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Pacific Islands Monthly, 20 May 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 10

Silver Wedding Stamps

p. 79 · Read in the full issue

SPECIAL stamps to commemorate the silver wedding anniversary of King George and Queen Elizabeth are to be issued for Fiji, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, and Pitcairn Island.

It is expected that supplies of these stamps will not be available for some months; they will then remain on sale lor tnree montns.

The design wil be the same as that of the Silver Wedding stamps now being issued in the United Kingdom.

Fiji stamps will be in two denominations, 2ld. and 5/-; G & E Colony, in Id. and £1; BSI, 2d. and 10/-; and Pitcairn Island lid. and 10/-.