Friday 11 October 2013

I Played Around With A Few Stamps,

yesterday,



I had completed collecting the 1935 King George V Jubilee set of stamps, most are like the ones above, a coloured fame with a engraving of Windsor Castle in the middle,

but some like these from Southern Rhodesia had not only a different outer frame,

but also the Windsor Castle did not appear but the Victoria Falls did, in all a really coulourful set of stamps, 


having said I have the set there are three that are missing, the 'Prussian Blue' and two that were issued on the island of  Tristan da Cunha overprint on 1/2p and 1p Great Britain Silver Jubilee issuesthese overprints were prepared and applied in Britain after the postmaster of Tristan, Rev. Harold Wild, requested it, the overprint was applied to only thirty-six 1/2p and 1p values with each stamp individually numbered, if only I could find a pair of the only 36 printed what a find that would-be.


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