Wilding series
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The Wildings were a series of definitive postage and revenue stamps featuring the Dorothy Wilding photographic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that were in use from December 1952 until decimalisation i
A pane from a postage stamp booklet showing two different stamps from the Wilding series.
A 3d Wilding Overprinted with black bars for use as a training stamp, 1954 or later.
The castles high value definitive stamps of Great Britain.
A British regional stamp for Guernsey.
Castle series stamps
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The Castle series or Castle High Value series are two definitive stamp series issued in the United Kingdom during Queen Elizabeth II's reign. The common aspects of the two series are the four chosen c
Wilding series
…is the afterglow time – 'blue' 20 sec., 'green' 10 sec., 'violet' 5 sec. – rather than the colour as such. In 1955 four large format high values – Castles – designed by L. Lamb were introduced. These were the first true British pictorials – previous designs, for example the 1953 Coronation issue, had all…
Photograph of Edinburgh Castle from similar viewpoint as the stamps
2/6 brown overprinted for the centenary of the Tangier postal agency, in Morocco.