GB Stamp Catalogue with Prices Published in 1898
In my unending search to identify my stamps and postmarks, I came across this little gem here:
https://www.rpsl.org.uk/gplstatic/BL_CrawfordDocs/016668998.pdf
The catalogue was compiled and published in 1898 by Herbert L'Estrange Ewen (1876–1912) who, according to Wikipedia, was a British stamp dealer and philatelist in Swanage, Dorset and later in Norwood, London who was an authority on railway stamps According to Brian Birch, Ewen collected stamps at the age of ten and started his own firm, the H. L’Estrange Ewen company, on his thirteenth birthday. (source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_L'Estrange_Ewen).
In the catalogue, a mint Penny Black is valued at 12s 6d. Cat value for a used specimen is 9 pence!
I believe the catalogue could still be used today to identify early Victorian stamps. Towards the end of the catalogue, there is a useful guide on postmarks, with illustrations, for overseas post offices.
Again I hope someone finds this useful.
https://www.rpsl.org.uk/gplstatic/BL_CrawfordDocs/016668998.pdf
The catalogue was compiled and published in 1898 by Herbert L'Estrange Ewen (1876–1912) who, according to Wikipedia, was a British stamp dealer and philatelist in Swanage, Dorset and later in Norwood, London who was an authority on railway stamps According to Brian Birch, Ewen collected stamps at the age of ten and started his own firm, the H. L’Estrange Ewen company, on his thirteenth birthday. (source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_L'Estrange_Ewen).
In the catalogue, a mint Penny Black is valued at 12s 6d. Cat value for a used specimen is 9 pence!
I believe the catalogue could still be used today to identify early Victorian stamps. Towards the end of the catalogue, there is a useful guide on postmarks, with illustrations, for overseas post offices.
Again I hope someone finds this useful.
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