Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island’s own stamps started to appear in 1947. Earlier, the island had used those of Tasmania, (1854/5), and New South Wales, (1877), but, from 1913, Australian stamps were in use.

This example is taken from a Westminster cover.

Aden

Indian stamps were provided from 1857, right up to the time of the 1935 Jubilee. Aden’s own stamps commenced in 1937 and those for Aden States in 1942.

Here are three of the 9 pies, along with a definitive 3 pies, on the reverse of a cover to Huddersfield.

Muscat

Many Gulf States were under the Indian Postal Administration in 1935 but it isn’t clear in how many of them the Silver Jubilee issue was available.

In the case of Muscat, the Indian Post Office opened in 1864. Indian stamps were used until 1944 when overprinted stamps were introduced. For a few months, Pakistan stamps were used before those of the British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia, (1948-66).

Of course, the Indian Postal Administration extended well beyond the confines of India but many of its post offices abroad closed during the 1920’s. Within the sub-continent, other administrations took over at the time of partition, such as....

Pakistan

Here is a cover to the High Commissioner in London bearing a Larkana slogan cancel for what appears to be 5 May 35, (the day before issue), and a Larkana postage due handstamp.

Burma

A cover to Koonakudi from the village of Ainthabyu, Henzada, (also with a postage due handstamp on the front).

Pitcairn Island

When Pitcairn’s free postage concession was withdrawn in 1926, the New Zealand government opened a postal agency on the island, using New Zealand stamps. This postal agency operated until 1940, when Pitcairn Island started issuing its own stamps.

Among the few examples available are several with G.B. adhesives - this somewhat stained cover would appear to be over-franked.

Jersey

In common with other Crown Dependencies, Jersey has issued its own administration stamps for many years but, at the time of the Jubilee, Great Britain stamps were in use. Here, a 1d tied by St Aubin cds along with a French Oceania 15c, tied Papeete, Tahiti cds on a Mont-Saint-Michel postcard.

Guernsey

Another 1d value on a Sark view postcard, tied by Sark, Guernsey cds for 8 My 35.

Tristan da Cunha

Tristan’s own stamps started in 1952. Before this, stamps of Great Britain were in use although, at the time of the jubilee, those of South Africa have been noted. Here, a GB type II is tied by two handstamps - undated but with a manuscript date of 16.2.36.

Barbuda

Apart from 1922, when Leeward Islands stamps overprinted “Barbuda” were in use, Barbuda, a dependency of Antigua, used Antiguan stamps until 1968, when Barbuda’s own stamps started. However, the Leeward Islands’ general issues were used from 1890 and continued in concurrent use when Antiguan stamps reappeared in 1903 – a practice that persisted until 1956.

Saint Kitts

St. Kitts own stamps appeared in 1980. Previously, the groupings of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla with St. Kitts were numerous. St. Kitts-Nevis stamps were issued between1903 and 1951 but, around the time of the Jubilee, the inscription read: “St. Christopher and Nevis”. As with Barbuda, it was within the area and period to benefit from concurrent use of Leeward Island issues.

Cameroons

Cameroon was a stamp-issuing territory earlier, as a German colony but, with the end of the Great War, parts were allocated as a British mandated territory. Compressed in this example of a cds is: Victoria - Cameroons / Under British Mandate.

South Georgia

Following the use of overprinted stamps of the Falkland Islands in 1944, South Georgia used the Falkland Islands Dependencies issues from 1946 until the start of its own issues in 1963. Earlier, from 1909 till 1944, South Georgia used the standard Falkland Island stamps. At the time of the Jubilee, sales of the 2½d. value exceeded twice that of the other values put together – it being the rate to foreign countries, (significantly Norway) – reflecting the predominance of whaling company operations on the island.

Christmas Island - (Indian Ocean)

Having previously used the stamps of Western Australia, 1900 saw the administration handed over to the Straits Settlements Authority and the opening of the island’s first post office. A Christmas Island Jubilee cover recently fetched $760.The Post Office’s activities were suspended during the Japanese occupation (1942-1945). In 1946, administration passed to Singapore and, in 1958, Christmas started issuing its own stamps.

Labuan

Stamps of Straits Settlements were used from 1867 until 1879 when its own issues commenced. With the administration reverting to the Colonial Office in 1906, Labuan was incorporated with Straits Settlements and, in 1946, became part of North Borneo.

Penang

Along with Malacca and Singapore, it formed the original Straits Settlements, whose stamps Penang was using at the time of the Silver Jubilee. Following the Malayan Postal Union and the British Military Administration issues, Penang’s own stamps appeared in 1948.

This list is by no means exhaustive. There are, for instance, the South African Homelands such as...

Transkei

The Republic of Transkei was established in 1976. Although not receiving international political recognition, their stamps were accepted as valid for international mail.

AJA - June 2010, augmented July 2010

John Cooper has kindly sent in some further examples.

Oddly, though Maldives stamps were used for local mail and for that to Ceylon and India, for elsewhere Ceylon stamps were employed.

This cover to St Georges bears two Grenada 1d stamps,(1d local rate + 1d local registration), cancelled Petit Martinique C Jy 26 35, with Carriacou 26 Jy 35. The Grenadines started issuing their own stamps in 1973.

Those of Cocos (Keeling) Islands appeared in 1963. Incidentally, these islands are on almost exactly the opposite side of the globe from their namesake, Cocos Island, Costa Rica.