Dark Colours - 9d olive-green

	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.

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

Control	Cylinder		Perf Type	Varieties
E39	3nd	None - single pane cylinders	E	a. Final E in PENCE has a sloping serif, in the crown there is a dot on right of the central cross - Row 18/1
G40	3nd		E	As a above
H40	3nd		E	As a above
I41	2nd		E	b. The sloping serif (variety a) has been touched out, but the dot in the crown remains - Row 18/1
K42	2nd		E	As b above
L42	2nd		E	As b above
N43	2nd		E	As b above
N43	3nd		E	As a above
O44	2nd		E	As b above
P44	2nd		E	As b above
R45	2nd		E	As b above
R45	2nd		F	As b above
None	5nd	5d	A	Spot between E and V - cyl 5nd, row 1/2
	5nd	-	G	Spot between E and V - cyl 5nd, row 1/2
	5nd	5d	nd - B / d - C
	5nd	5d	nd - E / d - D


a / b. Final E in PENCE has a sloping serif, in the crown there is a small dot on right of the central cross.		White spot on right side of centre cross	Broken thorn on rose

Specimen - 2 types / Cancelled

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

'B.M.A. Somalia - 75 cents' (British Military Administration in Somalia), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Somalia' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 18l' (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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