The Gambia Colony and Protectorate was the official designation for The Gambia during the colonial era. This administrative arrangement, which …
KGVI
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. …
Stamp Story: The Aden Expedition
Often one of the most interesting things about many a stamp is the story it was intended to tell or …
GB KGVI 1948 Olympic Games 3d Violet Flaws
I obtained some part sheets of this stamp recently and having also bought the Stanley Gibbons Specialised album for the …
Falkland Islands Dependencies Map Flaws Part Two – Spot on King’s Cheek
Further to John Spencer’s comment here… John kindly sent me some images of another flaw that appears on the Falkland …
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, …
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 …