The theme this week was "stamps that leave you wondering: what is this stamp trying to show? What does it commemorate? Or, who is this person on this stamp anyway?"
In my case the stamp is quite clearly a GB definitive of King George VI.
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| Stamp receipt 1951 |
Apparently it was the practice for cash receipts to carry a stamp depending on the value of the goods - in this case 2d for purchases up to £20.
This receipt was for a carpet bought by my future mother-in-law in 1951. Neither my wife nor I can remember this practice after we were married in 1958.
It may have been abolished in 1971 when decimal currency was introduced. So there's the mystery; can anyone tell me more?
All I've turned up is the Receipt Duty explanation in this link http://www.cosgb.org/cosgbv1n2.htm
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I have seen such stamps on bills often but never really understood their significance or the reason for them being there.
ReplyDeleteI remember them too Bob, but have no idea when the practice was stopped.
ReplyDeleteTo me the pre-decimal currency is a mystery...
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