Sales and Giveaways - Week 48.

All previous offers which are still available and all new offers have been posted on a new PAGE, not a blog post, linked in the right-hand column under LINKS.

Added this week:

Personalised Smilers mint and used - £10 incl UK postage.

Epsom Strike Postal Service 1971 - one cover £2.50 incl UK postage.

Vending Machine Booklet Wrapper selection - free of charge.

No comments on this post - to reserve any item, leave a comment on the new Page, send an email with your details including blog follower ID, and I'll provide details of how to pay as necessary.

We are away from the office for just over a week from 28 November.  Back next month!  Whether we monitor emails and blog comments depends on signal availability.

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Another one-off error for a collector of the unusual - Football Legends 1996 - SOLD

When Royal Mail issued the Euro 96 set of five stamps in 1996 they came with all the usual associated products - presentation pack, PHQ cards etc.

But there was an extra product, a souvenir postcard book entitled Football Legends.  The normal book is widely available from dealers and on eBay. 

This contained not only the PHQ cards, bound in, but also photocards of oher legends of the game - Billy Meredith, Joe Mercer, Frank Swift, Alex James, and Pete Doherty.   These were all monochrome so no room for error.  But the PHQ-type cards have black borders and colour for the queen's head, as the stamps.  The book I'm offering has a startling mis-print.

Just one available and yours for £7.50 plus Large Letter postage £1.50 inland - payment by bank transfer on cheque.   (International postage will be at discounted rate.)

If you would like this please leave a comment and email as usual - check the comments before putting your request in.  

SOLD

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Mystery booklet has collectors baffled!

It's not often these days that the philatelic community finds something modern which nobody has seen before.  Yes, a collector did find a new 2019 printing of the 2nd class Scotland stamp last year, but....

The latest discovery is in a different league entirely.  It is is a booklet which has almost certainly never seen a post office, so most dealers and collectors would not have seen it in the normal course of events.

The story behind it is confused, but I'll start with the pictures:

Outside cover

Outside cover of mystery stamp booklet

 Inside

Advertising slogan on inside front cover.

The stamps are clearly MSIL as they should be, and M14L indicating a 2014 year of production.

Investigating the elements.

The inside cover. The quote is from Nik Roope who was creative partner at Poke which he co-founded.  After the merger in early 2019 between Poke, Publicis London and Arc, he became creative chairman at Publicis.Poke.  He left the group in August.   (He's the one wearing the glasses in the photo.)

The outer cover. The source of the image appears to be a Royal Mail direct mail cmapaign, orchestrated by Publicis Chemistry according to an article in The Guardian in 2015, written by David Prideaux, executive creative director at Publicis.

We took the Royal Mail logo off the ads so there would be no negative associations whatsoever and replaced it with MailMen. We wanted our campaign to have a rallying cry, this set a playful tone for the campaign and made it feel a bit like a movement.

We wanted our mailmen to look like rock stars so we chose Kasabian’s photographer of choice, Neil Bedford, to shoot the ads.

Royal Mail Group awarded a framework contract for strategic direct marketing services to Publicis Chemistry in 2013.  Publicis was contracted to "provide all direct marketing services, including advertising, creative, design and sales promotion, for all of Royal Mail Group’s range of services."  The MailMen campaign launched in the early part of 2015.

See You Tube video on MailMen here.

Unfortunately although the video shows a wide range of approaches to Direct Mail users, and a pack sent to the CEOs of FTSE100 companies, there is no mention of the book of stamps.  Maybe it is in the pack?  Maybe there was more than one in each pack?  

Certainly many more than 100 would have been printed: although the inside cover advert could have been added manually, replacing the normal one, the stamps are stuck to the outside cover, so the same trick is unlikely.  You could bet that if the whole thing was made up manually, Royal Mail would have supplied counter sheet or business sheet stamps, rather than the sort that should be in the book.

The source of the story.

The story provided by the current owner of the booklet is that he and others visited a company that their employer was using.  "For their 100th anniversary they had commissioned a booklet from Royal Mail and I was given  one. I have never seen anything similar nor heard of any other company that did the same (or for which RM did the same)."

The identity and business of that company is unknown, but it seems from our investigation that this booklet was probably not custom-produced for that company for their centenary, but it's a very good find. 

