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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.

wmk

   
Issued 30 January, 1939.  
   

SINGLE STAMPS
Start Date : Watermark Varieties
30 January, 1939 upright

Specimen  /  Cancelled and punched

COILS
Stock letter Start date : Watermark Roll
J 30 January, 1939 upright 480 stamps - bottom end first delivery

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

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

E39 1nd E
F39 10nd E
G40 10nd E
H40 10nd E
21nd E
J41 25nd E
K42 25nd E
25nd F
L42 25nd E
25nd C
32nd E
M43 30nd E
32nd E
N43 32nd E
32nd F
O44 33nd E
Q45 33nd E
T46 33nd E
36nd E
37nd E
U47 36nd E
None 36nd E
37nd E
37nd B
39nd E
41nd E

Extra 'thorn' between lower leaf & stem - cyl 41nd, row 20/9

 

< Defective print - Bottom row all stamps have lower part virtually blank apart from a faint impression. More than one sheet had this error - defect occurred on at least sheet numbers 84295 to 84298.

Essay by E Dulac [from National Postal Museum] >

Overprints

'Bahrain - 6 anna' for use in Bahrain from 1948

'Kuwait - 6 anna' for use in Kuwait from 1948

'6 anna' (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 - 50 cents' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Eritrea' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Somalia - 50 cents' (British Military Administration in Somalia), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Somalia' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 12l' (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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