Chapter IX: Introduction: OF

GEORGE V. POSTAGE STAMPS

SALE OF LETTER CARDS, THIN POST-CARDS AND
BOOKS OF STAMPS AT FACE VALUE.

REDUCTION IN PRICES OF EMBOSSED ENVELOPES & WRAPPERS

Halfpenny and Penny adhesive Postage Stamps of new design bearing the effigy of His Majesty King George, and registered letter envelopes and thin post-cards bearing impressed stamps with the same effigy, will be placed on sale on the 22nd of June, the day of His Majesty's Coronation, at all Post Offices open on that day. At other Post Offices they will first be sold on the 23rd of June, or, at Offices which are closed on that day also on the 24th of June. New adhesive stamps of other denominations and other articles of stationery bearing impressed stamps of new design will be issued as soon as possible afterwards

Adhesive postage stamps and stamped stationery of the present issue will also be on sale at Post Offices until the remaining stocks are exhausted. All Edward VII postage stamps and all stamps of previous issues which are at present available in payment of postage will still be available

The following reductions in the prices of the principal articles of stamped stationery WHICH WILL APPLY TO ARTICLES BOTH OF THE PRESENT AND THE NEW ISSUES, will take effect on Coronation Day:

POST-CARDS.--Thin post-cards bearing ½d. stamp--½d. each
(Stout post-cards will continue to be sold at 6d a packet of
11, or ¾d. for a single card)

LETTER CARDS bearing 1d. stamp--1d. each.

BOOKS OF STAMPS--Books containing eighteen 1d. and twelve
½d. stamps of George V design will be issued at an early
date--price 2s. each. Pending their issue the present books,
containing eighteen 1d. and eleven ½d stamps of Edward VII.
design, will, on and after the 22nd of June, be sold for 1s.
11½d instead of 2s. as at present.

EMBOSSED ENVELOPES--

Court size (bearing 1d. stamp)--1s. a packet of 11
Commercial size (bearing 1d. stamp)--2s. a packet of 23
Foolscap size (bearing ½d stamp)--1s. a packet of 21.
Commercial size (bearing ½d. stamp)--1s. a packet of 22.

NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS--(Bearing ½d stamp)--1s. a packet of 22.
(Bearing 1d. stamp)--2s a packet of 23.

All cards, envelopes and wrappers are sold in any quantities less than a complete packet at proportionate prices. Full tables of these prices will appear in the Post Office Guide issued on the 1st of July.

GENERAL POST OFFICE.
20th June, 1911. By Command of the Postmaster General.

(1120) Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by W P Griffith & Sons Ld. Prujean Square. Old Bailey, E C. 6/11]

FOOTNOTES:

[9] "Fifty Years of Public Life," p. 63.

[10] Illustrated in "British Central Africa and Nyasaland Protectorate," by Fred J. Melville, 1909.

[11] See further in "The Postage Stamps of the Fiji Islands," by Charles J. Phillips, 1908.

[12] See the obituary of Charles Heath in _The Art Journal_, 1849, p. 20, and the argument in my "Great Britain: Line-engraved Stamps."

[13] I mention these and certain other quotations, not as standard valuations, but to indicate the comparative importance of these and other factors in determining the rarity of individual specimens.

VI

ON LIMITING A COLLECTION