tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324160202024-03-13T02:47:22.062+00:0031p purpleNews for collectors of British Machin definitive issues (and the new pictorial definitives) from a collector who was there when they started in 1967.Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.comBlogger214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-24913331847132757462023-03-11T16:24:00.007+00:002023-03-11T16:24:58.268+00:00More QEII stamps with the Flying Scotsman<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHhKpQvnthVUrKYArwd9R0R-UadaFGL8TKx4yIESIoGwBy81RLO7l2D0_5XjBhv49BYBKgAoQ_H92nJIV6ZRvhSZHMdf9o_R9f3AT-goE84_WGElS_LVdDT56ccvZz9-tNNlPlaovKWisvDsrzIgUmHrq0OCoGewgQT0hdUtrcMnPgabQfJw/s3337/IMG20230311141442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2095" data-original-width="3337" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHhKpQvnthVUrKYArwd9R0R-UadaFGL8TKx4yIESIoGwBy81RLO7l2D0_5XjBhv49BYBKgAoQ_H92nJIV6ZRvhSZHMdf9o_R9f3AT-goE84_WGElS_LVdDT56ccvZz9-tNNlPlaovKWisvDsrzIgUmHrq0OCoGewgQT0hdUtrcMnPgabQfJw/w400-h251/IMG20230311141442.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The latest prestige book would be a much more pleasant item to have on the top of the pile if it is the final one with QEII content. The content itself, though, with 12 different commemoratives and the now familiar bit still bizarre pane of Machins, is a hotchpotch that rather spoils the overall impression. Plenty of good text and illustrations for the steam train lovers but I don't see why 8 Flying Scotsman stamps were needed as well as a further 4 LNER or associated ones in a different style and format.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj22-m1eZzsujq6k1fZ1WYMYujAAPJFP1u0F4wSm-K94DibigBqxpH1j5QzRxiMFiYnkyQi2xdgUXhkwKvHv52J_QpHvR7nYP-YLUbKw7cjLwLk_B7mtNdZp5fGxxkl0JOB836EValrfm-_tNmDfcsDVQ-w90OPOkQp5LmWuU1SVZbxP4iofg/s2834/IMG20230311141423.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2834" data-original-width="2833" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj22-m1eZzsujq6k1fZ1WYMYujAAPJFP1u0F4wSm-K94DibigBqxpH1j5QzRxiMFiYnkyQi2xdgUXhkwKvHv52J_QpHvR7nYP-YLUbKw7cjLwLk_B7mtNdZp5fGxxkl0JOB836EValrfm-_tNmDfcsDVQ-w90OPOkQp5LmWuU1SVZbxP4iofg/w400-h400/IMG20230311141423.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As for the Machins, where once there were 12 and then 8 there are now just four and, in this edition, only two denominations. A 20p green and a £2 blue. The head looks slightly paler on the 20p so I would say this is a separate issue for the collection (and, of course, the bar code will indicate its source too) and the £2 is the first from Cartor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I shall stop collecting these books when King Charles takes over the panels. They are horrendously expensive now and, as I have said on many other occasions, the content is of minimal interest and the stamps merely one-offs which will be listed in catalogues as quite expensive singles but virtually never used as stamps. It will be quite a relief to abandon them. They remind me so much of those advertisements that use to be on the back cover of Sunday Magazines for limited edition sets of pottery, figurines or something. Along similar lines I have complete blue books of the 1977 QEII 25th Anniversary issues with stamps from probably every British Commonwealth country, including the Miniature Sheets and various variations on the theme available at the time. A colleague and I had committed to subscribing to Urch Harris for the whole lot but never anticipated the vast quantities that came our way. We bought the books to store them in, the pages and mounts and the whole thing went on for ever and cost us a fortune. Luckily I had a good income in those days and could afford them in the belief that they would be 'valuable' one day. No chance. I doubt I could sell the books for a tenner each now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-3114586557226936622023-02-04T15:58:00.006+00:002023-02-04T16:00:24.071+00:00X Men and a Barcode issue list<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMiaOX4QvGuBYmCJNtqILSDwMiEmAxzIZYB_O16Sk8a0cnIwkXAeTcLHflZvwjPAd83jKSuRsEKmyrUe54dKqnwFygxIC2nUQ1O9oF-gM7e3eUNuyZ6NLnoE94B-v6qtfkKzmI3AVIl3C5qZx63CUBt2XulrCKo-PWWKimpWTvcRakA8TNg/s639/X-Men_PSB%20pane%205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="639" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMiaOX4QvGuBYmCJNtqILSDwMiEmAxzIZYB_O16Sk8a0cnIwkXAeTcLHflZvwjPAd83jKSuRsEKmyrUe54dKqnwFygxIC2nUQ1O9oF-gM7e3eUNuyZ6NLnoE94B-v6qtfkKzmI3AVIl3C5qZx63CUBt2XulrCKo-PWWKimpWTvcRakA8TNg/w400-h246/X-Men_PSB%20pane%205.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Having just written that there were no P codes for the NVIs, guess what comes along! Apparently this ghastly book was issued a couple of days ago. Oddly, mine has not arrived, although I am sure that the massive cost for the whole thing has been deducted from my card.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I do not look forward to adding this to my collection of mostly lovely Prestige Books from the Cook Book onwards. I wonder whether it could even be the last? Not the best of notes to end but we'll have tow ait and see.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, yes, you'll have another £1 brown and a 2nd green with 22P code to add to your list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Whilst the £1 stamp will be very similar to the other book issues, I find there is always a bit of a difference between Cartor issues.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below is a list I have made so far of the new barcode issues which might be a useful reference. I have yet to check some printers and dates.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><iframe height="600" src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS67y5pUBmNG7Ck6WdWAI1yixV10y4zh-crO9DOziFahBs9wXgJc1QnwvTIq3K1pRDTdWqYsEoDO7Zd/pubhtml?gid=270415277&single=true&widget=true&headers=false" width="100%"></iframe></div> <p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-81230705449554866062023-02-04T15:48:00.001+00:002023-02-04T15:48:10.133+00:00Big barcode NVIs from February 2022<p> I seem to have forgotten to show the new 1st, 2nd, 1st large and 2nd Large stamps issued in the new format on 1 February 2022</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8fmZwZAUXCPkKhK-Xh0KI2XX0W5FPmYv3BRKkvc4UZOxJX4OfVG17ovsPnyyYrOnDIb61pz5vDxcDEsKccfOvRsiqgk68S4QnOJplIv3PUlQSgDG2xlU-Zp1zNZRLoGKKF4OWA2OUcNb9Ze7ZX5zOP8XrWyrcvk-0XYmU3PkBdWopZE96w/s1039/IMG20230204151800-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1039" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8fmZwZAUXCPkKhK-Xh0KI2XX0W5FPmYv3BRKkvc4UZOxJX4OfVG17ovsPnyyYrOnDIb61pz5vDxcDEsKccfOvRsiqgk68S4QnOJplIv3PUlQSgDG2xlU-Zp1zNZRLoGKKF4OWA2OUcNb9Ze7ZX5zOP8XrWyrcvk-0XYmU3PkBdWopZE96w/s320/IMG20230204151800-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicE9lciL2d1IFKgPg1CksWd1BmkhqHmbFOyNAgY6Uw0rCy5-Jx3SOzkFVWb-FlHGBesMYu47IpwLhCC3TrYbJwEz96KH3dq0sO456pH5a8QTtRVF5n0F6oefA3unc2m6CEzpPwXizQuRtPxdPaF62AstbpvMKxT08zla4EHlfL8Zn3Kwmi-g/s1029/IMG20230204151800-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1029" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicE9lciL2d1IFKgPg1CksWd1BmkhqHmbFOyNAgY6Uw0rCy5-Jx3SOzkFVWb-FlHGBesMYu47IpwLhCC3TrYbJwEz96KH3dq0sO456pH5a8QTtRVF5n0F6oefA3unc2m6CEzpPwXizQuRtPxdPaF62AstbpvMKxT08zla4EHlfL8Zn3Kwmi-g/s320/IMG20230204151800-002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje53nUbZgEy23stRZIU1auNU0H8jZtE0M4E3OpDuPZ7etsSkQB0jAekNhnwUtiJmPo0NsHuJW42kcvN-Jwz_RHoI7xivhvKEQist66qPSCYnxXUkHbBpRNcX21EnXtI-LrOXhuU-YwUx0vaJEBGX6ZhfUSwGGSTpWIhpa9ecsS63B46GqPQA/s1029/IMG20230204151800-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1029" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje53nUbZgEy23stRZIU1auNU0H8jZtE0M4E3OpDuPZ7etsSkQB0jAekNhnwUtiJmPo0NsHuJW42kcvN-Jwz_RHoI7xivhvKEQist66qPSCYnxXUkHbBpRNcX21EnXtI-LrOXhuU-YwUx0vaJEBGX6ZhfUSwGGSTpWIhpa9ecsS63B46GqPQA/s320/IMG20230204151800-003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDxj2tR8uMtiCwT5OvNOXvsbJaCUy5EJOgkapvucxJNg5ygczGrXu7qYQ2QTRglPXQA0t5SQuvmxzDsSzOT16AY2bldBaKw7UOYCaY6vssPafQTaSe1na3xkh2q6PIYVFIOVc1YFOemlRm6spiy9Ru8ZxYyGUauFDsQu2lkz98i_Qt-szdRg/s837/IMG20230204151800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="837" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDxj2tR8uMtiCwT5OvNOXvsbJaCUy5EJOgkapvucxJNg5ygczGrXu7qYQ2QTRglPXQA0t5SQuvmxzDsSzOT16AY2bldBaKw7UOYCaY6vssPafQTaSe1na3xkh2q6PIYVFIOVc1YFOemlRm6spiy9Ru8ZxYyGUauFDsQu2lkz98i_Qt-szdRg/s320/IMG20230204151800.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With each also available in business sheets and booklets there are a few different codes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2nd 22, 22B, 22E</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2nd Large 22, 22B 22F</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1st 22, 22B 22F 22 E</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1st Large 22 22B 22F</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think that's all for now. So far, none have appeared in prestige booklets so no P, Bob.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-75291596177030960102023-02-04T14:41:00.000+00:002023-02-04T14:41:46.511+00:00The Stones, Transformers and Tutankhamun<p>I haven't written since August and, of course, a lot has happened. We have the end of an era as Machin stamps will finally cease to be produced. When we don't know as it will be some time yet before we have the first King Charles III definitives so I need to keep going a little longer. In a way I do hope Mr Machin didn't knock up a bust of Prince Charles which some bright spark at Royal Mail decides to use! </p><p>With so few stamps being used on envelopes or packages these days, collecting has become a little lacking in soul, we get the new issues from some place or another and dutifully put them in our books. There's no ta great deal of variety these days either with just two main printers and much more careful quality control to stop less well-finished items slipping out into our lucky hands from time to time.</p><p>I can't even buy all the denominations currently available from my local Post Office. that says it all. Recently, with the announcement that our old stamps without a bar code would cease to be postally valid by around now, I had stripped all the duplicates from my albums and packed them all up to exchange for shiny new barcode issues. I had been using B Alan to supply me with all the new Machins for years and years but also had supplies from the Philatelic Bureau in Edinburgh. The dealer would only include me on a Machin subscription service if I had the regular new issues too - hence the duplication. Before sending them off I had used a few to make up most of the postage for a parcel but there was a balance of a few pence still due. The chap at the Post Office counter had to take 10p from my credit card as he didn't have any stamps he could use to make up that simple amount!