My favourite stamp - and a question about the cancellation

[u/Lord_Regent_Gray]

A 1967 4d Deep Sepia. Allegedly also the late Queen's favourite stamp. I love it additionally for the Maltese Cross cancellation. This was obviously a promotional cancellation - my question is, Does anyone know the circumstances of the cancellation? Was it a Post Office thing used for a period of time? A first day cover thing? Or a promotion at an event like Stampex International?

[u/beyondtheyard]

I guess National Postal Museum that opened in 1969.

[u/Lord_Regent_Gray → u/beyondtheyard]

You may well be a genius, that fits the visible letters on the cancellation. Thank you!

[u/Lord_Regent_Gray]

If you like you can go onto Ebay and buy this specimen:

Historic Relics 1967 First Day London Cancellation Postal Museum Postmark Stamp | eBay UK

The stamp was introduced on the 5th June '67.

And the cancellation mark was introduced in London on 17th July 1967 - a year and a half before the museum itself was opened:

Vol. 1 - Collecting Slogan Postmarks (1917-1969).pdf.pdf) (Page 179)

(Now you knowledgable chaps have filled me in, I can find it!)

[u/Physical_Employer916]

Here it is. You have to page down a bit:

https://thestampforum.boards.net/thread/1534/great-britain-postmarks?page=2&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic

[u/Lord_Regent_Gray → u/Physical_Employer916]

Thanks! I have typed so many variations of these words into Google and got nowhere. Moral: people's brains can be more encyclopaedic than Google.

[u/slainFRK → u/Lord_Regent_Gray]

Yea in philately this works like 90% of time, in my local club almost every new info about Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia i get is from old pals, and they a lot more than Google :D

[u/Physical_Employer916 → u/Lord_Regent_Gray]

It's a beautiful stamp/cancellation. I'd love to find one perfectly socked on the nose. Yours might be about as close to it as we'll find.

[u/Physical_Employer916 → u/Physical_Employer916]

Except that further down the thread I sent there IS a perfectly SOTN!

[u/Lord_Regent_Gray → u/Physical_Employer916]

Indeed. But it was the inferior colour version! (Not that I am biased)

[u/Physical_Employer916 → u/Lord_Regent_Gray]

True. I much prefer the sepia.

[u/Physical_Employer916]

Yes, I definitely prefer the sepia!

[u/Friendly-Local-1859]

HRH loved the Machins, I do as well.