JUBILEE STAMPS
KING APPROVES THE DESIGN,
AN INTERESTING ANNIVERSARY. THE FIRST ADHESIVE STAMP. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.65 a.m.) 'LONDON, April 23. The King has approved the design of the .Jubilee stamps—halfpenny, penny, three-halfpence and twopencehalfpenny. They will be available for two months from May 7. They have been designed by Barnett Freeman, and are twice the size of the ordinary stamps. The colours are not changed, but the photogravure process strongly contrasts the light shade. The head of the King is Sir Bertram Mackennal's design. The symbols include laurel and oak leaves, acorns, olive branches and the Royal orown. Jubilee Day will be the anniversary of the introduction of the first adhesive stamp in 1840, of which only 416,000 could be printed daily, compared With. 15,000,000 nowadays. Specially-designed postal orders are also being printed.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19350424.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 164, 24 April 1935, Page 5
Word Count
137JUBILEE STAMPS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 164, 24 April 1935, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in