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International Stamps Collection Since 1935
Queen Elizabeth II Hong Kong
About Hong Kong 1962, Queen Elisabeth II
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 60% (Click here for more information)
Category > Hong Kong > Commonwealth
Price 80€
Royal Silver Wedding of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
About “The Royal Silver Wedding of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth was marked by stamps following criticism at the failure of the Post Office to issue stamps for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth in 1947, and the valuable dollars thereby lost. There were two stamps, 2½d, and a £1 aimed primarily at collectors. As it was a late decision, initial thoughts were to adapt designs originally developed in anticipation of the Coronation of King Edward VIII showing famous landmarks, with the portraits of the King and Queen as used on their Coronation stamps. Artists were approached, and essays produced on these lines – albeit new photographic portraits had been taken – but did not find favour with the King, who referred to a simple portrait approach used by Belgium in 1935. New designs were developed, the Post Office still preferring landmarks as these might appeal more to the public. The King likewise maintained his stance in favour of just portraits, selecting designs by Harrisons’ staff artist G T Knipe for the 2½d, and by Joan Hassall for the £1 (lack of time prevented the £1 being line-engraved). The stamps were issued on the anniversary, 26 April 1948, although distribution of the £1 was somewhat restricted. Both values were overprinted for British Postal Agencies overseas (Tangier, Morocco Agencies, Kuwait, Bahrain and British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia).” To view source of article, please click here.
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 80% (Click here for more information)
Category > Great Britain > King George VI > Silver Wedding > Aden
Price 40€
Gutenberg Castle
About Issued on 1920, however, when the Swiss government took over the administration of the post office in 1921, they have demonetized and remaindered these stamps onto the stamp market.
Condition MH (Click here for more information)
Quality 80% (Click here for more information)
Category > Switzerland > Liechtenstein
Price 3€
A Taisho Stamp 30 SEN
About Issued on 1929, a definitive Japanese stamp of Tazawa series.
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 60% (Click here for more information)
Category > Tazawa > Japan
Price 4€
Alan L. Bean
About Alan LaVern “Al” Bean (born March 15, 1932), is an American NASA astronaut, he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. Bean was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3.
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 60% (Click here for more information)
Category > Apollo 12 moon mission > Ras Al Khaima > United Arab Emirates
Price 4€
Queen Elizabeth II Machins Series
About “In the summer of 1965 the Post Office and the Stamp Advisory Committee invited artists to submit designs, while the then Postmaster General Tony Benn suggested that the royal image should be replaced by the name of the country (either ‘U.K.’ or ‘Great Britain’), a suggestion which was shot down in part because of private opposition from the Queen herself.Of all the artists to have submitted work to the Post Office, it was the sculptor Arnold Machin who did most to impress the SAC, and on the 5th June 1967 it was his sculptor of the Queen (wearing a diadem crown made for George IV;s coronation in 1820) that adorned the newly issued Machin series, distinctive for its uncluttered design and palette of bold singles colours. These are the definitive stamps still in use today, and the refusal of the Queen to approve any changes on three separate occasions – in 1981, 1985 and 1990 – makes it very likely that they will not see any cosmetic changes until the succession of the next monarch.” To view source of article, please click here.
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 60% (Click here for more information)
Category Great Britain > Queen Elizabeth II > Machins Series
Price 1.20€
Goddess Kannon
About Japanese Goddess of mercy Kannon, used in Japanese Postage from 1952 till 1961.
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 60% (Click here for more information)
Category Goddess > Japan
Price 4€
Von Braun & JF Kennedy
About Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977). The pillar of the US space program, rockets and reactor developments. The young German was passionate about astronomy and physics as later wrote the novel of Jules Verne, inspired by his dream to make a rocket to reach the moon. Later, under the leadership of Hitler and his weapons development programs, he joint a research team to make weapons of a type ‘the new carrier rocket bombs’. He engineered the rocket called V-1 which is more of a bomber plane without a pilot, and the high-performance V-2 rocket with a remote-panel from 300 km. At the end of the conflict in 1945, Von Braun and his team traveled to the US, which constructed the golden bridge for the US to establish the future of NASA.
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 60% (Click here for more information)
Category > Apollo 12 moon mission > Ras Al Khaima > United Arab Emirates
Price 1.40€
Queen Elizabeth II 1952 – 1967
About “By the time Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the throne in 1952 the stamp was a familiar object, and it was only 15 years into her reign in 1967 when designers settled upon the definitive series which persists to this day. Initially the Wilding series of stamps had been the standard for the UK, a design featuring the Queen half turned towards the viewer. It was this aspect of the image in particular which was objected to in a letter written to the Post Office in 1961 by two influential stamp designers, Michael Goaman and Faith Jacques. They held that the design, by virtue of being in contradistinction to the practice of depicting each successive head of state in profile, represented the person of Elizabeth more than the monarchy itself, and they also argued that the portrait was difficult to include in commemorative stamps.” To view source of article, please click here.
Condition US (Click here for more information)
Quality 60% (Click here for more information)
Category Great Britain > Elizabeth Pre-Decimal Issues
Price 50€
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