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George VI pictorials issue of Gilbert & Ellice Islands

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Short desc: George VI pictorials

Issuer: Gilbert & Ellice Islands
Date: 1/14/1939


Consists of 12 stamps: (See stamps as list)

1/2d grn&ind d=frigate bird & King George VI
1p vio&grn d=pandanus pine & King George VI
1 1/2p car&blk d=canoe crossing reef & King George VI
2p blk&brn d=canoe in front of boat house & King George VI
2 1/2d olgrn&blk d=island house & King George VI
3d bl&blk d=shoreline with house & palms & King George VI
5d dkbrn&ultra d=Ellice Islands canoe & King George VI
6p vio&olgrn d=coconut palms & King George VI
1sh graybl&blk d=phosphate jetty loading freighter & King George VI
2sh orgred&ultra d=cutter Nimanos & King George VI
2sh6p grn&bl d=Gilbert Islands canoe & King George VI
5sh ultra&red d=arms of Gilbert & Ellice Islands & King George VI

All are wmk=mult crown & script CA

Issues with this name: Antigua (1938), Bermuda (1938), British Guiana (1938), British Honduras (1938), Burma (1938), Cayman Islands (1938), Ceylon (1938), Cook Islands (1938), Cyprus (1938), Fiji (1938), Gibraltar (1938), Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Grenada (1938), Jamaica (1938), Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania (1938), Mauritius (1950), Montserrat (1938), Nigeria (1938), Niue (1938), Nyasaland Protectorate (1945), St. Vincent (1938), Seychelles (1938), Sierra Leone (1938), Solomon Islands, Trinidad & Tobago (1938), Virgin Islands (1952)