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APPENDIX3.1 PAINTINGS4.1 ALDERNEYAlderney is the northernmost of the Channel Islands. BritishGeneral Post Office Mail ana local parcels were carried betweenAlderney, Sarfc aha Guernsey by the Commodore Snipping (CS)Company until those functions were taken over by Guernsey's newindependent postal service in 1969.Liberation Definitives (overprints), 9 May 1965 (Hosen* AL41-45)Also extant imperforate.View of Lake ChoireLes ZoraldesLake LuganoVillage near LuganoPlug Street, 1915BoatB, RivieraTorcelloBuddha and LilyChartwell, SnowPoplar TreesBlenheim TapestriesRiver at DaublgnyMimizan, MoroccoElephants in the CircusOurika, Atlas MountainsEsher Palace TerraceCork Trees at MimizanGoldfish Pool, ChartwellMonte Carlo Olive GrovesBlue Room, Trent ParkMill, St. GeorgesLake Geneva, Mt. BlancVenice, ItalyThe Weald of KentUnder SnowMarrakech,Morocco(many scenes)ChartwellActive 1915-1960518 works287.Churchill Definitives (overprints), 7 May 1966 (Rosen AL58-6S)Also extant imperforate.si mMeditteranean, GenoaSt. Jean, Cap Ferrat*Rosen, Gerald: Catalogue of British Local Stamps, BLSC Co., 1975LOCALS AND LABELS"Locals" are stamps issued by non-postal union entities, usuallyoffshore Islands, to cover the carriage of mail to the nearestofficial Post Office. "Labels" are, In essence, everything else.Many of both types were issued to commemorate Sir Winston, butonly the local stamps of Herm, Lundy, and Gugh Islands wereregularly used on actual mall. Most of the others simply exploitedinterest in Churchill, although the stamps of Alderneyand Sark, Issued by a shipping firm, did frante parcels.4.0 ALBANIA (EXILES), 1945, 1952, 1965Produced in four varieties to raise funds for exiles in Britain,reprinted with new colors and 1952 date, then overprinted in twoinks after Churchill's death, these are among the most colorful,and the most fraudulent "stamps." The 50+20 value exists with athree-quarter front portrait of FDR. Gjergji Kastrloti was themedieval hero of Albania, who freed it temporarily from the Tuiksin 1461. Albania reverted to Turkish rule when he died in 1467.Roosevelt, Kastriotl, Churchill Marking FDR's death, 1945288.4.15 BARDSEY (YNYS ENLLI)A small island off the coast of Gwynedd, North Wales, operatedand owned by a Trust which began issuing local stamps in 1979to help support its wildlife conservation projects. The stampagent was Rembrandt Philatelies Ltd. in Hampshire. Since nocommercial covers have been discovered (although Bardsey doesget summer visitors), the genuinity of the labels is in doubt.British Heroes, September 1980 (BY42-45)Issued in Miniature Sheets of FourLord Nelson, Lloyd George, Lord Mountbatten, WSCBARDSEY 10.