Elizbeth Head On The Stamp

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Any body knows the history of these stamps

Mixed collection of stamps from UK, Australia, Kuwait & Bahrain (British mandate)

If you mean info. about date of issues & other stuff then I would suggest Scott or SG catalogs.

Perhaps one of the members will shed some lights ...

Cheers

they are rare or common

common


Cheers

The Great Britain (GB) stamps are common. The way to usually tell it is a GB stamp is that this is the only country to usually not have their name on their stamps. Just a King's head or a Queen's head and no country name.

My fault for not explaining in more detail in another thread. Queen Elizabeth II is the reigning monarch now of Great Britain and all their other bits and pieces of countries but it was King George VI and others before her.

The stamps shown are common (10c - 20c) but, again, with these check the watermarks.

The top left corner brown QEII has perforated initials (also known as a perfin) which is a security measure used by private companies, who put their own initials or insignia (see Germany) into the stamps, and governments to prevent theft. Some collect these but some consider them lowering the value. They are becoming more popular lately I think.

Details, details. I will make a stamp collector out of you yet. lol