Crown Agents Philatelic and Security Printing Archive

[2] The archive consists of a range of philatelic and written material which were the Crown Agents' working records.

It is the most comprehensive record of British Colonial and Commonwealth stamp issues of the last 100 years.

The Archive contains a number of the World's most notable postage stamp varieties, including for example, the Fiji 1878-99, 2d error of colour, being blue instead of green, and the Gold Coast 1889-94, Queen Victoria 20s.

[3] Also never issued, and included in the collection, are essays for four values (30c, 50c, 1s.30, 2s.50) of the 1960-62 Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika definitive series overprinted to mark the 60th session of the International Olympic Committee in Nairobi, 1963.

[4] There are revenue stamps from many territories, which because they were often only printed in small quantities, and few survive, are classed amongst the World's great philatelic rarities.