2/6 'Festival'
 

 

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Designed by Mary Adshead - shows HMS Victory

Recess printed by Waterlow & Sons in 2 panes guillotined into sheets of 40, (10 rows x4).

Perforated 11x12

Watermarked GVIR and crown

Issued 3 May, 1951

 

Oval cameo with a nautical background of cross-crossed ropes.

 

Varieties

 

Specimen

Overprints

 

'Bahrain - 2 rupees' for use in Bahrain from 3 May 1951

 

'Kuwait - 2 rupees' for use in Kuwait from 3 May 1951

'2 rupees' (no country name) for use by British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia from 3 May 1951

'B.A. Eritrea - 2s 50 cents' (British Administration in Eritrea), from 3 May 1951.

 

'B.A. Tripolitania - 60l' (British Administration + currency in Administration Lire), from 1951.

 

'Morocco Agencies' from 3 May 1951

 

'Tangier'

 

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