May–June 2013
29
50 years of stamps Cocos (Keeling) Islands
During WWII and up to 1954 an RAAF Post Office operated on Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CKI), run by RAAF personnel and using Australian stamps. In 1952 the Malaysian postal administration set up a post office using Singapore stamps until Australia assumed administration of CKI in 1955. Australian stamps were used until 1963 when the first CKI stamps were issued on 11 June. The first issue was a pictorial definitive series depicting the copra industry (3d); a constellation aircraft (5d); a map of the islands (8d); palms (1/-); a Jukong (2/-); and a white tern (2/3). The 1963 stamp designs are presented as imperforate in the sheetlet for this stamp issue and microdated. The 50th anniversary stamps are also presented as a se-tenant strip.
Technical Details
1774126
Special edition stamp pack $10.15
Issue date
4 June 2013
FDI withdrawal date
3 July 2013
Denomination
1 x 5c, 60c, $1, $1.20, $2
Stamp design
John White
Product design
John White, Australia Post Design Studio
Printer
RA Printing
Paper (s/a)
Tullis Russell (c90,c100 s/a)
Printing process
Lithography
Stamp size
26mm × 37.5mm
Minisheet size
170mm × 210mm
Perforations
14.6 × 13.86
Sheet layout
Module of 50 (no design)
National postmark
Cocos (Keeling) Islands, WA 6799