KGVI Reign - Part 11 - Ceylon

No chance these extended beyond Victoria's era, is there? Dare I ask, KGV?

Didn't think so.

Collin

There's actually a website for these, but the overprints ended in 1908

http://members.shaw.ca/d.braam/Cave.html

Thanks for the link. Today has been a bad day for my want list.

Great info David. The KGVI stamps from the various colonies, etc. are, in my view, very attractive stamps. I believe I told you that I had begun assembling those pictorials from around the world. I have acquired a good start.

I like the stamps from Ceylon, it is one collection I am working on currently.
I don't collect varieties though, but I did just check for the one mentioned above. No luck though.

Here's a few more..


Steve

Quanah: Nice album... who makes it?

All: Thank-you for sharing your Ceylonese stamps. It is a popular collecting country outside the KGVI reign.

David

Interesting story about Ceylonese stamps I should add....

When I got back into stamp collecting, seriously, in the late 1980's, my first "big" purchase was a set of 1989 Scott Catalogues. I had always dreamed of owning them. I think at the time, a local stamp dealer sold them for $35.00 each, nd I had all four volumes. Volume one was the British Empire, and the second to fourth volumes were the rest of the world.

At the time, I started collecting the whole Empire! Yikes! As I mentioned before, the Scott Catalogue was pretty sparse, then. They didn't list much in the way of varieties.

In 1990, I saw an advertisement in Linn's, by Subway Stamp Shop. Stanley Gibbons was offering a hardcopy of their Volume I British Commonwealth Catalogue for $20 U.S. Dollars. The catalogue was the same as the $50 one from Britain, but it was priced in U.S. Dollars rather than Pounds Sterling. I ordered one. It cost me about $40 Canadian with all the shipping, exchange rate, etc. When I opened it up, I saw all the perforation (and other) varieties Scott did not list... I was hooked on the KGVI Reign.

David

Hello Everyone,

Does anybody have a copy of Postal History of Ceylon by Edward Proud. I couldn't find an online shop
that sells this book in United States. The only choice is importing it from GB. The book is quite expensive. If anybody has a
copy please let me know whether its a book worth purchasing. I am originally from Sri lanka and have a Commonwealth collection including ceylon stamps.
Thanks.

Lochana

Hello Everyone,

Does anybody have a copy of Postal History of Ceylon by Edward Proud. I couldn't find an online shop
that sells this book in United States. The only choice is importing it from GB. The book is quite expensive. If anybody has a
copy please let me know whether its a book worth purchasing. I am originally from Sri lanka and have a Commonwealth collection including ceylon stamps.
Thanks.

Lochana

Okay I have to get into the act. Here is my limited Ceylon collection. all MNH

Excellent thread folks.

Here is my contribution(some very nice perforations):



The vignette is the same as was used for the Ceylon KGV 50c issue of 1936. The photograph below (used for the vignette) was taken at Kraal Town, Ceylon, at 9:00 am on March 13 1929. The photograph was taken at the culmination of a kraal of 40 elephants. Some 2,000 native bearers, under several mahouts organised by Nugawella Dissawa, were involved in the roundup of elephants.

Very nice Sir,
any story on why so many perf varieties

De La Rue originally printed the 2c, 3c and 50c, and Bradbury, Wilkinson the rest, but BW took over printing all the values after DLR were bombed in December 1940. This is why you find the perf variations.

Lochana -

I see Prinz has them for sale at L65.

http://prinz.co.uk/postal-history-c...-p-3465.html

Thanks Tony.