Great Britain Victorian Stamps

Scan courtesy Elstree Stamps

200+ scans - best viewed with 1040 resolution but 800 will do. Broad-band will be good
List of line-engraved and surface-printed stamps illustrated on this site sorted by SG number

Selected displays:

• Postal History - the Uniform Penny Post 10th Jan 1840
• The 1840 Rainbow Colour Trials
• Penny Black collection
• QV blocks 20 items, QV surface-printed blocks and singles
• Display of the 4d surface-printed stamp engraved by Jean Ferdinand Joubert de la Ferté 1810-84
• The Five Pound Orange of 1882
• Five Pound Telegraph 1877
• Wing-margins on surface-printed stamps
• Stunning scans contributed by dealers
• My favorite scans

Line-engraved 1840-79

• Historical information - The world's first prepaid adhesive postage stamp
• Postal History - the Uniform Penny Post 10th Jan 1840
• The 1840 Rainbow Colour Trials
• Penny Black collection
• Wyon City Medal - 1837
• Rowland Hill (1795-1879) - Post Office Reform
• Postal History 1840 prestamp, penny black, and penny red 1861
• Mulready envelopes 1840
• Two pence blue collection 1840-79
• 1841 2d small plate trial
• Penny Red collection 1841-1879
• QV blocks 20 items, QV line-engraved blocks and singles
• Line-engraved study - 1d and 2d (dies, paper, watermarks, perfs, plates, corner letters, cancels, alphabets, colour etc.)
• Corner letter varieties die II plates 56-60
• Embossed stamps 1847-54
• New ½d and 1½d Values 1870
• List of line-engraved stamps illustrated on this site sorted by SG number

Surface-printed 1855-1901

• Surface-printed 18 items, QV Surface-printed stamps 1856-80
• Surface-printed 24 items, QV Surface-printed stamps 1875-83
• Display of the 4d surface-printed stamp
• Display of the 2½d, 3d, and 1s surface-printed stamps
• Display of the 6d surface-printed stamp 1856-83
• Colour changes in surface-printed stamps 1856-83
• 4d colour trials plate 15 in 1876
• QV blocks 20 items, QV surface-printed blocks and singles
• Provisional issue of 1880-81 replaced the line-engraved low values
• Penny Lilac 1881-1901 - the most issued Victorian stamp
• Surcharged values of 1883 (3d on 3d, 6d on 6d)
• Lilac and greens of 1883 (Unified issue)
• Lilac and Greens 1883-4 Same design but different colour
• High Value Colour Trials 1878
• High Values 1867, 1883, 1891 inc. £5 orange
• The Five Pound Orange of 1882
• Five Pound Telegraph 1877
• Jubilee 19 items, QV Jubilee issue 1887
• Jubilee issue 1887 colour changes
• 1½d Jubilee - marginal settings
• Wing-margins on surface-printed stamps
• Design of Queen Victoria's head on British postage stamps
• List of surface-printed stamps illustrated on this site sorted by SG number

KEVII & KGV

• The Jubilee issue and the KEVII compared
• EDVII 14 items, KEVII definitives
• New design for King Edward VII definitives
• KGV 26 items, KGV definitives, plus Sea Horses and £1 PUC
• 1911 Downey heads three-quarter profile
• King George V stamps grouped by design
• Seahorses 1913
• KGV Photogravure 1934
• Postage Dues 1924

KGVI & QEII

• King Edward VIII definitives 1936
• King George VI definitive stamps 1937-47
• Lighter colours 1941-42
• Colour changes 1950-52
• Queen Elizabeth II definitive stamps 1952-67
• Castle high values 1955-69
• Machins 1967-70
• Machin High Values 1969

Miscellaneous

• British Stamp Trivia1837-1934
• GB Stamps Quiz 1840-1934- so you know your GB stamps?
• GB Stamps Quiz 2

• Selvage markingson line-engraved QV stamps
• Pane markingson surface-printed QV stamps
• Surface-printed wing-margins
• Current Number of stamp plates 1860-1880
• Specimen stamps - 25 items
• Reconstructed sheet panes QV & GV, good for viewing and for printing
• Summary of useful tables - sheet layouts, postal rates etc etc
• Design and Colour on British Stamps 1840-1970
• Miscellaneous pages on this site
• Postal rates 1765-1897

• Stamp terms used on this site
• Books
• About me, see my collecting page
• links other sites, dealers, catalogues

All the stamps are stored in a bank, unfortunately - sigh!
Most of my material was bought from Arthur Ryan's Private Treaty list
Additional scans courtesy Elstree Stamps, Mike Holt, K & C Philatelics
Robert Murray Stamp Shop, RPSL, and Jonz Stamping Ground scans listed here

My personal comments on stamp collecting (philately)
A few of my favorite things (philatelic items!)

This site was awarded Stamp2.com Gold medal in June 2003

Information: see Books
SG is the Stanley Gibbons catalogue number (GB Concise)
Number issued are taken from Great Britain Numbers Issued 1840-1910 by Rikki C Hyde. Vera Trinder Ltd

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