Any Philatelists?

[wymberley]

Both wrists playing up - will explain (painfully) should there be any response.

[30-6]

Are we talking stamps ?

Got an album in the wardrobe from when I was about 10 ish age , that would be 55 years ago.

Edited August 7, 2023 by 30-6
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[wymberley]

Sort of, but it's more my father trying it on as a young man. The letter to his mother reflects that he knew what he was doing and that all is genuine.

One picture is worth ........... but a couple more for clarity if necessary: 

Something so small never gets thrown away.

[Pushkin]

Wymberly, I'm having a senior moment.  Are you asking for advice about the penny red stamp on the letter -EG is it real and worth a few bob?   I'm not sure what the sore wrists have to do with it though?😉 Pushkin.

[old'un]

29 minutes ago, Pushkin said:

Wymberly, I'm having a senior moment.  Are you asking for advice about the penny red stamp on the letter -EG is it real and worth a few bob?   I'm not sure what the sore wrists have to do with it though?😉 Pushkin.

A lot of wymberley posts are like this, mysterious.

[McSpredder]

That picture doesn't resemble the person who was UK monarch on 24th September 1937.   I admit to being very poor at recognising faces, but to my eyes it looks more like Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

[amateur]

As has often been said:

Philately will get you nowhere

[Old Boggy]

I eagerly await the outcome of this thread with interest , or even the explanation.

OB

[mellors]

It's got me.

I reckon this is his best one yet. 

 

[JohnfromUK]

The King's head is George V, who had died 20th January 1936 Corrected by @discobob - It is Edward VII.  He was succeeded in 1910 by George V who was followed by  (briefly and uncrowned) by Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) who abdicated in December 1936 and was himself succeeded by George VI, who was QEII's father.

This is postmarked 24th September 1937, so George V Edward VII had been gone for 21 months 27 years when it was posted and George VI had been King for around 9 months. 

The postal rate (1d) was correct in 1937 for a postcard.

Other than the postmark being rather a long time after the King depicted had died, I see nothing out of the ordinary - am I missing something?  I had not spotted it was Edward VII

Edited August 9, 2023 by JohnfromUK
Corrected by @discobob who pointed out is is Edward VII

[mellors]

9 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

The King's head is George V, who had died 20th January 1936.  He was succeeded (briefly and uncrowned) by Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) who abdicated in December 1936 and was himself succeeded by George VI, who was QEII's father.

This is postmarked 24th September 1937, so George V had been gone for 21 months when it was posted and George VI had been King for around 9 months. 

The postal rate (1d) was correct in 1937 for a postcard.

Other than the postmark being rather a long time after the King depicted had died, I see nothing out of the ordinary - am I missing something?

I'm assuming he's having trouble with the keyboard with wrist problems. 

All will be revealed eventually. 

[McSpredder]

29 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

The King's head is George V, who had died 20th January 1936.

I claim no knowledge of either philately or physiognomy, but a 1935 George V stamp (image grabbed from a website) shows a face with an upturned nose, whereas the mystery postcard seems to show a hooked nose.

[JohnfromUK]

3 minutes ago, McSpredder said:

I claim no knowledge of either philately or physiognomy, but a 1935 George V stamp (image grabbed from a website) shows a face with an upturned nose, whereas the mystery postcard seems to show a hooked nose.

You are right. It does look a different profile.  Could it be a German forgery to show anti Semitic views?  1935 would be around the right time for that sort of thing.

 

[discobob]

It is actually Edward VII - I can only assume that it was some type of forces thing like the Bluey (are they still a thing) for communicating while on oversears - perhaps the Exmouth postmark may back up the assumption??

[JohnfromUK]

41 minutes ago, discobob said:

It is actually Edward VII - I can only assume that it was some type of forces thing like the Bluey

Thank you - I have corrected my post above (and credited you!)  These "lettercards" were still in use in the 1960s in QEII's time and I remember using them.  They were for UK internal post as they were quite heavy card.  Blueys and airmails were thin and very light so they could be flown more easily in volume.  To open them, you tore round the perforated bit.

[discobob]

37 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

Blueys and airmails were thin and very light so they could be flown more easily in volume.  To open them, you tore round the perforated bit.

I know - Falklands 87  and founding member of Gull Island Pond water sports center!!!!

 

[McSpredder]

20 hours ago, wymberley said:

Sort of, but it's more my father trying it on as a young man. The letter to his mother reflects that he knew what he was doing and that all is genuine.

 

3 hours ago, discobob said:

It is actually Edward VII

Edward VII died 1910.   A young man wrote to his mother in 1937 using stationery that was at least 27 years old, perhaps issued in the year of his own birth?

[30-6]

Well I went to Grammar school, and I haven't got a clue what's going on.