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Dummy Stamps Newsletter

Dummy Stamps Newsletter was first launched in the Summer of 2006 by the compiler of stampprinters.info

Each issue relate to items from the world of British dummy philatelic material from postage and stationery stamp printers, with an occasional excursion abroad when relevant to Britain somehow, such as the stamp output of Cartor (FR) and Enschede (NL), both Royal Mail preferred print suppliers.

Dummy Stamps Newsletter comprises a minimum of four sides of A4 each quarter, but invariably comprises many more pages, often with a supplement or appendix.

A typical front cover.

All current and back copies of Dummy Stamps Newsletter can be viewed online below as a PDF file, downloaded as a PDF file and printed on your colour / black and white printer, or can be saved as a file on your PC / Mac for screen viewing / printing at any time.

There have been 288 PDF pages of A4 text/imagery published as of January 2012, covering subjects rarely written about elsewhere, but often of such importance to the development of the production stages of actual issued stamps.

LATEST ISSUE

Issue 23 - Quarter Four 2011 (File size = 4.35mb) 12 pages

Further Enschede Dummy Stamp - Testing Label Slogan Covers - More Samuel Jones Labels - Royal Joh. Enschede's New Printing Press Installation of 2008 - De la Rue 'Oversea Dominions' £20 High Value Dummy Stamps - Intelligence Forgeries Revisited - Waterlow's Centennial Publication - Micro-Embossing at Cartor - Machin 00p in Strips of Four - The Prince Regent Has Now Been Correctly Identified - Dickens Tuck Sheets Revisted - Harrison's Specimen Overprints - Further eBay Testing Rubbish - Labels Resembling Postage Stamps - Waterlow Wembley BEE Label - Children in Need 1986 Update - Penny Red Reproduction - General Von Witzleben German Intelligence Forgeries of 1944 - Bradbury Wiilkinson Dummy Stamps Recently on Offer - Stanley Gibbons Colour Guide.

CUMULATIVE INDEX

Cumulative Index for Issues 1 to 15 - (File size = 238kb) 4 pages

(A further cumultaive issue will be produced around the middle of 2012 once issue 25 has been published.)

BACK ISSUES

Issue 1 - Summer 2006 (File size = 0.32mb) 4 pages

Welcome to DS1 - Why Describe them as Dummy Stamps? - Waddington Tender Labels - What are Dummy Stamps Used for? - Dummy DLR Self-Adhesive Stamp Book - Talking of Books - DLR Dog Experimental Stamp - Questa, SuperLitho and Micro-Printing - Sign-off.

Issue 2 - Autumn 2006 (File size = 0.34mb) 4 pages

Welcome to DS2 - M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr - Dummy Definition Revisited - Unrecorded Royal Mail Trial - 'Sellotape' Stamps - Bradbury Wilkinson Label - ...and Finally.

Issue 3 - Winter 2006/07 (File size = 0.45mb) 4 pages

Walsall and Harrison's - Banknote Printers ~ Jim'll Fix It Harrison Label ~ Did Questa Tender for Christmas Stamps? ~ Questa Visit Hong Kong 97 ~ American Dummy Coverage ~ ...and Finally.

Issue 4 - Spring 2007 (File size = 0.50mb) 4 pages

De La Rue Phosphor Trials - Unrecorded Royal Mail trial Update - Smilers Dummy Sheet - Smilers Coil Mock-up - Cartor Sample Labels - Harrison's Colour Ink Key - Encapsulated Stamp Sets.

Issue 5 - Summer 2007 (File size = 0.72mb) 6 pages

What's in a Name? - Charles, Skipper and East - Walsall at Stamp Shows - Harrison and Shakespeare - Dummy Air Mail Letter Card - Waddington Tender Update - More Harrison Labels .... - 'Delacryl' and the Previously Unknown 'Harricryl' - Any Ideas? - Harrison Printing Plate.

