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PAK NET MAGAZINE ISSUE # 78 DATE:- 01/10/2006 FOUNDED:- 1989 If you have any suggestion for the betterment of the club you are most welcome. The club has requested the members in the past to mail the information of new issues of their countries so that other members could get benefit and information about that country. But no member is doing so except one or two. We spend too much time on net for our self, if we spend some time for other members this will also be ok. In the recent future, the club wants to publish a book on stamps articles. Any member interested in publishing his/her article, can mail his/her article. The article will be published with complete introduction of the writher and a honorary copy will be sent to that person. We have announced again and again not to do unnecessary mails (not related to stamps) in group and in this respect we have also banned some members. But this problem still exists. Now the club has decided to ban immediately, the member who will do unnecessary mails. So please be careful. There is another important announcement, please use group mail as minimum as possible, so that it could not disturbed the other collectors. MEMBER’S INTRODUCTION (283) Name:- Ehsan Mahmood. Date of Birth:- 17th April, 1947. Postal address: G.P.O.Box # 462, Lahore 54000. Pakistan. Cell no:- 092-0333-4942547. E-mail address:- ehsh_pk@yahoo.com Nature of Collection:- Mint stamps, FDCs & Postal used stationary. Type of Collector:- Advance. Themes:- Joint issue & Pakistan Related. NEW INTRODUCTION:- QUESTIONS & ANSWERS We are going to introduce a new section named “Questions and Answers” in our magazine. The purpose of this section is to provide information to the world wide collectors regarding world wide & Pakistan's Philately. So if you want to get any information about Philately of any country, you can mail us for this and we will answer your questions in this section. In this way not only the concerned person but also the other members would be able to get knowledge about Pakistani & world Philately. (Question # 03) EXTRAS Here the club is introducing a new feature. If you have any extra stamp or any other material, give your add to the club to exchange it with some one. Club will publish your add under the title “Extras”. In this way, it might be possible that you could get some thing of your choice. Similarly if some thing is extra or use for you, it might be worthy for some one else. An other reason to introduce it is to reduce the volume of group mails. (03) Britain’s Uncrowned King The stamps of King Edward VIII (Part II) By: Peter Collins The stamps were printed in sheets of 240 (20 rows of 12) from cylinders, two sheets side by side at a time. A control A36 or A37 appears in the left sheet margin beside the third from bottom row. Beside the fractional control, a minute cylinder number is engraved. The cylinder number of the right hand sheet has a stop after it. The left hand sheet cylinder number has no stop. Controls and Cylinder numbers are listed in Stanly Gibbons Great Britain Specialized Catalogue, Volume 2. The stamps are printed on paper with an ‘all over’ watermark ‘E8R/Crown’. The block watermark for the previous George V issue had been ‘GvR’. The change to using an Arabic figure instead of a Roman numeral was obviously because a Roman VIII would have weakened the paper. Postage Dues and Varieties:- Postage Due issues were printed on ‘E8R’ paper; eight values, ½d. to 2s.6d. and with their distinctive watermark, these qualify for inclusion in an Edward VIII collection. Used examples are most elusive, though the top value, 2s.6d. mint is the most highly catalogued. Few collectors or dealers had 2s.6d. to spare in the 1930s, particularly since postage dues were not popular and the face of the stamp was exactly the same as the preceding issue. After World War II, there was a glut of mint Edwardian stamp stocks and I was able buy up a considerable quantity of blocks and part sheets sufficient to produce a complete representation of all plate numbers and cylinder blocks and also several minor but plainly visible varieties:
