amed after the photograph taken by photographer Dorothy Wilding in February 1952 (see page 21); the ‘Wilding’ stamps were designed by Edmund Dulac, Enid Marx, Mary Adshead, Michael Farrar-Bell and George Knipe. Praised at the time for their departure from what had gone before, the definitives were later considered to be cluttered, prompting the introduction of the simple, classic Machin design. But these 1950s stamps have their own charm, not least as the Queen’s
