1937 Coronation of King George VI Stamps; Sets from 60 Different British Colonie

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1937 Coronation of King George VI Stamps; Sets from 60 Different British Colonies and Countries.
This spectacular collection of sets has to be one of the most important and beautiful collections of its kind.
The are nicely set off by a dedicated White Ace Album.
King George VI was crowned King of Great Britain in May of 1937, after the death of his father Edward VII.  The British Empire, which  was in its last decade of glory, commemorated the event by having each Colony issue a special three-stamp set depicting George VI and his Queen, Elizabeth.  The stamp depicts Elizabeth on the left, and George VI on the right, separated by crossed scepters.  Each stamp was a different color, but the color code was different for each country, as was the denomination of each stamp, according to the currency in each Colony.  A few colonies used other designs or overprints of British stamps.
Here is a complete list of all the Countries and Colonies involved:
Great Britain
French Morocco
Spanish Morocco
Tangier
Aden
Antigua
Ascension
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Basutoland
Bechuanaland
Bermuda
British Guiana
British Honduras
British Solomon Is.
Canada
Cayman Is.
Ceylon
Cook Is
Cyprus
Dominica
Falkland Is
Fiji
Gambia
Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice
Gold Coast
Grenada
Hong Kong
Jamaica
Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika
Leeward Is
Malta
Mauritius
Montserrat
Nauru
Newfoundland
New Guinea
New Zealand
Nigeria
Niue
Nyasaland
Northern Rhodesia
Papua
St Christopher Nevis
St Helena
St Lucia
St Vincent
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somaliland
Southern Rhodesia
South West Africa
Straits Settlements
Swaziland
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos
Virgin Is
Union of South Africa
What a list!  The sun never set on the British Empire!   Oddly, India "the jewel in the crown" of the British Empire, is not represented here--I don't know why.  Same for Palestine, and no doubt other colonies and protectorates.  How many of those countries are still British?  Assembling this collection of stamps must have been a big logistic chore.
Most of the three-stamp sets have modest value, but two of them have higher value: Hong Kong, and the Newfoundland set, shown in the pictures.
Photo #1 shows the first page of the White Ace Album.
Photo #2 shows the first grouping of stamps with a British stamp, and then three overprints.  The stamp design is not the one used for the majority of sets, but is similar.
Photo #3 shows the three set stamp common to most of the Colonies.
Photo #4 shows an interesting set of stamps from Newfoundland which have little in common with the other stamps, but was issued to commemorate the coronation.  Newfoundland also issued the common three-stamp set.
Photo #5 shows the Newfoundland three-stamp set, a Nauru set showing just the new King, and the New Zealand commemorative which is slightly different from the common stamp, and also shows up as an overprint.
Photo #6 shows a different design for Southern Rhodesia.
Photo #7 and #8 show stamps from South West Africa and The Union of South Africa which again have a different design for the series.
Photo #9 shows the album, which is nicely bound in dark maroon faux leather.  The Kennedy half dollar is to show scale, but is not included in the lot.  The album measures 11 1/2 by 11 inches.
We will ship this album to you in a medium priority box.
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