Robert Murray
Stamp Shop
5 & 6 InverleithGardens, Ferry Road,
Edinburgh, EH3 5PU
Tel. 0131 552 1220 :: 0131 478 7021
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BANKNOTES and Miscellaneous
This part of the “Big Summer Price List” has a few odds and ends, some samples of second-hand albums and binders, and two pages of Banknotes from stock.
In the past year there’s been quite a lot of change in the UK business of stamp albums and accessories,
with one major wholesaler and producer retiring, and other businesses filling the gap that was left. This has meant that many products have carried on unaffected, others have been replaced by other producers, some items have simply become unavailable, and many dealers have had to rearrange their sources. In our own case, we have now used six different suppliers to get material we used to get from one !
There’s a couple of minor accessories which have become difficult to source, but which we are able to supply;
{A} Small self-adhesive photo corners. Boxed reels of 250 clear corners, at £1.40 per box of 250.
We have virtually run out of these, but have new stock on its way to us, which we expect to be the same specifications and the same price. As the next size up is £8.95 per hundred, we are sure these will remain popular !
{B} Just to show that we think it important to supply even the less popular accessories, we also now
have back in stock the little glass dropper bottles used for dispensing sensible quantities of watermark fluid. We used to get these from our regular philatelic wholesaler; we now get them from a medical supplies company. Price each £1.60
METAL ADVERTISING SIGNS
This has nothing to do with stamps, but kind of fits in with our perceived “nostalgia” style business. (It is difficult to explain why, but lots of people who come in to our shop think that it is really “old-fashioned”, even though we don’t go for that image. Is it because we trade in old items, or are specialist shops generally seen as being quaint ?)
We do a good steady trade in these signs, many of which are reproductions of old adverts and posters. Our sales are almost entirely from people passing by our shops. In fact many people mention that they saw them while they were stuck at the traffic lights ! They are definitely not suited to mail order, but if you are in our shop, feel free to look through our stock of these. They are very popular as presents, helped by the wide range of subjects and styles. They are all the same price at £9.75 each, and you will often see the same things in other shops at £12 or more.
We have a page on our website which tells you more; See
KILOWARE
We always have a wide range of kiloware, though in recent years the most difficult thing to keep stocks of has been decent recent UK kiloware. Just keep in touch if you want some and you’ll be lucky sometimes !
Two of the most popular bags we steadily sell are world mixes. The World “Superior Grade” has hardly any UK and usually quite a good range of countries. Approx.120g for £4.25, or approx.1kg for £32.75
The World “Standard Grade” will have a little UK, and a higher proportion of stamps from recent decades, but still has a good mix for sorting. Approx.120g for £2.25, or approx.1kg for £17.75
Kiloware is easy to post, but is heavy !
Second-Hand Albums
We break down many collections and end up with lots of empty albums. These are popular with our shop customers, some of whom check our boxes regularly. Some of these empty albums and binders are virtually as new, and at the other end of the scale some are more functional than pretty ! There’s everything from standard popular lines to those which are quite unusual.
Here’s a brief list of some to give a flavour of what can be available. Stocks vary even from day to day.
MAIL ORDER ? Not the easiest stock to deal with at a distance, but as long as you are willing to give us a bit of slack, we can usually fulfil an order for standard things, for example “Can you send five medium-size springback binders ?”
Royal Mail First Day Cover albums, Postcard albums, Presentation Pack albums, and 4-ring Stamp albums, normally between £7 and £12 depending on condition.
Standard Size Springbackbinders, for example Gibbons Simplex Standard, Gibbons Utile, Gibbons Senator Standard, Prangnell-Rapkin Crown, Kingston, Albany, etc. Normally £3 to £15.
Medium Size Springback binders, such as Gibbons Simplex Medium, Senator Medium, Prangnell-Rapking Viking, Utile, Swiftsure, etc. Normally £3 to £5.
Junior Size Springback binders, for example Frank Godden Kent, etc. Usually £1 to £4.
2-Ring Binders 50p to £3.
3-Ring Binders (fit a limited range of pages, but some do fit the Prinz System leaves) £1 to £4.
4-Ring Binders in standard fitting, £3 to £7.
Lindner, Safe, Schaubek, and KA-BE multiple-ring fitting binders, usually £5 to £10.
22-Ring Binders such as Gibbons Ring-22 or Universal, Collecta, Boots Collecta, Prangnell-Rapkin Mult-o-Ring, etc. £4 to £10.
Gibbons Swing-o-Ring very specific mechanism which fits nothing else. Usually about £4 or so, but almost impossible to get extra pages.
Cover Albums (Single Pocket) lots of different makes and types e.g. Arch, Boots, Royal Mail, Pioneer, and so on. Wide range of prices from 50p to £8.
Cover Albums (Double Pocket) again in a wide variety such as Kestrel, Chiltern, W.H.Smith, New SG, Benham, etc. Price range mainly £5 to £10.
