The King George VI stamps from Northern Rhodesia were printed from 1938 until about 1952. All of the stamps used the same design in two sizes. They were printed by Waterlow, so you will not see a lot of catalogued color changes or perforation varieties - except for the 1/2d value.

The pages from my collection were created using information presented by W. J. W. Potter & Lt. Col. R. C. M. Shelton in their "The Printings of King George VI Colonial Stamps" which was published by Stamp Collecting Ltd. in December, 1952. The publication listed tables for each of the countries' issues that were included. The Potter & Shelton details were copied to an Excel spreadsheet. This document is included for download if you want to see it.

The pages are from my collection, and are identified by the Commonwealth, and Gibbons numbers in that order. The Scott numbers are listed below for reference. This has always been a more expensive set, so it was difficult to get enough copies to find everything. The page images were scanned in a larger size and at a higher resolution so you can more easily see the details used in viewing them. Feel free to select the page and let it download to your screen and save it to your hard drive for viewing. If you are using a PC, selecting the page will typically open it in Microsoft Photo Viewer (or whatever you are using as your default). From there you can enlarge the size for more close-up viewing. If you are using a phone - go find a PC or a Mac. The images are 1200 pixels wide and you will go mad trying to view them on your phone.

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This article was written to help you identify your stamps.
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