page_title: Herbert Edgar Weston
section_title: Cut-outs
hierarchical_section_title: Herbert Edgar Weston / Cut-outs
caption_attribution_description: English: Folded sheet with four impressions, tête-bêche, of KGVI 1½d, postmarked Lerwick on 16 October 1959, addressed to Victor Marsh.
context_page_description: Herbert Edgar Weston, or H. Edgar Weston, was a stamp dealer in Stockwell, London, then Twickenham, who used the pseudonym Victor Marsh and who purchased Jean-Baptiste Moens' stock of philatelic literature after Moens retirement in about 1907. Weston claimed to have the world's largest stock of philatelic literature for sale. He was also a prolific producer of philatelic covers using cut-outs from stamped to order postal stationery items. In 1907, Weston was a founder member of the Philatelic Literature Society.
context_section_description: In his book Abnormal Embossed Postage Stamps of King Edward VII and King George V  Weston writes that on numerous occasions he received envelopes franked with cut-outs and in 1909 he had the idea of several different stamps being embossed together. He enquired of the Inspector of Stamping and much to his surprise discovered that his request could be complied with. So he embarked on ordering multiple embossing of stamps on sheets and then cutting them up into pairs and other multiples and using them on envelopes. From 1910 to 1915 he placed twelve orders which were supplied to him. Then the order he placed in May 1916 was refused, the Post Office stated that they had "decided to discontinue that particular form of stamping". Weston was not the only philatelist who created philatelic covers using cut-outs, but he appears to be the only one who took the initiative to order stamped to order embossed stamps on sheets and produce covers using cut-outs from these sheets.
  Weston was not shy in seeking co-operation in the creation of items he could sell, sending packets of covers franked with cut-outs to serving British army officers during World War One, and over an extended period to the post office at Tristan da Cunha, with requests that they be posted back, suitably cancelled.
  In the 1950s Weston again managed to persuade the Post Office to produce tête-bêche multiple letterpress impressions with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II dies. Examples of these items are known used during the period 1956 to 1959.
caption: Folded sheet with four impressions, tête-bêche, of KGVI 1½d, postmarked Lerwick on 16 October 1959, addressed to Victor Marsh.
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