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www.gbstampalbums.co.uk Queen Elizabeth II. Pre-Decimal 1

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1952-1954.

Wm Tudor Crown.

½d

Orange

1d

Ultramarine

1½d

Green

2d

Red-Brown

2½d

Carmine-Red

3d

Deep Lilac

4d

Ultramarine

5d

Brown

6d

Reddish Purple

7d

Bright Green

8d

Magenta

9d

Bronze-Green

10d

Prussian Blue

11d

Brown-Purple

1s

Bistre-Brown

1s 3d

Green

1s 6d

Grey-Blue

2½d

Red

3rd June 1953. Coronation.

Wm Tudor Crown.

4d

Blue

1s 3d

Green

1s 6d

Blue



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1955

Wm St. Edward’s Crown. Perf 11 x 12.

2s 6d

Brown

5s

Red

10s

Blue

£1

Black

Edinburgh Castle

Carrickfergus Castle

Windsor Castle

Caernarvon Castle

1955-1958.

Wm St. Edward’s Crown.

½d

Orange

1d

Blue

1½d

Green

2d

Red-Brown

2d

Light Red-Brown

2½d

Red

3d

Lilac

4d

Blue

5d

Brown

6d

Purple

7d

Green

1s

Bistre

1s 3d

Green

1s 6d

Indigo

8d

Magenta

9d

Bronze-Green

10d

Blue

11d

Plum


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1st August 1957. World Scout Jubilee Jamboree.


2½d

Red

4d

Blue

1s 3d

Green

Scout Badge and ‘Rolling Hitch’ ‘Scouts Coming to Britain’ Globe Within a Compass

12th September 1957. 46th Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference.


4d

Blue

19th November 1957. Graphite-lined issue.


1d

Blue

½d

Orange

2d

Light Red-Brown

1½d

Green

2½d

Red

3d

Lilac

Graphite Lines


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18th July 1958. Sixth British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Cardiff.


3d

Lilac

6d

Mauve

1s 3d

Green

Welsh Dragon Flag and Games Emblem Welsh Dragon

1958-1965.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

1½d

Green

1d

Blue

2½d

Red

2d

Light Red-Brown

½d

Orange

4½d

Brown

4d

Blue

6d

Purple

5d

Brown

3d

Lilac

9d

Bronze-Green

8d

Magenta

1st

Bistre

10d

Blue

7d

Green

1s 6d

Indigo

1s 3d

Green


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1958-1959. Graphite-lined issue.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

1½d

Green

1d

Blue

2d

Light Red-Brown

½d

Orange

4d

Blue

3d

Lilac

4½d

Brown

2½d

Red

18th November 1959.

Phosphor-Graphite issue.

Wm St. Edward’s Crown

1½d

Green

1d

Blue

½d

Orange

Wm Multiple Crowns

3d

Lilac

2½d

Red

4½d

Brown

4d

Blue

2d

Light Red-Brown


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1960-1967.

Phosphor issue. Two phosphor bands unless stated. Wm Multiple Crowns.

1½d

Green

1d

Blue

2d

Light Red-Brown

2d

Light Red-Brown

½d

Orange

3d

Lilac

2½d

Red

3d

Lilac

3d

Lilac

2½d

Red

5d

Brown

4½d

Brown

7d

Green

6d

Purple

4d

Blue

10d

Blue

9d

Bronze-Green

1s 3d

Green

1s

Bistre

8d

Magenta

1s 6d

Indigo

two bands

two bands one band two bands centre band right band

left band


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1959-1963.

Wm Multiple Crowns. Perf 11 x 12.

2s 6d

Brown

5s

Red

10s

Blue

£1

Black

Carrickfergus Castle Caernarvon Castle

Windsor Castle Edinburgh Castle

7th July 1960. Tercentenary of Establishment of ‘General Letter Office’.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

19th September 1960. First Anniversary of European Postal and Telecommunications Conference.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

1s 6d

3d

2d 4d

Postboy of 1660

Posthorn of 1660

Conference Emblem Conference Emblem


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28th August 1961. Centenary of Post Office Savings Bank.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

3d

2½d

1s 6d

‘Growth of Savings’

Thrift Plant

Thrift Plant

18th September 1961. European Postal and Telecommunications Conference, Torquay.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

4d 2d 10d

C.E.P.T. Emblem Doves and Emblem Doves and Emblem

25th September 1961. Seventh Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

1s 3d 6d

Hammer Beam Roof, Westminster Hall

Palace of Westminster


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14th November 1962. National Productivity Year.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

3d 2½d 1s 3d

3d 2½d 1s 3d

‘Units of Productivity’ ‘National Productivity’ ‘Unified Productivity/

21st March 1963. Freedom From Hunger.

