Dark Colours - 11d plum
 

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Designed by : Edmund Dulac.

Photogravure printed by Harrison & Sons in sheets of 240 (20 rows x 12).

Perforated 15 x 14

Watermarked - block GVIR and crown.

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Issued 29 December, 1947.  
   

Required due to increases in parcel rates after the 2nd WW. The final stamp to be issued in the dark colour set - just over ten years after the first stamps issued in 1937.

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

Control Cylinder Perf Type Varieties
None 1nd 1d A

Dark spot below N - cyl 1nd, row 13/1

Dark spot inside loop of G - cyl 1nd, row 20/2

1nd 1d nd - B / d - C

 

Specimen

 

Overprints

 

'Morocco Agencies' from 1949

 

'Tangier'

 

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