This lot consists of four stamps from Great Britain. The scans show the fronts and backs. The unifying characteristic for this group is that they are all “wing margin” copies, with broad lateral margins created when gutters on the panes were bisected. The resulting asymmetry caused issues like this to be unpopular with early collectors when they wouldn’t fit in a square box on an album page or into a mount, so many copies have been reperfed, or trimmed with a lateral straight edge to fit into the required space. Modern collectors (myself included) prefer the wing-margin copies for their less-common occurrence and for the fact that the enlarged margin allows cancels to be displayed to better advantage (cf the 6p dull lilac above). Standard boilerplate to save me from typing everything every week. I’m a hobbyist collector with 70 years of experience, with particular interest in Scandinavia, Canada, Europe, and the U. I have been an APS member for 34 years and have twice been president of our local APS-affiliated stamp club. Now I’m in the process of trying to get rid of a lifelong accumulation in closets, bookcases, and file drawers. Descriptions : When the catalogue value of a stamp is dependent on watermark or perforations, I have either confirmed them myself or cited a catalogue price for the cheapest type. Stamps shown within mounts may be previously hinged by a previous owner. If I’m reselling someone else’s old album pages, it’s always possible that the original owner misplaced stamps when mounting them. Small lots I try to describe in minute detail. For mid-size lots and album pages I try to check stamp backs for gum status and faults, but in such lots I can’t check or describe everything. Large lots will contain the good and the bad, but usually not the ugly because before I sell them I weed out (into a wastebasket) grossly faulty stamps (missing pieces etc). Hinge remnants can cover faults; I generally do not remove hinges, so thins there might not be detected. When I describe a lot as “unchecked by me” (for shades, varieties, watermarks, papers, cancels etc) it means just that because it’s usually material from countries I don’t collect that came to me in a box lot. Images : I have not yet figured out how to host images on other sites, so I’m limited to 24 photos. The stamps in the photos are always the exact stamps you will receive; I do not post photos of reference stamps. Most item images are created using my old scanner, which sometimes has difficulty reproducing exact shades. When I photograph an item I do so using available light on a dining room table, so again shades of color may not be perfectly reproduced; I try to describe any variance in the written text if it’s important. If catalogue values are visible in the photo written on a page or tag, they may be out of date and inaccurate. This does not apply to large lots (bulk lots, album pages, full stock pages) where I can’t monitor whether the lot has been cherry-picked. I do not make Second Chance offers because I don’t deal in large quantities of identical material.
