\\ British Empire Stamps //

A selected Gallery of british and colonial definitives

  STRAITS SETTLEMENTS  

  1903 Edward VII  $ 100 purple and green/yellow  SG 122 - £ 7500
 

      1906 Edward VII  $ 25 grey-green and black  SG 139 - £ 1100

   1911  Edward VII  $ 25 purple and blue/blue  SG 168 - £1000

   1910  Edward VII  $ 500 purple and orange  SG 169SP - £ 950 
 

1910  Edward VII  $ 500 purple and orange  SG 169 - £ 65000

   1923  George V  $ 25  purple and blue/blue  SG 240b - £ 475
 

 
    1912  George V  $ 100  black and carmine/blue  SG 214 - £ 4000
 
 

   1923  George V  $ 500  purple and orange-brown  SG 240dSP - £ 600
 
 

1923  George V  $ 500  purple and orange-brown  SG 240d - £ 23000

1938 -  George VI $ 25 - a rare revenue stamp using the common Nyasaland Large Keyplate

1938 -  George VI $ 100 - an even rarer revenue stamp using the common Nyasaland Large Keyplate

1938 George VI $ 500 - one of the rarest key-plates of all the British Empire.

One example was sold for £ 2,500 by Stanley Gibbons in 1996. Another one, with the $25 and $100 values, was sold by Harmers of London for over £ 5,000 in 1998