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FU - Fine Used (Stamp design is not obliterated)
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HOW TO TELL A PHOTO FROM A LITHO STAMP (USUALLY UNDER MICROSCOPE)
These variations are easy to spot under microscope and in some cases under your own eye.
Stanley Gibbons state:-
Photo - Uneven lines to value and frame formed by edges of screen.
Litho - Clear outlines to value and frame of stamp
WATERMARKS FOR ALL GB STAMPS
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WATERMARK IMAGE |
WATERMARK |
YEARS ISSUED |
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Small Crown | 1840-1846, 1848-1855 |
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VR | 1854 |
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Large Crown (I) | 1855-1862 |
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Small Garter | 1855 |
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Medium Garter | 1856 |
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Emblems | 1856, 1862, 1864-1866 |
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Large Garter | 1857, 1862-1863, 1865-1868, 1870, 1872-1873, 1876-1877 |
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1880 Large Crown (II) | 1858-1862, 1864-1866, 1868-1879 |
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Spray of Rose | 1867-1878 |
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Maltese Cross | 1867, 1874, 1878 |
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Half penny | 1870-1871, 1874, 1876-1879 |
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Small Anchor | 1875, 1881, 1883 |
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Orb | 1876-1881, 1883 |
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Imperial Crown | 1880-1883, 1887-1892, 1896-1897, 1900-1912 |
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Double-lined Anchor | 1881 |
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Single-lined Anchor | 1881, 1883 |
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Large Anchor (16mm) | 1881, 1883 |
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Large Anchor (18mm) | 1881-1885, 1887, 1890, 1902, 1905, 1911-1912 |
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Large Anchor (20mm) | 1883-1885 |
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Three Crowns | 1884-1886, 1891-1892, 1902, 1911 |
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Three Orbs | 1888, 1890 |
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Simple Cypher | 1912-1915, 1917, 1920-1925 |
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Multiple Cypher | 1912-1913 |
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Single Cypher | 1913-1915, 1918-1919, 1926, 1934 |
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Block Cypher | 1924-1926, 1929, 1931-1936 |
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Large GVR Script | 1929, 1934 |
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E8R | 1936-1937 |
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GVIR (2 types) | 1937-1942, 1946-1952 |
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Tudor Crown | 1952-1955 |
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St. Edward's Crown | 1955-1958 |
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Multiple Crowns | 1958-1968 |
| Stamps without watermark were issued in: 1847-1848, 1850, 1854, 1883, 1967-1968. | ||