Great Britain Victorian Stamps

Now includes GB definitives until 1970

Queens head from the silver Wyon City Medal (1837)

300+ 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: (from this site, stuff that I like)

• Current numbers study illustrated.
• Postal History- the Uniform Penny Post 10th Jan 1840
• The 1840 Rainbow Colour Trials
• Penny Black collection
• One Penny red of 1841 - from Black Plate 11 (block of 9)
• 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
• Die I and II (OLD ORIGINAL and NEW) good scans, 1d and 2d
• Five Pound Telegraph 1877 (Precursor to the £5 orange)
• The Five Pound Orange of 1882
• Wing-margins on surface-printed stamps (introduction)
• Six Pence plate 9 1870 (block of nine) + pane
• Stunning scans contributed by dealers
• My favorite scans

Line-engraved 1840-79

• Wyon City Medal - 1837
• Historical information - The world's first prepaid adhesive postage stamp
• Rowland Hill (1795-1879) - Post Office Reform
• Postal History - the Uniform Penny Post 10th Jan 1840
• Postal History 1840 prestamp, penny black, and penny red 1861
• The 1840 Rainbow Colour Trials
• Mulready envelopes 1840
• Penny Black collection
• 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
• Ormond Hill die proofs - one penny and two pence
• New ½d and 1½d Values 1870

• List of line-engraved stamps illustrated on this site sorted by SG number

Embossed Stamps 1847-54

• Embossed stamps 1847-54
• Wyon City Medal - 1837

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
• Five Pound Telegraph 1877
• The Five Pound Orange of 1882
• Jubilee 19 items, QV Jubilee issue 1887
• Jubilee issue 1887 colour changes
• 1½d Jubilee - marginal settings

• List of surface-printed stamps illustrated on this site sorted by SG number

Selvage markings on QV, inc Current Numbers

• Selvage markings on line-engraved QV stamps
• Current Number of stamp plates 1860-1882
• Current numbers study illustrated (many from the R M Phillips collection).
• Wing-margins on surface-printed stamps, (intro)

• More selvage markings mostly surface-printed
• Pane markings on surface-printed QV stamps
• Plate Number on the Sheet Selvage Illustrated
• Surface-printed wing-margins more examples

Catalogue of plate numbers and panes in the R M Phillips collection

• Plate numbers on the sheet selvage (R M Philips catalogue)
• Panes of Surface-Printed in the R M Phillips Collection (Catalogue)
• Current numbers study illustrated (many from the R M Phillips collection).

Miscellaneous (mostly QV), inc specimens

• Specimen stamps - 26 items, and postmaster circular
• Postmasters Circulars - showing Specimen Stamps
• Reconstructed sheet panes QV & GV, good for viewing and for printing
• Summary of useful tables - sheet layouts, postal rates etc etc
• Miscellaneous pages on this site
• Postal rates 1765-1897

Design on British stamps

• Design of Queen Victoria's head on British postage stamps
• Design and Colour on British Stamps 1840-1970

Unusual (unrecorded) items

• Is this a forgery of SG 129? (£1) Corner letters CJ
• Misplaced De La Rue Current Number 407 in the R M Phillips collection

OK not QV, but people want other reigns

• Design and Colour on British Stamps 1840-1970

KEVII 1901-1910

• The Jubilee issue and the KEVII compared
• EDVII 14 items, KEVII definitives
• New design for King Edward VII definitives
• KEVII and QV £1 compared
• High values

KGV 1910-1936

• 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
• £1 Ninth PUC Congress London, 1929
• Postage Dues 1924

KEVIII 1936

• King Edward VIII definitives 1936

KGVI 1936-52

• King Edward VIII definitives1936
• King George VI definitive stamps1937-47
• Lighter colours 1941-42
• Colour changes 1950-52
• High Values 1939-48
• High Values 1951

QEII 1952-

• Queen Elizabeth II definitive stamps 1952-67
• Castle high values 1955-69
• Machins 1967-70
• Machin High Values 1969
• Postage Dues 1955

Trivia, quizzes, books etc.

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

• Stamp terms used on this site
• Books - catalogues, historical info, plating guides
• About me, see my collecting page

All the stamps are stored in a bank, unfortunately - sigh! Most of my material was bought from Arthur Ryan's Private Treaty list and these I have scanned for this site. Additional scans are courtesy of Elstree Stamps, Mike Holt, K & C Philatelics, Robert Murray Stamp Shop, RPSL, Mint GB Stamps, The R M Phillips Collection, Mark Bloxham Stamps, Andrew Vaughan and Jonz Stamping Ground. These scans are 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

The R M Phillips Collection donated to the British Postal Museum in 1965 and covering GB material (1837-1901) is now available on-line, now you can see where all the good GB stuff went! Excellent resource, in fact quite brilliant. I used to visit the British Postal Museum when I was a kid over 35 years ago to see his collection and now I have it on-line. That is pretty cool and it means that you can now have a great cyber collection as the images are free to view and download for personal or educational use. (Digitising of the 2,300 pages of the R M Phillips collection began on 4th Nov 2005 and is now complete).

See the full list of the 45 Volumes from the R M Phillips collection here and enjoy.

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