Booklets & Booklet Panes

AUSTRALIA

Australia was discovered by the French in the first half of the 16th Century but the first Englishman to land there was William Dampier in 1688. In 1788 the British took formal possession and established their first settlement at Port Jackson on which Sydney is built. A self-governing Dominion of the British Commonwealth, Australia includes the former British Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia came into being in 1901. The first stamps inscribed "Australia" were issued in 1913.

1950-52 KGVI & Queen Elizabeth Issue

1951-52 King George VI Issue

1942 Stamp Booklet

1949 Stamp Booklet

1952 Stamp Booklet

BERMUDA

A British Colony, first settled in 1609, the Bermudas consist of a cluster of some 360 islands in the Atlantic about 600 miles off the coast of the United States. Provisional stamps were first issued in 1848 with the famous "Perot" issue by the then Postmaster with later adhesive stamps first appearing in 1865.

1938-52 Wmk Mult Script CA

1948 Stamp Booklet

BRITISH GUIANA

A former British Crown Colony situated on the north-east coast of South America, British Guiana finally came under British control in 1814. It became independent in 1966 and the country was renamed Guyana. First stamps were issued in 1850 prior to that the stamps of Great Britain were used. Famous for its issue of the rarest stamp in the world, the 1856 1c black on magenta (SG 23, Scott 13) of which it is reported only one example exists.

1944 Stamp Booklet

CANADA

Originally a British Colony, which was divided into two provinces - Upper Canada (inhabited mainly by the British and now called Ontario) and Lower Canada (inhabited mainly by the French and now called Quebec). Granted self-government in 1841, and in 1867 Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were united to form a self-governing Dominion after the British North America Act was passed. Stamps first issued in the Colonly in 1851 and as a Dominion in 1868.

1911-12 KGV Issue P12

1928-29 Pictorial Issue P12

1930-31 Pictorial Issue P11

1932-33 KGV Issue P11

1935 Pictorial Issue P12

1937-38 Pictorial Issue P12