First Issues - 1861 to 1864

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Grenada

Grenada SG2 Sc1 Grenada SG56 Sc47 Grenada SG476 Sc-C1 Grenada SG111 Sc-MR1   Grenada SGD8 ScJ1
3rd June 1861
SG2 Sc1
Commemorative
1898 SG56 Sc47
Discovery of the island by Columbus, 1498
Airmail
1972 SG476 Sc-C1
Charity
1916 SG111 Sc-MR1
War Tax
Official
1982 SG-O1 Sc-O1
Post Due
1892 SG-D8 Sc-J1

Grenada 1968 SG296 Sc-B1A Grenada 1974 SG594 Sc528
Charity
1968 SG296 Sc-B1A
o/p SG244 Sc227
First issue after independence
1974 SG594 Sc528
o/p SG317a Sc294

Another West Indian colony, Grenada used the Chalon portrait. There is a more expensive blue green variant (Sg1, Sc1a). Scott makes the usual distinction between Charity and War Tax stamps.
Grenada gained independence in 1974.










Greece

Greece’s #1 was issued on 1st October 1861. The same design was used until 1885 and the differences over those twenty-five years are too nuanced to concern me and so an 1882 SG62 Sc43c is shown.

Greece SG62 Sc43c Greece SG110 Sc117 Greece SG406 ScC1 Greece 1914 SG269 Sc-RA1 Greece 1944 SG269 Sc-B1 Greece SG-D73 ScJ1
[1st October 1861]
1882 SG62 Sc43c
Commemorative
1896 SG110 Sc117
First International Olympic Games
Airmail
1926 SG406 Sc-C1
Savoia Marchetti flying boat
Charity
1914 SG269 Sc-RA1
Red Cross
Charity
1944 SG269 Sc-B1
victims of the Piraeus bombing
Post Due
1875 Sc-J1 SG-D73

Greece’s four pastel-shaded 1926 airmails comprise one of the prettiest sets issued in all philately.


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page written July 2013