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I'm in doubt about this one, the normal issues are July 7, 1965, but with this item it's May 24, 1965.
Can't find them in the SG catalog either. does anyone have any advice?
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First of all, the date of issue is July 8, 1965, not July 7, 1965. There are known cancellations for July 7. With first-day issues it is risky to conclude that a stamp was actually available on that day. It is more likely that someone had not set the date correctly when the postmarks were applied, possibly even before the date of issue.

A search will reveal more examples of this first day envelope design. However, none of them have the date 'May 24th 1965.'

The GPO initially planned to issue these stamps on April 23, 1965 (St. George's Day) or May 24, 1965 (Commonwealth Day). Australia and New Zealand preferred May 24, 1965 for their issues. After first considering May 17, 1965, May 24, 1965 was chosen. On the one hand, May 17 was in no way related to Churchill. On the other hand, it was already difficult to have the stamps distributed even on May 24, 1965.

Unofficial punctuality actions by GPO personnel who did not want to work overtime caused the issue to be postponed on May 24, 1965. On June 21, 1965, the new issue date for July 8, 1965 was announced.

It appears that a run of these first day envelopes was made in May 1965 with the intended date of issue. When the issue date changed, new envelopes may have been printed without a date that remained unknown for a long time. It also appears that the original version of the envelope was used for the final issue on July 8, 1965.
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March 21, 2024 07:59
Petvre Here you can find that these stamps were scheduled for 24/05 but were only issued on 08/07. Should we conclude from this that these FDCs had already been made and were nevertheless put into circulation? So a piece of postal history?
UK specialists who know more detail?
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March 21, 2024 21:21
A condition for FDCs is that the date in the stamp is clearly legible. I can't read it that easily.
A second condition is that that date corresponds to the official day of issue of the stamp(s) that appear on the cover. The intention to release something on a certain date (and then release it on another date) is not enough.

Sometimes this could be a day earlier or later (at a specially organized event, where the FDC was stamped and sold on site).
Usually it is the exact date of issue. Even though in the commercial circuit they were stamped a month in advance (or sometimes to replenish stock a month later). With the day of issue on it (neatly readable).
No one can claim afterwards that a stamp with a date on it was not stamped on that day. The stamp was made especially for that FDC, and it is still usable the day after.

This is not an FDC, but another valuable piece of nostalgia with a nice story behind it. Made in edition, so a full welcome to LD.
But unfortunately, for me this is not FDC.
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Petvre is the date of the stamp legible? Is that also 24 MY 65, or is that 8 JLY 1965?

The envelope was indeed used on the correct date, both with and without the date '24 MAY 1965' at the bottom left.

They are made by Rembrandt Philatelics and easy to find in both formats.




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March 22, 2024 06:46
Esquerdo Thanks for your search, I can also vaguely see that there is an 8, so it is stamped on July 8, 1965.
Raoul62, I will then place this under ,,other,, ,okay? With a short text.

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Petvre
It is not clearly visible in the image. But if it reads July 8, then I think it is an FDC. It used to happen that the day after the issue there was a special 'fair' where the FDC was stamped on the spot at the time of sale.

If a different date is written on it, then it is a special envelope.
In both cases not for the Other section. Well for the stamp section.
Moreover, in both cases it is valuable enough to be collected by a philatelist (from the relevant collecting area).
The story that comes with it is a bonus above all. You can certainly briefly mention the details. Yet another beautiful story that will not be lost.
No idea if it affects the value, but it could be.

In order to place it in the appropriate issue, you will have to check whether it is the x or y version... Place it under the phosphor lamp.
'Basic' issue is also something that does not exist :)



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Thanks for your search, I can also vaguely see that there is an 8 on this one, so it is stamped on July 8, 1965.

I agree with Raoul62 that if the date is questionable, there is no good basis for calling it an FDC. Just because something cannot be seen on a scan does not mean that it cannot be seen. Black on black-gray is difficult to see in a scan.

