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| Queen Elizabeth II Wilding Portrait Canada 2¢ Green 1954 |
1954 Queen Elizabeth II Wilding Portrait 2¢ Green Canada
Text: 2¢ Canada Post
Condition: Ø = used/cancelled
Title: Queen
Elizabeth II
Face value: 2
Stamp Currency: cent
Country/area: Canada
Year: 1954-06-10
Set: 1954 Queen Elizabeth II
Stamp number in set: 1
Basic colour: Green
Exact colour:
Usage:
Definitive
Type: Stamp
Theme: Queen,
Heads of State
Stamp subject: Queen Elizabeth II
NVPH number:
Michel number: 291
Yvert number: 268
Scott number: 338
Stanley Gibbons number: 464
Printing office: Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd
Perforation: 12
Size:
Watermark:
Paper:
Printing: Steel gravure
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Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Wilding (10 January 1893 - 9
February 1976) was a noted English society photographer from Gloucester. She
wanted to become an actress or artist but this career was disallowed by her
uncle, in whose family she lived, so she chose the art of photography which she
started to learn from the age of sixteen.
By 1929 she had already moved studio a
few times and in her Bond Street, London, studio she attracted theatrical stars
and shot her first British Royal Family portrait of the 17-year-old Prince
George (later Duke of Kent). This sitting was eventually followed by the famous
Wilding portrait of the new Queen Elizabeth II that was used for a series of
definitive postage stamps of Great Britain used between 1953 and 1967, and a
series of Canadian stamps in use from 1954 to 1962. A previous portrait sitting
of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Queen Consort of King George VI had turned into a
double portrait of the royal couple and was adapted for the 1937 Coronation
issue stamp. That portrait led to her being the first woman awarded a Royal
Warrant to be the official photographer to a King and Queen at their
coronation. She opened a second photo studio in New York in 1937
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