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Resource Page for
Collectors of British Stamps

PHILATELIC SOCIETIES
for Collectors of British Stamps and Postal History

The Great Britain Philatelic Society (UK) Andrew Lajer The Old Post Office, Hurst, Berkshire RG10 0TR Tel 0118 934 4151

Great Britain Collectors Club (USA) Janet Gordon PO Box 42324, Cincinnati, Ohio 45242-0324

The Association of Great Britain FDC Collectors (UK) Terry Barnett 7 Mackets Lane, Hunts Cross, Liverpool L5 0QA

Machin Collectors Club (UK) 8 Jannys Close, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6DL Tel 01263 733586

Great Britain Decimal Stamp Book Study Circle (UK) Roger Knights 7 Old Farm Close, Needingworth, St Ives PE27 4SG

GB Overprint Society (UK)
Tony Bishop
The Coach House, 7 Gordon House, Ridgemount Road
Sunningdale, Berkshire
Tel 01344 622389

Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain
The Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB) is an online association of people who share an interest in commercial overprints.

NEW STAMP ISSUES
for the Collector of British Stamps

Guernsey Post Office

Isle of Man Post Office

Jersey Post Office

UK Post Office

Get all the latest new issues direct from the Philatelic Bureau

Pages on StampDomain

Printed to Private Order GB Newspaper Wrappers

Edinburgh Official Paid Handstamps

W H Smith Newspaper Wrappers

Edinburgh Newspaper Branch (NPB)

Postal Stationery cut-outs used on cover

Maury Newspaper Wrapper used in GB

1889 Inland Letter & Parcel Postage Rates

Specimen Envelope for Proposed Algarsson Flight

SELECTED ARTICLES on the WEB
for Collectors of British Stamps

Sir Rowland Hill, the Story of a Great Reform
told by his daughter. Eleanor Caroline Smyth
Chapter VI reproduced from the book, by Eleanor Caroline Smyth, published in 1907. This is a rare book and not all collectors will have access to the book. Chapter VI is perhaps the most important from the point of view of philatelists.

The Establishment of the Post Office in Great Britain, 1656 by Adam Miller
Transcription of the 1656 "Act for the Setling of the Postage of England, Scotland and Ireland". This 9 page Act, of Cromwell's Parliament, passed on 17th September 1656, deals with the rules, rates and routes within England, Scotland and Ireland, plus Europe.

Before the Penny Black part 1 by E and R Shanahan

Before the Penny Black part 2 by E and R Shanahan

Before the Penny Black part 3 by E and R Shanahan

Before the Penny Black part 4 by E and R Shanahan

Before the Penny Black part 5 by E and R Shanahan

Before the Penny Black (1st Series) by Ken Lawrence

Before the Penny Black Revisited (2nd Series) by Ken Lawrence

Uniform Penny Post - posted on Saturday Apr 4 1840 by Ross Taylor

The One Penny Postage Stamps of Great Britain by Tim Burgess

Penny Black
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jonz Stamping Ground by Jon Evans
The Penny Red, The 'Machin', Security Embossing, Commercial Overprints, Perfins, Revenues and Bookshelf are the subjects on his site currently. In addition he has a few unusual GB items which need to be identified. Have a look you may be able to help.

QV Line Engraved Issue
by Wm F Blank

Collect GB Stamps
Resources for Collecting British Stamps
The aim of this website is to be an on-line resource for collecting GB stamps. The website is still in development - you can see its progress by coming back every now and then.

Collecting British Squared Circle Postmarks
by Tim Burgess

Royal Mail Horizon Postage Labels
Here you can read more about this new phase of modern postal history.

LINCOLNSHIRE POST OFFICES ALPHABETICAL ARCHIVE
by Sonia and Andrew Reynolds

Great Britain Machins
by Robin Harris

Machin Definitive Stamps
by Roy Simpson
If you are a collector of Stamps from Great Britain or Machin Definitives in particular, then this is your stairway and guide to a clear concise layout on Machin definitives and all its related counterparts.

Maltese Cross Cancellations
Professor S. David Rockoff & Mike Jackson

Penny Black First Day Covers

The Plating of the Penny - 1840-1864
by John A. McCulloch
This page accesses an Index to the marvelous work by Mr. Harold W. Fisher based on the measurement system devised by Roland Brown.

The Penny Black Plating Project
by Ian Wright
contains scans of penny black stamps, that are searchable for plating purposes
"My goal here is to get a complete set of scans of all the 1840-41 Penny Black and Red printings of the Penny Black!"

