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    A 1955 £1 Windsor Castle

    Aug 14, 2020 3 minutes

    he Castle High Value stamps issued during September 1955 completed the first definitives series of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. Four denominations (2s 6d, 5s 0d, 10s 0d and £1) gave GB its first pictorial set, with each stamp depicting, alongside the monarch’s image, a castle from one of the home nations that make up the United Kingdom. Earlier GB high values had already displayed pictorial designs – the 2s 6d HMS , and the 5s 0d White Cliffs of Dover in George VI’s reign for

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