2¢ King George VI 1951


2¢ King George VI 1951
Added by Alain Martineau
General Description : Portrait engraved by John Hay
Based on a photograph by Dorothy Wilding
The Universal Postal Union regulations stipulated that all member nations issue postage stamps in the same colours that represented the postal rate paid on the three basic classes of mail matter. On 2nd April, 1951, postage rates were changed and colour adjustments decided upon. The Department planned to issue the 2-cent stamps in an olive-green colour and the 4-cent denomination in an orange colour for sufficient time in the future to allow for the exhaustion of these denominations in their original colours of brown and red. At this stage, plans changed to produce the 1-cent stamps to brown and the 3-cent to red to conform with the U.P.U. regulations concerning postage stamp colours. At the 13th Congress of the Universal Postal Union held in 1952 in Brussels, postal administration were no longer restricted in the choice of colours for postage stamps. The death of His Majesty King George VI, on the 6th February, 1952, cancelled the plans that had been made for the 1-cent and 3-cent denominations. Full portrait of His Majesty King George VI.
Face value 2 Cents
Catalog code (Michel) CA 252A
Catalog code (Scott) CA 305
Catalog code Yvert et Tellier CA 237A Stanley Gibbons CA 415a
Series Monarchy, King George VI
Stamp colour olive green
Stamp use Definitive stamp
Print run 674,954,400
Issue date 26/07/1951
Designer Herman Herbert Schwartz
Print technique recess
Printed by Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited
Perforation 12, 9.5 Vertical
Height 24.00 mm
Width 20.00 mm
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