IM-SG-128
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|---|---|
| Identifier | IM-SG-128 |
| Country | Isle of Man |
| Country code | IM |
| Catalogue | Stanley Gibbons |
| Catalogue number | 128 |
| Variant | |
| Issue title | Landmarks and Queen Elizabeth II definitives |
| Date of issue | 29 September 1981 |
| Withdrawal or invalidation date | 30 June 1990 (withdrawn from sale)
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| Face value | £2 |
| Subject or design | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Stamp type | Definitive |
| Stamp subtype | Monarch or reign |
| Format | Stamp |
| Designer or artist | G. V. H. Kneale |
| Printer | Helio Courvoisier SA |
| Printing process | Photogravure |
| Colour | Multicoloured; 4 colours (information sheet) |
| Dimensions | 41.1 × 51.5 mm |
| Perforation | 11½ (catalogue; leaflet reading discussed below) |
| Watermark | |
| Paper or gum | Tropical gumming with coloured silk fibres |
| Other catalogue references | |
| Associated FDC or issue pages | Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II definitive – £2 – Official cover – 1981 Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II definitive – £2 – Mercury cover (Laxey Wheel design) – 1981 Isle of Man – Queen Elizabeth II definitive – £2 – Mercury cover (map design) – 1981 |
| Notes | Cancelled stamp scan from the collector’s owned official cover. |
This £2 entry is part of the Landmarks and Queen Elizabeth II definitive series.[1]
Subject
The official information sheet says that the portrait is based on a photograph taken during the Queen’s 1979 Tynwald Day visit, when she also opened Queen Elizabeth II High School at Peel. It identifies the frame as a Norse ring-chain pattern found on old Manx monuments.[2]
Production details
The official sheet credits G. V. H. Kneale as designer and Helio Courvoisier SA, Switzerland, as printer. It specifies photogravure, four colours, 41.1 × 51.5 mm stamps in sheets of 25, and tropical gumming with coloured silk fibres. It does not explicitly state a watermark status.[2][1]
The catalogue gives perforation 11½.[1] The information sheet gives 11¾ × 11½.[2] SG normally reports perforations to the nearest half and uses the Instanta gauge as its standard. These source readings are retained separately; their difference alone does not establish an additional catalogue variety.[3]
Sheets, plates and imprints
Sheets: 25 (5 × 5). Plate numbers: A1-1-1-1 and B1-1-1-1 (collector-confirmed allocation to the £2 value). Imprint: Central bottom margin.[1]
Withdrawal
This stamp was withdrawn from sale on 30 June 1990. No quantity-sold or sold-out figures have been supplied.[1]
Related stamps
- IM-SG-111 — ½p, Watch Tower, Langness (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-111a — ½p, Watch Tower, Langness (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-112 — 1p, Jurby Church (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-112a — 1p, Jurby Church (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-113 — 6p, Government Buildings, Douglas (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-114 — 7p, Tynwald Hill (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-114a — 7p, Tynwald Hill (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-115 — 8p, Milner’s Tower, Bradda Head (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-115a — 8p, Milner’s Tower, Bradda Head (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-116 — 9p, Laxey Wheel (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-116a — 9p, Laxey Wheel (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-117 — 10p, Castle Rushen (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-117a — 10p, Castle Rushen (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-118 — 11p, St Ninian’s Church (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-118a — 11p, St Ninian’s Church (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-119 — 12p, Tower of Refuge (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-119a — 12p, Tower of Refuge (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-120 — 13p, St German’s Cathedral, Peel Castle (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-120a — 13p, St German’s Cathedral, Peel Castle (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-121 — 14p, Point of Ayre Lighthouse (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-121a — 14p, Point of Ayre Lighthouse (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-122 — 15p, Corrin’s Tower (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-122a — 15p, Corrin’s Tower (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-123 — 16p, Douglas Head Lighthouse (perforation 14).
- IM-SG-123a — 16p, Douglas Head Lighthouse (perforation 14½).
- IM-SG-124 — 20p, Fuchsia.
- IM-SG-125 — 25p, Manx cat.
- IM-SG-126 — 50p, Red-billed chough (inscribed Chough).
- IM-SG-127 — £1, Viking warrior.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Stanley Gibbons.Channel Islands and Isle of Man 2022 Edition Stamp Catalogue(31st combined edition).Stanley Gibbons.2022.Section: Isle of Man.pp. 204–205.Catalogue system: Stanley Gibbons.Catalogue number(s): 111–128, including the listed a perforation variants.ISBN: 978-1-911304-89-0.Place of publication: Ringwood. Transcribed by the collector, who also confirms that A1-1-1-1 and B1-1-1-1 apply to the £2 value and unspecified values have no plate numbers recorded.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 New Definitive Value — 29 September 1981(Information sheet).Isle of Man Post Office Authority.Sheet accompanying the collector’s owned official cover. Scans: information sheet. The collector confirms its reverse is blank.
- ↑ Stanley Gibbons.Channel Islands and Isle of Man 2022 Edition Stamp Catalogue(31st combined edition).Stanley Gibbons.2022.Section: General catalogue conventions.Catalogue system: Stanley Gibbons.ISBN: 978-1-911304-89-0.Ringwood. The collector confirms that perforations are normally given to the nearest half and the Instanta gauge is the catalogue standard. The page of this general convention was not supplied.
