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My Answer To "Why King George V?"

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Posted 02/05/2011   10:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add skilo54 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
OOOOps, sorry for the mix-up Jubilee, Brain Fart on my part! I meant to type Londonbus1 earlier, not Jubilee.
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Posted 02/05/2011   10:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jubilee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
No problem, glad it wasn't me going stupid. See you on the grumpies
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Posted 02/06/2011   12:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add skilo54 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Speaking of the Birthday Crew .....



Another valid reason for why KGV... the source of inspiration!


Have a Good One,

Skilo54

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Posted 02/06/2011   2:42 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A two-shilling from Antigua:




And just in case anyone has come with us this far, and still has an issue distinguishing KGV from his father, KEVII (Edward VII), this is Edward. (Both have facial hair, but Edward is balding.)

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Posted 02/06/2011   2:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I'm going to start a thread about die 1 vs. die 2, using Mauritius 156 and 156a. Here are the stamps, minus the explanations. 156 first:



and 156a:


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Posted 04/01/2011   12:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply




They don't make 'em like this any longer.
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Posted 04/01/2011   12:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank goodness

I'm sorry, cjd: the Devil made me do it ...
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Posted 04/01/2011   08:20 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Plateflaw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


Turks and Caicos

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Posted 04/01/2011   09:14 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jamesw to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's good to be the king! You get to drive all the cool cars.
KGV on the Seal of the Colony



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Posted 04/01/2011   09:26 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
One of the King Emperor's Indian subjects



Raja Rama Varma II of Cochin (SG O19b)
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Posted 04/01/2011   09:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wrong thread, Tony. That one belongs in my 'My answer to, "Why Not Cochin?"' thread.




(In the interest of full disclosure, I actually have some amount of Cochin, but I don't tell anyone.)
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Posted 04/01/2011   09:45 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Never mind, cjd, your guilty secret is safe with me. Just pray Rod222 never hears about it, though.
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Posted 04/01/2011   8:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Even the simple definitives had a certain panache to them...



St. Kitts & Nevis had slightly more complex definitives...


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Posted 04/26/2011   01:32 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Duarte to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here's my small contribution to the King George V thread..


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Posted 04/26/2011   01:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Duarte to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
One more...

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