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It has no denomination and I can't find it in any catalogue but has been definitely used to mail letters.
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Not a stamp but probably from a label sheet or booklet as selvedge.
Appears to be a childs representation of the sun but I have been unable to pin down a particular issue.
It would need a value or indicator to be a stamp and would also have the Queens head somewhere.
If you have number of them is there a postmark date that will narrow the search?
Reverse image search does not have an answer.
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02:18:23am
An interesting sticker.
Is there any text of any kind ?
My eyes do not see any.
As Vic notes; No Queen, no value
---- not a UK postage stamp ----
and no other national text,
not a postage stamp.
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There appear to be perforations but I wonder if they're printed directly on the envelope along with the label?
It has the look of a mass mailing / mass delivery item.
As sheepshanks has said seeing a postmark (real or simulated) would be interesting.
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I have a copy with some postal markings next to it. Whatever it is, it is British.
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I can see the perfs clearly this time. 
I suspect this is just a marketing device to make the cover more interesting to recipients in a mass mailshot.
The label and the printed postmark won't have any postal significance.
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This was a label attached to a booklet pane of GB stamps. Nothing to do with mailshots, moonshots or vodka shots!!
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....and I've spent the last day trying to find an image of the booklet pane, without success. I'm very persistent though 
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I found this old discussion online which I believe relates to the use of this label:
https://rec.collecting.stamps.discuss.narkive.com/4KAPV0Z2/unusual-gb-advertising-pseudo-stampt
The links to the images are broken but the use seems clear.
I thought I had seen this image before but I was surprised it was seventeen years ago!
Thanks Oldmanemu for showing your example as it was the PHQ 1297 permit number that helped me steer Google to this old discussion.
In summary, these were used in mass mailings from DFS, a large UK furniture retailer.
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Wow !!!
"rec.collecting.stamps.discuss"
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Well found Nigel, means I can get to sleep at last.
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Thanks to all for helping solve the mystery of this item!
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I came across several copies of this "stamp" in some British kiloware I purchased.
It has no denomination and I can't find it in any catalogue but has been definitely used to mail letters.
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re: Is this a British Stamp?
Not a stamp but probably from a label sheet or booklet as selvedge.
Appears to be a childs representation of the sun but I have been unable to pin down a particular issue.
It would need a value or indicator to be a stamp and would also have the Queens head somewhere.
If you have number of them is there a postmark date that will narrow the search?
Reverse image search does not have an answer.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
02 Oct 2020
02:18:23am
re: Is this a British Stamp?
An interesting sticker.
Is there any text of any kind ?
My eyes do not see any.
As Vic notes; No Queen, no value
---- not a UK postage stamp ----
and no other national text,
not a postage stamp.
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re: Is this a British Stamp?
There appear to be perforations but I wonder if they're printed directly on the envelope along with the label?
It has the look of a mass mailing / mass delivery item.
As sheepshanks has said seeing a postmark (real or simulated) would be interesting.
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07:03:18am
re: Is this a British Stamp?
I have a copy with some postal markings next to it. Whatever it is, it is British.
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re: Is this a British Stamp?
I can see the perfs clearly this time.
I suspect this is just a marketing device to make the cover more interesting to recipients in a mass mailshot.
The label and the printed postmark won't have any postal significance.
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re: Is this a British Stamp?
This was a label attached to a booklet pane of GB stamps. Nothing to do with mailshots, moonshots or vodka shots!!
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....and I've spent the last day trying to find an image of the booklet pane, without success. I'm very persistent though
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re: Is this a British Stamp?
I found this old discussion online which I believe relates to the use of this label:
https://rec.collecting.stamps.discuss.narkive.com/4KAPV0Z2/unusual-gb-advertising-pseudo-stampt
The links to the images are broken but the use seems clear.
I thought I had seen this image before but I was surprised it was seventeen years ago!
Thanks Oldmanemu for showing your example as it was the PHQ 1297 permit number that helped me steer Google to this old discussion.
In summary, these were used in mass mailings from DFS, a large UK furniture retailer.
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re: Is this a British Stamp?
Wow !!!
"rec.collecting.stamps.discuss"
That lights up a memory meter
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Well found Nigel, means I can get to sleep at last.
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Thanks to all for helping solve the mystery of this item!
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