Links to sites dealing with 1935 Silver Jubilee

The below sites specialize in their respective countries. Within each site is an excellent section dealing with the 1935 Silver Jubilee.

Silver Jubilee Site

Tony Ainscough has developed a site exclusively dedicated to the 1935 Silver Jubilee issues.

Although the site will concentrate on postal history and rates, a lot of other useful and interesting information will be made available, including a research section. Silver Jubilee postal history items can be purchased through the site. www.silverjubileestamps.com

Australia

Mike Andrews of Norfolk Island has a nice site dealing with the pre-decimal stamps of Australia. There is an excellent section outlining the printing, plating etc. of the Silver Jubilee issue. The Silver Jubilee information is found in the Early Rotary section. http://predecimal.nf

British Solomon Islands

Charles Miller of San Jose, California has written up an excellent description of the British Solomon Islands Silver Jubilee stamps and its variations. Follow the section to George V and then to The Silver Jubilee Issue. http://www.tulagi.com/index.htm

New Zealand Jubilee Flight

Robert Clark maintains a site on New Zealand stamp images with interesting information on various Jubilee flights. http://www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk/air/jubilee/cancel.html

New Zealand Dependencies

Paul den Ouden in British Columbia, Canada collects stamps of the New Zealand Dependencies. Check out his site and the write ups on the Cook Islands (Page 7), Niue (page 6) and Samoa (page 4). http://home.prcn.org/~pauld/

Useful Philatelic Links

AskPhil. Chicago Collectors Club. Great resource site

http://www.askphil.org/index.htm

British Colonial Web sites. Very useful with great resource material.

http://www.kgvistamps.com/kgvilinks.htm

British Empire Webite. Wonderful site with lots of items of historical interest

http://www.britishempire.co.uk

Joseph Luft's Philatelic Resources on the Web. Comprehensive site with multiple links.

http://www.execpc.com/~joeluft/resource.html

Perfins Place. Key site for links to Perfin related material.

http://www.perfins.com/

Philaguide. Another excellent comprehensive philatelic web site.

http://www.philaguide.com/

Links to Postal Libraries and Museums

American Philatelic Society Library. Superb resource.

http://www.stamps.org/TheLibrary/lib_AbouttheAPRL.htm

The British Library - Philatelic Collections and Archives.

Holdings include Crown Agents Philatelic and Security Printing Archives.

http://www.bl.uk/collections/philatelic

Canadian National Postal Archives and Library.

http://www.archives.ca/02/0201/020129_e.html

National Philatelic Society Library - United Kingdom.

http://www.ukphilately.org.uk/nps/library/library.htm

Listings of Philatelic Libraries and Museums.

The AskPhil web site has a comprehensive alphabetical listing  

http://www.askphil.org/b23.htm   (Museums)

http://www.askphil.org/b36.htm   (Libraries)

Web Site Development

HTML and Web Design Tutorial. Moves from basic to advanced.

http://insights.iwarp.com/

Webmonkey. Lots of web design/development tutorials and resource material.

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

Web safe colour combinations. Useful reference.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/cgi-bin/colorcomb

Irfanview. Superb graphics import/export and manipulating program.

http://www.irfanview.com/

pdf995. The poor man's pdf writer. Very versatile. Files can be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader. Free with ads.

http://www.pdf995.com/

Picture Shark. Very easy to use image watermarking program.

http://www.picture-shark.com

Scanning images. Well laid out information on use of scanners for philatelic material.

http://www.pgacon.com/tips_on_scanning.htm

Snagit. Amazing screen capture program. Requires to be purchased

http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp

Watermarking images and pdf files.

http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/watermarks/