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Issue 12 - 5 Shillings surcharged "1 D" (bisected)

1 st issued: March 1878
Printing: recess by Perkins, Bacon & Co., London
Watermark: (small 6 pt. star)
Quantity surcharged: 4,800 stamps (9,600 halves)

Perforation 15½x15

dull rose

Provisional 1 d Stamp made locally by surcharging "1 D" twice
sideways in black on the 5 Shillings Issue of 1873. The label
containing the original value is cut off and the stamp is divided
down the middle by perforation gauging 11 ½ to 13. •

"1 " 7mm. Slanting Serif "1" 7mm. Slanting Serif
"D" 2¾mm. "D" 2¾m m.
(APS 1987 cert 61040) "1" 7mm. Straight Serif
"D" 2¾mm.
"6" (St. Joseph)
(APS 2014 cert 209904)

"1 " 7mm. Slanting Serif "1" 6mm. Straight Serif
"D" 2¾mm. "D" 2½mm
"1" 6mm. Straight Serif (APS 1987 cert 61041 )
"D" 2½mm
(BPA 2004 cert 62911 )

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