Wm Multiple Crowns

ordinary

1s 3d 2½d

Campaign Emblem and Family Children of Three Races

phosphor

2s 3d 2½d

www.gbstampalbums.co.uk Queen Elizabeth II. Pre-Decimal

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7th May 1963. Paris Postal Conference Centenary.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary phosphor

16th May 1963. National Nature Week.

Wm Multiple Crowns

phosphor

6d 6d

4½d 3d

4½d 3d

ordinary

‘Paris Conference’ ‘Paris Conference’

Posy of Flowers Woodland Life


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31st May 1963. Ninth International Lifeboat Conference, Edinburgh.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

4d 2½d 1s 6d

Rescue at Sea 19th Century Lifeboat Lifeboatmen

phosphor

4d 2½d 1s 6d

15th August 1963. Red Cross Centenary Congress.

Wm Multiple Crowns

ordinary

phosphor

1s 3d 3d 1s 6d

1s 3d 3d 1s 6d

Red Cross Red Cross Red Cross


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3rd December 1963. Opening of COMPAC (Trans-Pacific Telephone Cable).

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary phosphor

1s 6d 1s 6d

‘Commonwealth Cable’ ‘Commonwealth Cable’

23rd April 1964. Shakespeare Festival.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

6d 3d 1s 3d

2s 6d 1s 6d

Puck and Bottom

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Feste

(Twelfth Night)

Balcony Scene

(Romeo and Juliet)

‘Eve of Agincourt’

(Henry V)

Hamlet Contemplating Yorick’s

Skull (Hamlet) and QEII.

phosphor

6d 3d

1s 3d 1s 6d


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1st July 1964. International Geographical Congress, London.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

4d 2½d

1s 6d 8d

Flats near Richmond Park

(‘Urban Development’)

Shipbuilding Yards, Belfast

(‘Industrial Activity’)

Beddgelert Forest Park, Snowdonia

(‘Forestry’)

Nuclear Reactor, Dounreay

(‘Technological Development’)

phosphor

4d 2½d

1s 6d 8d


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5th August 1964. Tenth International Botanical Congress. Edinburgh.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

6d 3d

1s 3d 9d

Spring Gentian Dog Rose

Honeysuckle Fringed Water Lily

phosphor

6d 3d

1s 3d 9d


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4th September 1964. Opening of Forth Road Bridge.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

6d 3d

6d 3d

phoshpor

Forth Road Bridge Forth Road and Railway Bridges

8th July 1965. Churchill Commemoration.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

1s 3d 4d

1s 3d 4d

Sir Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill


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19th July 1965. Anniversary of Simon De Montfort’s Parliament.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

6d 2s 6d

ordinary

Simon De Montfort’s Seal Parliament Buildings (after engraving by Hollar, 1647)

6d

phosphor

9th August 1965. Salvation Army Centenary.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

1s 6d 3d

1s 6d 3d

Bandsmen and Banner Three Salvationists


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1st September 1965. Centenary of Joseph Lister’s Discovery of Antiseptic Surgery.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

1s 4d

1s 4d

Lister’s Carbolic Spray Lister and Chemical Symbols

1st September 1965. Commonwealth Arts Festival.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

6d 1s 6d

Trinidad Carnival Dancers Canadian Folk Dancers

6d 1s 6d


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13th September 1965. 25th Anniversary of Battle of Britain.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

4d 4d

4d

4d

4d 4d

Flight of Supermarine Spitfires Pilot in Hawker Hurricane Mk I Wingtips of Supermarine Spitfire

and Messerschmitt Bf 109

Supermarine Spitfires Attacking

Heinkel HE111 H Bomber

Hawker Hurricanes Mk I Over

Wreck of Dornier D0-17Z Bomber

Supermarine Spitfire Attacking

Junkers Ju 87B ‘Stuka’ Dive

Bomber

1s 3d 9d

Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Action Air Battle over St Paul’s Cathedral

phosphor

4d 4d

4d

4d

4d 4d

1s 3d 9d


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8th October 1965. Opening of Post Office Tower.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

