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King Edward VII -- Just For A Change Of Pace

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Posted 11/13/2011   9:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Cjd to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Supposing that it can't be all George V, all the time (and maybe it can...), how about some examples of his father, Edward VII?

True, Edward was not a great patron of stamp collecting, but he did buy his brother's collection and then give it to his son (George V), where it became a part of one of the great collections of all time, so...without further ado, how about some Edward?

I'll start off with a few definitives, from:

Sierra Leone:



Gambia:



Malta:



Cyprus:



and Fiji:



I included a used Fiji example, because I need to ask again about this cancel. I misplaced the last answer I received.

For anyone who is not fully conversant with the British kings, Edward is the bald one. It is amazing how often Edward and George show up in auction lots of the other's stamps, so you are not alone if you can't immediately tell them apart.

There are lots more out there, so post away.
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Posted 11/13/2011   10:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The cancellation looks like the Suva "Sunburst" - used between 1882-1915, in violet, red, blue or black. Later it was used to cancel Postage Due stamps.

Edited: corrected date
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Posted 11/13/2011   10:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm wondering if there is a way to distinguish the Suva and Levuka sunbursts without the cds? Any ideas?
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Posted 11/13/2011   11:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A few more...

Newfoundland (though here it is 1897 and he is still the Prince of Wales):



Bechuanaland Protectorate:



China Expeditionary Force:



(Anyone suspect this overprint?)
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Posted 11/13/2011   11:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


Levuka 1874-1902

Thirteen solid rays



Suva 1882-1915

Sixteen broken rays radiating from small centre



Cancelled-to-order

Sixteen OR eighteen broken rays radiating from large oval centre
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Posted 11/13/2011   11:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A thousand thanks!

In fact, if a picture is worth a thousand words, that would be three thousand thanks.

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Posted 11/13/2011   11:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
CEF looks fine to me, comparing with my examples.
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Posted 11/13/2011   11:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for looking. It measures the same as my other examples, but this is the only one I have that runs uphill.
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Posted 11/13/2011   11:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Burlington Bertie from Gwalior



(SG 61A) and



(SG 62B)
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Posted 11/14/2011   12:04 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Why, tonymacg, those aren't even remotely Ugly.

Nice scans. I shouldn't say this out loud (so to speak), but, I've looked at those stamps for how many years, and can't recall ever noticing the "India Post" repeating in the frame.
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Posted 11/14/2011   12:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The lettering is pretty tiny ...

And here is the old rascal, surrounded by his Old Mum and son in Patiala:



and pretty well obliterated from Nabha



And as Neddy Seagoon once remarked, 'I have my dark secrets!'
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Posted 11/14/2011   01:34 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


Here he is at his son's Coronation Durbar
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Posted 11/14/2011   02:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What a clever chappy he was!
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Posted 11/14/2011   05:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add skilo54 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Eddy! This time way down south, man he gets around!



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