How to Identify Early British Queen Victoria Stamps

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• LO

  @lordleonusa · 1 year ago

  To my mind, the line engraved stamps are truly works of art! ❤

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• PI

  @piratephilately · 1 year ago

  A great reference video! You really made this easier for all of us that sometimes just groan at<br>all the variances. This past Sunday, a new collector won our club auction for a Penny Black. She was<br>thrilled to buy the first stamp ever :)

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• HE

  @henrybarry5822 · 11 months ago

  Wow. Another great episode that shows your patience, diligence, acknowledgement of your fiscal limitations! We all have to address our own tolerances for these matters. Thank you. I also appreciate your great use of transitions to help keep us oriented and focused.

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• JU

  @justsupposeanddream · 1 year ago

  Thanks again Ken. &nbsp;I really like your approach to stamp collecting and your videos have &nbsp;added to my enjoyment and appreciation of my collection.

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• DA

  @DavidNowell · 1 year ago

  Hi Ken. I am about to sort my Victorian stamps and this video has provided a lot of &quot;clarity&quot; for me. A really valuable effort that will save me many hours. Keep up the excellent work.

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• RO

  @RogerSmallwood · 2 weeks ago

  Hi Ken, I must say I was very impressed, even if I did &nbsp;commented on the word copy, &nbsp;Your video was so informative. &nbsp;I have a penny Black, a 2 Penny Blue and the Penny Red. In various issues but selective, Choices .My passion is Collecting King George vi and Queen Elizabeth II including their Commonwealth stamps &nbsp;which are so beautiful in &nbsp;designs. Worth taking a look at. Very best wishes. Roger🇬🇧🇫🇴

• JO

  @joannewolfe5688 · 1 year ago

  This video is right up my alley, as I am an avid collector of Victorias. I&apos;m sure I will refer to it again and again over the years. It made me aware of some subtle differences in stamps I already have, for sure. I must admit that my two least favourite Victorias are the penny black and penny red, so I have only a few copies and mostly ignore them (hence I skipped a lot of the first part of this video). I&apos;m not the kind of stamp collector who gets into the minutia of the reds and blacks. I do love the tuppenny blues, but do not go out of my way to collect them; if they fall into my lap, so to speak, I keep the nicer copies. I do have a tuppenny blue Ivory Head (CV $100) which came my way in an old Lincoln stamp album from the UK. Like you, I&apos;m fortunate to have a nice used copy of the green one shilling with small corner letters (SG 90), w/socked on the nose cancel. I also have a rare version of the four pence (plate 16, Scott #70). Of the 6 pence, I have the second hexagonal issue. Oddly, I have many fewer GB Victorias than I have Victorias from other parts of the Commonwealth; for example, I have almost a full set of Ceylon issues (most of them mint), a large number of Straits Settlements, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, St Vincent, and many other countries. I collect Victorias primarily for their delicate beauty of design plus relative rarity. I prefer mint copies unless I can get really interesting or unusual postmarks because, again, I appreciate the beauty of the stamp not obscured by postmark. I will save heavily cancelled rarities that come my way through albums or in lots, but alway hope to eventually replace them, and do not spend money on them specifically.

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• TH

  @themeophile · 1 year ago

  Love the video, Ken, despite the length. It’s very informative, as all of your videos are, and I know this video will be invaluable to me when I eventually start my GB album pages (right now, I’m concentrating on creating my Canada albums). Thanks so much for the incredible research you put into your videos…it really shows! 😊

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• ST

  @stephenrutherford1143 · 1 year ago

  Fantastic video. GB Victorian stamps are all I collect and the video tried to explain the evolution of the stamps with excellent graphics. Well done.

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• VI

  @VIKINGHUN · 9 months ago

  Thank you for the good info Ken. You have a new subscriber.....

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• TR

  @tr6462 · 8 months ago

  Very helpful, you&apos;re more organized than I. I now have lots to do. I was wondering about what not to soak.

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• MI

  @MichaelTrotman-zu5cb · 1 year ago

  Truly awesome video.

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