3d

ordinary

phosphor

1s 3d

Tower and Georgian Buildings

Tower and Nash Terrace,

Regent’s Park

3d 1s 3d

25th October 1965. 20th Anniversary of UNO and International Co-operation Year.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

1s 6d 3d

1s 6d 3d

U.N. Emblem I.C.Y. Emblem


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15th November 1965. I.T.U. Centenary.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

9d 1s 6d

Telecommunications Network Radio Waves and Switchboard

9d 1s 6d

25th January 1966. Burns Commemoration.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

1s 3d 4d

1s 3d 4d

Robert Burns

(after Nasmyth portrait)

Robert Burns

(after Skirving chalk drawing)


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2nd May 1966. Landscapes.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

6d 4d

1s 6d 1s 3d

6d 4d

1s 6d 1s 3d

View Near Hassocks, Sussex Antrim, Northern Ireland

Harlech Castle, Wales Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland

28th February 1966. 900th Anniversary of Westminster Abbey.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

2s 6d 3d

3d

Westminster Abbey Fan Vaulting, Henry VII Chapel


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1st June 1966. World Cup Football Championship.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

6d 1s 3d

4d

Goalmouth Melee Goalkeeper Saving Goal

Players With Ball

18th August 1966. England’s World Cup Football Victory.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

phosphor

6d 1s 3d

4d

4d


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8th August 1966. British Birds.

Wm Multiple Crowns

ordinary

4d 4d

4d 4d

Black-Headed Gull Blue Tit

Blackbird European Robin

phosphor

4d 4d

4d 4d


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19th September 1966. British Technology.

Wm Multiple Crowns

ordinary

phosphor

6d 4d

1s 6d 1s 3d

6d 4d

1s 6d 1s 3d

Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope British Motor Cars

SR N6 Hovercraft Windscale Reactor


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14th October 1966. 900th Anniversary of Battle of Hastings. Scenes from Bayeux Tapestry.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

4d 4d 4d

4d 4d 4d

6d

Norman Ship

1s 3d

Norman Horseman Attacking Harold’s Troops

phosphor

4d 4d 4d

4d 4d 4d

6d 1s 3d


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1st December 1966. Christmas.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary phosphor

3d 1s 6d 3d 1s 6d

King of the Orient Snowman

20 February 1967. European Free Trade Association.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

1s 6d 9d

1s 6d 9d

Sea Freight Air Freight


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24th April 1967. British Wild Flowers.

Wm Multiple Crowns.

ordinary

phosphor

4d 4d 4d

9d 4d 1s 9d

4d 4d 4d

9d 4d 1s 9d

Hawthorn and Bramble Larger Bindweed and Viper’s Bugloss Ox-Eye Daisy, Coltsfoot and Buttercup

Primroses Dog Violet Bluebell, Red Campion and Wood

Anemone


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1967-1969.

Two phosphor bands unless stated. (Note: Type II values closer to left of stamp)

centre band type I type II

Type II. centre band centre band centre band

centre band left band right band

½d

Orange-Brown

1d

Light Olive

1d

Yellowish Olive

2d

Lake Brown

2d

Lake Brown

2d

Lake Brown

3d

Violet

3d

Violet

4d

Deep Sepia

4d

Deep Olive-Brown

4d

Bright Vermillion

4d

Vermillion

4d

Vermillion

5d

Blue

5d

Deep Blue

phosphor paper

6d

Purple

6d

Bright Magenta

6d

Claret

7d

Bright Emerald

8d

Bright Vermillion

8d

Turquoise-Blue

9d

Green

10d

Drab

1s

Light Bluish Violet

1s 6d

Blue & Deep Blue

1s 6d

Blue & Deep Blue

1s 9d

Orange & Black


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10th July 1967. British Paintings.

9d 1s 6d 4d

24th July 1967. Sir Francis Chichester’s World Voyage.

1s 9d

‘Mares and Foals in a Landscape’

George Stubbs

‘Children Coming out of School’

L.S. Lowry

Gipsy Moth IV

‘Master Lambton’

Sir Thomas Lawrence

19th September 1967. British Discovery and Invention.