Peg Fitting (two post) Devon £11 to £20, Exeter £7½ to £12.
Stockbooks anything from 50p to £15 (but tend to sell very quickly – sometimes for not a great deal less that the price of a new one !).
Printed Country Albums; we often have a range of these, usually in really quite good condition. Most commonly for countries like U.K., Channel Islands, etc., but occasionally for others.
Stanley Gibbons UK Commemorative album (red binders) 1924-2011, 4 volumes... £50.
Lindner Isle of Man 1973-99 hingeless in two volumes with slipcases..... £50.
> Royal Mail UK 1953-2009 hingeless in four volumes with slipcases..... £125.
> Guernsey Post Office/Lindner three-volume hingeless album (with slipcases) for Guernsey Oct. 1969 to Nov. 1996, plus AlderneyJune 1984 to July 1996. Binders marked. .. .. £30.
Robert Murray’s BIG SUMMER PRICE LIST
BANKNOTES
We carry quite an extensive stock of banknotes, which have quite a modest but solid following worldwide. Of course we are fortunate in that Scotland has some of the most attractive and interesting notes in the world ! Presented for you here is simply one page of Scotland and UK, and one page of foreign – there’s nothing listed below £5 although we do have many notes in that price range.
Catalogue numbers for foreign are from the Krause World Paper Money catalogue, with catalogue prices in US dollars.Gradings are for guidance only, and will have been taken into account when pricing.
Australia; 1969 $1 VF/EF.No.37c...... £15.
Austria; 1950 20 schilling with the “OESTERREICHISCHEE” variety in underprint, fine, No.129b. £12.
Belgian Congo; 1942 5 franc, fine. No.13...... £25.
Belgium; 1924 5 franc, fine. No.93...... £12.
Cayman Islands; 1974-85 $1 with A/5 prefix, uncirculated. No.5d cat.$55..... £30.
Djibouti; 1952 1,000 francs, F/VF. No.28...... £50.
East Africa; 1942 5 shilling, poor. No.28a...... £30.
East Caribbean Central Bank; 1988-89 $1 with “L” suffix (St.Lucia), unc. No.21l, cat.$50. £30.
Egypt; 1958-71 undated 5 piastre with “UAR” watermark, unc. No.176c, cat.$10... £6.
Finland; 1955 500 markka VF. No.92a...... £50.
France; 1940 100 francs, fine. No.94...... £22.
--; 1958 10 new francs overprint on 1,000 francs, below fine. No.138..... £120.
--; 1965 5 new francs VF+. No.141...... £125.
--; 1981 500 francs, fine. No.156e. (At less than face value, but as you can’t cash them now……) £30.
--; 1997 20 francs, run of ten sequential notes, unc. No.151i...... £140.
--; 1997 50 francs, two sequential notes, unc. No.157Ad...... £40.
French West Africa; Ivory Coast; 1918-19 5 francs, poor but scarce. No.50b... £80.
French West Africa; Saint-Louis; 1905 50f. A rare note, but this example is very poor condition (virtually split at centre). No.9F...... £60.
French West Africa; Senegal; 1919 5 francs, poor. No.5Ba...... £30.
--; 1922-24 5 francs. No.5Bb. F/VF for £40, or five available at about fine grade each at £25
Germany; 1914 5 mark, fine. No.47b...... £20.
--; 1923 1 million marks F/VF. No.93...... £20.
--; 1923 2 billion marks F-. No.135b...... £75.
--; FederalRepublic; 1948 5 mark EF. No.13e...... £250.
Italy; 1953-60 10,000 lire, about fine (more worn due to its size). No.89c..... £50.
--; 1962 1,000 lire, two consecutive notes, EF+. No.96a...... £50.
--; 1966 1,000 lire, EF+. No.96d...... £50.
Laos; 1957 100kip note, colourful, unc. No.6, cat.$20...... £12.
Liechtenstein; 1920 10h, 20h, and 30 heller, unc. Nos.1-3. Full country collection !.. £75.
Macao; 1995 (16 Oct.) 10 patacas showing lighthouse, unc. No.90, cat.$25..... £15.
Malta; 1967 £M5, about VF. No.32d...... £20.
--; 1967 (1979) £M10 F/VF. No 36a...... £22 or £30.
New Zealand; 1967-81 $2 unc. No.164d...... £15.
Norway; 1948 10 kroner VF+. No.26g...... £40.
Poland; 1993 2 million złotys VF+. No.163...... £80.
Portugal; 1935 100 escudos VF. No.150...... £100.
--; 1940 20 escudos EF. No.143...... £100.
--; 1949 50 escudos EF. No.154...... £60.
--; 1982 1,000 escudos F/VF. No.175d...... £45.
Qatar and Dubai; 1960s 1 riyal VG. No.1...... £50
Russia; 1917 Government Credit Note 250 rubles, unc. No.36, cat.$20..... £12.
