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.
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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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.
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