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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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