Do please let me know if you have ever seen this or similar booklets, especially if you have one still!

UPDATE: And if you are interested, offers around £300 or more will be considered by the owner. Email me or phone - the number is at the top right.

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New Booklet stock in new and updated lists

Being originally a collector and latterly a dealer I am, like many collectors, finding 'things that I didn't know I had' (or at the very least, forgotten about).

And so I have been able to update Booklet List 1 with a range of Folded and Window Booklets (Gibbons F & G numbers).  To make it easier if you have already looked, these additions are printed in blue * .

The list also includes a few illustrations. Some show clipped perforations so that it is clear what is being described, but the other is for the 'Penny Black' booklet FL1, which contains a mix of 14p and 11½p stamps.  The stamps in this booklet show remarkable variations between booklets suggesting multiple cylinders or ink mixes.  This gives collectors the opportunity to buy something not quite the same as that which they already have.

Another point to remember in these booklets is that many of the contain stamps which are 'different'.

In the above booklets, for instance phosphor bands on the 11½p stamps and the pair of 14p stamps at the left are complete, but the remaining 14p stamps have short bands at top and bottom on one side, the continuous bands producing on the bottom row 11½p stamps with left band and right band.

Similarly the FX (Christmas books) with two stamp values in, do not have continuous phosphor bands but what were referred to by collectors and dealers at the time of issue as phosphor bars.  

None of these is separately catalogued in the SG Concise but they are in the Specialised catalogues.

List 2 is a list of Prestige Stamp Books, from the beginning. No premium (DY) books are included and few of the later DX books.  Many of these are one-offs.   All are included including those with few or no Machins.  High prices for a few reflect the number of 2nd class, 1st class or E stamps included.

* IMPORTANT: when I clicked on the link to List 1, and viewed it in Firefox, the text that should have been blue appeared black.  But when I downloaded it the text was blue as it should be.  You may need to do a download rather than read the file in your web-browser.

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Taking another break

As indicated earlier, we are taking a break for a week, to allow the batteries to recharge and see some different scenery.

The shop stays open and orders will be dealt with quickly on our return.  Don't forget the Booklets list - see below - orders have started already and for most we only have one example, so act now!

The next list is likely to be booklet panes, if I can work out a way to identify the ones not containing a mix of values (which are not listed by SG Concise), followed by regional Machins.  Again we have many of these, but very few of each. 

Please do not phone and leave messages until 2 June.  Thank you.

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New week shop update

Good afternoon everyone, it was a brilliant spring weekend for the most part, so not much was done inside.  Thank you for your purchases from last week's blog post; since then we have added what we think are all the 50p folded stamp booklets we have.

For many of them there is only one example, but there is a good range with cylinder booklets included, and all have reasonable perforations (no straight edges except on the booklets only issued that way.  

Some of these can be very useful for thematic or topical collections or exhibits, with subjects such as vintage vehicles (including a fire engine), amphibians, world heritage sites and cricket.

Again, you can see them under 'Recent Additions' or the booklets category.  In the latter case they are listed from the most recent backwards, so not in catalogue numerical order - to get that, click on the 'sort A-Z' link towards the right.

Here's a selection:

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Christmas 2020 - Stained Glass Madonna & Child from around the UK - 3 November 2020

The media coverage of Royal Mail's 2020 Christmas stamps - delayed until the stamps were actually issued - was less than they might have hoped, probably in view of the latest developments and pronouncements by the UK Government on the Void-19 pandemic.  But as the stamps are now issued, we can now record their designs and subjects here.

The stamps in detail

2nd class –Adoration of the Magi (detail) from St Andrew’s Church, East Lexham Norfolk

1st class –Virgin and Child (detail) from St Andrew’s Church, Coln Rogers, Gloucestershire

£1.45 –Virgin and Child (detail) from the Church of St James, Hollowell, Northamptonshire

£1.70 –Virgin and Child (detail) from All Saints’ Church, Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire

£2.50 –The Holy Family (detail) from St Columba’s Church, Topcliffe, North Yorkshire

£2.55 –Virgin and Child (detail) from Christ Church, Coalville, Leicestershire 

 

 

The stamps are also issued in an ordinarily gummed Miniature Sheet. 

