KING EDWARD STAMPS
PROBABLE RARITIES [from a firm at. corrkspondknt] LONDON, Dec. 18 Philatelists who bought new albums for collections of King Edward VIII, stamps now realise that the number is not sufficient to fill a single page. There are only 15 stamps. There are the Jd, Id, l£d and 2d stamps, bearing the much-criticised portrait of King Edward, issued in September, and 11 of the same stamps differently overprinted for uso by British postal agencies in Morocco. One of the last-named is already a rarity priced at £lO and certain to rise much higher. By the misplacement of n printer's rule the word "postage" on three stamps of every sheet of the halfpenny stamps is obliterated by a thick black bar. Not many copies of this error are in existence t hence the price will probably soar to £'2o apiece. Portraits of the new monarch, depicting him as the Duke of V>rk, have already appeared on Canadian and Newfoundland stamps, as have portraits of Princess Elizabeth, the new heir to the Throne.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22620, 7 January 1937, Page 11
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173KING EDWARD STAMPS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22620, 7 January 1937, Page 11
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