Do GB top value modern commemoratives exist on cover?

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 06:14:33 am

Bath Bristol GB to Sarasota USA
13 August 2002
68P 17th. Commonwealth Games Wheelchair Racing
SG2303 (2002)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 06:16:03 am

Bath Bristol GB to Sarasota USA
01 June 2004
68P Delphinium
SG2461 (2004)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 06:17:47 am

GB to Sarasota USA
07 December 2001
45P Robins with Christmas Pudding
SG2241 (2001)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 18:58:16 pm

Tyneside GB to Sarasota USA
15 February 2007
50P Helix Nebula C63
SG2172 (2007)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:00:58 pm

GB to Sarasota USA
Date Unknown
20P Vaccinating Child
SG2080 (1999)
26P Patient on Trolley
SG2081 (1999)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:02:20 pm

Oxford GB to Sarasota USA
07 December 1996
63P The Shepherds
SG1954 (1996)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:05:41 pm

Hemel Hempstead GB to Sarasota USA
06 December 1999
44P St. Andrews Pilgrimage, Fife
SG2117 (1999)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:07:14 pm

Croydon GB to Sarasota USA
12 May 2001
45P Unity Class Submarine
SG2204 (2001)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:08:52 pm

Croydon GB to Sarasota USA
11 September 1999
64P Aerial View of Combine Harvester
SG2110 (1999)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:10:19 pm

Croydon GB to Sarasota USA
01 March 2001
45P Stormy
SG2199 (2001)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:11:34 pm

Croydon GB to Sarasota USA
19 May 2003
47P Francis Chichester
SG2364 (2003)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:12:41 pm

GB to Sarasota USA
01 June 2004
47P Lilium
SG2460 (2004)

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 19:13:52 pm

Tyneside GB to Sarasota USA
20 June 2003
68P Prince William
SG2384 (2003)

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 21:47:30 pm

Nice selection - in Australia you'd have covers worth £8-£15 or more each. Here, some dealers might try for that but I don't know how successful they would be at selling.

King Tut · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2011 20:16:11 pm

Here's a couple of those that I have accumulated. Haven't collected per se, just put them in a box as I got them. Makes me pine for when in the 70's and 80's my grandparents used to send us the Leicester Mercury every week so my dad could keep up with the football (go the Foxes). Those newspaper wrappers would be a delight now....Not good with technology so see how we go with loading them up...

Really like this one - book from UK and the lady was good enough to go down to the PO and buy stamps!

Laurence

bazza4338 · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2011 20:45:38 pm

Hello King Tut

Nice Covers

I was born in Burwood; moved to Surrey Hills then Donvale; lived in Kilsyth; went to Brisbane; moved back to Kilsyth; then Wonga Park; then Belgrave; now Arundel Qld.

Victoria - nice part of the world.

Especially Autumn/Winter.

King Tut · **Posted:** Sat May 21, 2011 15:25:01 pm

Found some more in my boxes. Is modern issue usage popular in UK? Do you think it will grow like the demand for Aust commercial usage (there are extensive threads on Stampboards dealing with this aspect).

With so many UK issues being put out it's almost impossible to find most...plus add in the use of Machins and machine labels instead of the special stamps when you are lucky enough to get a letter instead of an email...

Laurence

Jack · **Posted:** Sat May 21, 2011 18:59:43 pm

Usage is not yet popular in the UK; most have trouble believing anything beyond stamps and penny blacks on cover. They are nice covers though; and there area few of us interested in modern usage and I suspect / hope it's a growing area.

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 20:45:01 pm

There's a "soapbox" article in this month's Stamp Magazine promoting the collection of modern covers; whilst Machins are mentioned, more articles like this can only help attract interest.

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2011 21:41:20 pm

The last multiple issue, A-L of the UK (13.10.11) used on cover:

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 23:31:46 pm

Received from Stampboards member pitronix in exchange for some SG Catalogue pages, these high values among others (which will be on the Machin thread)

76p Royal Shakespeare Company (this is the worldwide rather than Europe rate for 10g, but would cover the Europe 20g rate.)
£1.00 Queen Victoria from House of Hanover miniature sheet (which makes it philatelic I suppose), paid the 20-40g rate.
The 97p England regional definitive paid the worldwide rate (not Europe) for 20g until 3 April 2011.

It may well be that some people do not check which countries are covered by the Europe rate. I know I occasionally overstamp through looking at the wrong part of the rate table, and have to peel some stamps off!

pitronix · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 00:48:53 am

Hi Norvice, nice to see that covers arrived safely and that you like them. As I mentioned I have few more, even better ones, but unfortunately someone in post office forget to cancel them :evil:

Any way, most of them are from British ebayers and other sellers but I like fact that most of them go for a stamps rather then labels, way to go folks

I'll keep you in mind when I have some more material for you, and I'm also interested in Bosnia and ex-Yu on cover :wink:

Jack · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 04:10:57 am

Top Value Commemoratives do exist on cover, I have just 'done' my Xmas mail -including to Australia - and I have used solely the House of Hanover stamps. All solo usage as I worked out I needed 1st class, 76p and £1.10 for the rates (10g cards and 20g cards air rate), and even a couple of gutter pairs on a calendar. Hopefully some will be nicely cancelled, some I will get back from the better trained friends and relatives but some will be binned or have the stamp ripped off an taken to a charity.

