KGV Receipt Stamp.

Does anyone have any info about this stamp. a catalogue number [if there is one] and a value.
I have seen Mint copies at auction but nothing used thus far.

Thanks.



Londonbus1

Nice stamp! I've never seen a catalogue of savings stamps.

This is an earlier version. Might be of interest to skilo54 as the head is very "downey" Cannot help re cat number or such.

I've never seen a catalogue either, but this must be listed somewhere.
Nice piece Scotzm.
I have seen MNH copies of the stamp [the 1st one] selling at auction for £400, but as most would have been used, my guess is that they have much,much less value.

Londonbus1

Mint, as far as I know, is 200-300 pounds. Used is around the 50 pound area. That's for the earlier Downey head version.

Yes, just found out the prices, it's the same for the MacKennal head.
At a recent Grosvenor Auction, a MNH MacKennal Head sold for £400.

All good stuff.
Thanks all.

Scotzm, Skilo54 is definitely interested! Please shoot me an email if you would like to sell or trade for that lovely piece of Downey Magic!

Here is the 13th Edition SG 4 Kings Listing for these stamps:

1911-20 Post Office Savings Bank Stamps, watermark Crown/POSB. Perf 15x14

POSB1 -
1s. light blue and red (Downey Portrait) - £200(mint) £50(used)
a) Overprint 'Cancelled' £300

POSB2 -
1s. light blue and red (Mackennal Portrait) - £200(mint) £50(used)
a) Overprint 'Cancelled' £300

Watching my inbox for a message..........

Skilo54

That's a handsome stamp.

Scotzm, yours is postmarked "Quarry Bank"
Would that have any relevence to the area
where John Lennon went to school?

I believe this postmark is from the village of Quarry Bank in Staffordshire (now in the Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry_Bank

John Lennon indeed went to Quarry Bank High School in Allerton in Liverpool and founded the Quarrymen but I don't know how the school got its name.

Thanks Nigel,
relying on a rusty memory, stone was quarried nearby
and I believe Quarrybank school was constructed of it.

I do recall the first headmaster of the Quarrybank school
was a man named George Harrison.

Alas... the POSB stamp is not mine. I have a friend who was in a Dudley Philatelic Club and I remember he sent me last year some articles and this POSB stamp was mentioned and pictured. He had recently bought several (not this one) and I believe he paid 130 for three used on a page from a savings book.