M18L
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14/03/19
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?
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U3104
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4145P.8
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DY29
Marvel Comics
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£1.55
turq-blue
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2018
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MPIL
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M18L
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13/02/19
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U3087?
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U3109
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4155P.8
|
DY28
da Vinci PSB
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The £1.25 doesn't even appear in the 2018 Concise and was numbered U3084b in a GSM supplement. This is now U3089 from the Harry Potter PSB, and U3089a from the Marvel PSB (M IL); this is also deemed to be a different shade.
Nice work Ian. I too find the 5p Lithos numbering somewhat strange. Given that for any particular type/value, the first level of SG numbering seems to be determined by colour, I would have thought the logical numbering for these under the current revised listings should be:
ReplyDeleteU3073 5p Red-brown ‘ellipse at top’ ex DY08 would become U3072a
U3072b 5p Red-brown ‘missing ‘P’ ex DY25 remains as U3072b
U3072a 5p Deep red-brown ex DY13 would become U3073.
I’m beginning to lose a bit of confidence in SG’s quality control checking. In December 2018 I wrote to SG regarding listings in GSM for January 2019 (Volume 49 No. 8). The two self-adhesive Poppy stamps from the WW1 booklet (September 2018) were given Catalogue Numbers SG4116 and SG4117, but these numbers had already been allocated to the Hampton Court booklet stamps from July 2018. I suggested their correct listings should be SG4139 and 4140. Got no reply.
Regarding the two entries for U3072d: I think they are "printer's devils" and should be ignored completely. The items they refer to are also listed elsewhere. It looks to me as if someone at SG was careless with the "cut-and-paste".
ReplyDeleteGibbons have confirmed that U3072d is an error and this 5p stamp from Merchant Navy remains 3073, I'll make more changes to the blog when I have studied their email in full.
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