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Can anybody show a reference that these existed more than 15 years ago . It is hard for me to believe they existed 40 years ago ......please any old reference to them ,even if two existed ,who made them ?
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1940 King George VI 1937 definitives, set of 13, also 1940 Centenary set of five, plus the so-called "Bigwood Essay", the complete set of 19, with the swastika stamped over the head of the King, n.h., mostly v.f. (1/2p with a tiny corner perf. irregularity), fine-v.f., with 1998 Michael Wieneke certificate (in July 1940, the German commandant for Jersey, ordered Messrs. Bigwoods, the official State printers to prepare a metal casting inscribed "Jersey 1940" and depicting a swastika. This device was used to overprint 60 copies each of the regular definitives 1/2p-1sh, 40 each of the Centenary stamps, except for the 1p value, which was unavailable. Bigwood overprinted a new 1p imperf. stamp ("the Bigwood essay") to fill in. The Bailiff of Jersey objected and the decision was eventually made not to issue the amended set, as it was feared that this would offend Jersey's inhabitants and make it more difficult for the German forces to prevail over them. Most of the prepared stamps were destroyed and only four (!) sets survived. One was purchased in auction for the Jersey Postal Museum in 1974, another is in the archives of the "Jersey Evening Post", leaving only two in private hands)
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Posted 11/04/2024 07:58 am
