Martin
the only slight connection I know is that one of the early stamps (1892 #40) pictured a Vai woman
I've never seen any reference to the script itself
David
not sure exactly what extra detail you're looking for
Both Manfred's and Travis's websites I find very useful
Rogers and Saleski publications are also useful but can be hard to come by
The Cockrill booklets are also hard to come by but go …
Is there a lawyer in the LPS!
Manfred,
you may be right about the US situation
However, the UK Government has published information about copyright in the US for UK businesses (but remember this is the same UK government that thought Brexit was a …
Bryant
If only it were that simple!
not sure of copyright law in the US but in the UK (where these were published) the situation is clear (I'm in the process of sorting out copyright on some academic works I've had published over the years so I sp…
Bryant
not sure I fully understand the difference between a surcharge and a re-valaution
eg the 1916 red cross (B1-B15) show a surcharge (according to Scott)
whereas the 1941 air (C17-C26) are also surcharged (according to Scott) but with the sur…
I personally like the idea of "presentation sheets" as suggested by Travis
Some would be definite souvenir sheets for a specific event, others are just sheets presenting specific Liberia stamps for collectors
I suspect the term "de-luxe" came fr…
Bryant
I told Travis that I'd try to track down copyright ownership
However, no success
I found Cockrill's will (and his wife's) but no mention of the booklets
Tracked down his lawyer (or rather the company that took over his lawyer's business). T…
Manfred
you may be right about hair splitting - however it's also a source of confusion and misunderstanding if we can't agree which term to use for what
Also, Cockrill suggests that Hayman may have come up with the first miniature sheets in the 1…
and to add to the confusion Stanley Gibbons says:
"A Sheet of stamps containing a much smaller number than the normal sheet (pane) format ...always including more than one copy of each stamp design ."
So according to SG Manfred's cover stamp isn't…
Travis
by the accepted definition these aren't souvenir sheets since they have no text or mention of an event
Also, Ive not seen the term "presentation sheet" mentioned anywhere on the terminology websites - although in the case of Liberia this m…
And as for MS and SS there's soem agreement and some differences
It seems that all SS are MS but not all MS are SS!
Stanley Gibbons states:
"Miniature sheets originated to celebrate special events, particularly stamp exhibitions. Rather than the n…
Interesting question!
I know that Cockrill at times used teh word "pulls" rather than "proofs" - ie printed from the die/plate but not for proofing purposes
I've also seen the word "reprint" used
I think any glossary would need to be put together …
Travis
I'll leave others to give their opinion but my own casual research concludes that (some) philatelists are quite careless about their terminology at times which doesn't help us amateurs. I've been trying to get my head around "proofs" and tra…
Interesting that in the Victorian/Edwardian heyday of stamp collecting even the royals got involved
Maybe LPS should apply for the "By Royal Appointment" logo given the royal connections - although that might not sit well with our US colleagues gi…
Martin
I think you're right about this referring to the future Edward VIII
Those around in 1906 would have been:
- King Edward VII (died in 1910)
- his second eldest son George Frederick Ernest Albert (born 1865) who was Prince of Wales in 1906…
Several of the 1906 issue illustrations were apparently taken from Harry Johnston's two volume book on Liberia according to Harry Heyman (LPS Journal Apr/May 2021)
Travis
thanks for this. Most helpful.
You mentioned the first lot in the late 1800s
Do you have any more information on this?
I've only seen references to "mid 20th c"
I'm still puzzling over these with help still needed
These are usually described as "defaced die proofs".
I assume this to mean that the die proof itself (on paper) has been defaced rather than the actual die itself.
The deface line seems to confi…
In trying to reconcile the published information about these proofs from the 4 authors (above) there are a few (!) inconsistencies
The following measurements are typically given for all 5 values by Rogers, Saleski and for a) by Cockrill:
a) size o…
Bryant/Manfred - thanks
So if there were two reprintings, the first would have been in the late 1800s and the second around the time of WW2
Presumably the first lot would relate to those referenced by Wickersham and Cockrill (2 of each, one black,…
Mike
I did the same as Albert and printed out at home
I found these very useful at organising my then embryo collection
The only slight issue is that they don't cover all variants but I was able to duplicate the layout with text in Acrobat to pri…
Marty
can't help directly
It seems unlikely that several different employees would all have surnames beginning with D
terms I've seen used linked to die proofs include:
Engravers DP
Common DP
Hybrid DP
Posthumous DP
Bryant
thanks
On re-reading Cockerill I find that he comments that CTO #1 is the same as CP 11 but without any date
He also makes the distinction between CTO and cancelled-by-favour and concludes that CTO's started with the 1892 high values
I'd l…