My regular reader (hi!) may recall a couple of articles here a few months ago on usages of the GB King George VI stamps. Well, this month and next will be a sort of follow-up to that, taking a look at the next definitive set chronologically – the ‘Wildings’ of Queen Elizabeth II. As with the earlier articles, to keep it compact I’ll be concentrating on ‘solo usages’ with one stamp paying the whole rate, although this time with an occasional foray into multiple usages.
There were no outright colour changes during the period of use of the Wildings, but they do, of course, have a number of other features that weren’t a factor with the George VI stamps. They come with three different watermarks, and there were issues with various types of graphite lines and phosphor bars, for use in
