Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 October 1936Vol. VII, No. 3

No Picture Stamps Yet

p. 60 · Read in the full issue

Page 6060

For Fiji

From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Sept. 29.

AS a result of a recent announcement by the Government it would appear that Fiji is not going to have the set of pictorial postage stamps for which de signs were called some time ago.

The latest announcement is that about the time ot the Coronation next year there will be issued a set of stamps in a few denominations —not a Coronation special issue, but the basis of a future standard issue. These are to be of a design in common with that which will be used in other Crown Colonies and territories.

There will be a three-quarter profile vignette of the King’s head in a circle towards the top left hand corner, with the Imperial Crown on the opposite side. The name of the Colony will be underneath, and the duty tablet in the bottom right hand corner; while the denomination will be shown in words at the base.

Considerable disappointment is being expressed among local philatelists at the fact that this seems to be the end of the proposed pictorials.

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