1972 Royal Silver Wedding

Commemorating the Royal Silver Wedding

Official First Day Cover Royal Silver Wedding

Date: 20th November 1972
Stamps: 4c and 15c 25th Wedding Anniversary with Admiralty Oar and The Mace

Official First Day Cover

Cachet: OFFICIAL FIRST DAY COVER / Royal Silver Wedding

CDS: 20NOV72A DEVONSHIRE SOUTH BERMUDA
Address: Bermuda Coin Company Ltd

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CDS: 20NOV72B MANGROVE BAY BERMUDA
Address: Miss Millicent Hassell, National Store, Somerset, Bermuda

Other Variants

Type: Stuart First Day Cover
CDS: 20NOV72A HAMILTON BERMUDA
Cachet: Printed – Silver Wedding of H. M. THE QUEEN & H. R. H. PRINCE PHILIP First Day of Issue / Handstamped – FIRST DAY OF ISSUE ROYAL SILVER WEDDING 20TH NOVEMBER 1972

About the Omnibus issue

Key facts

Design from Photograph by: D. Groves
Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd
Process: Photogravure
Perforation: 14 x 14½
Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA

Co-ordinators: Crown Agents
Issuing territories: 29 standard / 5 local design
Number of stamps: Unkown (62 standard / 16 local design)

1972 Silver Wedding Anniversary.

Standard issue – list of issuing territories

Anguilla
Antigua
Ascension
Bahamas
Bermuda
British Antartic Territory
British Honduras
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Solomon Islands
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cayman Islands
Dominica
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Gibraltar
Gilbert & Ellice Islands
Grenada
Hong Kong
Monserrat
New Hebrides Condominium / Condominium de Nouvelles Hebrides
Pitcairn Islands
St. Christopher Nevis Anguilla
St. Helena
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Seychelles
South Georgia
Tristan da Cunha
Turks & Caicos Islands

Local design – list of issuing territories

Aituktaki (2)
Cook Islands (4)
Great Britain (2)
Guernsey (4)
Jersey (4)