G.B Postal Towns
by John A. McCulloch
Have you ever wondered about which town a partial CDS came from? For the Victorian Period of Great Britain ... here's a chance to find out.

Protective overprints and underprints
by Andy Donaldson

Problems of the Penny Plates
A brief study by John A. McCulloch

GB Perfins
by Jon Evans

Great Britain Victorian Stamps
by Ross Taylor
Ross Taylor spent £26,000 between 1994 and 1996 on mint QV GB material and scanned all this material to put it on this website for your enjoyment

WW2 German Forgery

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
German WW2 propoganda forgeries
by Jerry Jensen

German Propaganda forgeries for Great Britain of World War II
by Wolfgang Prätzsch

UK POSTAL HISTORY

Alcester Postal History
by John Donaldson
Torquay Postal History

Tidbits of British Postal History
by Larry Rosenblum

The Postal History of the Kingdom of Carrick
by Tom Fowler

Maritime Markings of Great Britain
by Ron Shanahan

200 Years of British Postal Markings, 1660-1860
by Eunice Shanahan and Ron Shanahan

During World War 2 GB stamps were used by the Polish Armed Forces
Above is a patriotic cover postmarked Poczta Polowa 122 (Field Post Office 122)

GB Philatelic Literature
BOOKS for Collectors of British Stamps
The complete list of books on GB stamps is very large – a small selection is listed below
Guide Lines to the Penny Black
by P C Litchfield, 1949, (1979 reprint), (1986 reprint)
A detailed description of each one of the 2880 stamps and the plates from which it was printed. You can also use this book to plate the early 1d Reds: those that were printed from the 'black plates'.

Ray-Flaws of Plates 1 and 2 of the Penny Black
by Dr H Osborn, pub by Charles Nissen & Co Ltd, 1933

The Plating of the Penny Black Stamps
by Charles Nissen and Bertram McGowan, pub by Charles Nissen & Co, 1922

May Dates, a survey of Penny Blacks, Twopenny Blues, Mulreadys and Characters used during May 1840
by Mike Jackson,1999 A detailed study of the first issue documenting covers and postal history.

The Cancellations of the 1841 Penny Red
by Danzig and Goldsmith, 1991 Detailed study devoted entirely to the identification and recognition of the different cancellations on the 1841 Penny Red

British Line Engraved Stamps Repaired Impressions 1855-1879 1d Penny Die II
by Dr W R D Wiggins, 1982

The Line-Engraved Postage Stamps of Great Britain
by Sir E D Bacon KCVO, published by Charles Nissen & Co Ltd, 1920.

The Line-Engraved Twopence Postage Stamps
by C F Dendy Marshall, published by MA Harris Publications Ltd, 1929.

Great Britain: The Line Engraved Stamps
by F J Melville, 1909. (3rd Edition 1925)

The Alphabets of the British Line-Engraved Stamps,
by R C Alcock, pub by R C Alcock Ltd, 2nd edition 1937

The Stamps of Great Britain The Line-Engraved Issues Archer Plates 1841 Penny Red
by Clive Gardner-Hill, pub by R C Alcock Ltd, 1950

The Postage Stamps of Great Britain 1840 to 1922
by S A R. Oliver and F H Vallancey. 1923.

British Postage Stamps of the 19th Century
by Robson Lowe, 2nd edition 1979,

Specimen Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain
by Samuel & Huggins, 1980

Great Britain: The Embossed Adhesive Stamps
by F J Melville.

Great Britain: King Edward VII. Stamps
by F J Melville.

History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles
by H E Wright and A B Creeke, published by the Royal Philatelic Society, 1899.

History of British Postmarks
by J H Daniels, 1898.

History of the Postmarks of the British Isles from 1840 to 1876
by J C Hendy, pub by Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1909

Postmarks of the British Isles
by George Brunnell, 1930.

The Ship Letter Stamps of London 1766 to 1900
by Alan W Robertson, 12pp, pub by The Regent Stamp Co Ltd, 1951

BOOK REVIEWS
COLLECTING BRITISH SQUARED CIRCLE POSTMARKS
Stanley F.Cohen, Maurice Barette, John Hine and A.M.Williams.

MUSEUMS
Bath Postal Museum
8 Broad Street, Bath BA1 5LJ
tel: + 44 1225 460333
fax: + 44 1225 460333
Lots of Penny Blacks and a replica Victorian Post Office. Housed in the building where the first recorded used 1d Blacks were issued in 1840.

National Postal Museum
King Edward Street, London EC1A 1LP
tel: +44 20 7776 3636

British Library Philatelic Collections
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
tel: +44 20 7412 7635
fax: +44 20 7412 7780