Technical details and acknowledgements
The stamps were printed by International Security Printers in gravure in self-adhesive sheets, of 50* stamps per sheet.  Perforation: 14.5 x 15. (*it is normal for Christmas stamps to be printed in the same format as definitives, ie without a central gutter.)

Miniature sheet size: 179mm x 74mm. Stamp sizes standard 24mm(w) x 28mm(h), Large Letter 34mm(w) x 28mm(h).  The sheet is probably printed in litho on paper with water-activated gum, although this has not been stated by Royal Mail.

Acknowledgements: 2nd class St Andrew’s Church, East Lexham © Peter J Hatcher/Alamy Stock Photo; 1st class St Andrew’s Church, Coln Rogers © Colin Underhill/Alamy Stock Photo; £1.45 the Church of St James, Hollowell © Alastair Carew Cox/Bridgeman Images; £1.70 All Saints’ Church, Otley © Alastair Carew Cox Bridgeman Images; £2.50 St Columba’s Church, Topcliffe © Alastair CarewCox/Bridgeman Images; £2.55 Christ Church, Coalville © Colin Underhill/Alamy Stock Photo.

Other products include retail booklets of 12 x 1st and 12 x 2nd class stamps, printed in gravure...

... and the usual unnecessary litho-printed self-adhesive Generic Sheet - continued because Royal Mail think that customers want them, even though the original justification was to provide collectors with a cheap alternative to the relatively expensive customised Smilers stamps - a service which is no longer available and so for which there is no need for a cheaper(!) alternative.  As usual there is only one set of stamps per sheet but there may well be provision for these in some pre-printed albums and associated catalogues.

Other products: First day covers (2), stamp cards, presentation pack.

Special Postmarks: we understand that the November Postmark Bulletin has not yet arrived at Tallents House for distribution to subscribers.  Special handstamps for this issue can be seen on Royal Mail's website here.

Distribution problems:  several people have reported problems with obtaining some or all of the stamps from PO branches on the day of issue.

UPDATE 9 November

Because of new lockdown restrictions in various parts of the UK Special Handstamp Centre deadlines have once again been extended indefinitely.  This applied to Christmas, Star Wars and probably early 2021 issues.

UPDATE 10 November. The following detail is taken from a Royal Mail press release, via the (US) Virtual Stamp Club website because Royal Mail have not put the information on their own.

2nd Class stamp Adoration of the Magi
Location: East window of St Andrew’s Church, East Lexham, Norfolk. This is an Anglican church, dedicated to Saint Andrew and is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. It is thought to date from circa 900AD and said to be one of the oldest in England.

The Window: Mid-19th century stained glass, believed to have been made by Clayton & Bell in c.1859 – the designs adopted the gothic style of the 15th century in keeping with the perpendicular east window. The east window depicts scenes relating to Christ’s birth and death. The upper tier shows Christ carrying the Cross, The Crucifixion and Christ being taken down from the cross. The lower tier shows events related to Christ’s birth – the annunciation, Adoration of the Magi, and the presentation of Christ in the temple.

1st Class stamp Virgin and Child
Location: St Andrew’s Church, Coln Rogers, Gloucestershire. This is an Anglican parish church and is dedicated to Saint Andrew. It is often described as being rather unique, as it has a Saxon nave and chancel which have survived almost intact. It dates to the mid-11th century.

The Window: The three main lights of the east window of the church, dated c.1865 and made by the studio of Heaton, Butler and Bayne, focus on nativity scenes (including the Shepherds, Mary and Joseph with the Christ child and the three Magi). In the central light (from which this is a detail) Mary cradles the new-born Christ child.

£1.45 stamp Virgin and Child
Location: Church of St James, Hollowell, Northamptonshire. The Church of St James was built in 1841 in the gothic style, and is known for its beautiful stained-glass windows in the eastern apse of the chancel, and the rose window above the west door.

The Window: Chancel apse, south east window designed by Henry Holiday (1839-27) and made by J Powell & Sons, 1863. This is one of three lancet windows in the apse of the chancel. Each lancet window features a single narrative panel contained within a quatrefoil set against a background of decorative painted foliate grisaille (in the manner of the 13th century, decorated style). The north-eastern window depicts the Baptism of Christ, the central the Crucifixion, and the south-eastern (as pictured) shows the Virgin Mary and Christ child within the stable. The brightly coloured pieces of flashed ruby glass, and turquoise, blue, pink and purple tones demonstrates the wide variety and high-quality of the glass made at Powell’s glassworks.

