Comments on: Lundy Puffin postage stamps

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

I remember that “Woolworths” was a major seller of stamps to school boys in the U.K. At least up to 1960, before I went into the Army as a teenager, then discovered “Girls”. Again it was packets of “mixed stamps”. Worldwide, Commonwealth, single countries, and so on. Was it really over fifty years since I bought packets of stamps from “Woolies”?
I am away to ly down in a dark room with a wee dram and fortify myself before I go to my stamp club tonight.

By: Keijo

Keijo — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:16:21 +0000

@Graham… That sounds like a nice story from the ‘good old days’…. I recall when I was a kid (in 1980s), (worldwide) stamp packets were somewhat easily found on many local shops. These days there’s nothing. What a shame

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:53:32 +0000

My Mum to live in Bideford, North Devon. It was common to see packs of the Lundy stamps for sale in some of the local shops. At that time Bideford Post Office was the official Post Office for Lundy.

By: Keijo

Keijo — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:42:28 +0000

@Brian… These imperf stamps originate from 1942 “Tighearna (The Chief”) miniature sheet. And they have been forged in large scale.

The forged copies usually bear three characteristics:

a) they are uncanceled
In 1929-38 Lundy stamps were canceled with rectangular slogan postmark, from 1940 onwards also a Lundy CDS was used.

b) they have small margins
On the miniature sheet the stamps are placed wide apart allowing a very large margin (like the 9 Puffin stamp above). The forgeries usually have very tight margins (like the ½ Puffin stamp above)

c) they have crude printing compared to original
Just like the ½ Puffin copy I’m displaying…

So very likely Your copy is a real one.

By: Brian Hudson

Brian Hudson — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:29:47 +0000

I refer to the illustrated imperf half puffin stamp suspected of being a complete bogus. I have a similar specimen but it bears a post mark including part of the place name: LUND, and part of the date: 12 Oc . I obtained this stamp when I was a boy in Cleveland, then part of Yorkshire.That was 60 or more years ago. Should I suspect my Lundy Island stamp of being bogus?

I always thought that it was one of the very first issued.