</p><p>The new sheets arrived and, just in case I later discover that these are different in some way to the initial stamps supplied to me by B Alan or the Burau, I have kept one of each different denomination just in case! I did start to use them and then stopped as I am sure that there will be a substantial increase in April so I'll get more value from them by waiting until then. Indeed, I may well be tempted to put them away for another year or two if savings rates stay at the very low rates we have at the time of writing. When people talked about stamps being a good investment, that wasn't what they meant but these NVI issues may well be. Those with a set denomination will, of course, get used. I had about £400's worth in total from duplicates going back to 2000 or so. I do still have duplicates going way back to the 1960s but I think most of them are worth more than their face value so they can stay where they are and my children can decide what to do about them as and when my own era ends.</p><p>Getting back to bringing things up-to-date here, I missed the Rolling Stones Prestige Book which had the traditional Machin pane and would have been the penultimate one of those, issued 20 January 2022.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKiJD8Iy6lfJWDCMVAxRXxGYb4ZlYK_JBl7EsR5EeaAd7xVw30Kvkl0-bAWbbfKzIyQQRTzAbkh4JjuYtLw0tRhGr3oNYouxoIwJCEC14D86PFrJtQrW1XPeVZClqQ7kMjqx0MyLt5rqgNGD2VgPSJiH39eKpI73qyhRAY9vMXmOTpX8hBg/s3055/IMG20230204133702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3055" data-original-width="2836" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKiJD8Iy6lfJWDCMVAxRXxGYb4ZlYK_JBl7EsR5EeaAd7xVw30Kvkl0-bAWbbfKzIyQQRTzAbkh4JjuYtLw0tRhGr3oNYouxoIwJCEC14D86PFrJtQrW1XPeVZClqQ7kMjqx0MyLt5rqgNGD2VgPSJiH39eKpI73qyhRAY9vMXmOTpX8hBg/w371-h400/IMG20230204133702.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The stamps are all M21L MPIL codes from Cartor</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Queen's Platinum Jubilee I included previously, featuring 2p, 10, 50p and £1.50 values with M21L MPIL coding too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From here on it's all the new bar code types which really do ot suit the Prestige Book format at all. But we have to keep buying them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You do have to despair of Royal Mail's website people - and the managers responsible too, for that matter - as I wanted to check the issue dayes and thought their web site would be a good place to go. Firstly, whilst you can buy issues you get no information as to when they were issued. Secondly, when you do find a list of new issues for 2022, this is what appears!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0LlmOb4OjSdlhAR6I9oHsaCT3BY79R1Nc55pil1tV5OwLOSpobCDSlDF9TEaT508psnb2lKdiBiM-Wsnz6nKa3lYjRcLkH6SdbdQCf_Wkx-CkptxB-Jofl8_jvbuiodyUJP9zTV68g_yjCjiS_Q0-3r7D-K-4WnsBm-pLJDptoRyr6VLvw/s579/2023-02-04%2014_22_18-Royal%20Mail%20Stamps%20for%202022%20-%20All%20About%20Stamps.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="579" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0LlmOb4OjSdlhAR6I9oHsaCT3BY79R1Nc55pil1tV5OwLOSpobCDSlDF9TEaT508psnb2lKdiBiM-Wsnz6nKa3lYjRcLkH6SdbdQCf_Wkx-CkptxB-Jofl8_jvbuiodyUJP9zTV68g_yjCjiS_Q0-3r7D-K-4WnsBm-pLJDptoRyr6VLvw/w400-h334/2023-02-04%2014_22_18-Royal%20Mail%20Stamps%20for%202022%20-%20All%20About%20Stamps.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>To be announced</i> may have been suitable in January 2022 but, hey guys, we're now in February 2023!!</div> Yes, I know I am rather behind the times and rapidly trying to get my data back up-to-date but at least I am (a) making an effort and (b) apologising to people for being slow.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZObT2WF9D5seazPlLJY4DQ4tgizaqGflcLVi1jIfEGkJhOR35hievq0_hCZC3Km4Oz-TwQG1KiNEEQFYJKXU5m1MiwKoyU9CqNqQhe_XVEmriKGriA5HeAkffqltZRnd_O7CVuaK2AMLIZa7DYnBnCPU-Pf-P5L9-TQ-Sb4Pdqf1U3Kxvg/s2934/IMG20230204133758.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2902" data-original-width="2934" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZObT2WF9D5seazPlLJY4DQ4tgizaqGflcLVi1jIfEGkJhOR35hievq0_hCZC3Km4Oz-TwQG1KiNEEQFYJKXU5m1MiwKoyU9CqNqQhe_XVEmriKGriA5HeAkffqltZRnd_O7CVuaK2AMLIZa7DYnBnCPU-Pf-P5L9-TQ-Sb4Pdqf1U3Kxvg/w400-h396/IMG20230204133758.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I eventually discover that the Transformers Prestige book was issued on 1 September 2022 and has the same 50p and £1 bar code stamps as the Unsung Heroes issue but these have M22L MPIL codes, Cator now having found the P for its background overlay printing machine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFEsAo0--XDF6CiBLSh6tb6PLFu3QvkQ63FQ5CV3Gw5Byy4HoA2yJj21UM4fbbXZQcVF-yCVqDA-c1qnYwPmdlBEeFYsrBoNQintrMMNGEJZYsBgySP1pklIp86kNwCgE0ypeJU1DFQKkmVYSkLKl-QwP_TlZgiAKFmYeBXX3o7oAjQkhaQ/s2512/IMG20230204133918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2512" data-original-width="2309" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUFEsAo0--XDF6CiBLSh6tb6PLFu3QvkQ63FQ5CV3Gw5Byy4HoA2yJj21UM4fbbXZQcVF-yCVqDA-c1qnYwPmdlBEeFYsrBoNQintrMMNGEJZYsBgySP1pklIp86kNwCgE0ypeJU1DFQKkmVYSkLKl-QwP_TlZgiAKFmYeBXX3o7oAjQkhaQ/w368-h400/IMG20230204133918.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The last book I have is the 24 November book for Tutankhamun. This has 10p, 20p values and a strange £1.85 denomination for your collection, each with M22L MPIL codes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All these are quite distinct from the sheet issues.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For good measure, here's what we can expect in 2023:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmtgCc_6A0A__PTRa7u4j0MK3an3_ZhG0f_FXUcT2_fLC42Zz1sJp0YymJzM7BPcxsaTdBJ4xWGK-DmEk4-VqGP3nDbJHmvhwjKFnP_0Yy1I_1I6EFx1HvdBq_atkQ2ZQHfRI2FDudUSXKWLxAD_Fc0PWRYQeCDKIxKrt5TCahj4VeSZ55Uw/s654/2023-02-04%2014_36_28-2023%20Stamp%20Calendar%20and%20Stocklist.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmtgCc_6A0A__PTRa7u4j0MK3an3_ZhG0f_FXUcT2_fLC42Zz1sJp0YymJzM7BPcxsaTdBJ4xWGK-DmEk4-VqGP3nDbJHmvhwjKFnP_0Yy1I_1I6EFx1HvdBq_atkQ2ZQHfRI2FDudUSXKWLxAD_Fc0PWRYQeCDKIxKrt5TCahj4VeSZ55Uw/w356-h400/2023-02-04%2014_36_28-2023%20Stamp%20Calendar%20and%20Stocklist.png" width="356" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just the one "<i>to be announced" </i>this year! Which will have Prestige Books I don't yet know but no doubt one of my readers will. I ought to do a bit more research but this catching-up business is pretty time-consuming so any help appreciated!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-19061043973549236462022-08-11T19:18:00.004+01:002022-08-11T19:18:40.361+01:00New Regionals with codes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9d3yGAnjtXk2L193FNNmozc9IVPwPmxl4m449yjUVKcuG8t1A_Mq5_yvebvNV9ziNnxdysNmBTWZfNNGXpNWWnV8gyazPEGpiGTCt9ndyRvZbMT3c9PV2eq2lRqdol9nmx6eSqn24jhZrm5mPbGmpfmPzuVfeW-8g6uGIdv7qTCNJuka50A/s569/IMG20220811172804-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="569" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9d3yGAnjtXk2L193FNNmozc9IVPwPmxl4m449yjUVKcuG8t1A_Mq5_yvebvNV9ziNnxdysNmBTWZfNNGXpNWWnV8gyazPEGpiGTCt9ndyRvZbMT3c9PV2eq2lRqdol9nmx6eSqn24jhZrm5mPbGmpfmPzuVfeW-8g6uGIdv7qTCNJuka50A/s320/IMG20220811172804-002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here are the new Regionals, following the changes made for definitives and NVIs. I am quite surprised that the opportunity was not taken to bring in some fresh designs for these four nations. They were pleasantly different and original way back in 1999 but whilst some still work well others have not stood the test of time so well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Northern Ireland 1st Class has never seemed right, stretching the <i>Emerald Isle</i> idea to the limit with some fields which I would not be at all surprised to discover were a graphic designer's choice from generic stock photos and may well be an aerial view not far from me here in sunny Northamptonshire!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For what is now the top value we have an oak tree, a thistle, a leek and some embroidery instead of a potato or whatever we should associate with Northern Ireland. Had I been on the committee at the time I am sure I would have voted against the decidedly grimy looking leek as being rather sad for the Welsh and the NI stamp on the grounds that the value tablet is invariably most unclear. Adopting four plants, a rose, a thistle, a daffodil and a shamrock (?), or some variations on the theme, would surely have been more attractive and consistent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I shall stop moaning now and let you enjoy these new issues with their false perforation lines and codes. You can also have fun trying to figure out where in the main image you can find the code section colour used! Just for fun I have removed that perforation line from the English 2nd Class and I am not sure it isn't actually a better looking stamp. With the gap now evident closed a little that would, in my opinion, be an improvement. That line strikes me as a failure of design. You really should not have to draw perforation lines and the ellipses jar rather.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZjdWBXYLZ8fzqa5f_obau_EjekoWnqTvkBJri0pPtKiTJWtMi4i51r9HUIG6odAG5sagFtxoB8pZFeTPrfmquem2DnTNsz4Tho459hXmOd49TWreo75YQtmuu7gzhi7CALByMTgftyaWoshD8xVgb2WT4mS8rOabKITG0y7tmPdGh072mmg/s557/IMG20220811172804-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="557" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZjdWBXYLZ8fzqa5f_obau_EjekoWnqTvkBJri0pPtKiTJWtMi4i51r9HUIG6odAG5sagFtxoB8pZFeTPrfmquem2DnTNsz4Tho459hXmOd49TWreo75YQtmuu7gzhi7CALByMTgftyaWoshD8xVgb2WT4mS8rOabKITG0y7tmPdGh072mmg/s320/IMG20220811172804-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Distinguishing the new 50p and £1.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You will see straightaway that the QR codes on the Prestige book stamps are quite different from the sheets issues. For a moment, I thought this would enable us to distinguish one from the other. But no, of course, as each individual stamp will have a different QR code and that will not help after all!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I suppose it is feasible that part of the design might remain constant to reflect the common source but I would need someone to advise me on that one. There will be something in the long string of characters that will be produced but identifying that amongst the mass of white squares is not something I am going to attempt without guidance!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The slight difference in size of the issues here is purely down to my inconsistent cropping of the later images. Apologies. The colour difference should also be ignored.