Page 4 - The Sideways Experimenatal Duplex 1852-1858

FRAME 9 Type Va total issued 9 Type Vb total issued 13.

Pages (73 to 81)
A Type Va which has the date year then code. Starts with 2 Bath showing two rates to Bavaria Germany
the first via Paris the second via Belgium. A Tenby recut with a 9d surface printed stamp. A Strike on a
1/2d mauve post card not issued until 1870. A strike of a Taunton in blue the only coloured cancel I
have seen not on the Type II hand stamps. The Type Vb has code date then year. I show Brighton who
received 4 different Type Vb hand stamps 2 with the numeral stamp identification No. I identified as
A & B and 2 with the No.2 also identified as A & B. Here are examples of the Type Al and a lovely
valentine card with a Type B 1.
FRAME 10 Type Via and Type Vlb London only.
Pages (82 to 90)
London Type Via hand stamps were issued to S.E.7, S.E.8, Wl 1 and W12. You will see examples used
on a block 4 Id reds, a 2d blue and a redirected cover. The Type VIb was only issued to London S.E.9
this has the letter S.E in the date stamp one example shows it used as a receiving mark.
FRAME 11 Type VII Birmingham only Type VIII total issued 28.
Pages (91 to 99)
The first 3 pages are Birmingham including a Parliamentary notice with a pair of 4d stamps. The
remaining pages are Type VIII including 4 Id reds and a block of 4 on cover. Also showing are a
number of surface printed stamps Chertsey being the rarest of the examples shown.
FRAME 12 2°d Frame of the Type VIII.
Pages (100 to 108)
I start with a Dartford of which I have seen very few examples. A 10 surface printed stamp from
Folkestone to Switzerland. Folkestone boasts the latest recorded date for any sideways duplex of
31st December 1879 I show an example from the 18th December 1879. There is a stampless example to
Canada and an Isle of Man on a 6d surface printed stamp the only example I have seen on anything
other than a 1 d red. Leicester has two long letters 1 with a strip of 4 1 d reds and the other with a 2d blue.
Lastly is a redirected cover with a Shrewsbury hand stamp and a copy of the back of the envelope which
shows it has been sealed with the selvage of a Id red plate R16.

The sideways duplex is a very big subject and I have only been able to show a very few examples of
what I have. I have not been able to show as many examples of the types as I would have liked though I
have shown examples of all type issued. I have shown more of the Type II hand stamp but there were far
more of this type than of any other type. For example there were as many as 16 different Type II hand
stamps sent to Manchester all of which were recut at least once most were recut more than once. To
fully complete all of these including the recuts is a lifetimes work something I have not yet managed to
do though there are not many I need. I have spent many years studying this subject and should you wish
to know more then there is a book on the subject which I have written.