Booklets:- Stamp booklets had been in use since the reign of Edward VII, and in October 1936, 2s.books (with blue covers) and 3s. Books (with red covers) went on sale containing stamps of Edward VIII. A 5s. Book (buff cover) appeared in post office from March 1937 (long after the king had vacated the throne). Due to the method of producing booklets, half of all the booklet panes have the watermark inverted. There are also cylinder numbers to be found in the margins of panes, and finding these will further extend your collection. Advertisement panes, with two labels in the pane carrying advertising copy, appeared in the 2s. And 5s. Booklets. Sixteen different advertising panes having been recorded. Proof booklets distributed to advertisers for them to check their copy had each stamp in the book overprinted ‘CANCELLED’ and punched with a small hole in the shape of a cross. Before the end of the year (1936) 6d. in the slot stamp vending machines had been installed outside 40 London post offices for customers to obtain stamps when the offices were closed. Four 1½d. Stamps (two pairs) were dispensed in a plain unprinted buff cover. These stamps also appeared with watermark upright or inverted. Coils and Meters:- The ½d., values were made up in coils for machine dispensing. Collectors interested in these usually acquire the wrappers or cores from the ends of the coils with one or two stamps attached. These appear on the market from time to time, so dealers with imagination and foresight must have obtained these over 50 years ago, presumably with the co-operation of their friendly postmaster. The experimental ‘Poached Egg’ and ‘FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY’ labels also belong to this era and may be found on covers in combination with Edwardian stamps, but these are in the sphere of Cinderellas. Two types of merer mark exist with the EVIII R cipher. One type had a large insignia at the centre, the second carries small initials at the foot of the design. Various machines carry a reference number and the type of machine os indentified by initial letters: ‘PB’ Pitney Bowes, ‘U’, Midget and ‘N’ Neopost. Mail on behalf of the Royal Household is carried free of the Royal Household is carried free of postage and is stamped with the roval monogram. Examples of ‘E VIII R’ are not commonly found. The Complete Story In more recent years information has been released by the authorities regarding essays and proposed designs for Edwardian issues, and such material has been released from prin-ters’ files and come on to the philatelic market.The inclusion of such items in a specialized collection may set the seal on telling the complete story of Edwardian stamp production, but a collector embarking on these needs more than average spending money to procure any sort of showing of them. In additionto British essays, the wreter has seen examples from Aden, Falkland Islands, India, Newfound-land, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Montserrat, St Helena and St Lucia. The stamps were withdrawn from sale at the end of July 1937 except for booklet and coil issues which continued on sale till the end of the year as George VI coils and booklets were not ready for issue. Stanley Gibbons Specialized Catalogue states that the numbers of each stamp sold were ½d. 1,739,250,000, 1d.717,000,000 1½d.1,814,250,000 and 2-1/2d. 32,000,000. Ample warning of their pending obsolescence was given, so dealers “investors” and collectors had time to obtain such stock as they required or could afford, with the result that the basic set of four stamps is still common today. Quiz # 12 We are organizing an informative Quiz Competition under the supervision of Pak Net Mag (Pakistan Internet Magazine). We hope you all will like and participate in it. Below are the five questions regarding Pakistan. Three participants will win 200 used stamps each. In case of more than three winners, the winners will be picked up through lucky draw. This time we received no any correct entry. QUESTIONS OF QUIZ # 12
CORRECTS ANSWERS OF QUIZ # 11 1. It is called Penny Black because it cost a penny, and it was black. The face on the stamp is Queen Victoria, who was Queen at that time. Just because a stamp is old does not necessarily make it valuable. The Penny Black is not rare – 68 million of them were printed, but if you had one in excellent condition it could be worth $ 1000. 2. Cats were used for a mail service in Liege, Belgium, in 1879. In all, 37 cats were employed to carry bundles of letters to villages within a 30km radius of the city centre. The experiment was sort lived as the cats proved to be thoroughly undisciplined. 3. Upper Volta issued stamp on Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1976, on the occasion of 100th birthday celebration. 4. The first RCD was issued in 1965 by Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. 5. The first Catalogue was issued in 1861. RULES & REGULATIONS:- 1. Send all entries on the postal address. (Wahid Zia. G.P.O.Box # 1609. Lahore-54000. I.R.O.Pakistan.) 2. Use thematic stamps on the face of the envelope for postal purpose. 3. Send your complete introduction with the Quiz. 4. Last date to receive entries is:- 30 October, 2006. |