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFtI2wdWGnMOQipYMISJuO6h0X4SKzzG7iJcH9dsXtsz7qoibYLquERy9c7s5Qufg8iE4UIyYTn9tkU2rR1VVo8owKrPSVl2EZg3NmB778B42KsPCRbXZrv-yqR8ccVZ4Tl8M_Tm6HIMoyDcrKJAGQMejhx50TH-ltuWgDXv3UoOTWTo4Dg/s553/image5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="553" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFtI2wdWGnMOQipYMISJuO6h0X4SKzzG7iJcH9dsXtsz7qoibYLquERy9c7s5Qufg8iE4UIyYTn9tkU2rR1VVo8owKrPSVl2EZg3NmB778B42KsPCRbXZrv-yqR8ccVZ4Tl8M_Tm6HIMoyDcrKJAGQMejhx50TH-ltuWgDXv3UoOTWTo4Dg/w400-h313/image5.jpg" width="400" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghauoYVf_skj8iw1RBklNbBCYd1AKQbmkZqadSNWwjY2DGpaBuq3C9kILSQg9u8SdkBq3Jo67-xmzGCRfPyK01_AuA75BiflGRsHW1RDuQws1NrhqiMj3MNbUhGBJRYm-v0OcBmpHRW4L6mFVshbdGK6Cl8MzbYBUu6qmAavYbuJ0wDRPzAw/s803/P1600219-002.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="803" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghauoYVf_skj8iw1RBklNbBCYd1AKQbmkZqadSNWwjY2DGpaBuq3C9kILSQg9u8SdkBq3Jo67-xmzGCRfPyK01_AuA75BiflGRsHW1RDuQws1NrhqiMj3MNbUhGBJRYm-v0OcBmpHRW4L6mFVshbdGK6Cl8MzbYBUu6qmAavYbuJ0wDRPzAw/w400-h316/P1600219-002.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzjyGsp7-d6lDFckO4OYnFyN4hltyjTWJK_oduCnE6RKNX7ZnMdHDwT8KkJyFz66_VHz1uNMspHzqrt5-rLtqKF0OPkr62d_UfyCSFOCt8P5IC44zGouTnjWzlkLl-jg9QRTD8wcD1F2nV_SSU1e_c7vp7lBmp7i8Ne1TU2W1qx31ZPnnvw/s553/image6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="553" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzjyGsp7-d6lDFckO4OYnFyN4hltyjTWJK_oduCnE6RKNX7ZnMdHDwT8KkJyFz66_VHz1uNMspHzqrt5-rLtqKF0OPkr62d_UfyCSFOCt8P5IC44zGouTnjWzlkLl-jg9QRTD8wcD1F2nV_SSU1e_c7vp7lBmp7i8Ne1TU2W1qx31ZPnnvw/w400-h313/image6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdfeXlFuXSpRsyL9JNHHINhUIiVJDK2Ip18p_DUW6LMtEnR_7wjIuk7PVpNSwzYcsnjgpzDbVwy_CTscOvG-e8JtoDRKOwPzMg51GVVQeiKWlbUx5fXSmZaMaW6LRAGjBwuxYPOIEHwdKtjcbcJecYn_EhJ8tkwTREdcH1IBYsCEUNANqQQ/s777/P1600219-001.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="777" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdfeXlFuXSpRsyL9JNHHINhUIiVJDK2Ip18p_DUW6LMtEnR_7wjIuk7PVpNSwzYcsnjgpzDbVwy_CTscOvG-e8JtoDRKOwPzMg51GVVQeiKWlbUx5fXSmZaMaW6LRAGjBwuxYPOIEHwdKtjcbcJecYn_EhJ8tkwTREdcH1IBYsCEUNANqQQ/w400-h333/P1600219-001.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i>Update 16 June 2022</i></div><div><br /></div>I am grateful to Lew Paterson for looking at the QR codes for these (and some other) issues. Here are his findings.<br /><br />The 4 codes for these illustrations are:<br /><br />JGB <b>S1998</b>101703100184776<b>001002</b>5012201 F6B51D5D00FE2D5801<br /><br />JGB <b>S1994</b>101703100457384<b>00100</b>12012201 7A2413CCC098BDEB01<br /><br />JGB <b>S1998</b>101703100099776<b>000502</b>4012201 53FAA4B2899ACD6801<br /><br />JGB<b> S1994</b>101703100532159<b>000501</b>1012201 D1E0328AE6EDE24501<br /><br /><br />Possibly the first of each pair, has S1998 while the second has S1994 - could these be different source codes? Yep, just tried my own - <b>S1998</b> is the Prestige sheet while <b>S1994</b> is the counter sheets<br /><br />Looking further, the counter, Book of 8, book of 4 and business stamps use <b>S11</b> for normal stamps and <b>S12</b> for large stamps with the last 2 digits in the 20s for 2nd class and in the 10s for 1st class.<p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-82708533637538693272022-05-25T17:49:00.005+01:002022-05-25T17:53:13.842+01:00First and last prestige book panesI wondered out loud what might appear in Prestige books and here we have one. The Unsung Heroes Women Of World War II has what may be the face of panes to come.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh96brH-6zxHcCkrsFOAX9LbTT0Y2-Kg73-qh3pcPE147WNGwgeeNbKtDTtKmwUTWAOd4NCSQ2VVlhDB7qqbG8xqTSmH0HBBEsgo_UaUKiUkdVFOlLBdgfbqWsivVbaFM9zJ2yHtm0rvdPFLVEmISfCU78T7BY8qoJR9BYf5fr3j8P8U-pLnw/s2417/P1600219.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1901" data-original-width="2417" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh96brH-6zxHcCkrsFOAX9LbTT0Y2-Kg73-qh3pcPE147WNGwgeeNbKtDTtKmwUTWAOd4NCSQ2VVlhDB7qqbG8xqTSmH0HBBEsgo_UaUKiUkdVFOlLBdgfbqWsivVbaFM9zJ2yHtm0rvdPFLVEmISfCU78T7BY8qoJR9BYf5fr3j8P8U-pLnw/w640-h504/P1600219.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just five of the new style definitives with a slightly incongruous looking label. Now I am sure that the label is the same size as the stamps but it looks odd to me. Maybe the need for a label has gone, now that the pane is self-adhesive and not a sort of miniature sheet like we have had in the past.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The stamps are just two denominations, reducing the excitement still further - the 50p and £1 in what appears to be a pretty similar colour to the stamps we've seen already. Clearly, or maybe I should not say clearly as it is not at all clear without a QR code reader, the chunk of code on the right will distinguish these as issues from the Prestige Book but that would seem to be all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whereas the normal Machins of old had the MPIL part of the code after the year element M21L or whatever, these stamps have only M22L. MAIL appears to remain as MAIL across the stamps as far as I can see.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is a little curious and could make used examples difficult to identify. Having said that, just how many used examples of these particular 50p and £1 stamps do we seriously think we will ever see? Apart from those that dealers post to themselves, my guess is zero. So let's not worry about that. 'Used Machins' is a subject for another day when I have a spare few hours to type and you have a spare few minutes to read.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have not studied these in great depth and maybe we'll discover some difference in printing as I suspect that these come from Cartor and the others are from Walsall. I don't wish to offend the good folk at Cartor but, so far, I have found their end products rather lower in quality and impression than brothers Walsall and the masterful De La Rue, of whom we hear little nowadays. These seem rather better than previous ware - as I said, I cannot quickly detect a difference but I expect it will be a quality or finish matter that does distinguish these.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Presumably the last Machin pane in traditional style is, suitably, contained in the Platinum Jubilee Prestige book. This emerged in February but I forgot to write about it then.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjzu4idTrZOr6bnwIHr8FRCqIOz8owb4gEjRedsofWJMo7V7HDsVRS0kC-cEbL0Xj2KiAKLUXoDqHopgdGCxh8zsrZ3oEsnNec4nxchNxsBlg061Bc52yEGpT72CJhTFj9QaZRSoQ_oDdmtBl8viwjpSFQ00DqrK_hyUEkm85XMQRX6PnTA/s2576/P1600218.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1948" data-original-width="2576" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjzu4idTrZOr6bnwIHr8FRCqIOz8owb4gEjRedsofWJMo7V7HDsVRS0kC-cEbL0Xj2KiAKLUXoDqHopgdGCxh8zsrZ3oEsnNec4nxchNxsBlg061Bc52yEGpT72CJhTFj9QaZRSoQ_oDdmtBl8viwjpSFQ00DqrK_hyUEkm85XMQRX6PnTA/w640-h484/P1600218.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here we have some repeats in a 2p, 10p and 50p with M21L MPIL codes but a new £1.50 with this code. Indeed, this is the first time a £1.50 stamp has appeared in anything other than a sheet. It looks quite a bright issue to me and that might distinguish stamps from this pane from others if you encounter singles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-73693633430734188372022-04-04T13:13:00.001+01:002022-05-25T17:04:29.607+01:00The new definitives<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqq4zPEcDLzlPJzm4egC9hY0kzhCtJGY8vV9ALqSgeuJ5n_YNwqEcUs__0m-X-S8zyMbXKLLZ7oW6RphdG5UyJqFEgQx9igYB9nqCVuAuPtVpMZ7LtorxCxb_vKAmCWtgSU8wSHps3fLFRJ5ubElHHOtrLca4VLfhkljY6dyjlpSwih2wYmg/s553/image10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="553" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqq4zPEcDLzlPJzm4egC9hY0kzhCtJGY8vV9ALqSgeuJ5n_YNwqEcUs__0m-X-S8zyMbXKLLZ7oW6RphdG5UyJqFEgQx9igYB9nqCVuAuPtVpMZ7LtorxCxb_vKAmCWtgSU8wSHps3fLFRJ5ubElHHOtrLca4VLfhkljY6dyjlpSwih2wYmg/w200-h156/image10.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pVA1YoawrRjUjNPdSwxWoBNFjbUsRpJrazNvV8cW3vFUvMQs1DnI_daY_jcvDdlzfVyOtT6AKFvOLcHpDPkpvLOb-SBPHlmk3Xw_-zLwVsAgHMdb1kgG5qeiVwzpxu-BTdXapFXytbrFRTh1vdF1G-P73bS6Qvl96bg3dkznLVkYs5yAPA/s553/image11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="553" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pVA1YoawrRjUjNPdSwxWoBNFjbUsRpJrazNvV8cW3vFUvMQs1DnI_daY_jcvDdlzfVyOtT6AKFvOLcHpDPkpvLOb-SBPHlmk3Xw_-zLwVsAgHMdb1kgG5qeiVwzpxu-BTdXapFXytbrFRTh1vdF1G-P73bS6Qvl96bg3dkznLVkYs5yAPA/w200-h156/image11.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVc-yZHqw3tGitLm_Gy3L-_2Tc60ZRcmdpaz6wtgwzCZb8Era8bMhBHd_1AP8PhDs7CuSjrRsq6ezmGmmHrHFPJGFTZLBbPYMNERBDunodk4nbf6bUIbCIWAJ6YCQhhz-PZ8KIOKFSv2ncITWFQ2__JZlET-yukJaFdWcwE8jY8TVPa3NSCQ/s553/image12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="553" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVc-yZHqw3tGitLm_Gy3L-_2Tc60ZRcmdpaz6wtgwzCZb8Era8bMhBHd_1AP8PhDs7CuSjrRsq6ezmGmmHrHFPJGFTZLBbPYMNERBDunodk4nbf6bUIbCIWAJ6YCQhhz-PZ8KIOKFSv2ncITWFQ2__JZlET-yukJaFdWcwE8jY8TVPa3NSCQ/w200-h156/image12.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9PA1VZ_IzZiPWkWajdacyt1TJCLEKnGvxQ1YbtIc5TXSwnmKrw4ocjvaFTPCHGJjDnFM8JR2UtV4FNxsEbk4C8SqES2o5Wk_xsg5fupQk0xXnyi-PmZN44I0QSbmB3BsPPLDmzZJR5884gkmL3a_1dEFEy3o8bXfAvdA8eMccxVFoaxSiaA/s553/image13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="553" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9PA1VZ_IzZiPWkWajdacyt1TJCLEKnGvxQ1YbtIc5TXSwnmKrw4ocjvaFTPCHGJjDnFM8JR2UtV4FNxsEbk4C8SqES2o5Wk_xsg5fupQk0xXnyi-PmZN44I0QSbmB3BsPPLDmzZJR5884gkmL3a_1dEFEy3o8bXfAvdA8eMccxVFoaxSiaA/w200-h156/image13.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><br />Following the release of 1st and 2nd stamps in the new larger size with barcodes, April sees 14 new stamps with specific values. These come in two styles - similar to the 1st and 2nd Class stamps, the four new standard rates for various services have a strong-coloured background. The second type is an interesting development, with a white background and the inks just applied to a rectangle border for the stamp and the head and value tablet and barcode, of course.<div><br /></div><div>These are reminiscent of the 2000 issue. Values follow the sensible 1-2-5 principle with a £3 intruder. These are attractive and, with less ink splashing around perhaps they will be even less likely to have mistakes. I'll be looking out for breaks in the border where a pixel or two might be more noticeable than it would have been on a full colour background.</div><div><br /></div><div>It remains to be seen whether future denominations, and the NVIs, will stay with full colour backgrounds or follow the new series. Whilst these are still Machins, it is a new section in the Machin collection and a welcome opportunity to take a breather and finally re-arrange those that have gone before! I wonder what prestige books will contain? If they also follow the new styles then I need not worry any more about how much space to leave between £1 and £2 denominations!