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I have the same one and its unfortunate that they are not dated.
I tried to use it once but Gibbons seemed to have changed some of their colours and descriptions sometime during the intervening years.
I have this one from 1958:-
Its great with the hole in the centre so you can really match the colour.
The Booklet has seven pages.
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The Stanley Gibbons colour guide stamps were printed by Perkins Bacon early in 1922 dating the guide as later that year or 1923. On the back of the guide there should be an advertisement for a Monthly Circular which ceased to exist after 1923 (1919-1923).
The poor quality products used in the production of these guides has resulted in excess toning on most of these issues and led to many labels being soaked off over the years. Hence today, labels without gum can be found quite often on eBay etc.
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that old SC color guide is the best. A Stamporama member sent me a copy of one a long time ago but it got burnt up when my home burnt down in 2012. I bought a newer one of those foldout SG color guides not nearly as good as the old one.
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Never seen one of these before so thought it might be of interest to others....probably from around the 1930/40 period I would think.
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re: Interesting early colour guide...
I have the same one and its unfortunate that they are not dated.
I tried to use it once but Gibbons seemed to have changed some of their colours and descriptions sometime during the intervening years.
I have this one from 1958:-
Its great with the hole in the centre so you can really match the colour.
The Booklet has seven pages.
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re: Interesting early colour guide...
The Stanley Gibbons colour guide stamps were printed by Perkins Bacon early in 1922 dating the guide as later that year or 1923. On the back of the guide there should be an advertisement for a Monthly Circular which ceased to exist after 1923 (1919-1923).
The poor quality products used in the production of these guides has resulted in excess toning on most of these issues and led to many labels being soaked off over the years. Hence today, labels without gum can be found quite often on eBay etc.
Hope this helps.
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re: Interesting early colour guide...
that old SC color guide is the best. A Stamporama member sent me a copy of one a long time ago but it got burnt up when my home burnt down in 2012. I bought a newer one of those foldout SG color guides not nearly as good as the old one.
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