DUMMY STAMPS NEWSLETTER

Dummy Stamps Newsletter was instigated in the Summer of 2006 and covers items of interest to the compiler about items from the world of British dummy philatelic material, with an occasional excursion abroad. It will be published as a minimum of four sides of A4 when time permits, but roughly quarterly.

It can be downloaded as a PDF file and printed on your colour / black and white printer, or can be saved as a file for screen viewing at any time.

LATEST ISSUE:

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.

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 + 60 Bonus

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

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

(The latest issue is located at the head of this page.)

 Page updated on 5 July 2010.  All material Copyright  © 2000-Date Glenn H Morgan FRPSL.