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtclPIQ5D4x5Uat4y7q5xlZl66PicPnWEF5GP83REk3CzfdknpZ-SgikwK-4ZK3ziJ_OJaUik9gu2y2Ykrhzl9PYCWwYvV2dHQQcubftIdvEUns6Gz-_uOxF2bX1TdncmyBpz-LycLN63Ozif7xEkm81uPx9EkSttw_VXODgt_FPoJkFocrw/s553/image9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="553" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtclPIQ5D4x5Uat4y7q5xlZl66PicPnWEF5GP83REk3CzfdknpZ-SgikwK-4ZK3ziJ_OJaUik9gu2y2Ykrhzl9PYCWwYvV2dHQQcubftIdvEUns6Gz-_uOxF2bX1TdncmyBpz-LycLN63Ozif7xEkm81uPx9EkSttw_VXODgt_FPoJkFocrw/w200-h156/image9.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQwHS9HjLp8frEGLzd2ZDIEuMRgimvwvUX1ox2o6DzZbZquDo5CB43T2D12cXe-NSdu_MZ1Gbxs4ndQkv2q8w03buToAUDvDz9UE0xO1PG7s0Q_px2XX_4vS-oaxrR-dl8OUd8hJ4a92d3rjXIfq56xSfQjLwcKND9A78kNLwCukBUYSReAA/s553/image8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">Just as you may have thought that there wouldn't be much more of interest in Machins, along comes the Big 2nd. It's big because it is 38mm x 30mm including perforations. the 'stamp' part, excluding perforations is 22½mm x 28mm compared to 18mm x 22mm for the familiar size stamp area.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Separated by a rather bizarre printed 'perforation' line is a panel containing what I believe is now referred to as a <i>2D barcode.</i> I still call these things, whether square or rectangular, <i>QR codes</i> and the app on my phone is a QR reader but, whatever you wish to call it, this is a big new addition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Each of these panels contains a set of characters which will be unique for each label. The one illustrated above and below have these sets of characters:</div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">JGBS1123101703 114139229 00066 231120 01 D7F8DD75094BEF1 501</div><div style="text-align: left;">JGBS1123101703 123311783 00066 040121 01 140D0D76722095E 501</div></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Messrs. B Alan Ltd have made some intelligent guesses as to the translation of some of these and you will be able to identify a date and a value fairly easily. One was printed on 23/11/2020 and the other 04/01/21, both having a denomination at the time of 66p.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are other educated guesses they make regarding the position of the label on a sheet of labels but that's about as far as anyone can go. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This label I can envisage having several purposes as well as the obvious security function. It will prevent the label being used twice without penalty when scanned by new reading devices at sorting offices. I am sure this happens a lot at the moment with very few of my stamps ever being franked or marked. The security slits do make them difficult to take off an envelope but I have seen plenty of instances where the stamp and backing have just been cut out and stuck on another envelope. You may think this is an obvious ruse but how do we know that someone simply needed to use a different envelope and the transfer is entirely innocent? So that's one purpose.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another could be to enable us to track items to which this label has been applied. I can see an app being launched in time to come which will let us see where our post may or may not be</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Something no-one has mentioned so far that I have seen is the possible effect of including a denomination. For many years we have been able to hoard piles of NVI stamps and defer payment of new higher rates. When a particularly large increase is announced in advance then there is a great incentive to go and buy as many as you can as the stock will be worth considerably more a few weeks later. I am sure people have done this and even sold sheets at a price to businesses that still represents a discount on the new rate but gives the seller a worthwhile profit. This new code will, however, specify an amount - 66p in this case - and I can well imagine that this could determine the 'value' of the label when used in part-payment of postage and, more significantly, in future when 2nd Class postage may increase to, say, 70p and we'll be asked for another 4p, or whatever the difference happens to be at the time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is suggested that the Big size is not a permanent thing and that the stamp area may reduce to normal size, with a proportionately smaller label to the side, and that this concept may be spread across some other denominations. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I can imagine that there was much debate about whether to include the wavy line to imitate perforation and those promoting this won. Here's what a 1st Class might look like without it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r3zLdHnz_FQ/YJvBAbsM5iI/AAAAAAAG0kw/U3O3486-zsgdCJ8EulpncOFOlgu58dXzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s501/image0-004-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="501" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r3zLdHnz_FQ/YJvBAbsM5iI/AAAAAAAG0kw/U3O3486-zsgdCJ8EulpncOFOlgu58dXzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image0-004-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The second printing that I have of the 2nd Class issue has a slightly different shade and a much more reflective ink for the background. This does not show in these scanned images, however, but is most noticeble in daylight at an angle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Both issues bear the normal code M21L MBIL.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vYWQp6ogvA4/YJuyg0yVLeI/AAAAAAAG0kQ/gqeJKh9SoR4wI39yi9ihkohn56Wz_ReYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s501/image0-004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="501" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vYWQp6ogvA4/YJuyg0yVLeI/AAAAAAAG0kQ/gqeJKh9SoR4wI39yi9ihkohn56Wz_ReYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image0-004.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Back down to normal size, there is a 21 code 1st Class Business sheet issue. M21L MBIL.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qdC9XMeRGQ/YJuyhn0rogI/AAAAAAAG0kc/y3dv2o3EvMUxGu-hQdGdgo3kW5i4PVibwCLcBGAsYHQ/s358/image3-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="281" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qdC9XMeRGQ/YJuyhn0rogI/AAAAAAAG0kc/y3dv2o3EvMUxGu-hQdGdgo3kW5i4PVibwCLcBGAsYHQ/w157-h200/image3-003.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FDfyxQbFerQ/YJuyg1IVnDI/AAAAAAAG0kY/gWQRYcgvZYEFCe5tjTMkfyeFXiy_L17EgCLcBGAsYHQ/s358/image2-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="281" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FDfyxQbFerQ/YJuyg1IVnDI/AAAAAAAG0kY/gWQRYcgvZYEFCe5tjTMkfyeFXiy_L17EgCLcBGAsYHQ/w157-h200/image2-003.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The 10p light tan has a bright fluor. Still M20L MAIL code.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MaKEhC61p0/YJuyg0w2Y0I/AAAAAAAG0kU/6xtTUpSfMUwVyCTpHhOjm5GX48tLByLCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s358/image1-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="281" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MaKEhC61p0/YJuyg0w2Y0I/AAAAAAAG0kU/6xtTUpSfMUwVyCTpHhOjm5GX48tLByLCQCLcBGAsYHQ/w157-h200/image1-003.jpg" width="157" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A noticeably brighter shade of bright blue for this 2nd Class issue, from business sheets.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-24696134300600054732021-03-27T14:26:00.003+00:002021-03-27T14:26:57.513+00:00Only Fool & Horses and some more 20 code varieties<p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GibIhQnyh3o/YF8-l1yPGxI/AAAAAAAGzTA/YLT4krQYETw4GyXzye9FZqzyb5CS6gT9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s367/image0-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="315" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GibIhQnyh3o/YF8-l1yPGxI/AAAAAAAGzTA/YLT4krQYETw4GyXzye9FZqzyb5CS6gT9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w172-h200/image0-003.jpg" width="172" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2p paler dark green M20L MAIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnMd3tHxSPA/YF8-mkssIMI/AAAAAAAGzTM/goejcbKOGLMbDm0Qku4EiluMVPfnEUxFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s367/image2-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="346" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OnMd3tHxSPA/YF8-mkssIMI/AAAAAAAGzTM/goejcbKOGLMbDm0Qku4EiluMVPfnEUxFQCLcBGAsYHQ/w189-h200/image2-002.jpg" width="189" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st Royal Mail red <i>pale head</i> M21L MCIL<br />Fools & Horses 4+2 book</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZwd9OnfUY4/YF8-nELYGTI/AAAAAAAGzTQ/ZOd5kcsIkMgeMxpfeKXjYP6P3xj7kvD_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s367/image3-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="346" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZwd9OnfUY4/YF8-nELYGTI/AAAAAAAGzTQ/ZOd5kcsIkMgeMxpfeKXjYP6P3xj7kvD_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w189-h200/image3-002.jpg" width="189" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd pale bright blue M20L MTIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MBi3pVAyks/YF8-nnNAu1I/AAAAAAAGzTU/x6gaG5pxDfo3wznocvNQkhqODYUs3F99gCLcBGAsYHQ/s406/image4-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="406" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MBi3pVAyks/YF8-nnNAu1I/AAAAAAAGzTU/x6gaG5pxDfo3wznocvNQkhqODYUs3F99gCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h181/image4-002.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd Large bright blue M20L MFIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And from the Only fools & Horses Prestige book, all M20L MPIL:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PNWvoSsHmRA/YF8-n70bAMI/AAAAAAAGzTY/PvAH17L5k5wHO2bA8VUU6QP-qiA_q9nMACLcBGAsYHQ/s367/image5-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="367" height="184" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PNWvoSsHmRA/YF8-n70bAMI/AAAAAAAGzTY/PvAH17L5k5wHO2bA8VUU6QP-qiA_q9nMACLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h184/image5-002.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YzvhOUMunXY/YF8-onPvd5I/AAAAAAAGzTc/drCD2N2oP_M5zJD6CdKUNt69PpAEQyNXACLcBGAsYHQ/s367/image6-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="367" height="184" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YzvhOUMunXY/YF8-onPvd5I/AAAAAAAGzTc/drCD2N2oP_M5zJD6CdKUNt69PpAEQyNXACLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h184/image6-002.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SAfjcto39pM/YF8-pjg4kiI/AAAAAAAGzTk/y1b6Is1tx7EHFqNucQjbqyXlVAAKNgYaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s367/image7-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="367" height="184" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SAfjcto39pM/YF8-pjg4kiI/AAAAAAAGzTk/y1b6Is1tx7EHFqNucQjbqyXlVAAKNgYaQCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h184/image7-003.