Due to the sudden death of King George VI on February 6, 1952, Princess Elizabeth, who was on a state visit to Australia and Kenya, had to return to Great Britain as Queen Elizabeth II. She was 25 years old and because of the...
Much has been written about the world's first postage stamp, the so-called Penny Black. And even more stamps have been issued featuring the image of this stamp to commemorate the 100th, 150th, and 175th anniversaries of the stamp. And...
Due to the death of King George VI on 6 February 1952 and the succession by Queen Elizabeth II, it was necessary to produce new permanent stamps featuring her image. This took considerable time, and only in 1953...
In 1950, the use of the letters OHMS for service stamps was replaced by the letter 'G' for 'Government'. The first stamps to bear the overprinted letter 'G' were the permanent stamps featuring King George VI. The original stamps...
Stamps with the overprint OHMS instead of the perforation OHMS had only a very short lifespan. The Canadian Postal Service had, probably because it was cheaper, proceeded to have existing stamps reprinted with the overprint in order to...
The first four stamps featuring the OHMS perforation issued by the Canadian Postal Service were from 1935. The perforation is easily recognizable as belonging to the postal service and not the Ministry of Finance because the shape is smaller...
Two stamps were issued in 1948 dedicated to the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey. The values were 1D red and 2½D blue, featuring images of seaweed harvesting, the Vraic. The issue date was May 10, 1948. The two stamps were...
The period of use of halved 2 Penny stamps from December 27, 1940, ended on February 18, 1941. Because all contacts with Great Britain had been severed by order of the German occupier, a solution was sought to the shortage...
The only British territory occupied by German troops during the Second World War was the Channel Islands. On June 15, 1940, the British government had decided to secretly demilitarize the islands and called upon the population to...
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