Light Colours - 1d pale scarlet

	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 11 August, 1941.

SINGLE STAMPS
Start date		Watermark	Varieties
Type 1 - 11 August, 1941.		upright	Specimen / Cancelled - 2 varieties Pre-type 1
Type 1 - October 1942		sideways	Thick paper
Type 2 - 1948		upright	Thick paper
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 [Type 2]
2 (Cyl No's)	1/- December 1947	upright	Type 1
2 (Cyl No's)	1/- December 1947	upright	Type 2
COILS
Stock letter	Start date	Watermark	Roll
B	1942 - types 1 and 2	upright	960 stamps - bottom end first delivery
E			480 stamps - bottom end first delivery
X			960 stamps - bottom end first delivery
Z			1920 stamps - bottom end first delivery
O	October 1942 type 1	sideways	480 stamps - bottom end first delivery

Control / Cylinder Numbers and Varieties

Control	Cylinder		Perf Type	Varieties
J41	66nd	66d	A
	69nd	69d	A
	70nd	70d	A
	71nd	71d	A
	72nd	72d	A
	73nd	73d	A
	74nd	74d	A
K42	72nd	72d	A
	73nd	73d	A
	74nd	74d	A	Incomplete bottom frames - cyl 74nd, row 20/1 and 2
	75nd	75d	A
	76nd	76d	A
L42	72nd	72d	A
	72nd	72d	nd - B / d - C
	76nd	76d	A
	76nd	76d	nd - B / d - C
	78nd	78d	A
	81nd	81d	A
	82nd	82d	A
M43	76nd	76d	A
	80nd	80d	A
	82nd	82d	A
	86nd	86d	A
	92nd	92d	A
	93nd	93d	A
	96nd	96d	A
N43	90nd	90d	A
	91nd	91d	A
	91nd	-	G
	92nd	92d	A
	94nd	94d	A
	94nd	-	G
	95nd	95d	A
	96nd	96d	A
	97nd	97d	A
	99nd	99d	A
	100nd	100d	A
O44	90nd	90d	A
	90nd	-	G
	91nd	91d	A
	91nd	-	G
	94nd	94d	A
	94nd	-	G
	95nd	95d	A
	98nd	98d	A
	98nd	-	G
	100nd	100d	A
	100nd	-	G
	102nd	102d	A
	102nd	-	G
	105nd	105d	A
	105nd	-	G
P44	91nd	91d	A
	91nd	-	G
	101nd	101d	A
	101nd	-	G
	102nd	102d	A
	102nd	-	G
	105nd	105d	A
	106nd	106d	A
	106nd	-	G
	107nd	107d	A
	107nd	-	G
	112nd	112d	A
	112nd	-	G
	113nd	113d	A
	113nd	-	G
Q45	106nd	106d	A
	106nd	-	G
	107nd	107d	A
	107nd	-	G
	113nd	113d	A
	118nd	118d	A
	120nd	120d	A
	121nd	121d	A
	121nd	121d	nd - B / d - C
	122nd	122d	A
R45	118nd	118d	A
	120nd	120d	A
	122nd	122d	A
	123nd	123d	A
	125nd	125d	A
	125nd	125d	nd - B / d - C
S46	123nd	123d	nd - B / d - C
	124nd	124d	A
	124nd	124d	nd - B / d - C
	125nd	125d	A
	125nd	125d	nd - B / d - C
	127nd	127d	A
	127nd	127d	nd - B / d - C
	129nd	129d	A
	129nd	129d	nd - B / d - C
	130nd	130d	A
T46	127nd	127d	A
	129nd	129d	A
	132nd	132d	A
	133nd	133d	A
	134nd	134d	A
	136nd	136d	A
	139nd	139d	A
	140nd	140d	A
	141nd	141d	A
	142nd	142d	A
	143nd	143d	A
U47	140nd	140d	A
	146nd	146d	A
	148nd	148d	A
	149nd	149d	A	Flaw on cheek - cyl 149nd, row 3/4
	150nd	150d	nd - B / d - C
	153nd	153d	A
	153nd	153d	nd - B / d - C
	155nd	155d	A
None	145nd	145d	A
	150nd	150d	A
	156nd	156d	A
	157nd	157d	A
	160nd	160d	A
	166nd	166d	A
	167nd	167d	A
	169nd	169d	A
	171nd	171d	A
	171nd	171d	nd - B / d - C
	172nd	172d	A
	172nd	172d	nd - B / d - C
	174nd	174d	A
	174nd	174d	nd - B / d - C
	175nd	175d	A
	178nd	178d	A
	179nd	179d	A
	179nd	179d	nd - B / d - C
	180nd	180d	A
	180nd	180d	nd - B / d - C
	181nd	181d	A
	181nd	181d	nd - B / d - C
	182nd	182d	A
	183nd	183d	A
	185nd	185d	nd - B / d - C
	186nd	186d	A
	189nd	189d	A
	190nd	190d	A
	190nd	190d	nd - B / d - C

Booklet Cylinder Numbers

Cylinder Number	Perforation Type					Varieties
Cylinder Number	H	I	J	K	L	Varieties
Panes of 2 - watermark upright
157nd		Y
157d		Y
159d		Y
160nd		Y
160d		Y
172nd		Y
172d		Y
175nd		Y
175d		Y
179nd	Y	Y
179d		Y

Type 1 and 2

Article in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, June 1951, p112 - a Mr H. W. Bird had spotted two types in the design, Type I, "the upper lip is straight and there is a light patch in the hair behind the ear"; Type II, "the lip is curved and the light patch is absent". He had written to Harrison & Sons and received a reply from the Post Office, Postal Services Department was printed in GSM:-

".... it would appear that the light stroke on the King's effigy on the 1d stamps, to which you refer, disappeared when new multipositives were prepared by Messrs. Harrison in November, 1947. Before fresh positives are made for printing such stamps, the negative is retouched and any part of the design which is to appear white on the finished stamps is carefully covered with opaque to eliminate tone. The probability is that the original retouching of this fine small line on the negative was removed accidentally by some means or other, with the result that the white line did not appear on the new positive or on the subsequent cylinders...."

Type I is found on cylinders 75 to 172

Type II is found on cylinders 174 to 190

Stanley Gibbons Specialised Catalogue, Volume 2 states that pre-Type I stamps are found on cylinders 66 to 74.

Article by P.C.Worsfold in Stamp Collecting, 17 September 1970.

Overprints

'Bahrain - 1 anna' for use in Bahrain from 1948

'Kuwait - 1 anna' for use in Kuwait from 1948

'1 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 - 10 cents' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948. Later, just 'B.A. Eritrea' (British Administration), from 1950.

'B.M.A. Tripolitania - 2l' (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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