After some considerable time searching this week I finally added both SG2 and SG9 to the collection. I had been looking for a mint copy of the early Britannia SG2 for a while and it was proving hard to source, whereas SG9, I thought I already had in the collection but realised recently that there was a gap where a stamp was supposed to be. Now remedied these two are worthy entrants in the collection, both being decent four margin examples of these stamps.
[…] the plate for this was also shared between Trinidad and Mauritius so each country has its own Britannia’s with varying colours and […]
[…] one is centred slightly to the right but is well away from the margins and although Britannia has part of a bootheel obscuring her face the stamp looks rather nice, considering that it is now […]