RogThe Gambia Colony and Protectorate was the official designation for The Gambia during the colonial era. This administrative arrangement, which …
British Commonwealth
Stamp Story: Adam’s Peak, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
This King George VI stamp continued on from the pictorials that had started within the earlier King George V’s reign. …
Cover Story: China Clipper, Hong Kong to San Francisco, April 29th 1937, KGV
This interesting cover came into my possession recently, so I thought I would do a write-up of it here. My …
Gibraltar KGVI Definitive Stamps 1938-51
Gibraltar was known to the ancients as Mons Calpe, one of the Pillars of Hercules. Ptolemy first determined its latitude, …
The Straits Times, 10 November 1935 – Gibraltar Jubilee
This is an old article I found in a copy of The Straits Times from 1935. I thought it was …
Australian 1d red KGV sideways watermark discovery
The Australian penny red KGV Head was first issued in 1914 and quickly became one of the most studied stamps …
Falkland Islands Dependencies Map Flaws
This post is going to deal with identifying some of the flaws in the Falkland Islands Dependencies ‘Map’ issues. There …
King George VI
King George VI reigned from 11th December 1936 to 6th February 1952. The stamps issued in this time are a …
