Stamp Curiosities: Liberation of German Occupied Channel Islands (1948)

The following note appeared in the “Daily telegraph’ in June, 1953:

“In a packet of foreign stamps, which his mother had bought for him, a small boy found two unused British stamps without any superscription. He asked his mother what they were. She did not know and sent them to the stamp columnist.

Expert information from Cyril Harmer, the well-known stamp auctioneer, soon settled the matter.

They were issued first on May 10, 1948, to celebrate the liberation of the Channel islands from German occupation.

The design on the 2½d. stamp shows a cart collecting ‘vraie’ the Channel Island word for seaweed.”