Great Britain Concise

About the Latest Edition

Key Information

• The 2009 edition has been extensively updated with all prices reviewed and revised in line with the current market.
• We have listened to our customers! This year’s Great Britain Concise will be bound with a ‘Layflat Binding’, which will be of great advantage to the collector as the catalogue will stay flat on opening. 
• Helpful introductory notes
• Booklet pane diagrams  
• Commemorative design index
• The perfect guide to British stamps and their values. 
• Includes a FREE G.B. Collectors Guide in full colour. The 32 page booklet provides much invaluable information, with articles on collecting line engraved, seahorses, errors, flaws and varieties. 
• FREE £5 voucher to redeem either by mail order or in person at the SG shop at 399 Strand, London when spending over £25. 
• The 24th edition is again in full colour throughout, providing as always, priced listings of definitives and commemoratives, regionals, postage dues, departmental officials, postal fiscals, errors, first day covers, booklets. Specimens and post office label sheets (‘Smilers’).  
• Listings are complete from May 1840 to March 2009. 
• Expanded booklet listing.

General Description/Contents

• The ever-popular Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue provides the perfect catalogue for the collector seeking more detailed information on GB (including Channel Islands, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) than that provided by the Collect British Stamps checklist, without the highly detailed coverage of the five-volume specialised series.  
• Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue lists and prices all British stamps from 1840 to early 2009. 
• Every different stamp design is illustrated in full colour. 
• Listings include changes of watermark, perforation, shade and phosphor.
• First day covers, Royal Mail postage labels, Post Office Picture (PHQ) Cards, presentation packs, booklets, postage dues, regionals, official stamps, postal fiscal and Post Office label sheets (Smilers) all listed and priced. 
• Visible plate numbers listed for Victorian stamps. 
• All basic stamps priced used and unused, with unmounted and mounted mint prices from 1887 to 1935 and on-cover prices from 1840 to 1991. 
• Major errors and varieties including missing colours and perforation and watermark errors listed and priced. 
• Helpful introductory section providing philatelic definitions and guidance for the collector. 
• Booklet pane diagrams and indexes of commemorative designs and Machin definitives make this catalogue the perfect guide to British stamps and their values.
• Includes a Commemorative Design Index.
• Excellent, useful table of postage-rates contemporary with NVIs.
• Inverted and sideways watermarks are listed and priced, as well as First Day Covers, presentation packs, FRAMAS, PHQ cards, ‘Smiler’ sheets, errors – and well as other useful details. 

About the Editor

Hugh Jefferies has been a stamp collector for over 50 years, concentrating on the stamps of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. He has been editor of Gibbons Stamp Monthly since 1988 and Stanley Gibbons catalogue editor since 2003.

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