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S9yNz9b5x9k/YF8-qO7o-YI/AAAAAAAGzTo/tkbTQCk2-gwSqIhM5-xDhzr8GDda7NMtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1360/image8-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="1172" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S9yNz9b5x9k/YF8-qO7o-YI/AAAAAAAGzTo/tkbTQCk2-gwSqIhM5-xDhzr8GDda7NMtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image8-002.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-56342172227849556262021-03-23T14:14:00.003+00:002021-03-23T14:14:33.462+00:002nd Class stamps - yours will be unique, 1 in 20 million<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VK7YQnc2FpM/YFnt2R4SqlI/AAAAAAAGzIY/Tuwfs5nPOUogA3Y7QUHDFlQN8LxmfMKwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s532/image0-003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="532" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VK7YQnc2FpM/YFnt2R4SqlI/AAAAAAAGzIY/Tuwfs5nPOUogA3Y7QUHDFlQN8LxmfMKwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image0-003.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A surprise in the post this morning - this new 2nd Class stamp. I had noticed a bill for a new 2nd Class stamp issued by the Philatelic Bureau some time ago and, whilst wondering just what was in store, I concluded that it might just be some minor change. Instead there is is this much larger item.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The label comprises two images, the traditional 'stamp' and a type of QR code matrix. To preserve the impression of the 'stamp' being a 'stamp' there is a wavy line incorporated in the design to make a printed 'perforation' between the two main images. I have to say that this looks odd and will only fool those applying the label to a blue envelope. But never mind. So what on Earth is this all about?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It seems a little OTT for just security but I understand that the code for every stamp is unique, with the QR code revealing (to anyone with a QR reader app on their phone) a string of digits which only that item will have. This will certainly make forgery less effective as the idea is that equipment at sorting offices will record the use of the string of digits and reject any further use through some form of intercommunication across the nation. I hadn't appreciated how much money must be being lost through forgery for such a lot of extra security printing measures to be justified. My guess is that the string of digits might be used in future to track an item's progress or, more mundanely, provide detailed data of items source and destinations for Royal Mail.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The backing sheet also contains the wavy lines of text in a similar style to that used across the self-adhesive range.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The stamp image has the same security features as we are familiar with, with an M21L MBIL code indicating that this one is from a Business Sheet which, I imagine, is the code used in most forgeries. Perhaps we will also see this available at counters and in booklets, together, naturally, with 1st Class items in similar vein to be seen before long.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A new page required in the album. That was not expected. I thought there might be development of a picture theme to replace the Machin head and it is interesting to note that the separation of the main code element from the stamp design does leave it quite possible for other designs of the 'stamp' to be substituted. I cannot see this device being rolled out to other than the NVI issues, however.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I would tell you more but I have not received a Philatelic Bulletin for some time, where I would imagine details have been provided. I had to turn to <a href="https://blog.norphil.co.uk/2021/03/barcode-added-to-2nd-class-business.html">Norvic's Philatelic Blog</a> for help and there you will find chapter and verse in fine style.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-49906728654450346742021-01-04T13:56:00.001+00:002021-03-27T14:16:42.503+00:00New values, an odd Wales 1st and the first 21 codes<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qnEvHysd92Y/YF86lu3X3RI/AAAAAAAGzRg/lupUvlWMuFgZ6Mm2S97lylNUhkY7vViKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s390/image0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="390" height="164" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qnEvHysd92Y/YF86lu3X3RI/AAAAAAAGzRg/lupUvlWMuFgZ6Mm2S97lylNUhkY7vViKwCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h164/image0.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st Large Royal Mail red M20L MFIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BS5efR2rnF0/YF86mtwa4JI/AAAAAAAGzRw/98TA7x8lxlEVouLpTlbNm5uhoYG1NlPlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="281" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BS5efR2rnF0/YF86mtwa4JI/AAAAAAAGzRw/98TA7x8lxlEVouLpTlbNm5uhoYG1NlPlQCLcBGAsYHQ/w176-h200/image4.jpg" width="176" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">M20L MAIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w-e-Cr4_AHY/YF86nEQcVFI/AAAAAAAGzR0/cAk3YjmuDN8BeSjrPnecc8xnR9vPt7LxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s311/image5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="286" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w-e-Cr4_AHY/YF86nEQcVFI/AAAAAAAGzR0/cAk3YjmuDN8BeSjrPnecc8xnR9vPt7LxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w184-h200/image5.jpg" width="184" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">M21L MAIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kx6akhgz-nc/YF86niXJDyI/AAAAAAAGzR4/fn2nFZpGWkU4EKtFUIgfaoc8gNRDxGeQACLcBGAsYHQ/s314/image6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="277" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kx6akhgz-nc/YF86niXJDyI/AAAAAAAGzR4/fn2nFZpGWkU4EKtFUIgfaoc8gNRDxGeQACLcBGAsYHQ/w176-h200/image6.jpg" width="176" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">M21L MAIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cnCv_WYe3QA/YF86oJiKikI/AAAAAAAGzR8/1qCjarpelM8KsW6u_l23yi7lL92RzHcawCLcBGAsYHQ/s313/image7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="279" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cnCv_WYe3QA/YF86oJiKikI/AAAAAAAGzR8/1qCjarpelM8KsW6u_l23yi7lL92RzHcawCLcBGAsYHQ/w178-h200/image7.jpg" width="178" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">M21L MAIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Regionals December 2020 with revised value tablets.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HX53OeFwm68/YF86lq_GnBI/AAAAAAAGzRk/kyfLB0wkdpQSbSfChaDmM-Cu7BGKNSuyQCLcBGAsYHQ/s323/image10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="283" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HX53OeFwm68/YF86lq_GnBI/AAAAAAAGzRk/kyfLB0wkdpQSbSfChaDmM-Cu7BGKNSuyQCLcBGAsYHQ/w175-h200/image10.jpg" width="175" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWu2HX5jWF0/YF86lkFvyBI/AAAAAAAGzRo/JRMVMNS-FRkUlDvjhTbZhMdh4n591DAPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s323/image11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="277" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWu2HX5jWF0/YF86lkFvyBI/AAAAAAAGzRo/JRMVMNS-FRkUlDvjhTbZhMdh4n591DAPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w171-h200/image11.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DTLxvkJy2Qg/YF86ma9DmcI/AAAAAAAGzRs/_N6qspLsiB4BMAmPrdDe12QZPgy_EpQwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1855/image12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="1855" height="261" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DTLxvkJy2Qg/YF86ma9DmcI/AAAAAAAGzRs/_N6qspLsiB4BMAmPrdDe12QZPgy_EpQwwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h261/image12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1st Royal mail red M21L MCIL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ts5ZFh-qHKs/YF8832qdQQI/AAAAAAAGzSo/gpoaM9vQUDISv1UC_4y6bdTg9Y6EpJ5TQCLcBGAsYHQ/s398/image0-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="398" height="158" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ts5ZFh-qHKs/YF8832qdQQI/AAAAAAAGzSo/gpoaM9vQUDISv1UC_4y6bdTg9Y6EpJ5TQCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h158/image0-001.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd Large bright blue M20L MBIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XMcGzGQQmY/YF8830ZSJTI/AAAAAAAGzSk/8ilrT30YVOkS8WyGvo2ELJvws_gRbayrACLcBGAsYHQ/s307/image1-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="279" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XMcGzGQQmY/YF8830ZSJTI/AAAAAAAGzSk/8ilrT30YVOkS8WyGvo2ELJvws_gRbayrACLcBGAsYHQ/w182-h200/image1-001.jpg" width="182" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st Royal Mail red M21L MCIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9-Mz1_9XhHw/YF884at8zmI/AAAAAAAGzSs/Fyz8wi1HUc8Ys3YmFVWsYX_oePGCAVN5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s313/image2-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="268" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9-Mz1_9XhHw/YF884at8zmI/AAAAAAAGzSs/Fyz8wi1HUc8Ys3YmFVWsYX_oePGCAVN5ACLcBGAsYHQ/w171-h200/image2-001.jpg" width="171" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd Deep bright blue, pale head M20L MAIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fdq05PeZOSo/YF883t3PxUI/AAAAAAAGzSg/ouIKf_Fn-vYKV-4Sks0XGMpzRFhbR0W1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s324/image10-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="284" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fdq05PeZOSo/YF883t3PxUI/AAAAAAAGzSg/ouIKf_Fn-vYKV-4Sks0XGMpzRFhbR0W1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w175-h200/image10-001.jpg" width="175" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cartor reprint of Wales 1st Dragon but with sans serif vale tablet August 2020</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-55112562034769288212020-11-28T13:10:00.001+00:002021-03-27T13:55:49.254+00:00Star Trek and a few more 20 codes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From mid-late November 2020, a few items I missed and now catch up with:</div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJAdgxuLQdA/YF809lS_w8I/AAAAAAAGzQk/fxUPiw_J5zYu8bg7YpincFvYN3kOmZTLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1161/image0-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1161" data-original-width="1095" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJAdgxuLQdA/YF809lS_w8I/AAAAAAAGzQk/fxUPiw_J5zYu8bg7YpincFvYN3kOmZTLgCLcBGAsYHQ/w378-h400/image0-006.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The prestige booklet celebrating Star Trek featured 2nd Class brt blue, 2p dark green and 50p greenish grey slate by Cartor, all M20L MPIL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4suHOM8-Atw/YF80-t1DBGI/AAAAAAAGzQ0/nTiGiDNqO24LL-Sz6n-oa_pdMB1vQM5PQCLcBGAsYHQ/s349/image6-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4suHOM8-Atw/YF80-t1DBGI/AAAAAAAGzQ0/nTiGiDNqO24LL-Sz6n-oa_pdMB1vQM5PQCLcBGAsYHQ/w183-h200/image6-006.jpg" width="183" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cf1BsAG9LZI/YF83osw5LFI/AAAAAAAGzRU/msZWEdi5D_8cJpHc0G9wy5yKXJ8Ni1lzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s318/image2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="276" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cf1BsAG9LZI/YF83osw5LFI/AAAAAAAGzRU/msZWEdi5D_8cJpHc0G9wy5yKXJ8Ni1lzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w174-h200/image2.