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    Posted: 08 November 2011 at 10:21
Does anybody else here collect Lundy stamps?

I am a sort of laid back collector, with sets fairly complete from 1954 to 1990. I'm now filling in the gaps in the earlier, and in my opinion, more interesting stamps.
But is a Lundy collection complete without all the other associated material? Unless you specialise the validity of the other material is somewhat confusing. I'm talking about the fakes, reprints, bogus overprints, LCC items etc. I have also seen Lundy toy post stamps selling for quite well. Gerald King's issues are clearly a collection in themselves.

Opinions of others appreciated.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Keith Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 November 2011 at 10:51
Yes. As a spin-off from Gerald's stamps and covers. There is a lifetime's collecting in Lundy if you cover all the bases and i feel one needs to take a common thread and follow it rather than be completist. But they are expensive. Good items seem to sell on eBay for amounts far beyond the values in the latest specialist catalogue. I have a couple of the more expensive items somewhere which I bought to sell on but I've not been inspired to keep going. Completing the Geralds seems to have reduced my interest a lot. Which reminds me I must scan them and get them on Askme - another lifetime's work:(

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I found this one in a bulk lot I was checking today...........

1961 Lundy Cinderella - Defeat of Eric Bloodaxe - Millenary Issue - 3 puffin black on red Europa opt on Millenary issue commemorating the defeat of the Danish Viking Erik Bloodaxe in 954 from set of 7 (Horses & Viking). Overprinted Europa 1961 on ship. Used / no gum but in VG condition. 
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Mr. Bob Harper (Great Britain) has mentioned that the stamps, or more properly 'carriage labels' issued by Lundy were not just valid for internal postage within the island (it is only 3.5 miles long and half a mile wide and 99.9% of the residents live in the sole village). They were introduced in 1929 to pay for the cost of handling and shipping the mail to the UK mainland (a ship ride of about 2 hours these days). and until the 1980's were also fixed to incoming mail. 

Interestingly, apart from a period from 1954 until about 1961 they were issued only for this purpose. The 7 years mentioned are called the 'Wallpaper period' by Lundy collectors and occurred because the island 'outsourced' its stamp production to an agent named Anton Medaware who produced a vast surplus which were aimed at collectors. The Viking stamp is part of this. 

Here's an earlier 1955 print run....slight difference.


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Doesn't that make it a completely different stamp?
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Yes quite different sets.
There were 6 triangles in the original and overprint completing each set.

I am looking for odd stamps from the 1940s. The puffin issues with overprints.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Bas S Warwick Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 January 2012 at 06:51
Originally posted by TIM TIM wrote:

Doesn't that make it a completely different stamp?

Yes, one was 1955 and the other 1961, but very similar apart from the minor differences on the RHS, and the 'by air' print


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Post Options Post Options   Quote Bas S Warwick Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 January 2012 at 21:34
Again from a bulk lot I discovered a packet of 'bird' stamps which I will be passing on to a 'topic' collector. Here is a little gem that was lurking inside.



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Bas, this is part of the same set as Eric Bloodaxe. The 1954 Millenary issue
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Bas S Warwick Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 January 2012 at 21:47
Thanks Steve........had not got around to checking that one out....these are my only 2 Lundy ATM
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Steve Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 February 2012 at 09:35
Some scans of a few recent additions.
None are particularly uncommon, I just hadn't got around to filling gaps.


Puffin overprints from the 1940s


A block of 4 from the provisonal overprints



a couple of the trial sheets of the LACAL stamps




and I finally completed the 1954 airmail set. I was missing a couple for ages!
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