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KGVI high

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On 20 h January 1938 Bermuda released stamps for the new monarch King George VI, the high value stamps
from the two shilling to pound following the same design of the stamps used for his father KGV.

Instead of four plate plugs this was reduced to two, and then one as the better plug from the top replaced the one
under stamp 59. Unlike repairs that where made to flaws that developed on the KGV stamps the repairs for
these were more permanent and usually only done for major flaws. Minor flaws and the progression of new
flaws can help determine the printing. There is an additional jubilee line that has dents and spaces that allow
stamps with margins to be used to determine their position.

Most printings had an allocation for the crown agents although the 1943 printing was initially kept solely for the
agents and had the smallest of all printings.

For most of this period Bermuda charged a 12/6 rate for each passenger leaving the island, therefore although
large numbers of sheets where printed, specially for the 12s6d, most of them where used for fiscal purposes ..

The printings for each value are less complicated than those of KGV as, except for the first Ll, there are no
paper varieties. In addition there are three varieties of perforation - except for one printing of the 2s, 2s6s, 5s
and 10s during 1941 that had a 14.1 line perforation a comb of 13.9 x 13.8 was used from the 1938 release to
the mid 1949 printings subsequent printings where had perforation of 13.2 x 13.0 comb.

Of note are the "crimson" paper variant on the first printing of the £1, the page showing the detioration of he
plate plug, the top left plate blocks of the first printing and the major flaws - blank scroll, white island and #60.

414 specimens prepared for UPU