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04 Sep 2022
06:40:46pm
https://www.rubylane.com/item/2246000-GB ...

Saw this on Ruby Lane and thought it might be of interest. I don't collect GB so I'm not sure of the price.
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04 Sep 2022
07:51:01pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

Probably about 50% overpriced, the catalogue value is around £120. Some look to have damaged perfs but not sure on the reverse or any thins.

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04 Sep 2022
07:57:23pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

I'm also sort of curious if certain plate numbers are worth more. I know that's true of the penny black, but you'd have to be a pretty advanced collector to get into that. I wonder how many people actually try to collect one from each plate number - sounds crazy to me.

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Brechinite

04 Sep 2022
08:25:13pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

One can never complete one of each plate because Plate 77 is too expensive.

The last one that was sold at auction made £495,000!!

However there are collectors that try and complete individual plates by matching up the corner letters.

The lot you pointed out is way way overpriced. I would only pay a quarter of the current asking price.

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04 Sep 2022
08:48:39pm

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re: Saw this on a site I visit

Some plate numbers are worth a lot more - my 2012 Classic catalog shows several in the $10 to $30 range and a couple in the $60 to $80 range, plate 265 at $750. The impossible plate 77 cats a cool $175,000.

I bought a shoebox full of them back in the late 80's for $30.. many were still "threaded" (back in the day they would hang threads of stamps with a thread running through the center of them and pull off however many you wanted). Leaves a pinhole - most collectors are happy to find a plate number they need and don't consider the pinhole a defect. I ran a few stocksheets through the approvals here long ago- not a lot of interest and now a moot point since I am sure they would consider them "damaged".

I checked my sold file on Hip and noticed I sold several for $10 to $15, pinhole and all. But I sold the normal run of the mill numbers in FVF (save for the pinhole) at 85 cents each. I doubt there are many unchecked hoards left. I think Ian's 25 percent figure is spot on, if not generous given the condition issues.

I've also got a partial plate reconstruction of Great Britain #3, but again condition is mixed so it is no longer welcome here and I kind of want to hang onto it anyway.

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05 Sep 2022
12:18:30am
re: Saw this on a site I visit

The SG albums have a space for every plate number, and collecting them all is part and parcel of a GB collection. This group of 30 is massively overpriced

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Brechinite

05 Sep 2022
11:38:48am
re: Saw this on a site I visit

According to Gibbons 2021 catalogue the Penny Reds cat value is £166.75 = $192 at todays exchange rate.

The 2021 cat val for Plate 77 is £600,000 = $690,000.

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06 Sep 2022
01:16:03pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

"The SG albums have a space for every plate number, and collecting them all is part and parcel of a GB collection."


Is this true for every early GB stamp with more than one plate? Collecting to fill that album would be very difficult. For one thing most E-Bay sellers, or sellers in general, don't mention plate numbers and their pictures are not good enough to determine the plate number yourself. It would be very difficult. By the way, the site Ruby Lane, is not usually a stamp site and most of their small stamp selection is very over priced! I just notice them as a part of checking their daily items.

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Brechinite

06 Sep 2022
01:54:34pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

Yes there are spaces for each plate in Gibbons albums.

Ebay is not the only place to buy stamps in the UK. There are several well renowned stamp shops that provide exceptional service and quality items including plates. They also have an on-line presence.

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06 Sep 2022
11:00:08pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

My 1d reds are almost complete, except 77 of course. My other plated issues are probably half complete.

When I struggle to find a plate, I go here https://www.stampsforsale.co.uk/catalogu ...

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10 Sep 2022
02:55:05pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

" ..... My 1d reds are almost complete, except 77 of course. ....."

Same here and I bet I haven't looked at the pages in twenty years.
I bought quite a few in the 1970s and got bored and cross-eyed
Looking for the numbers.
Wildings and Machins are far more interesting.
I wonder if the Royal Mail mavens have started on the inevitable new
series or is that too delicate a subject.

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Brechinite

10 Sep 2022
03:12:05pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

His Majesty is still to approve any stamp designs but it is believed that he has already sat for the portrait that will be used.

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10 Sep 2022
04:59:26pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

Since I don't collect GB I am curious if they will issue a final series of QEII as a memorial or will they just do a series for Charles III as the new monarch. What have they done in the past?

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Brechinite

10 Sep 2022
06:45:26pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

We haven't faced a change of Monarch for 70 years so we don't know what they will do this time.

Previously no special mourning stamps were issued.

However when the Queen Mother died they took a previous issue and printed a black border round the stamps. They did the same when Diana, Princess of Wales died.

I assume that a new series of King Charles definitives will be issued first., followed by a commemorative issue of the accsession or they will wait for the Kings Coronation.

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11 Sep 2022
03:40:23pm
re: Saw this on a site I visit

" ..... I assume that a new series of King Charles definitives
will be issued first., followed by a commemorative issue of
the accession or they will wait for the Kings Coronation. ....."


That will be interesting philatelicly and have more historic value
than some of the seemingly endless array of cartoon poster art.


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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
04 Sep 2022
06:40:46pm

https://www.rubylane.com/item/2246000-GB ...

Saw this on Ruby Lane and thought it might be of interest. I don't collect GB so I'm not sure of the price.

