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King Edward VIII
 1936
 Officially Printed Unissued Stamps
 FINALISED
HISTORY
Edward VIII was the King of the United Kingdom from January 1936 until his abdication in December 1936.
Five definitive stamps were prepared, comprising 1d., 1½d., 2d., 3d., 1s4d. values; the design based on a recent photograph of the King in his Navel Uniform.
Following the Kings abdication, it was decided to destroyed all stamps, proofs, and dies. 
However the original hand-painted essay, a sheet of stamp-size photographic essays, and a signed block of six stamps (given to the Governor of Victoria) excaped distruction.

1936  STAMP ISSUES
Unissued and only remaining Stamps
King Edward VIII
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Stamp List
stamp
2d.  Scarlet  King Edward VIII
stamp
The Surviving block of 6
Gummed Stamps
1x Sheet of 80.
2d.  Scarlet  King Edward VIII