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    Pre-decimal delights

    Jun 11, 2021 5 minutes

    My home town boasted a full-time stamp shop in the 1950s. Its owner-dealer competed with two market-day stall holders who sold stamps alongside their military badges and Dinky Toys stocks on Wednesdays. Schoolboys from all over town flocked to their stalls during school lunch breaks, and some hung around up to the 7pm market closure on Wednesday evenings. A wider range of philatelic material on offer at the shop drew adult collectors from even further afield, and I occasionally managed to persuade an older collector cousin to let me join him on a shop visit whenever a birthday, or a generous aunt, enhanced my pocket-money spending power.

    One of those special days came around a few weeks after the death of King George VI in February 1952. Despite

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