£1.70 stamp Virgin and Child
Location: All Saints Church, Otley, West Yorkshire. The first church building on the site was Anglo Saxon but only the foundations from this early church remain. A Norman church was built over them in the 11th century and this forms the present-day chancel. It was enlarged in about 1240. Further additions and modifications took place during later centuries, Including the installation of a number of stained-glass windows by various makers in the Victorian period.

Window: This window is from a two-tier three light window in the South Transept of the church. The lower tier main lights show the Nativity with the Crucifixion in the upper tier above. It was manufactured by Clayton & Bell and installed in 1862. This image is the central scene of the Nativity. In the centre Mary is seated and holds the infant Jesus on her knee.

£2.50 stamp Detail of the Holy Family
Location: St Columba’s Church, Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. St Columba’s is the parish church of Topcliffe, near Thirskand the present building dates from the 13th century and was largely rebuilt by railway architect George T Andrews in 1885.

The Window: This well-known window is one of two windows located on the south side of the chancel of the church. The window is divided into three lights, showing three scenes in the life of Mary which also relate to the birth of Christ. On the left is the Annunciation, in the centre panel are Mary and her cousin and the panel on the right shows the Holy Family – Joseph, Mary and Jesus. This detail is from the scene of the Holy Family. It was designed by Michael Halliday and manufactured by Lavers & Barraud c.1860.

£2.55 stamp Virgin and Child
Location: Christ Church, Coalville, Leicestershire. The church was built between 1836 and 1838, with a west tower, large nave, transepts, chancel and vestry added later in 1936.

The Window: Whilst most of the glass is Victorian there are also three modern windows, which include the North chancel lancet window of the Nativity. The scene focuses on the virgin and child, with the ox and donkey watching over them (c. 1976). Harry Harvey (1922-2011) worked during the latter part of the twentieth-century producing stained-glass in a distinctive modern style. He died in 2011.

Thanks to Lloyd A. de Vries for posting this information

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The 10p Farm Buildings machine vended booklets.

As Brian M commented on the previous post, Stamp Collecting Weekly (SCW) was a 'great magazine'.  The magazine was founded by journalist Douglas Armstrong, and in 1973 the editor was the eminent philatelic writer and editor Kenneth F Chapman, assisted in 1976 by Douglas Muir, another well-known writer currently Senior Curator of Philately at The Postal Museum. 

Some contributors were anonymous, like 'Watchman' (on market movements) and Queensman's Looking at Current G.B. column quoted last time, and articles.  Another was L.F. (Len) Newbery, whose speciality was GB Stamp Booklets, he also contributed to the Post Office Philatelic Bulletin and co-authored with Jean Alexander what was, at the time, the definitive publication on British Stamp Booklets.

This page from SCW 3 May 1979 describes the difference in the positions of the value on various folded booklets.  We'll start with the earlier 10p machine-vended booklet, SG FA4-9

This is the whole pane:

I don't have a full range of these, but can show these two 7p values compared:

The value block is higher on the left:

According to Newbery, the position of the value relative to the lower edge of the background and the point of the bust is minutely different between stamps on teh same 'sheet' due to incorrect register when the multipositive was produced. But there are patterns.

On the web the stamps are printed sideways in three columns of book panes - for some reason columns I & III had the head to the right, and column II had the head to the left.  But the stamps were always mounted in the cover with the stamps fixed on the left.  There are no miscuts which would produce tête-bêche pairs.

However, the position of the value relative to the foot of the stamp varies: Column III it is 3 mm, column II it is 2 mm, and in column I it is between 2 & 3 mm.  These are noticeable enough to be worth collecting even if they are only noted in some specialist catalogues.

Newbery's column also shows differences with the 8½p and 9p stamps from different booklets. This is the first 50p booklet sold from machines, SG FB1A/B, containing panes X841s/841sa, the former having the 8½p stamp on the right.

 

  
The 85p counter-vended booklet (SG FF1) contains 10 x 8½p stamps.  According to the article, the stamps from 50p FB1 booklet has the value spaced at about 2.5 mm from the foot, and the spacing in FF1 is 3.25mm, as shown in the picture below.

