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25 Jun 2023
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re: 1935 GB Prussian Blue Jubilee Stamps

Does this site help.
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re: 1935 GB Prussian Blue Jubilee Stamps

Coincidence,
my local club, South Shore Stamp Club, Nova Scotia just had a similar presentation last Saturday. Here is an excerpt.
The history of the Prussian Blue
(Ann A.L. Miller, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Thirty-seven designs for the Silver Jubillee stamps were submitted to the British General Post
Office (GPO) during two rounds of design submission in Sept. and Oct. 1935. The GPO chose
Barnett Freedman to refine both his design and one submitted by the Engineer-in-Chief's
(EIC) office; and to work with Harrison and Sons to produce colour essays. Essays were
produced of two designs in 3 different sizes, with both large and small Vandyk portraits and
Mackennal heads. The GPO had been considering printing the 2½d stamp in turquoise, not
the ultramarine of the definitive 2½d stamp, and colour essays of both colours of the 2½d
stamps were submitted to the king. The king preferred the ultramarine. Final essays of the
2½d were delivered to the GPO, and proof sheets printed and sent to the Stores department
for inspection the end of March, but the essays and sheets had been printed in the turqoise.
Harrison was informed of the error and submitted the essays in the correct colour, and
destroyed all the turquoise sheets of stamps. The Stores department had received 5
turquoise sheets of 120. Four of the 5 sheets were accidently put in with good stock, and 3
were sent to a small London sub-office, the Upper Edmonton Post Office, on June 26th. Two
days later an office manager sent an office boy to this PO to purchase 12 2½d stamps and
the boy returned with turquoise stamps. The manager, also a collector, went to this office and
found that 41 (including the 12 his office boy had just bought) had been sold, and he bought
all the remaining stock, 319 stamps. Two of the sheets had been separated along the
perforations by the PO clerk, they had not been properly guilottined at Harrisons'. The
collector used a few and tried to sell the remainder to a dealer, who would not pay more than
6d each, as it was thought there would be many in existance. They were eventually sold to H.
and A. Wallace, dealers in London, for £40 each, who put one pane of 60 on display at a
stamp exhibition in London in 1936. The GPO was not aware of the turquoise stamps until
contacted by Stanley Gibbons in Sept. 1935. The stores department then retained 4 stamps
and destroyed the rest of the 1 remaining sheet they had. The plight of the fourth sheet has
never determined. The remaining mint stamps exist as singles, pairs, strips of 3, and blocks of
4. There are now 54 used copies known.
Sources:
1. All About Stamps: Prussian Blue, 2022. https://www.allaboutstamps.co.uk/stampguides/
classic-british-stamps-the-1935-silver-jubilee-prussian-blue/, posted 05/12/22,
retrieved June 27, 2023.
2. Bates, Simon, 1998. 1935 Silver Jubilee Issue, pp. 3-18. In: Muir, D.N., editor, Special
Stamp History Three, combined issue. The National Postal Museum, London, UK, 36 p.
3. National Postal Museum. Silver Jubilee. https://www.postalmuseum.org/collections/
highlights/philatelic-collection/british-stamps/george-v-stamps/silver-jubilee/, date unknown,
retrieved June 27, 2023.
4. Paul Fraser Collectibles. Great Britain 1935 2½d Prussian blue, SG456a.
https://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/products/great-britain-1935-2-1-2d-prussian-bluesg456a.
date unknown, retrieved June 27, 2023.
5. Wallace, H. and A.,1937. Silver Jubilee commemorative stamps of King George V and
complete illustrated priced catalogue. H. and A. Wallace, London, UK, 72 p.

 
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re: 1935 GB Prussian Blue Jubilee Stamps

Me either ...but one can dream lol

 
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