What Are the Admirals?



Canada issued stamps (1912 and 1925) in a series that depicted Great Britain's King George V in the full dress uniform of an admiral in the Royal Navy. The series is handsomely designed, beautifully engraved, colorful with each stamp denomination being a different color, and very popular with stamp collectors. A number of varieties of the stamps exist, with different dies and plates being used to print the stamps.



The Canadian Admirals are one of the most fascinating and heavily-studied stamp issues that Canada has produced.



New Zealand (1926) and Southern Rhodesia (1924-1930) issued similar stamps.