SG97
John Russel, PM, 1865
SG97
1865 - Lilac
SG97a
1865 - Deep Lilac THICK PAPER
Specimen
Watermark
Emblems
Watermark
Showing the watermark as seen on the reverse of the stamp.
Plate #
Plate 5
14,880,000 stamps
Plate 6
2,880,000 stamps
1867 GB Used abroad. A double rate cover from St. Thomas, DWI to Paris, prepaid by a horizontal strip of four 6d Lilac Pl.6 (Wmk. Emblems) tied by St. Thomas "C51" type 4 numerals with a Calais transit cds below for MY.27.1867. St. Thomas dispatch cds on reverse for MY.12.1867. Carried from St. Thomas to Southampton by RMSP steamer "Douro". Five months later the harbour was destroyed in a hurricane
St Thomas, after the October 1867 Hurricane
Printing Dates
Plate 5
4th January 1865 - 15th July 1867
Plate 6
22nd November 1866 - 15th July 1867
Essays and proofs
Imprimatur
Registration Dates
Plate 5
30th September 1864
Plate 6
5th December 1865
Proof
Die proof for the 1870 Paris Exhibition
Proof
Die proof on glazed card
Proof
Die proof on glazed card
Proof
Die proof
Panes
Wing margin stamps come from the center part of the sheet. In the pane shown above the left column of stamps have wing margins, There is no such thing as a straight edge perforated stamp in GB stamps.
Surface Printed Issues - 1865-1872
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