Dark Colours - 1s bistre-brown
 

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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 1 May, 1939.  
 

 

Controls E39 and G40 were printed in bistre-brown; other controls printed in black.

Control Cylinder Perf type Varieties
E39 7nd None - single pane cylinder C  
G40 7nd C  
H40 6nd C  
7nd C Retouch on left side and to stem of rose on the stamp next to control H40 - cyl 7nd, row 18/1
J41 6nd C  
None - single pane cylinder 6d B Right hand barb of rose missing - cyl 6d, row 7/12
K42 6nd None - single pane cylinder C  
M43 6nd C  
None - single pane cylinder 6d B Right hand barb of rose missing - cyl 6d, row 7/12
O44 6nd None - single pane cylinder C  
Q45 13nd 13d nd - B / d - C 2 tiny lines inside 'N' of SHILLING - cyl 13d, row 18/2
S46 16nd 16d nd - B / d - C

Small spot between crown and 'R' - cyl 16d, row 18/1

Right hand cross broken in crown and small spot in left hand lacing - cyl 16d, row 18/2

Small spot on King's ear lobe - cyl 16d, row 20/1
U47 16nd 16d nd - B / d - C Small spot between crown and 'R' - cyl 16d, row 18/1
Small spot on King's ear lobe - cyl 16d, row 20/1
None 14nd - nd - B / d - C  
16nd 16d nd - B / d - C Small spot between crown and 'R' - cyl 16d, row 18/1
Small spot on King's ear lobe - cyl 16d, row 20/1
A
17nd 17d nd - B / d - C  
A  
19nd 19d nd - B / d - C 2 small spots, top of left hand inside crown - cyl 19d, row 18/2
A

Specimen (2 types exist) - Cancelled

Article on varieties by Niall Fair in Gibbons Stamp Monthly July 1957, pp123-125.


1937 Art work [from National Postal Museum] >

Overprints

 

'Bahrain - 1 rupee' for use in Bahrain from 1948

 

'Kuwait - 1 rupee' for use in Kuwait from 1948

'1 rupee' (no country name) for use by British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia, from 1948

'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).

'E.A.F.' (East Africa Forces), in Somalia from 1943.

'B.M.A. Eritrea - 1 shilling' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Eritrea' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Somalia - 1 shilling' (British Military Administration in Somalia), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Somalia' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 24l' (British Military Administration + currency in Military Administration Lire), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Tripolitania' (British Administration), from 1950.

'Morocco Agencies' from 1949

'Tangier'

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