2010 saw the centenary of the issue of the first George V stamps, largely the work of Bertram Mackennal, the King’s favourite sculptor. Here Douglas Muir explores some of Mackennal’s major contributions to stamps.
The 1883–84 low values, the ‘Unified’ series, popularly known as ‘The Lilacs and Greens’, provide a compact and interesting collecting group, as John F Roe shows in the first part of this introductory article.
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