Great Britain Stamps of the Three Kings, KGV, KEVIII & KGVI

That is a beautiful layout! Palo's aesthetics really appeal to me.

Very nice. Good luck on the hunt for the seahorse.

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Never understood " the throw away society"


 

hi hdm - thanks for the suggestion - agree, likely this would simply have been part of a make up for full first class letter rate, which am thinking would have likely been 3d. in 1960? - at which date QE II was on U.K. throne. Is it possible do you think to use stamps showing prior monarchs - Ed. VIII was her uncle of course - and not even the previous monarch which was her Father George VI? Anyway, agree, certainly a curio and well worth keeping, though am not entirely convinced we know the real reason as to why the 1960 date cancellation.

rod222 - sorry, but I have oodles of this particular value - unmounted mint and used - as we all know, these few defs. 1/2d. - 2.1/2d. represent all that we have to remind us of Edward and Wallis. Certainly in the U.K. these few are two a penny (forgive the humour), even with the MOROCCO AGENCIES overprints, and on its own without the selvedge and dirty like this it would not have stayed with me. My comments were more a figure of speech - I do best to pass on my duplicates to charity shops and have been doing thus for some time.

just for rod222, then .................. to show that I do keep, and treasure, some scruffy, valueless items ........ here is a page of SG 155 - rose-carmine, from 1899:-)  -  but I love the colour, and if I live long enough I will be found flyspecking from dawn till dusk.

thanks rod222 - yes, probably more correct to qualify my 'valueless' as being of little financial value. Sorry that my SG 155's can't be seen clearly - I use stock books almost exclusively - since they are the lazy collectors mo for shoving large numbers of stamps quickly into a fairly safe place but ........... the down side here is that the strips are translucent and don't allow the stamps to be seen clearly. I no longer buy stock books with this type of strip - only those with fully clear strips. Your display is magnificent - thanks for sharing.
Quote from rod222 .......... "I like what you have done ......" frankly, I don't:-) It lacks the physical clarity of your display, and as mentioned it's a storage method for speed rather than being able to see what I have. When I grow up I want to have displays like yours;-)

Tut, tut paul1, as a Brit you should remember, The wife consort of George VI was Queen ELIZABETH, later the "Queen Mother"

Queen MARY was his mother. This is George we have here not Oedipus!

have now compared to the list - seems I'm missing Nigeria and all of the 12 Malaya issues.

thanks rod222 - really no idea as to why that printed list omits the countries you mention - although GB would not have worried me - I have that pair. Your mention of 138 stamps - divided by two - gives us a total of 69 sets/countries (assuming all sets consist of a pair of stamps). As mentioned last evening - comparing what I have already with that list seems to show that the missing stamp was almost certainly Nigeria - but also that I have none of the Malay States - 12 different stamps in total. I do best and try not to be a completist - worrying that I don't have a particular value in a set - within reason - IMHO, would take away some of the spontaneity and enjoyment of collecting. It would be great to have the 'pair' for all 69 countries - but probably an outlay slightly beyond my pocket at present. My opinion on the 'Peace' set - which again I assume would have been issued for the same countries as the 'Silver Wedding' - is that it was a lost opportunity as far as design goes. A quiet evening on the R. Thames with the Houses of Parliament in the background hardly conveys the intense sense of relief and that such an occasion as the cessation of hostilities had on the folk of Europe - I just feel that something bold and dramatic that signified an end to the horrors of war would have been more appropriate. Again, I assume, though could be very wrong, that the Silver Wedding of George V would have amounted to the same 69 countries, or something around about that number. Such 'omnibus' sets are the price we Brits pay for having an Empire;-)