How to Identify Early British Queen Victoria Stamps

While most stamp collectors have a good understanding of how to identify the iconic Penny Black, the other early Queen Victoria stamps of Great Britain can pose a challenge. The Stanley Gibbons catalog describes so many variants and details for these stamps that the process can be daunting. Making it worse, these stamps are not very common and a wrong identification can sometimes be the difference between a common stamp and quite a rare stamp. Armed with some basic understanding and few simple approaches, these stamps are really not that hard to understand. Thanks again to Roger who runs The Swedish Tiger website for permission to use many of the images in this presentation. Go visit his site--it’s fantastic: http://www.theswedishtiger.com/