But at least I have tried. And they are not Xmas stamps. nor Machins.

drh · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 08:45:36 am

I can safely say that I have never received a high value GB commem on any bit of post in the past 20 years. Therefore they are a complete philatelic entity.

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 09:06:09 am

drh wrote:

I can safely say that I have never received a high value GB commem on any bit of post in the past 20 years. Therefore they are a complete philatelic entity.

How many letters or packets have you received which would have warranted a high value, bearing in mind they are primarily intended for airmail use?

john6625 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 22:33:11 pm

Here are a few I had laying around.

john6625 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 22:40:20 pm

And these

john6625 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 22:43:46 pm

And finally

norvic · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 22:46:42 pm

Very nice - they do exist. I ought to prepare a library of every stamp used on cover - yeah, like I have time :lol:

john6625 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 22:50:48 pm

Good luck with that project Norvic :lol:

Voyager · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 18:26:49 pm

Received this registered envelope just today

sent from Sittingbourne, Kent, U.K. on Dec 20, 2011
received at Thanjavur, India on Jan 03, 2012

Machaggis52 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 05:22:42 am

dollaryen wrote:

Thanks for posting those Jack, at least some are being used, just re-reading some old GSM's and came across this article from Ken Lake who regularly writes / wrote for the magazine.

Quote "Like many of you, I'm busy using up an accumulation of old GB stamps on my post" He shows a cover with a few old issues including machin halfpenny and 4 neat 2000 postmarks.

My question would be are covers like this worth collecting or are they just good for soaking the stamps off, its a fairly nice cover but the stamps are all being used after they have been withdrawn from general sale. Not saying they shouldn't be used, obviously they should but the cover is really worth nothing, only covers used with postmarks from the correct period are worth a premium otherwise anyone could make covers up.

The whole point of collecting covers is the limited availability, I could buy some top value commems from 10 years ago and send some letters to family but to a collector the cover would be meaningless, but if I had done it 10 years ago with a nice postmark it is collectable.

Reading through stamp dealer adverts quite a few sell old commems at a discount for postage so a lot of covers are around with stamps on "out of period" I suppose this has always been the case, but are they worth collecting ?

Good points.

I have the problem of the Post Office either using the big labels (which will be collectible in themselves some day), or, using definitives. I need to go and buy commems as they are issued I suppose. I feel a bit ashamed when I get covers in, especially from the US, where they have very carefully placed half a dozen stamps, some of them going back twenty or thirty years. I gather that all US stamps are valid for postage irrespective of age.

Machaggis52 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 05:24:19 am

Voyager wrote:

Received this registered envelope just today

sent from Sittingbourne, Kent, U.K. on Dec 20, 2011
received at Thanjavur, India on Jan 03, 2012

Someone has gone to a lot of bother with that.

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 22:36:09 pm

From a customer, Special Delivery with Roald Dahl MS and some of the set, a 40g Worldwide Machin Faststamp and some Machins:

Jack · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 23:45:45 pm

I like some of these covers shown but many use stamps way out of period and are not interesting.

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2012 00:20:21 am

Agreed.

King Tut · **Posted:** Mon Feb 06, 2012 20:50:41 pm

From UK to Aust, this week. Current issue correctly used. From a relative who normally emails. Two bonuses - their PO had a special stamp instead of just Machins or machine labels, and it did receive a postmark (though faint you can see the date and that it went on the stamp)

pitronix · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2012 23:33:19 pm

Hi, this one is coming soon to you Norvic ;-)

but I had to share it. I just received small packet from e-bay (die cast BMW car model) and behold, it was franked with actual stamps. It is but rough piece but had no time to spend an hour with scalpel dissecting it! Anyway I hope you like it!

norvic · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 00:19:57 am

Nice to see somebody using stamps (another one in Norfolk, about 35 miles or so south).

pitronix · **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2012 00:35:08 am

Hahaha, he was kindly asked to use stamps "if possible"

but I didn't grow big hope :roll:

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 19:57:56 pm

And now the Britons of Distinction:

Rob K · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 21:26:53 pm

I'm doing my bit (sort of). I sell a few CDs and books on Amazon and I always use stamps. Often old ones bought at a discount admittedly but I also bought a stock of the jubilee and Roald Dahl MSs. I just used three quarters of a Roald Dahl one on a packet to Germany yesterday, but I may have spoilt it by adding 5p to make up the value with a 1973 stamp!


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