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Originally Posted by fireman
Bought some postage stamps the other day from the asian post office on avenue parade ..... instead of the qheens head on them there was a picture of claudia jones ///civil rights activist. on them. I felt like giving them back and saying sorry i want british stamps with our queen on them not some activist.. what the hell is going on in this country. in a few years WE will be the minority in our own country.
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I've read all the post before replying, I was going to say that all British stamps have to have the queens head on them, and as the post above shows they have. Since stamps were issued with portraits on them other than the monarch are have been literally thousands issued, the first being William Shakespeare (if I remember rightly), as some one who has a substantial stamp collection, I had an account with the post office, on the day of issue they would send me a mint set, (not first day covers). I think that stamps such as these are very interesting, and certainly better than just the ordinary picture of Liz