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Issue 8 - Six Pence
1st issued: 1873
Printing: recess by Perkins, Bacon & Co., London
Watermark: (large 6 pt. star)
Quantity issued: 47,000
Perforation 14½-16 (clean-cut)
vermilion (shades)
(RPS 1947 cert 30107) (RPS 1987 cert 139758) "NEW YORK" arrival mark
(Georgetown/Demerara) ex. Hurlock deep vermilion possibly US currency eds
arrival mark used on incoming mail
between 1870-1876
open bootheel pre-stamp
postmark
imperforate
margin right block (9)
om "Grea Find" of 1887)
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