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""We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years." George Carlin"
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sheepshanks

04 Sep 2022
07:51:01pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

Probably about 50% overpriced, the catalogue value is around £120. Some look to have damaged perfs but not sure on the reverse or any thins.

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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
04 Sep 2022
07:57:23pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

I'm also sort of curious if certain plate numbers are worth more. I know that's true of the penny black, but you'd have to be a pretty advanced collector to get into that. I wonder how many people actually try to collect one from each plate number - sounds crazy to me.

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""We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years." George Carlin"
Brechinite

04 Sep 2022
08:25:13pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

One can never complete one of each plate because Plate 77 is too expensive.

The last one that was sold at auction made £495,000!!

However there are collectors that try and complete individual plates by matching up the corner letters.

The lot you pointed out is way way overpriced. I would only pay a quarter of the current asking price.

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"Gonnae no dae that!..........Just gonnae no!"
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In loving memory of Carol, my wife for 52 years.

04 Sep 2022
08:48:39pm

Auctions - Approvals

re: Saw this on a site I visit

Some plate numbers are worth a lot more - my 2012 Classic catalog shows several in the $10 to $30 range and a couple in the $60 to $80 range, plate 265 at $750. The impossible plate 77 cats a cool $175,000.

I bought a shoebox full of them back in the late 80's for $30.. many were still "threaded" (back in the day they would hang threads of stamps with a thread running through the center of them and pull off however many you wanted). Leaves a pinhole - most collectors are happy to find a plate number they need and don't consider the pinhole a defect. I ran a few stocksheets through the approvals here long ago- not a lot of interest and now a moot point since I am sure they would consider them "damaged".

I checked my sold file on Hip and noticed I sold several for $10 to $15, pinhole and all. But I sold the normal run of the mill numbers in FVF (save for the pinhole) at 85 cents each. I doubt there are many unchecked hoards left. I think Ian's 25 percent figure is spot on, if not generous given the condition issues.

I've also got a partial plate reconstruction of Great Britain #3, but again condition is mixed so it is no longer welcome here and I kind of want to hang onto it anyway.

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DaveSheridan

05 Sep 2022
12:18:30am

re: Saw this on a site I visit

The SG albums have a space for every plate number, and collecting them all is part and parcel of a GB collection. This group of 30 is massively overpriced

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Brechinite

05 Sep 2022
11:38:48am

re: Saw this on a site I visit

According to Gibbons 2021 catalogue the Penny Reds cat value is £166.75 = $192 at todays exchange rate.

The 2021 cat val for Plate 77 is £600,000 = $690,000.

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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
06 Sep 2022
01:16:03pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

"The SG albums have a space for every plate number, and collecting them all is part and parcel of a GB collection."


Is this true for every early GB stamp with more than one plate? Collecting to fill that album would be very difficult. For one thing most E-Bay sellers, or sellers in general, don't mention plate numbers and their pictures are not good enough to determine the plate number yourself. It would be very difficult. By the way, the site Ruby Lane, is not usually a stamp site and most of their small stamp selection is very over priced! I just notice them as a part of checking their daily items.

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""We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years." George Carlin"
Brechinite

06 Sep 2022
01:54:34pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

Yes there are spaces for each plate in Gibbons albums.

Ebay is not the only place to buy stamps in the UK. There are several well renowned stamp shops that provide exceptional service and quality items including plates. They also have an on-line presence.

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DaveSheridan

06 Sep 2022
11:00:08pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

My 1d reds are almost complete, except 77 of course. My other plated issues are probably half complete.

When I struggle to find a plate, I go here https://www.stampsforsale.co.uk/catalogu ...

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
10 Sep 2022
02:55:05pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

" ..... My 1d reds are almost complete, except 77 of course. ....."

Same here and I bet I haven't looked at the pages in twenty years.
I bought quite a few in the 1970s and got bored and cross-eyed
Looking for the numbers.
Wildings and Machins are far more interesting.
I wonder if the Royal Mail mavens have started on the inevitable new
series or is that too delicate a subject.

Like
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".... You may think you understood what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think you heard is not what I thought I meant. .... "
Brechinite

10 Sep 2022
03:12:05pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

His Majesty is still to approve any stamp designs but it is believed that he has already sat for the portrait that will be used.

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"Gonnae no dae that!..........Just gonnae no!"

This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
10 Sep 2022
04:59:26pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

Since I don't collect GB I am curious if they will issue a final series of QEII as a memorial or will they just do a series for Charles III as the new monarch. What have they done in the past?

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""We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years." George Carlin"
Brechinite

10 Sep 2022
06:45:26pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

We haven't faced a change of Monarch for 70 years so we don't know what they will do this time.

Previously no special mourning stamps were issued.

However when the Queen Mother died they took a previous issue and printed a black border round the stamps. They did the same when Diana, Princess of Wales died.

I assume that a new series of King Charles definitives will be issued first., followed by a commemorative issue of the accsession or they will wait for the Kings Coronation.

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"Gonnae no dae that!..........Just gonnae no!"

Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
11 Sep 2022
03:40:23pm

re: Saw this on a site I visit

" ..... I assume that a new series of King Charles definitives
will be issued first., followed by a commemorative issue of
the accession or they will wait for the Kings Coronation. ....."


That will be interesting philatelicly and have more historic value
than some of the seemingly endless array of cartoon poster art.


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