10/- Dark Blue 'Arms'

Recess printed by Waterlow and Sons. One single plate was used.

Perforated 14

Watermarked GVIR and crown

Issued 30 October 1939

Watermark

Profile of King's head by Edmund Dulac 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.

Main varieties

a. Dark line across bottom right stem (1/4)
b. Mark on scroll (2/5) [thanks to Gordon Clark for the picture].
c. Re-touched lower lip (2/7)
d. Dot in margin at left (2/8)
e. Mark on neck (3/3)
f. Flaws on both sides of scroll (3/6)
g. Re-entry to lower frame of portrait (3/7)
h. Re-touched frame at left (4/1)
i. Dot on neck (4/5)
j. Flaw on left of scroll (4/6)
k. 'Hair grip' in hair near temple (4/7)
l. Scar on chin (4/8)
m. Dot in margin (5/2)
n. Scratch through two lower thorns of stem of rose, and through stem (5/6)
o. Mark in sheet margin at left - possibly a printer's mark made when re-touches were made.
p. Scratch from protruding leaf in right margin. [Thanks to Gordon Clark for the picture]

Many other minor re-entries recorded.

Picture adapted from illustration in British Postage Stamp Varieties Illustrated.

Specimen

References

Article by Gerry Bater FRPSL in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, January, February, 1995.

Contact : Malcolm Sanders : kg6gb@hotmail.com