This pattern continues with other booklets.  The spacing in the 50p booklets is quite different from that in the 70p, 90p and £1.60 Christmas booklet although in these booklets the spacing for each value is the same.  More about this in the next post, when I should have more of my own stamps to show.

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A delve through the archives, and time for discoveries

Like many of today's 60+ collectors, I started collecting as a child.  Unlike many, I kept my interest going, alongside other things like non-league football, and bought what I could including maagzines of the day.  

I read as much as I could - something I still do within limits - even if it wasn't of immediate relevance to my current collecting.  Who remembers Stamp Collecting Weekly?  Yes, the UK had a weekly stamp magazine as well as Gibbons Stamp Monthly and at least one other stamp magazine from time to time.  Many of these date from before I married, but I am grateful that my wife didn't object to my continued interest in stamps - as long as I could cover purchases with sales of spares all was fine. I enjoyed buying and selling at Essex Stamp Auctions, but didn't auction much after we moved to Norfolk.

I've been sorting out drawers of papers, including scraps and cuttings from those magazines.  It made me realise how much I had forgotten, and how much times had changed.  Over the next few weeks I'll post some of these relics from the past, hopefully alongside the relevant stamps, if I can lay my hands on them.

I'll also try to add some Machin covers to my other blog on Modern Postal History and try to explain why it should be important, and why - if you have odd boxes of covers in your stamp den - now is a time to look at them afresh, and to critically examine what you have before you consign the cover to the bin after taking the stamps off and putting them in the charity bag.


GOING BACK IN TIME!   Machin 10p machine-vended booklets
 
These were first issued on 10 March 1976 containing 3 x 1p, 2 x ½p and a single 6p stamp.  With changes to postage rates the next variant was aa series of booklets illustrated with Farm Buildings, first issued on 8 February 1978.  This contained 2 x 1p, 2 x ½p and a single 7p stamp.  I may come back to those later.

The final variant was issued to publicise the London 1980 stamp exhibition and contained 2 x 1p stamps and single 8p.  These were printed on the Jumelle press.  A reprint was issued on 4 August 1980, printed on the Chambon press.  By the 14 August, Stamp Collecting's 'Philatelic Newsreel' had described the differences, and these were shown in the 28 August edition.

I looked at my own copies and found what appear to be more variants.

In these scans the stamp at the right is a Jumelle printing, and that in the centre is a Chambon.  The stamp at the left is also a Jumelle, but the alignment on the 8p, at least, is quite different with the value set higher than the other, more like the Chambon.

The 1p stamp on the left also depicts the 'repaired chin and beard flaw'.

When we are able to have our shop online, some of these will be there - hopefully with better perforations than some of those shown here!  Just for the record, here's the whole booklet pane, with the 'beard' flaw, etc, on the lower right stamp:

Some words of warning.
As regular readers will know, I have specialised on the U-numbered Machins with security features - cut-outs and iridescent text.  I don't know a great deal about the previous versions, so I'm treading into unfamiliar ground (or waters!) here.  If anybody spots anything that I've got wrong please add a comment, or email other images.  Thanks!

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Some they catch, some they don't - modern forgeries

Long-term Machin collectors - especially members of the Modern British Philatelic Circle - will be aware that a number of forgeries have been prepared over the years, from the early and poor-quality 24p brown, through to modern 1st class (or even £1) stamps. 

It must be improving print technology and lower prices for equipment and materials has led to a proliferation of quite good-quality forgeries of the 1st class red with security features!  The one thing that eludes all the forgers is to properly reproduce the phosphorescent ink.

Quite often these forgeries pass through the mail system without difficulty, but I have now been shown an example which was picked up by the automatic sorting equipment, and not cancelled.  Upon examination it was first cancelled with the wavy line handstamp now (not often enough) used instead of the good old ball-point pen, and then the stamp was identified as a wrong 'un.  I've not seen this COUNTERFEIT STAMP handstamp before. Being unpaid, the new £2 standard charge for an unpaid letter was raised, with the yellow sticker applied.

I don't know how old this is.  The stamp coding is MTIL M13L which means it could be nearly 4 years old - or it could have been used late last year.

UPDATE: Rob has identified the competition (correctly) from the limited amount of address shown; it was published on August 28 2016, so the entry would have been posted within a few days of that date.

