Product Description
20 May 2003 - Wilding Definitive 50th Anniversary MS 2367
The first stamps of the new Queen's reign were issued in time for the Christmas post in 1952. Known generally as the 'Wilding' issue after the photographer, Dorothy Wilding, whose studio produced the portrait of the young Queen, 9 of these stamps were reissued with new values last year in a miniature sheet to commemorate this 50th anniversary.
The remaining values of the original set (plus the later 4½d) were reissued in this second sheet.
(We have no stock of the first sheet.)
This Commemorative Sheet utilises the designs and colours of the 7 stamps issued in 1953/54 plus the 4½d which was not issued until February 1959, and only exists with the multiple crown watermark:
4p deep lilac (3d), 8p blue (4d), and 'E' rate chestnut (4½d) by M C Farrar-Bell.
10p reddish-purple (6d), and 20p green (7d) by G. Knipe
28p bronze-green (9d), 42p Prussian blue (10d) and 34p plum (11d) by Mary Adshead
68p grey-blue (1s6d) by Edmund Dulac.
