John_Gledhill

Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 154 Location: Wellesbourne, UK
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject: George V |
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King George V
1st issue "Downey" head
ex Howard Lunn, Tony Brown
War Loan "scrip voucher"
Printed on Postal Order paper by the Bank of England, 1915
This issue reflects the very first war savings scheme. Scrip vouchers totalling £5 could be exhanged for a £5 stock certificate on 1 December, and then received a farthing a month interest from the first month after purchase on each 5 shilling voucher till 1 December 1915. A bonus of 1s was added if the scrip vouchers were converted into a £5 stock certificate.
The values available were 5/-, 10/- and £1 (as shown below).
ex Michael Brill
The rear of this 10s voucher shows an error in that the £1 plate was used for the reverse, so needed a correction to 10s, made by hand.
ex Michael Brill
2nd issue, Mackennal profile head
1915 provisional poundage
On 1 October 1915 the poundage on 6d-2/6d postal orders was raised from ½d to 1d. As a short term measure some postal orders were surcharged with the new poundage. The only recorded examples are on the 2/6d value.
enlarged detail of the above.
ex Howard Lunn, Tony Brown
1920 provisional poundage
On 1 June 1920 the poundage on 3s-15s postal orders was raised from 1d to 1½d and orders from 15/6d-21s was raised from 1½d to 2d. As a short term measure some postal orders were surcharged with the new poundage. The only recorded examples are on 4/6d and 5/6d orders.
Enlarged detail of the above.
ex Howard Lunn, Tony Brown
3rd issue, smaller design, 2 stamp-boxes at the left
ex Howard Lunn, Tony Brown
Advertising coupon from Sketchley Dye Works, 1932, modelled on a contemporary postal order, and pasted onto the front of one of the company's cardboard folders. The "datestamp" shows the period of vailidity of the special offer as "1st Feb to 13th Feb 1932".
1935 George V's Silver Jubilee
This 6d Postal Order was datestamped on the first day of issue.
Theft of Postal Orders and stamps
Post Office notice of 1947 about the theft of £650 worth of postal orders and stamps. £650 equates to about £30,000 in 2009 RPI, or £117,000 in terms of average earnings.
4th issue, 2 stamp boxes at the right
4th issue, change of validity to 6 months
This example from 1937 shows the perforated "datestamp" used by Littlewood's pools for mass issue of winnings. The perforations show (in coded form) the month, day and the place of issue.
Detail of the above, showing perforation "6 12" in the top line (6 December) and "L C" in the 2nd line (Liverpool, machine number C).
Postal orders issued in booklets
Booklets of postal orders were first issued on 1 November 1935, and they were withdrawn in March 1939. The prefix to the serial number is preceded by a large capital B, irrespective of the denomination of the postal order.
A copy of the very seldom used 19/6d denomination.
In later issues the words "IN INK" were added to the instructions at the top of the Postal Order.

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Aidan_Work
Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Age: 43
Posts: 141 Location: Wellington,Dominion of New Zealand.
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