Postal Orders

George 6th Postal Orders

George 6th Postal Order First type, first issued 1938.  Stamp box to right reads 'not exceeding two in number or 5d'

George 6th 10s red Postal Order, first issued 1938.  Postal Orders were Legal Tender between 3rd September 1939 & 20th December 1939

George 6th Postal Order Second type, first issued 1939.  Stamp box to right reads 'not exceeding two in number may be'

George 6th Postal Order Second type, red twenty shillings

George 6th Postal Order Second type, red forty shillings

George 6th Postal Order light blue colour Third type, first issued in 1956. Most on EIIR watermarked paper.  Some difficulty was experienced with the design of the new QEII postal orders.  This period of postal orders saw the peak of use at over 750 million per year.

George 6th Machine Postal Order Fourth type, first issued in 1951. No stamp box

Machine Postal Orders first issued at Romford in 1951 and 1952 also at:  Birmingham  -  Edinburgh  -  London at three offices  -  Newport