Issue 6 - Autumn 2007 (File size = 0.85mb) 6 pages

Encapsulated Stamp card - Waterlow Samples - Harricryl - Correction - De La Rue Sample Stamps - Buyer Beware - De La Rue Tokens - Ford Mondeo Labels - Dummy Books.

Issue 7 - Winter 2007/08 (File size = 0.43mb) 4 pages

Philympia Encapsulated Invite Card - R Hoe & Co., New York and London - H&S at London 1980 - Bradbury Wilkinson's Bearded Ancient Briton - BW Update to DS2 - Staff Teaching Labels - FTPO Discovery.

Issue 8 - Spring 2008 (File size = 1.17mb) 6 pages

Harrison Stained Glass - Crown Agents Dummy Sheet - Bradbury Wilkinson Labels - Walsall Rolls Royce Labels - Harrison and Sons Penrose Souvenirs - More Harrison and Sons Penrose Souvenirs - Waterlow Blow Own Trumpet.

Issue 9 - Summer 2008 (File size = 0.79mb) 6 pages

Associated Automation Celebrated Half Century - Harrison and Sons Stained Glass Window Update - 1932 Pageant of Stamps - Don't be Fooled by De La Rue Items - DLR Promotional Items - Maltese "Dogma" Penrose Annual Black Prints Revisted - Samuel Jones & Co. Ltd and the Ideal Stamp of 1912 - A Personal Observation.

Issue 10 - Autumn 2008 (File size = 1.09mb) 16 pages

A Change to Scope of DS? - Harrison & Sons Stained Glass Window: Update 2 - Perkins Bacon & Co Sample Card - Braddbury Wilkinson's New Malden Factory - Waterlow High Values - Enschede at The Stamp Show 2000 - De La Rue Self-Adhesive Dummy Booklets - Louis Chambon, 1861-1932 - Courvoisier Samples - Postal Order Testing - New Discovery of Harrison Sample Labels - German KEVII Printing Sample - Don't Dismiss Modern Stuff.

Appendix 1: A Bibliography of British Printing-Related Books, Brochures, Leaflets and Philatelic Articles .

Issue 11 - Christmas 2008 (File size = 1.47mb) Bonus Issue 16 pages

A Bonus Issue of DS - Christmas Greetings - New Dummy Books - Waterlow Calendars - OVI Inks - Updates.

Appendix 1: Harrison & Sons Ltd: Timeline George II to George V.

Appendix 2: The Spread of Photogravure.

Issue 12 - Winter 2008/09 (File size = 3.08mb) 16 pages

L&M Intaglio Presses - The Spread of the Photogravure Process - "Patriots Maintain the Union!" Publicity Labels - 1935 Silver Jubilee Cards - The Harrison Jumelle (ex-Gemini) Press - Die-Stamping at Harrison in 1966 - Did Harrison Print Stamps Before the British 1910 Contract? - Birthday and Retirement Anniversaries Commemorated by Labels - 75 Years of Photogravure in Great Britain Falls this Year - Updates - What Might Have Been... - US Dummy News and Views - Dummy Stamps On Show at Spring Stampex, 2009 - Grover Perforators - Post & Go Comes to Britain - "New" Harrison Material from the Reign of King George V -

Appendix 1 - The Worldwide Spread of Photogravure Stamp Printing Between the Years 1914 and 1939.

Issue 13 - Quarter Two 2009 (File size = 3.47mb) 8 pages

Eureka Printing Company mock-Wilding labels - Sir Walter Scott labels - De La Rue 1955 label was reprinted a decade later - Tullis Russell celebrates its 200th birthday this year - Updates to items in previous issues of Dummy Stamps - 1937 Coronation souvenir labels - Hinckley PS printed a Bradbury, Wilkinson essay back in 1971- Thomas De La Rue at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924 - Bradbury, Wilkinson dummy airletter form - Harrison display wins gold medal - 1975 architecture stamps overprinted - Buyer beware on eBay.

Hinckley Supplement - Quarter Two 2009 (File size = 2.3mb) 13 pages

The full story behind the production of the Bradbury, Wilkinson essay recorded in DS13.

