Dark Colours - 3d violet
 

 

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Designed by : Edmund Dulac (head) and Eric Gill (frames).

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 31 January, 1938.  
   

SINGLE STAMPS
Start Date : Watermark Varieties
31 January, 1938 upright Specimen
COILS
Stock letter Start date : Watermark Roll
C 1938 upright 960 stamps (£12) - bottom end first delivery
S June 1938 upright 480 stamps (£6) - left side first delivery

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

Control Cylinder Perf Type Varieties
C38 3nd 3d A

 
5nd 5d A  
9nd 9d A  
D38 9nd 9d A  
E39 11nd 11d A

Spot below eye - cyl 11nd, R19/1
11nd 11d nd - B / d - C  
12nd 12d A  
12nd 12d nd - B / d - C  
G40 14nd 14d A

Dotted line from daffodil through margin - cyl 14nd, R20/1
17nd 17d A  
18nd 18d A  
H40 18nd 18d A  

Overprints

'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).

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