King George VI: The Definitives of 1937–1940
Small portrait values, eight pictures of the ways mail was carried, and the elephant high values: three formats in one new reign.
King George VI
George VI’s definitives, the wartime small stamps and the Victory issue, the last stamps of British India.
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King George VI: The High Values, One to Twenty-Five Rupees
Six two-colour rupee values with the new portrait in the elephant design, and the small missing-pearl faults found under several countries’ overprints.
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King George VI: Official Stamps and the SERVICE Design
From black SERVICE overprints on the ordinary definitives to small stamps with SERVICE printed in their own lower panel, and their later life in Pakistan.
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King George VI: Wartime Definitives, 1940–1943
Saving paper removed the large transport pictures, pigment shortages shaped the colours, and a fourteen-anna aircraft stayed large as the exception.
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1946: The Victory Issue
Four values marking the Allied victory, a design of globe and sword, and the private first-day covers that show how the issue was received.
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King George VI: Surcharges and Provisional Issues
The three pies on 1 anna 3 pies of 1946, its known letter faults, and the older official stock that carried on into George VI’s reign.
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1947: Independence, Partition and the Post
Independence and partition divided the post: George VI stamps used in two new countries, Pakistan’s Nasik overprints, and the dates of India’s first national stamps.
