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Stanley Gibbons 399 Strand Edward Stanley Gibbons (1840-1913), the founder of the firm. The Stanley Gibbons Group plc is a company quoted on the London Stock Exchange specialising in the retailing of collectable postage stamps and similar products. [1] The group is incorporated in London. The company is a major stamp dealer and philatelic ...
Edward Stanley Gibbons was born at his father William Gibbons' chemists shop at 15 Treville Street, Plymouth, on 21 June 1840, [1] in the same year that the United Kingdom issued the Penny Black, which was the world's first postage stamp. Edward’s interest in postage stamps began whilst at Halloran's Collegiate School.
In 1890 Phillips purchased Stanley Gibbons & Co. [1] for £25,000. It had first been offered to Theodor Buhl for £20,000. [2] Phillips wrote numerous philatelic articles, including those published in The Gibbons Monthly Journal, The Stamp Advertiser and Auction Record and the Gibbons Stamp Weekly where he wrote articles on various collections he had helped build or sold.
Pre-printed albums come in various formats where the collector can mount a used stamp with a hinge, create a pocket for the individual stamp using a pre-cut mount to stick to the page, or the easiest type called a "hingeless album" system where the pre-printed album page includes a place to put your postage stamp.
For Canadian stamps there is a specialized catalogue called the Unitrade (which reflects more accurately the actual values of the stamps vs the Scott catalogue values), and for Great Britain and Commonwealth stamps most collectors use Stanley Gibbons catalogues. Typically stamps will sell at auction for a range of 10–30% of catalogue list ...
The World's Stamp Errors Part II Foreign Countries, W H Peckitt, 1910, 50pp (under pseudonym Miss Fitte) Then and Now, Whitfield King, 1938, 43pp; United States Postage Stamps 1847-1869, Stanley Gibbons, 3rd edition 1915, 71pp; United States Special Service Stamps, Stanley Gibbons, 1915, 69pp
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