COLONIAL STAMPS

Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 9

COLONIAL STAMPS

HEW ISSUE ABOUT CORONATION TIME BASED ON COMMON DESIGN (British Official Wireless. 1 ) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright 'rugby, September 10. Arrangements are being made for new issues at or about the date pt the Coronation next year of colonial stamps bearing the King’s effigy. The new issues will be confined at first to a few denominations, for each territory, and will be based on a common design. The stamps will form part of new permanent issues, and will not be special Coronation issues. No such special Coronation issues for the colonies are at present in contemplation. The stamps will be of standard size, and the design comprises a three-quar-ter profile vignette of the King’s head, in a circle placed towards the top lefthand corner of the stamp, with an Imperial crown in the top right-hand corner. The name of the territory is shown beneath the vignette, and a duty tablet is shown at the bottom right-hand corner, and the denomination appears in words at the base of the stamp. The above arrangements will apply to Aden, tbe Bahamas, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Ceylon, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the Gold Coast, Hongkong, Jamaica and dependencies, Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika territory, Leeward Islands, Malta, Mauritius, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, St. Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone. Somaliland Protectorate, the Straits Settlement, Trinidad, and the Windward Islands. The stamps will be printed by tbe recess process, except in tbe case of tbe Gold Coast, which, will continue to use the photogravure process, and except possibly in tbe case of Aden.