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YXCyZCnyCpg/YF83ogzwQCI/AAAAAAAGzRQ/O78gq2CJbZchZgtg5jQiajCh3h28umr3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s311/image3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="275" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YXCyZCnyCpg/YF83ogzwQCI/AAAAAAAGzRQ/O78gq2CJbZchZgtg5jQiajCh3h28umr3wCLcBGAsYHQ/w177-h200/image3.jpg" width="177" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOcdkHdoz94/YF80-VhgroI/AAAAAAAGzQw/lYTXmBfoGTsbk7te-_Wc4ya_1r0K-xTRACLcBGAsYHQ/s349/image5-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOcdkHdoz94/YF80-VhgroI/AAAAAAAGzQw/lYTXmBfoGTsbk7te-_Wc4ya_1r0K-xTRACLcBGAsYHQ/w183-h200/image5-007.jpg" width="183" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st dull Royal mail red M20L MBIL dull fluor</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g0x2FBwADVA/YF80-WvqgZI/AAAAAAAGzQs/GIO5zzWhq0UWVbaNKRdE_yCOyS1R75A4QCLcBGAsYHQ/s349/image4-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g0x2FBwADVA/YF80-WvqgZI/AAAAAAAGzQs/GIO5zzWhq0UWVbaNKRdE_yCOyS1R75A4QCLcBGAsYHQ/w183-h200/image4-008.jpg" width="183" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st dull Royal Mail red M20L MCIL pale Queen's head</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Phi1n_I7ms0/YF80-Mj1UeI/AAAAAAAGzQo/F9iLciexoaofLN32IqvBeWcP5aH_cZcVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s419/image3-009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="419" height="167" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Phi1n_I7ms0/YF80-Mj1UeI/AAAAAAAGzQo/F9iLciexoaofLN32IqvBeWcP5aH_cZcVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h167/image3-009.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st large bright Royal Mail red M20L MBIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9hfJgODEFHI/YF809XaqfVI/AAAAAAAGzQc/3vhNVSQKlQAutVZJTYumvOTU_FywATtrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s419/image2-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="419" height="167" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9hfJgODEFHI/YF809XaqfVI/AAAAAAAGzQc/3vhNVSQKlQAutVZJTYumvOTU_FywATtrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h167/image2-008.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1st Large Royal Mail red M20L MFIL</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8WrsbPAzv-8/YF809W8C32I/AAAAAAAGzQg/4EpH8_OyLzY4DjnB-HA3a5rpyrFZSWuhACLcBGAsYHQ/s419/image1-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="419" height="167" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8WrsbPAzv-8/YF809W8C32I/AAAAAAAGzQg/4EpH8_OyLzY4DjnB-HA3a5rpyrFZSWuhACLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h167/image1-008.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2nd Large deep bright blue M20L MAIL<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-54376313498620034772020-11-04T16:17:00.000+00:002020-11-04T16:17:14.993+00:00More 20 codes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5Nprk4aB3c/X6LSKEMu8dI/AAAAAAAGgf0/s92As1ZRo-cpjCOoU360_cza1iWfSH_GACLcBGAsYHQ/s398/image6-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="398" height="158" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5Nprk4aB3c/X6LSKEMu8dI/AAAAAAAGgf0/s92As1ZRo-cpjCOoU360_cza1iWfSH_GACLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h158/image6-005.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1st Large Royal Mail red M20L MBIL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am not sure why this is different to the stamp featured in the last article. Maybe the backing paper has the text reversed, which I don't list separately, and it has come by mistake.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uluRVoLE-o0/X6LSKUVsJ9I/AAAAAAAGgf4/YvQjhzNydHICGKV9i6FrDe8HP7nh_9WdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s336/image5-006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="298" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uluRVoLE-o0/X6LSKUVsJ9I/AAAAAAAGgf4/YvQjhzNydHICGKV9i6FrDe8HP7nh_9WdQCLcBGAsYHQ/w178-h200/image5-006.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The £2.42 value now has the very bright fluor that has been appearing a lot recently and is very noticeable with a UV torch but not without so if this doesn't concern you that's probably another you needn't buy.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bgbw5jNuuQw/X6LSJfl63cI/AAAAAAAGgfs/sbayW79Nea8edwF8aPohmXfQMjZKDSIWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s336/image4-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="298" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bgbw5jNuuQw/X6LSJfl63cI/AAAAAAAGgfs/sbayW79Nea8edwF8aPohmXfQMjZKDSIWgCLcBGAsYHQ/w178-h200/image4-007.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You will need this one, finally getting its M20L MAIL code.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OxcqSfDaW0Y/X6LSJYtp0qI/AAAAAAAGgfo/7Xpy8H-g_lMvNI0Ql9cOePecpAB4RfdvACLcBGAsYHQ/s336/image3-008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="298" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OxcqSfDaW0Y/X6LSJYtp0qI/AAAAAAAGgfo/7Xpy8H-g_lMvNI0Ql9cOePecpAB4RfdvACLcBGAsYHQ/w178-h200/image3-008.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this, the first appearance of M20L MSIL</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orUQwOxUUEs/X6LSJQj0yKI/AAAAAAAGgfw/o6FDsp3yCGkG6kA52YXWhKKFedPhTWeqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s336/image2-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="298" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-orUQwOxUUEs/X6LSJQj0yKI/AAAAAAAGgfw/o6FDsp3yCGkG6kA52YXWhKKFedPhTWeqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w178-h200/image2-007.jpg" width="178" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this, the first appearance of M20L MBIL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-34587000486034695842020-10-20T12:05:00.003+01:002020-10-20T12:07:25.648+01:00More 20 Codes and shades<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Quite an expensive month with the issue of M20L code for the current top values in the shape of Special Delivery stamps for the <100g and <500g rates, the latter now getting a paler Queen's head and brighter fluor than an earlier issue. 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The 1st Large Signed For is supposed to be a paler shade of flame red than last time. Once more, I am having a lot of trouble seeing these shade differences. It looks the same as the last one to me.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5iUnBdG1eYE/X463S5JcmeI/AAAAAAAGgLU/FfkPVfeyaWwCZeLF9EqqHzKB3smcG2vogCLcBGAsYHQ/s475/image4-006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="475" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5iUnBdG1eYE/X463S5JcmeI/AAAAAAAGgLU/FfkPVfeyaWwCZeLF9EqqHzKB3smcG2vogCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h297/image4-006.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next three are new 20 codes with no obvious further differences, although my new 99p UV torch does show how bright the backing paper is for the 2nd Class stamp!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hNWdL8LjnTY/X463SPLyZ-I/AAAAAAAGgLQ/kDaCPwFx_XAORKMHGldA41xOMi57DjYTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s354/image3-007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="376" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ESPmeOmBJH4/X463SCRarKI/AAAAAAAGgLI/35weCVUhNqMQQ0WJWMC69NdPqCGm4c89QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image1-006.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below are the new 5p (left) in the reddish shade and the previous browner shade.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NAqOf3tj91U/X47C31GZslI/AAAAAAAGgL8/ePEBluLQWps-7u-jcQGObN0cozl_PiI9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s325/image5-005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="307" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NAqOf3tj91U/X47C31GZslI/AAAAAAAGgL8/ePEBluLQWps-7u-jcQGObN0cozl_PiI9gCLcBGAsYHQ/w189-h200/image5-005.jpg" width="189" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YFW-hhHeYQ/X47DgtKUzLI/AAAAAAAGgMg/B082BvZYE8g8ieXQnao_MF5VV_hyZH6QACLcBGAsYHQ/s306/image2019-018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="337" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brRD081fWDs/X0-fpLFO41I/AAAAAAAGejs/eVixOZ_c_Ek3QlBbej6IrK7oV9APRDyeACLcBGAsYHQ/w270-h276/image5-004.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">M20L MTIL Much thinner backing paper</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvEvXEnBA7s/X0-fownNqVI/AAAAAAAGejo/cFfuOpCOpSwmf9wUnCjn2evlelc316O1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s345/image4-005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="337" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvEvXEnBA7s/X0-fownNqVI/AAAAAAAGejo/cFfuOpCOpSwmf9wUnCjn2evlelc316O1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w270-h276/image4-005.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">M20L MCIL Deeper red Queen's head from Sherlock book, also thin backing paper with very bright fluorescence</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Find a Special Delivery stamp in the Royal Mail online shop. I failed. Anyway, here is my own 500g example with the latest M20L code. This ranks as the #1 high value stamp currently available with what I think is a £7.50 value at the time of writing. The service is more expensive if you need more insurance cover and I wonder whether the same stamp gets used in such an instance, in which case it would have an even higher value! Or, now I think about it, maybe if used for the <i>Guaranteed by 9am</i> service, it would be the highest ever, easily exceeding the old £10 definitive.<br />
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Next, there are some more 20 codes. I don't seem to have noted the arrival of the 1st and 2nd Class stamps or their Large siblings as M20L MAIL in previous posts. There is also now a 2nd M20L MBIL which I seem to have missed. So here they are now, together with a 10p light tan.<br />
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The only other item of interest is a 1st Class from a recent Concrete & Clay book (4+2) which has a quite different and thinner backing which is also very bright when viewed under UV compared to others. It may have appeared before but this is from the Queen edition and is the first I've noticed.<br />