Saint Helena; 1981 £1 with corrected “ANGLIÆ” spelling on reverse, unc. No.9a cat.$32½ £20.
Spain; 1925 100 pesetas, with serial number placing it as a Republican issue of 1936. Fine. No.69c,
(cat.$6 for VG, $20 for VF)...... £5.
Robert Murray’s BIG SUMMER PRICE LIST
Straits Settlements; 1932 $1, good. No.16a...... £40.
Yugoslavia; 1946 50 dinara, VF. No.64a...... £15.
BANKNOTES; SCOTLAND and ENGLAND; Catalogue numbers in U.K. are from Token’s “Banknote Yearbook”. Here’s a selection of better notes and cheapermore average versions.
We’ve got a bundle of Royal Bank of Scotland £1 from 2000, and Bank of Scotland £1 from 1988, all uncirculated. Also a few Jack Nicklaus £5 notes (circulated). If you are making other banknote purchases you are welcome to one each of these at face value – but you’ve got to buy three notes from stock to qualify for the three of these at face value.
Bank of Scotland; 1958 £20 in quite poor condition, but scarce. No.SC143b.....£40.
--; 1958 £20 VF+ but pen graffiti on front and back. No.SC143b...... £60.
--; 1961 £1, fairly worn. No.SC107a...... £4.
--; 1983 £5, two consecutive notes, unc. No.SC121e...... £40.
--; 1989 £10, five consecutive notes, EF. No.SC134d...... £100.
British Linen Bank; 1967 £1 EF. No.SC209...... £30.
Clydesdale Bank; 1967 £1 uncirculated. No.SC317b...... £40.
--; 1971 £1 uncirculated. No.SC318a...... £25.
Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank; 1960 £1 F/VF. No.SC311b...... £15.
Commercial Bank of Scotland; 1938 £1 very worn. No.SC404c...... £15.
National Bank of Scotland; 1957 £1 VF. No.SC503e...... £25.
National Commercial Bank of Scotland; 1959 £5 VF/EF. No.SC601...... £20.
--; 1959 £20 F/VF. No.SC631...... £50.
--; 1964 £5 in average circulated quality. No.SC613a...... £8.
--; 1966 £1, fine. (Shows just the RailBridge.) No.SC602a...... £6.
--; 1968 £1, fine+. (ShowsRailBridge RoadBridge; buy now before the new bridge !) SC603.£8.
North of Scotland Bank; 1939 £1 VF. No.SC712a...... £25.
--; 1939 £1 in quite worn condition. No.SC712a...... £15.
Royal Bank of Scotland; 1939 £1 worn and a bit discoloured etc. No.SC103b.....£12.
--; 1956 £5, about fine only. No.SC807c...... £25.
--; 1967 £1 (David Dale) looks EF but small tear. No.SC805...... £7.
--; 1970 £1 quite worn. No.SC814b...... £2.
--; 1985 £5, three consecutive notes, unc. No.SC841b...... £130
--; 1994 Robert Louis Stevenson £1 unc. No.SC835...... £3.
--; 2005 £50 showing the bank’s Gogarburn headquarters, unc. No.SC872...... £120.
Union Bank of Scotland; 1940 £1 VF. No.SC903d...... £40
--; 1944 £1, VF but some marks. No.SC903d...... £25.
Bank of England; 1928 Mahon £1 F+, No.BE41c...... £35.
--; 1940 Peppiatt £1, two consecutive notes about EF. No.BE47j...... £30.
--; 1955-on O’Brien 10/- fine. No.BE31f...... £6.
--; 1963-on Hollom 10/- as new but folded in half in a printed envelope “The Birmingham Mail
Christmas Tree Fund”. No.BE37c...... £6.
--; 1963-on Hollom 10/-, fairly worn. No.BE35c...... £2.
--; 1967-on Fforde 10/-, six consecutive notes unc. No.BE39c...... £40.
--; 1967 Fforde £1, approx. EF. No.BE72c...... £5.
--; 1970-on Page £1 VF/EF. No.BE81c...... £3.
--; 1978 Page £1, six consecutive notes unc. No.BE84b...... £30.
--; 1940-50 Peppiatt, 1950-55 Beale, and 1955-60 O’Brien £1 notes we have a whole bundle of, in
average circulated condition (the earlier ones are the worst). All at the same price, each£3.
Treasury; 1922 10/- about fine. No.TR8...... £40.
British Armed Forces; 1943 2 shillings and 6 pence, VF+. No.M3...... £18.
--; 1943-45 £1, poor. No.M6...... £12.
--; 1946 3d, VF. No.M9a...... £17 and £10.
MAIL ORDER ? Yes, banknotes are very suitable for posting. No problem for anything off this list, or if you’ve seen something when visiting, but we don’t have a published list of the rest of our stock.