Light Colours - 1 1/2d pale red-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.

wmk
   
Issued 28 September, 1942.  
   

SINGLE STAMPS
Start date Watermark Varieties
28 September, 1942. upright

Specimen  /  Cancelled - 2 varieties
BOOKLET PANES
Panes of :

From booklets

 Watermark Varieties
4

No cyl no's

 1/- November 1948

1/- May 1951

 upright Binding edge at top or bottom
2

(Cyl No's)

 1/- December 1947

 upright  
COILS
Stock letter Start date Watermark Roll
N June 1950 upright 480 stamps - left side first delivery joins every 12th stamp

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

Control Cylinder Perf Type Varieties
L42 175nd 175d A

 
176nd 176d A  
N43 174nd 174d A  
175nd 175d A  
183nd 183d A  
O44 178nd 178d nd - B / d - C  
- 178d B  
183nd 183d A  
183nd 183d nd - B / d - C  
- 183d B  
P44 178nd 178d nd - B / d - C  
Q45 179nd 179d A  
179nd - G  
R45 186nd 186d A  
S46 184nd 184d A  
185nd 185d A  
186nd 186d A  
U47 185nd 185d A  
187nd 187d A  
None 185nd 185d A  
187nd 187d A  
191nd 191d A  
192nd 192d A

Spot in daffodil leaf - cyl 192d, row 10/10

Extended serif to 1 of ½ - cyl 192d, row 7/11

Retouched forehead (appears slightly lighter) - cyl 192nd, row 19/1

Booklet Cylinder Numbers

Cylinder Number Perforation Type Varieties
H I J K L
Panes of 2 - wmk upright
185nd Y
185d Y
187nd Y
187d Y

 

Overprints

'Bahrain - 1½ anna' for use in Bahrain from 1948

'Kuwait - 1½ anna' for use in Kuwait from 1948

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

'B.M.A. Somalia - 15 cents' (British Military Administration in Somalia), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Somalia' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 3l' (British Military Administration + currency in Military Administration Lire), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Tripolitania' (British Administration), from 1950.

'Morocco Agencies' from 1949

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