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<br />Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-75891492704299004302020-07-13T20:43:00.002+01:002020-07-15T15:40:24.920+01:00End of WWII, Queen and some definitives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am rather late returning to this news blog and I shall just publish what I have found lying around and it may be necessary to explain later, add more or delete duplications.<br />
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6 April saw the issue of this miniature sheet to celebrate the Declaration of Arbroath. Not Machins but I include the small definitives in my lists and these will all be <strike>new being <i>inter alia </i>on gummed paper as well as having</strike> [correction, I'd forgotten that these have not made it to self-adhesive world yet!] pretty much the same as sheet issues but with maybe small design differences I have yet to spot. There are sheets with and without a bar code.</div>
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£1.63, £1.68 and £2.42 definives with M20L codes have also appeared in my post box. I shall have to conduct an enquiry as to how these differ from the 17 March issues (if at all). I may have to remove these, just bear with me in the meantime as I am a little behind! [Update: these are March 2020 printings and seem to have a slightly deeper shade of Queen's head, although I suspect that there is a more significant difference between the results of my scanning these and the original issues.)</div>
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From the End of The War book, issued 8 May we have three new Machins: 5p, 50p and £1.63 by Cartor, all on gummed paper and coded M20L MPIL.</div>
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Two more Concrete & Clay books with 1st in quite distinctly different shades of red. Quite how each compares to the 'normal' shade I have yet to investigate but one will match and another won't, for sure. These are all M20L MCIL of course and not necessarily new unless the shade of one or the other is of interest.</div>
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Another prestige book, issued 9 July, brings the band Queen to the attention of all those who collect prestige books. This will certainly make searches on Google more complicated than before. The definitive pane would be better referred to as the <i>definitive size</i> pane as it features the lowest ever combined value of Machins in all the history of prestige books. (I <i>think </i>that is true, although I am now wondering about the content of the Cookbook!) Expect a revision of this bit too in due course, with evidence.</div>
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I shall have to list all this stuff but I would really be quite happy not to see another prestige book. Whereas once I would have been writing to The Times and all and sundry to complain if a prestige book came out <i>without </i>a Machin pane, now I would welcome it. I would neither have to buy nor concern myself with what is a mere money-making item for Royal Mail and of practically no postal use. Yes, we can use the stamps but I have only admiration for those of you who collect just used stamps and who don't cheat by buying two books and sending the contents of one to yourself or good friends!</div>
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Not that that would stand that great a chance of a decent postmark anyway. These days it would be more likely to arrive either just as clean as it left you a few days before or with some heavy scrawl across it courtesy of your postman obeying one of many instructions to help prevent re-use of unmarked stamps.</div>
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Back in the 1970s my dear old friend Ugo Vincent could be seen making his way slowly from Abbots to Kings Langley in Hertfordshire where the good people behind the counter in Kings Langley Post Office would spend a great deal of time carefully placing round handstamps on the stack of envelopes he prepared for his stamp collecting friends. Yes, my used collection of late 1960s to late 1970s GB issues are very finely used indeed!</div>
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I have updated the charts I last published in 2017 as we approach the latest increase in UK postage rates. 1st Class rates will start at 76p and 2nd Class 65p from 23 March. You'll see just how good an investment NVI stamps have been, especially those bought in 2006 or thereabouts!<br />
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The <i>Queen Victoria </i>1d black, 2d blue and 1d red from 1840/1 return once more in a London 2020 booklet. You will recognise these from a few years ago when the 175th anniversaries were noted in 2105/6. I like the idea but the Queens head and value tablet placing has always jarred slightly with me. Having said that, I can't think of where else they could go. I might have been tempted to replace Victoria with Elizabeth II and change the text to 1ST CLASS and 2ND CLASS. In fact I might try that in my editing program and if it works I'll share the results here just for fun.</div>
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The prestige book pane has a strange combination of the Union Flag 1st and the Scottish Saltire 2nd so that's going to upset the Welsh and Northern Ireland people for a while. Then there are 2 very tired looking 2p deep greens and a couple of 2nd Class blues. the Scottish stamps have the later serif-style value tablet but the UK one is the older sans serif type, not that we've had the later type for that stamp. Now might have been a good time to change that although quite why we get this combination is anyone's guess.</div>
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This pane, being planned and presumably produced sometime previously, features stamps with the code M19L MPIL. The 2p looks very much like the one in the February 2019 book but the 2nd Class stamp looks, to me, a quite new 'baby blue' shade. It also appeared in the February 2019 book so I'll have to dig that out to compare. It'll probably turn out to be the same as Cartor would, I guess, just bring out the colours from last year in whatever process is used. Not a tube of paint, I know, but some sort of formula that can be readily repeated.</div>
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The main event this month is the issue of the new definitives, supposedly to meet demand for the new rates coming into force in a few days. This has become a regular March (or sometimes April) affair and I do look forward to it, albeit with some trepidation now that the combined total is £29.80!!</div>
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The regionals are all just as we've seen for many years now with just new values. I can't remember seeing the black outline on the Northern Ireland higher value but that's probably my memory rather than anything new. Perhaps that was introduced when the font changed and I didn't notice.</div>
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Whilst these designs do reflect the nations well I am surprised they have not been changed since 1999. There are so many items or scenes which could be representing the four nations that could be used and I am also surprised that the designs have remained such that some values are not at all easy to read. I suspect that they are little used and no-one really cares. Those businesses who have sheets of them for particular product postage needs are so used to looking for the yellowy-brown or purple one that I guess staff don't need to bother about the value tablet either. One reason for retaining the designs, I guess.</div>
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The £1.55 pale marine turquoise gets dull fluor and a slightly pale shade but is still M19L code.</div>
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The other additions arriving a little while ago were the <i>two</i> Machin panes in the <i>Visions of the Universe</i> book, marking the 200th Anniversary of the Royal Astrological Society.</div>
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On this pane there are new 1p, 2p and £1.35 stamps from Cartor with the M19L MPIL code.</div>
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The England and Wales regionals could be new shades, the English 1st seeming somewhat deeper terracotta and the Welsh dragon looking a bit paler grey. The Northern Ireland and Scotland stamps appear to match those issued in 2018.</div>
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Prepare yourselves for some big expenditure later this month with the new postal rate issues! With each stamp now attempting to cover postage rates of £2 or more life is not cheap in the Machin collectors' world in March. So expensive that my local Post Office almost certainly will not hold any stock of them, preferring instead the pay-as-he-goes Horizon label printer and having less money tied up in stock. I did offer to purchase his entire stock of 1st and 2nd Class stamps in the knowledge that the total would be quite a modest and affordable sum.</div>
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<br />Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-25281391868860607602020-01-27T20:13:00.001+00:002020-01-27T20:13:54.876+00:00More about Horizon labelsIt has taken a while but I think I now have a reasonably good idea of the development of these labels. Much of the information I gleaned from Postage Labels of the UK, a blog by Brian Sinnott. I would link to it but the text is peppered with links to what look unsavoury products and it looks very much like it has been compromised and I suspect the links might lead to trouble rather than any product. He also stops at the end of September 2017 but, if you can navigate around the bad stuff there is a huge amount of valuable data on labels of various sorts from around 2008.<br />
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Some more recent information has come from <a href="https://blog.norphil.co.uk/search/label/horizon%20label">Norvic Philatelics' blog</a>.<br />
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It has all taken quite a bit of finding, though, so here I shall try and set out the basics to date so that, together with the last couple of articles and others to follow, you can find some degree of Chapter & Verse here by searching for Horizon.<br />
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The first gold labels were first trialled in Camden Town High Street in June 2009 with the first official issue being to Post Offices in Wales in April 2010. Before that, white labels with similar content had been around for some time. The white labels had no security features and were withdrawn in July 2010. I expect you'll come across white labels dated later where an Office had old stock to use up.<br />
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This is one of the early gold labels, with a bold font and the date in dd/mm/yy format.</div>
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Some time in 2010 the format changes to dd-mm-yy and the fonts and alignment are tweaked for a better presentation.</div>
