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    King Edward VII

    Apr 09, 2021 5 minutes

    The King came to the throne on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, on 22 January, 1901, and he died on 6 May 1910. This gives a period of nearly a decade on which to base a collection, and even though there are relatively few values (and no commemoratives) there is plenty of scope for the collector. The aim of this article is to give an idea of the various possibilities.

    There were nineteen basic King Edward VII stamps, including both colours of the ½d and 4d values. The ½d was first issued on 1 January, 1902 in blue-green, but the public complained that the colours of the ½d, 2½d and 6d stamps, which shared the same design, were too similar. One correspondent wrote: ‘I have just now affixed a 2½d stamp to

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