Description: This stamp features the iconic photographic portrait of a young Queen Elizabeth II facing slightly left, captured by Dorothy Wilding and framed inside an elaborate circular wreath of symbolic flowers. The botanical framing integrates the national emblems of the United Kingdom, explicitly displaying the English rose, Scottish thistle, Irish shamrock, and Welsh daffodil to represent royal unity under the crown. The bottom center holds the inscription POSTAGE REVENUE, which is balanced on both outer sides by the pre-decimal fraction denomination of 1½d positioned in the lower corners. The entire composition is printed in a striking orange-red ink, and this used copy features a series of heavy black wavy-line machine postal cancellations striking horizontally across the face of the Queen.
Circa: 1950s
Condition: Used
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