Profile of King's head by Edmund Dulac (larger than on 2/6 and 5/-) within an oval medallion, surmounted by a crown and set in a floral frame. Values in bottom left and right corners. The word POSTAGE centred at bottom.

Paler shade due to low stocks of darker blue ink and war preventing re-supply.

Varieties

Specimen - 2 varieties

Cancelled - 2 varieties

Plate crack (Pl 2, row 4/5)

Overprints

'Bahrain 10 rupees' for use in Bahrain from 1949.

'Kuwait - 10 rupees' for use in Kuwait from 1949.

'M.E.F.' (Middle East Forces) from 1942 for use by British Forces in occupied Eritrea (1942), Italian Somaliland (1942), Tripolitania (1943), and the Dodecanese Islands (1945).

'B.M.A. Eritrea - 10 shillings' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Eritrea' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 240l' (British Military Administration + currency in Military Administration Lire), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Tripolitania' (British Administration), from 1950.

'Tangier'

References

Article by Gerry Bater FRPSL in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, September 1996.

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