Any Philatelists Among The Members?

I am referring particularly to the1971 UK Postal Strike where stamps were printed locally for various reasons, and where as a result many versions (and errors) of a particular stamp were made available. As regards the many errors, it was because they were not produced by a security printer, and therefore would have been printed by a local print house as suggested.

With security printing a single image would be created. If a single die were produced, this would then be impressed into a plate one at a time, resulting in slightly different alignment and spacing between the stamps on the plate. Or a 'step-and-repeat' camera would put the design onto a film which would then be processed to create a larger sheet.

The designer probably drew up each image individually - maybe using photocopying and real cut and paste, in a sheet of 10, 12, 25 for example. Thus each 'stamp' is different.

Okay, so why the interest. WelI I have found a couple of se tenant stamps in my collection that show examples of the horrendous errors, and wondered if any member might be able to add any information to what I already have. Maybe we have members who have been involved during this period?

Needless to say I collect stamps, and have done so since I was about 9 years of age!

I would love to have them CathyML just tell me what it will cost to package them if you really do mean what you say. You could of course strip all the heavy bits of the album out and just send the pages?

Let me know what you think, you can use the POE contact facility if you wish.

only on tuesday i packed some 1st day cover envelopes to post to a friend of mine.i have had these since 1973-74 in mint condition --in fact i havent even posted them--maybe i could get a few out ron.

Would appreciate that James. I have collected everything to do with stamps for a very long time, never get rid of any of it, just make the collection bigger!

Anna isn't always impressed when the table is occupied for days on end lol

Let me know what you want, where to send postage etc and thanks!