Silver Jubilee Stamps

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Silver Jubilee Stamps

Modified August 2010

The site for those interested in the stamp issues of the 1935 Silver Jubilee of King George V
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Study Circle - A page of  details about the King George V Silver Jubilee Study Circle.

Current Offers- For many Silver Jubilee items currently available.

Recent Articles- This month’s jottings on some aspects of the Silver Jubilee issues.

Research Notes- Currently assembling postal rates of the period.

Handbook Update- Amendments to: “Silver Jubilee of King George V stamps handbook”.

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Where were they then - July 2010

Following this artcle on territories that were later to issue their own stamps, John Cooper kindly sent scans of items from the Maldives (opposite), Petit Martinique (below) and Cocos (Keeling) Island. Now added to ”Where were they then?”.

Recent realisations - July 2010

Recent eBay realisations (in £) include the following:

India 3½a bird on parapet var in pair with normal, used

41.00

GB 6d postal order with counterfoil

24.00

BF in Egypt 1pi with cds cancel

73.89

K.U.T. reg. cover Arusha-Germany at 1/05 rate

30.41

South Georgia to UK 1d fdc

27.10

Australia 2d, 3d on Gower fdc

173.17

Hong Kong 20c fdc

21.13

MA Fr reg OHMS fdc with 13 vals (2f50c) to USA

53.13

GB set on Posted out of course FS reg cover

4.16

Basutoland Butha Buthe reg cover

7.36

Ceylon SG 382h in used set

42.21

GB 2010 Accession m/s o/p Business Design Centre

7.65

Bahawalpur label - July 2010

While we await further details of this label, hopefully from some better-informed reader, at least the sheetlet format is revealed by the Prestige auction for 14th August. The estimate is given as A$300, mentioning that a single example was sold for $172 in a previous auction of theirs.

Indian perfins - July 2010

Jeff Turnbull of Anglesey has sent these scans of a cover from Calcutta. All the stamps are perfinned “JF/&/Co Ld” (James Finlay & Co Ltd) and, on the Jubilees, it is inverted.

Postal Rates - June 2010

Included now are the rates for South West Africa and Bahamas.

Ceylon booklets - June 2010

For those logging the details from the Ceylon booklets, further examples were recently offered by Sandafayre:

  • 6c JN 57081 2000 (10/35) (4 complete, 1 incomplete pages, est £500-600)
  • 9c JN 47039 1000 (5/35)  (2 complete, 2 incomplete pages, est £500-600)

They also offered a 9c “double vignette” and a 6c x3 on a parcel tag.

AJA August 2010