Issue 14 - Quarter Three 2009 (File size = 918kb) 4 pages

Mystery demonstration label - Questa proof in gutter pair - Jagger mystery label - Waterlow receipt label - Major new series about coil testing labels of Great Britain - Sir Walter Scott update - How Dummy Stamps is produced - London 2010 Stamp Exhibition.

Appendix 1 - 1935 GVR St Andrew's Cross vertical delivery green labels. (File size = 347kb) 3 pages

Appendix 2 - 1936 GVR green 'poached egg' vertical delivery green labels. (File size = 484kb) 7 pages

Appendix 3 - 1957 QEII Scouts double-size FTPO vertical delivery red labels. (File size = 744kb) 6 pages

Appendix 4 - 1962 QEII Multiple Crown FTPO counter sheet-printed red labels. (File size = 645kb) 4 pages

Appendix 5 - 1967 QEII no-watermark FTPO horizontal delivery grey labels and blank horizontal delivery labels for Type G coil machines . (NOTE: A revised issue was attached to DS16.) (File size = 1.22mb) 10 pages

Appendix 6 - 1970 QEII Decimal training labels in counter sheet format. (File size = 442kb) 3 pages

Appendix 7 - Belgian Stamp Printing Works Visit, 1997. (File size = 3.05MB) 11 pages

Appendix 8 - Frogmore Paper Mill Visit, 2009. (File size = 3.39mb) 16 pages

Issue 15 - Quarter Four 2009 (File size = 3.09mb) 8 pages

Christmas Coil Labels - Foiled! - Foiled Again! - Find me on Flickr - Tesco Envelope Sample Indicia - "New" Dummy Booklet - Waterlow Labels used on its Letterheads - Harrild Automatic Postage Stamp Perforator - A Miscellany - BBC Children in Need Presentation Packs - Enlarged "Giant Machin" Dummy - Samkyung Dummy Labels - London 2010 Stamp Exhibition.

Issue 16 - Quarter One 2010 (File size = 1.54mb) 6 pages

Welcome - RPSL Online - Tuck's Dickens Sheet - Johny English - Commonwealth Postal Conference - Tesco Envelope Sample Indicia - Lasergravure Trials - London 2010 Stamp Exhibition.

Appendix 1 - 1967 QEII no-watermark FTPO horizontal delivery grey labels and blank horizontal delivery labels for Type G coil machines. REVISED VERSION WITH EXTRA IMAGERY AND TEXT. (File size = 1.51mb) 11 pages

Appendix 2 - 1984 Frama Stamp Trials and Publcity Labels . (File size = 981kb) 4 pages

Appendix 3 - 1989 Greetings Coil for Sunday Times Postcard Freebie.(File size = 616kb) 3 pages

Issue 17 - Quarter Two 2010 (File size = 2.47mb) 8 pages

Chichester Printing by Questa - Not just Stamps - Christmas Labels Identified - Enschede PUC £1 Presentation Pack - TSS2000 "Penny Black" Pack - De La Rue Phosphor Trials - Bradbury, Wilkinson Sample Folders - Questa Dummy Sheet Errors - Enschede in London - Cartorelief - Intaglio versus Photogravure - Vanished Coaching Inns of London - Correction to 'Forme and Chase' Description.

Issue 18 - Quarter Three 2010 (File size = 2.88mb) 8 pages

De La Rue Colour Sample Cards - £1 PUC 2010 Facsimile: Guildhall Printing - £1 PUC 2010 Facsimile: Issued Printing - McGairy Spirograph Design - Walsall Trial Banknote with Intaglio - Waterlow and its "Rotary Direct Plate Process" Labels - Waterlow Recess Printed Publicity Labels - Maddox pre-Jumelle Printing Press Trial Design - Waterlow at BEE 1925 and 1925 - New Bulletin Board - Laser Engraving Promotional; Banknote.