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New Definitive Stamps, Booklets and Business Sheets.

New Booklets and Business Sheets 20 October 2016
As mentioned earlier Royal Mail have decided to standardise the typeface/font used in their public communications, and this means that stamp products have to change to the Chevin* font.  At the same time the colour of the 1st class and 1st Large stamps has been changed by the incorporation of 5% black ink to make the stamps darker, and closer to the 'Royal Mail Red' used elsewhere including on vehicles and postboxes.  In Stanley Gibbons catalogues this colour will be called 'deep scarlet' although it is very similar to the rosine used for the 8p and 26p stamps.  The new colour is also used for the booklet covers (which seem to have become more and more orange of late), including the Royal Mail cruciform on all booklets.

* The Chevin is the name given to the ridge on the south side of Wharfedale in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, overlooking the market town of Otley.

These images shows the new booklet below the old, the first class clearly showing a change in stamp colour, but also showing the change to the text.

Surprisingly the 6 x 1st booklet with padlock design was included in this issue.  When the original was issued on 28 July we thought that this was the first of the 5 booklet changes and were surprised when the font looked the same as on red and purple-cover booklets.  Obviously we misunderstood the information issued by Royal Mail! (Here the new booklet is above the old.)

These booklets were produced very close to the issue date of 20 October.  The booklet packing dates and business sheet printing dates I have seen are:

6 x 1st Mr Men - 21 September - [Cylinders not known]
4 x 1stL -  22 September - Cylinders W3 (red), W1 (iridescent), W2 (phosphor)
4 x 2ndL - 26 September - Cylinders W2 (blue), W1 (iridescent), W2 (phosphor)
12 x 1st  -  28 September - [Cylinders not known]
12 x 2nd  -  7 October - Cylinders W6 (blue), W1 (iridescent), W3 (phosphor)
6 x 1st   -   11 October - Cylinders W7 (red), W1 (iridescent), W2 (phosphor)

100 x 2nd -  1 September
50 x 2nd L - 5 September
50 x 1st L -  7 September
100 x 1st  -  8 September

On the business sheets, not only have the font and red colour changed, the layout of telephone numbers has changed from three lines to one.  All sheets are changed in the same way but I'm only showing the 2nd Large here.

The fonts on the barcode and FSC certification remain unchanged in the international standard designs.  The colour of the 2nd class and 2nd Large stamps seems slightly darker than before but this is not deliberate so these stamps will not warrant new catalogue numbers.

New stamps.  The Norvic numbers for the new stamps are:

2914B.6a    1st deep scarlet MBIL - business sheet
2916B.6a    1st Large deep scarlet MBIL - business sheet
2936.6a       1st deep scarlet MTIL - booklet of 12
2936C.6      1st deep scarlet MCIL - Mr Men mixed booklet of 6
2936S.6a     1st deep scarlet MSIL - Padlcok booklet of 6
2937.6a       1st Large deep scarlet MFIL - booklet of 4

New Booklets.  I expect Stanley Gibbons to allocate new whole numbers to this redesign, in which case numbers should be
MB18          6 x 1st padlock
ME7            12 x 2nd
MF9            12 x 1st
PM53           6 x 1st Mr Men
RA3             4 x 1st Large
RB6             4 x 2nd Large

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Other new stamps
 
Totally new sheet stamps - we have been waiting for these for some time.  In addition to the July printing we understand that the 2nd class may have been reprinted in February, but we have seen no examples with this date.

2911.6      2nd class - 04/07/16
2914.6      1st class - 23/06/16
2992.6      1st Signed For - 05/10/16
2985.6      Special Delivery 100g - 03/10/16 

New sheet printings of existing stamps:
1st class -  28/09/16
1st Large - 28/09/16
1p -            04/07/16 and 20/10/16
2p and 5p - 05/07/16
10p -          20/06/16
20p -          21/06/16 and 20/10/16
£1.05 -       22/06/16

As the 1st and 2nd class counter sheets printed in the spring and summer have now been made available, and with Christmas stamps in post offices, it seems unlikely that counter sheets with the new dark red will appear any time soon.  However, that does not mean that they have not been printed in 2016 so we may well see deep scarlet 1st class and 1st Large counter sheets with M16L codes early in the new year.  The Large stamps are more likely to appear first, though.

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