engraver: Silas Robert Allen
based on a photograph by Dorothy Wilding
This issue of six stamps featuring Queen Elizabeth based on a photograph by Dorothy Wilding replaced the five (1¢ to 5¢) issues from 1953 based on a photograph by Yousuf Karsh. (those stamps replaced the King George issues which were also based on a Wilding photograph). Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) was considered one of Britain's most successful portrait photographers.
for Kings and Queens
I hadn't realized that Canada had Wilding definitives of HM as well.
ReplyDeleteI've always liked the Wilding designs.
ReplyDeleteNo I didn't know about the Wilding portrait either, its an attractive one. Canada has produced some nice stamps of the queen over the years.
ReplyDeleteThis is so nice!
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