Your item is simply an FDC as there are many in the United Kingdom. And there are also a number of this copy. Many philatelic companies have their own envelopes made for their subscription holders, which they have stamped by the Post Office on the day of issue. They are in no way less FDC than the mass produced ones that the GPO made. You just have an FDC. As long as the date of stamping is that of the day of issue and is visible , it would be pure arbitrariness not to consider it as FDC.
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Esquerdo Raoul62 Petvre 
No doubts the definition of what a FDC is from classics era period to modern period is : cancel MUST exact date of issue of the stamps according to official documents of the post office that issue that stamp. To be clear it is first day this stamp is available to sale to the public.

For various reasons you got some covers like for the black Penny from the XIX century or even now with a stamp and cancel a day before it was on sale but it is not a FDC even if it will cost far more than a cover of the day of issue of the black penny (FDC). So FDC is a clear definition and this document is not a FDC.
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Frenchstamps once again, you did not correctly read what was posted. OP posted it was cancelled 8 July 1965. This was the day on which the GPO issued the stamp. It is a cover, it was cancelled for the exact date of use. It is an FDC.
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Esquerdo
Fundamentally, you're right...I'll let a Super Moderator of Stamps make the judgment on this one.  In those cases where the FDC was cancelled a day later than the date of issue (which may not be the case here based on the Michel catalogue).
Depending on the decision, several FDCs (also for Belgium and the Netherlands) may lose their status.
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Petvre
Perhaps there is a reason why you listed July 7 as the issue date in your first post? Maybe it says so in another catalog...
But you misled me for a moment.

Nevertheless, there are indeed items that are present as FDC on LD, but where the stamping was a day later than the date of issue (which we take from paper catalogs or other books, of course).
A decision for LD may be necessary there: exact day, or tolerance for the next day.
There are in Belgium, I'm sure (the event you had to attend to win an FDC was for example Tuesday in Liège and Wednesday in Kortrijk). But I'm not going to look for it now.
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March 22, 2024 11:17
Raoul62 There too, a tolerance will be necessary. Almost every (recent) Belgian stamp has a pre-sale at an event during the weekend and an official first day of sale on Monday morning at Filatelie in Brussels.
For me, the principle of special cover/special stamp/special date remains intact.
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Esquerdo Raoul62 First sorry If I didn’t read correctly what say the OP. Anyway my definition of FDC is the philatelic definition worldwide use as it is not only for manufactured philatelic products.

Just to explain why my opinion on stamps is different of others :

Never forget that I am a old school philatelist trained in an old manner to pure philately hating all these manufactured products sold to philatelists. To my own logical opinion philately stop in 1861 with first price lists and professional trade. Before it was a hobby without traders.

Now for a catalog like LD tolerance is a choice as any choice as doing a catalog imply choices and rules. I respect that and freedom to collect what you like as hobby.

it bother me more when rules are made just to professional  stamps trader to sell more products that doesn’t deserve to be in catalog as this is the case in all paper catalogs pre 1900.
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Raoul62 the SG Specialized Vol. 3 catalog contains a note, immediately after the FDC, that "these are known to be stamped July 7." By the way, I don't read that as meaning that the official FDCs (ie those of the GPO) are aware of that date. 'This one' refers, as I read it, to the stamps.

By the way, I can also imagine that if you read the issue date here, it doesn't take much imagination to imagine how someone could incorrectly read month 7, day 8 as July 7. Human brains love to play games with its owner.
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Not just the brain ;)
But when you talk about 'official' FDC... what is an unofficial FDC? An illegal one?
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Raoul62 official = GPO (now Royal Mail) edition. Stanley Gibbons only provides information about those FDCs; this is in contrast to FDCs that are designed by or for dealers. There are all kinds of catalogs about this, some with a lot of toilet duck content. They are certainly not illegal.

Royal Mail is cooperating with this. Royal Mail now sends stamps - sometimes even on special strips printed in a different orientation to the official issue or even without a security feature - to dealers weeks in advance so that they can prepare their FDCs for the day of issue.

Typically, dealers' own FDCs are more popular than GPO issues.
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