Gilbert and Ellice Islands
King George VI Pictorial Definitives
King George VI Pictorial Definitives
The twelve stamps in Gilbert and Ellice Islands King George VI pictorial definitive set were issued on January 14, 1939. The designs feature a great frigate bird on the 1/2d, a pandanus tree on the 1d, a canoe crossing the reef on the 1 1/2d, a canoe and boat house on the 2d, an islander's house on a 2 1/2d, a seascape on the 3d, an Ellice Islands canoe on the 5d, coconut trees on the 6d, the phosphate loading jetty on Ocean Island on the 1/-, the cutter Nimanoa on the 2/-, a Gilbert Islands canoe on the 2/-6d and the coat of arms of the colony on the 5/-.
Bibliography
Kloetzel, James E. ed.
"Gilbert and Ellice Islands."