Section 1: Guide
This section contains an overview of the North Eastern Railway itself and some background on its stamps and postal labels.
- An Overview of the North Eastern Railway
- What is a Stamp?
- Railway Letter Stamps - very briefly
- Newspaper Tax
- The first Railway Stamps
- The Midlands Confederacy
- Survival and Condition of Stamps
- Colour Variations / Stamps colours as displayed in this catalogue
- Cancellations
- Station Names (as part of the stamp design - Design 5 only)
- Mint Stamps (gum or no gum), Used Stamps (on/off piece)
- Perforation / Rouletting
- Stamp Size or Design Size? (as quoted in the Catalogue)
- Stamp Reference Numbers (as used in the Catalogue)
- Printing Errors / Variations
- How Many?
- Control Numbers used on NER Stamps
- 'Computer-cleaning' of stamps
- What is a 'clone'?
- How are stamp prices calculated in this Catalogue?
- How certain can we be?
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