Wm Multiple Crowns

1s 4d 1s 6d

1s 9d

Radar Screen Penicillium Notatum Vickers VC-10 Jet Engines

Television Equipment


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18th October 1967. Christmas.

3d 1s 6d 4d

1967-1968.

No Wm. Perf 11 x 12.

2s 6d 5s

10s £1

‘Madonna and Child’

Murillo

‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’

School of Seville

‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’

Louis le Nain

Carrickfergus Castle Caernarvon Castle

Windsor Castle Edinburgh Castle


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29th April 1968. British Bridges.

4d 9d

29th May 1968. British Anniversaries.

1s 6d 1s 9d

4d 9d

1s 1s 9d

Tarr Steps, Exmoor Aberfeldy Bridge

Menai Bridge M4 Viaduct

‘TUC’ and Trades Unionists Mrs Emmeline Parkhurst (statue)

Sopwith Camel and English

Electric Lightning Fighters

Captain Cook’s Endeavour and

Signature


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12th August 1968. British Paintings.

9d 4d 1s 6d

1s 9d

‘Queen Elizabeth I’

Unknown Artist

‘Pinkie’

Lawrence

‘Ruins of St Mary Le Port’

John Piper

‘The Hay Wain’

John Constable

25th November 1968. Christmas.

4d

9d 1s 6d

Girl With Doll’s House

Girl and Boy With Rocking Horse

Boy With Train Set


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15th January 1969. British Ships.

5d

9d 9d 9d

1s 1s

Queen Elizabeth 2

Elizabethan Galleon East Indiaman Cutty Sark

Mauretania I Great Britain

3rd March 1969. First Flight of Concorde.

9d 4d 1s 6d

Concorde in Flight Plan and Elevation Views Concorde’s Nose and Tail

5th March 1969.

5s 2s 6d 10s £1


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2nd April 1969. Anniversaries.

9d 5d 1s

1s 9d 1s 6d

Page from the Dail Mail and

Vickers FB-27 Vimy Aircraft Europa and C.E.P.T. Emblems I.L.O. Emblem

Vickers FB-27 Aircraft and Globe

showing Flight

Flags of N.A.T.O. Countries

28th May 1969. British Architecture (Cathedrals).

5d 5d 5d

9d 5d 1s 6d

Durham Cathedral York Minster St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh

Canterbury Cathedral St Paul’s Cathedral Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral


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1st July 1969. Investiture of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.

5d 5d

1s 9d

5d

The King’s Gate

Caernarvon Castle

The Eagle Tower

Caernarvon Castle

Queen Elanor’s Gate

Caernarvon Castle

Celtic Cross

Margam Abbey

Prince Charles

13th August 1969. Gandhi Centenary Year.

1s 6d

Mahatma Gandhi


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1st October 1969. Post Office Technology Commemoration.


11th February 1970. British Rural Architecture.

5d 9d

1s 1s 6d

4d 5d 1s 6d

5d 9d

1s 1s 6d

National Giro

Telecommunications - Pulse Code

Modulation

Telecommunications - International

Subscriber Dialling

Postal Mechanisation - Automatic

Sorting

Herald Angel The Three Shepherds The Three Kings

Fife Harling Cotswold Limestone

Welsh Stucco Ulster Thatch


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1st April 1970. Anniversaries.

1s 5d 9d

1s 6d 1s 9d

Signing the Declaration of Arbroath Florence Nightingale Attending

Patients Signing of International

Sir William Herschel, Francis Baily,

Sir John Herschel and Telescope

Pilgrims and Mayflower

3rd June 1970. Literary Anniversaries.

5d

5d 1s 6d

5d 5d

‘Mr Pickwick and Sam’

Pickwick Papers

‘Mr and Mrs Micawber’

David Copperfield

‘David Copperfield and

Betsy Trotwood’

David Copperfield

‘Oliver asking for more’

Oliver Twist

‘Grasmere’

(from engraving by J.

Farrington, R.A.)


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15th July 1970. Ninth British Commonwealth Games, Edinburgh.

1st September 1970. ‘Philympia 70’ Stamp Exhibition.

9d 5d 1s 6d


5d 4d 1s 6d

1s 9d 5d 1s 6d

Runners Swimmers Cyclists

1d Black (1840) 1s Green (1847) 4d Carmine (1845)

Shepherds and Apparition of

the Angel

Mary, Joseph and Christ in

Manger

The Wise Men bearing Gifts

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