Issue 19 - Quarter Four 2010 (File size = 4.24mb) 14 pages

Harrison Bi-coloured Dummy Stamp Surfaces after 100 Years - BBC Television's "Jim'll Fix it" Harrison Visit Label Revisited - Merry Christmas - Chambon Sample Labels - Machin Stamp Without Value - The Waterlow "Australian Essays", or, rather, "Dummy Stamps - DLR Christmas Greetings Card - Waddington's "Pop" Stamps - The House of Questa and Ashton Potter's Linerless Coil Format Stamps - Casco Philatelic Course - DLR and Captain Cook - William Ridgeway, Engraver - Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co - Cartorelief Update - Harrison "Peaceland" Design - Waddington Produced Imitation Aerogrammes - Walsall Advert on Back of Stamp - Format International Security Stamp Printers - Harrison Dummy Stamps of the Reign of King George V - Harrison Shakespeare Labels Exist in "New" Colours - - Walsall Advert on Back of Stamp - Format International Security Stamp Printers - Harrison Dummy Stamps of the Reign of King George V Exhibit Pages - The Waterlow "Australian Essays", or, rather, "Dummy Stamps Article from Stamp Lover.

Issue 20 - Quarter One 2011 (File size = 4.2mb) 12 pages

PUC £1 Printed in Blue Ink - 00p Value Machin Stamps - The American Equivalent to Dummy Stamps - The Royal Philatelic Society London and its Catalogue Website - Guernsey Occupation 50 Years on: What Might Have Been in 1991 - Bruckmann of Munich KEVII Dummy Stamps.

Feedback from DS19: Coronation Labels 1937 - Waterlow Britannia Head Design - 1975 Turner Paintings with Defacing Bars - Harrison Booklet Pane - Waterlow BEE Label Plates - Waterlow Travelling Salesman's Sample Sheet - Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company - Early Photogravure Harrison label - Royal Visit to Harrison and Sons - De La Rue Christmas Card - Children in Need - Waddington Pop Stamps - KGV Stamp Display - Stamp Advisory Committee Visit to Walsall, 1989.

Issue 21 - Quarter Two 2011 (File size = 1.4mb) 6 pages

Harrison Stamp Active Labels - Sefi's 'Advanced Philatelic Research' on CD from the Royal - Napoleon and Rembrandt - Hytech Labels at Spring Stampex - Shakespeare Revisited - PUC £1 Printed in Blue Ink - Bradbury Wilkinson Ship Design - The Recent Royal Wedding - Harrison Factory Derelict - PO Training School: Suspect Items - Walsall 1990 VIP Reception - De La Rue Sample Cards Revisited - V&A Brugger Coil Testing Labels.

Issue 22 - Quarter Three 2011 (File size = 4.0mb) 12 pages

Enschede Lady Needs Identifying - De La Rue Photographic Essay - Wiggins Teape and Samuel Jones Dummy Stamps - House of Questa Jersey Arms Presentation Card - Dodgy Harrison 'Essay' Card - More Home Created Rubbish - Prince Regent Essays - Harrison Peaceland Design Update - French Phil@Poste Joins the Ranks of Printers of British Stamps for the First Time Since 1943 - McCorquodale 1879 Tender Cards - Newly Found Waterlow Items - Raphael Tuck Feedback - Cartor Dummy Stamp Pin Badge - Questa Badge - Crown Agents Souvenir Cover - New Size of Harrison Arms Dummy Stamp Reported - Samuel Jones Papers: USA Labels - Harrison proofing SPECIMEN Handstamp - BPMA PUC £1 - Tullis Russell Celebrated 200 Years of Existence in 2009 - World War One Intelligence Forgeries of German Stamps - Testing Coils on Slogan Covers.

British Stamp Exhibitions Catalogue Flyer (File size = 233kb) 1 page

A priced catalogue of sheets, cards, labels and presentation packs on CD compiled by Glenn H Morgan and Graham M Wilson. Third Edition in new, easy to use, electronic format. Many new listings, 1,600 colour images. Searchable. Printable. Includes new Stamp Booklet supplement.