Dark Colours - 5d brown
 

 

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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 21 November, 1938.  
   

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

Control Cylinder Perf Type Varieties
D38 1nd None -single pane cylinder C

 
E39 1nd C  
G40 1nd C  
I41 1nd C  
1nd B  
K42 1nd C  
- 4d C  
L42 3nd 3d A  
L42 3nd 3d A  
|L42 3nd 3d A  
|L42 3nd - G  
|L42 3nd 3d nd - B / d - C  
|L42| 6nd 6d A  

|L42|

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 3nd 3d A  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specimen - 2 types.

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).

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

'B.M.A. Eritrea - 40 cents' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Eritrea' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Somalia - 40 cents' (British Military Administration in Somalia), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Somalia' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 10l' (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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