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The gold labels had a pattern of curved slits - one in each corner and several at the top, bottom and on each side. I have darkened the image below so that these can be seen a little more clearly.<br />
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Both De La Rue and Walsall have printed the gold labels. I have not been able to find out when Walsall first came on the scene. I presume, as De La Rue did the trials in 2009, that they have been printing them all the time with Walsall coming in later. When I don't know.</div>
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At some point around September 2016 an adjustment is made to drop the Royal Mail text from the Signed For labels.</div>
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The only other item is the similar looking Self Service labels that are now being produced by machines at some Post Offices. This was trialled in September 2016 and I have referred to this in my previous articles. Indeed it was this oddity arriving on a package that made me look again at the box full of Horizon labels that had remained more or less untouched for ten years. It is, though, a separate thing.</div>
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I have made a list of the different identifiers. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nJ3dkh1dGfW1b9TxKxGAAOgjNHb575QD6m0VjnciVA4/edit?usp=sharing">View it at this link</a>. (I have used this facility to avoid constantly editing this post). I make it 38, but several of those are replacements for others and not every group of labels will have every code, some being deleted before a change and others not being introduced during the period of another group. I would love to add some dates to when they were first enabled and when they were deleted so that we could make a better job listing what you might find (and save you looking for something that doesn't exist!)</div>
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The labels featured here are, in my view, worthy of collectors' time. At first glance they may seem a bit big and some are downright ugly but there is plenty for collectors to look out for. There is a huge list of service indicators although I am not too concerned with some of them. The BFPO ones, for example, I can happily ignore, and the Shopping Return ones which I guess only people working at the stores will see. I'll be happy to have one of each type by each printer (where both are available) and maybe an example from each year would be nice.</div>
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Whatever the case, these do have one big advantage in my book; they're really something used for postage and not merely issued for collectors like porcelain figures and plates in Sunday Magazines and it shouldn't cost the Earth to acquire a lot of them. Well, unless dealers start reading this and realising how few there might be of some types . . . luckily it is all quite complicated and, hopefully for a while, amateur Ebay sellers still won't tell the difference between the common and the good stuff.</div>
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I decided to take a closer look at what was in the box of labels I had collected and, as I had taken pictures of the different labels, I might as well share them here in case anyone is interested. I will add headings for what seem to be distinct groups but I won't bother with any other identification as that's pretty obvious. Apparent duplicates in groups will be for different years in which they were used and/or a Welsh version.</div>
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I do seem to recall that there are more types of security slits or cuts and also printing variations which may require some further adjustment of these when I get a chance to look up the differences and then publish them here so others may be able to distinguish between the less obvious gold label groups.</div>
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This is very much work in progress rather than a definitive guide, more to help me see what I have as it is much simpler to look at these images than sift through the real labels which, being attached to all kind of card or material, are not that easy to handle or file away. The security slits make most of these labels difficult to remove and then they are still sticky on the back or flimsy and prone to damage. So they'll be staying where they were and I'll have to think about storage and display.</div>
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Whilst I am only too well aware that many will wonder what on Earth drives me to collect and write about these I can only offer in my defence the fact that these are, at least, all 100% postally used items!! So much of the other new material coming in will never see the front of an envelope or a sorting office.</div>
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On that note, I have found in amongst the several hundred Horizon labels (if I can still call the nearly square things that) precisely six Post And Go labels, none of which had any picture or overprint either. I shall collect them - but solely used ones, so I don't expect I shall be needing a massive album for them just yet!</div>
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That can never, of course, be a <i>complete</i> collection so it will be something similar to what we used to have when we were young and had a few stamps from different countries. We knew then that we would be extremely unlikely to have all the stamps from any particular set and gradually we lost interest in most of the pages as we decided to specialise in an area where we might hope to have fewer gaps over the years. I'll stick 'em in, using an old 1970s pack of stamp hinges that I've still got. It'll be like old times.</div>
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As for these big and quite ugly labels, I feel there is some chance of attaining completeness insofar as types of print, security features and data presentation is concerned, once I can figure out what's missing. Then there is the task of finding the range of the different services. That's trickier as there do seem to be quite a few different 'service' names and abbreviations used even in just 10 years, some of which will be very hard to find. Unlike rare variations of Corgi Toys, however, I am hoping that these things will not yet have become very appealing to many people and I can acquire most at a modest outlay. I mean, seriously, who would want to charge me more than a few shillings for these?!</div>
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Just for a change, a 'Horizon' label (if that is what they're still called). I am a bit out of touch with these but do find then interesting in a strange way. These things are everywhere now and seem to be almost the only way that my local Post Office has to affix any evidence of postage payment to an item.</div>
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None of the labels I have watched them affix there, however, look like this one, which also is quite different to any of the many that arrive on parcels here each week. (Readers of my <a href="http://ilovecorgitoys.blogspot.co.uk/">other newsletter</a> will understand).</div>
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This may be the lastest design, although the proximity of the postage price to Her Majesty's image is surprising. There also seems to be a lot of unnecessary underlining which tends to remind me of how teaching colleagues in the 1990s would use both bold and underlining to emphasise something but achieve the opposite effect of making it more difficult to read. At least Royal Mail software doesn't provide access to the Comic Sans font. We should be thankful for small mercies.</div>
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I used to keep the gold labels and have a box full of them and variations on the white theme but I didn't bother keeping what looked like unchanged designs over more recent times. I think I shall have to loo a bit more closely and dig out those old ones as they could make an interesting study.</div>
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Just as many of my colleagues thought I was mad to collect so many seemingly identical Machin stamps and nod or mumble sympathetically as I show them pages and pages of seemingly, indeed, identical little 1st Class red stamps, I have a feeling they will regard me now as quite beyond the pale.</div>
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<i>Update: As you may see from the helpful advice in a Comment from Ian at Norvic, who knows a lot about these, I am way behind the times on these. Indeed I have two more labels which arrived in early 2017 and somehow didn't catch my attention. I see that, unlike the other labels which are affixed by the Post Office people, even, it seems the very latest, these from Self Service machines have a date code just below the back of the crown. So I have MA16 and MA17 and will remember now to look more closely at any others coming in.</i>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32416020.post-69791184696541808612020-01-22T15:42:00.001+00:002020-01-22T15:42:48.537+00:00The first M20L code, a change of printer and some poor design<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am guessing that the 1st Signed For and 50p stamps have now been printed by Walsall and that is the reason. They both feature M19L codes too which makes them new in my book anyway!</div>
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The other item is the first M20L item - the 1st Royal Mail red MCIL from the Tomb Raiders' Concrete & Clay book.</div>
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I seldom pay much attention to these 4+2 books but recognise they're a good idea in getting the latest special stamps out there to most of the population who probably wouldn't see them otherwise. Designers normally make a reasonable job of them but this time they're a mess. The stamps feature one font in the inscription but the extended identifier for the book shows something completely different.</div>
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The stamps themselves sit uncomfortably in thick white borders interrupting a background illustration which I can only assume someone selected at at random or for most obscure reasons which may make sense in game terms but look awful. I don't know which is worse; the bluish background against the predominantly green and grey stamp or the sadly clashing shades of green grey and brown on the other panel. The stamps themselves illustrate two types of digital art, but they sit uncomfortably next to each other.</div>
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I usually only keep the books which have an example of a different Machin stamp so most of them get used for postage and I shall be quite happy for these to go the same way later this year. I do hope the 1st Class stamp doesn't turn out to be a one-off for some reason. </div>
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