My Answer To "Why King George V?"

Glad you've made it here! Pop over to the intro thread and say g'day.

I'm sure you already know my opinion on this one Don't give the game away though

Great scanned image well done!

Any Botanists aboard who would suggest the flower in the frame?

I vote for Zantedeschia (Calla Lily). No confirmation of that, though.

Thanks Collin, I think you have it.
I was trying to interpret the designer,
and you would naturally think it would be the "Ascension Lily"
which it is not.
Whether the designer got it wrong, or something else
I guess that will be lost in the mists of time.

The flora of Ascension itself does not support
any such developed species, being mostly barren rock.

The frame (and vignette, for that matter) is shared with St. Helena, so you might have luck researching the collision between calla lilies and St. Helena?

Bingo! (thanks for the leg-up )

Horticulture on Postage Stamps : 1958
Harvard University

http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.e...les/1531.pdf



Cultivated Monocotyledons :

The majority of the stamps about which I wish to write are those of horticultural origin. In the Monocotyledonae, the calla lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica, always appears with the coat of arms of Ascension ( 10 to 21 ) and St. Helena (799 to 99). The climbing spider lily, Gloriosa simplex (Belgian Congo 280*, South
West Africa 247) and Aloe mitr~'ormis (South Africa 162*, 163*, 197*) are also natives of Africa. Hemerocallis middendo~i, one of our cultivated day lilies, grows wild on the mountains of Eastern Asia (Japan 572).

A small bump for a definitive from St. Vincent:

What a great thread. I thought the bit about the possible fake was really interesting and some beautiful scans. I concur about the perspective on the Tuvalu stamp, fantastic. Inspired to try and find something for myself!

Bermuda KGV...

Alexarne's comment sent me back to have a look at the Bahrain overprints. I'll gladly admit I'm well out of my depth with Bahrain. However, I know that the Indian Security Printing Press was applying most of the overprints to the Indian Convention States by the late years of George V by offset-litho. This shouldn't have produced the embossed effect. Whether some of the Bahrain overprints were typeset and some offset-litho, I have no idea though.

I am waiting for Cjd to post a scan one day
of a stamp with <at least> one perf missing!
All his stamps are just about perfect.
Beautiful scans as you say.

My latest joy. KGV GB Jubilee 3/- booklet, absolutely pristine, picked up for a song. It arrived today

I watched the new film " The Kings Speech " with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Anyone collecting stamps from the Three Kings will find this movie interesting. It even mentions KGV's collecting habits.

jubilee, that booklet is nice to have (or at least I assume it would be...I do not have one, myself).

rod, I was a little embarrassed about the top left corner of that St. Vincent 6d, but I decided to post it, anyway.

I've been slowly working to upgrade my copies of the KGV definitives. The Internet is great, because it is now much easier to find that one 2d needed to replace that one dog in a set, in lieu of repurchasing an entire set just to get a good 2d.

Remember my dad tellin me to save any KGV pennies or change I found and still have a bag full even though they are not really worth anything but good memories. Had a couple GB stamps mixed in with some Canadian I was sent and thanks to KGV seen my first very obvious watermark. Also just scanned this coronation medallion to list on kijiji but think its relevant to the post.