Stamp Story: The KGVI Elephant Stamps of Gambia
The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was the official designation for The Gambia during the colonial era. This administrative arrangement,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Falkland Islands Dependencies Map Flaws
This post is going to deal with identifying some of the flaws in the Falkland Islands Dependencies ‘Map’ issues….
King George VI
King George VI reigned from 11th December 1936 to 6th February 1952. The stamps issued in this time are…
