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Posted 02/16/2025   12:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Murataxu to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello everybody

I don't know about the values of these two. Any ideas?
5 Shillings is with perfins. Does it add more value?

Thanks in advance



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Posted 02/16/2025   02:06 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bobby De La Rue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
As a general rule, a perfin will be valued less than a non perfin, but it would depend a lot on the scarcity of the perfin.

The top stamp looks like a photocopy. That stamp is supposed to be Orange.
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Edited by Bobby De La Rue - 02/16/2025 02:08 am
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Posted 02/16/2025   02:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The £5 one is not a stamp. It was cut from a catalogue or magazine and perforated. That should be "orange" and have a margin.

The 5/- is a spacefiller, It has a tear on the left, a torn perforation at right, blurry cancellation, and appears to have surface abrasions. It is worth only a few pounds.
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Posted 02/16/2025   06:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Murataxu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Posted 02/16/2025   06:11 am  Show Profile Check GeoffHa's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GeoffHa to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This is the best online guide to the £5 orange (not black!)

https://www.rpsl.org.uk/rpsl/Displa...1001_001.pdf
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Posted 02/16/2025   07:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Old black and white pictures of orange stamps do not make black pieces of paper genuine stamps.

This stamp was printed in orange. NO BLACK £ 5 exists. And the telegraphs stamp is kind of recognisable as it has other wording and, again, was NOT PRINTED IN BLACK,

Also, note that the black and white printings have margins.

Yours is a wortheless piece of print and not a proof.
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Posted 02/16/2025   07:57 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Even on my IPad I see the dot matrix printing of the 5 Pound. It is from a magazine.
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Posted 02/16/2025   10:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Murataxu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Dear friends thanks a lot for all of the answers.

I kindly want to remind you the reason of my question: I really do not know!

I have no idea if British Government printed stamps with dot matrix or potato stamp printing once upon a time :) There are countless details and many hidden facts. It is not possible to know all of them.

I need correct information + friends + reliable resources
and this site seems I am at the right place thanks to you..

I want to have joy and learn more and more.
Best regards, cheers
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Posted 02/16/2025   11:15 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rogdcam to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
I have no idea if British Government printed stamps with dot matrix or potato stamp printing once upon a time


If I recall correctly there were no modern printing machines in 1882, and electricity was just becoming a thing.
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Posted 02/16/2025   11:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a 5 Pound Orange from my collection.
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