|
Contents 1954 Centenary Issue Requisition 4986/1
All the information included within this page is used with the kind permission of the British Library, and is taken from from their Crown Agents Records.
Other information taken from Stanley Gibbons Elizabethan Postage Stamp Catalogue -1967
11/2d black and reddish purple showing "Heart Shaped Waterfall"
3d black and deep reddish violet Coronation stamp
4d Prussian Blue and reddish brown St Helena Centenary Stamp
3d black and brown showing "Wire Bird" |
|
Value |
|
|
|
|
1/2d |
7,000 |
7,100 |
420,000 |
|
1d |
5,000 |
5,065 |
300,000 |
|
11/2d |
5,000 |
4,800 |
300,000 |
|
2d |
5,000 |
4,935 |
300,000 |
|
21/2d |
5,000 |
4,950 |
300,000 |
|
3d |
5,000 |
4,880 |
300,000 |
|
4d |
4,000 |
3,690 |
240,000 |
|
6d |
4,000 |
4,082 |
240,000 |
|
7d |
4,000 |
4,100 |
240,000 |
|
1/- |
3,000 |
3,100 |
180,000 |
|
2/6d |
1,750 |
1,775 |
105,000 |
|
5/- |
1,750 |
1,775 |
105,000 |
|
10/- |
1,250 |
1,275 |
75,000 |
Bureau
Numbers
"The reference to 30 set means that the stamps were printed in sheets of 60 set, but, because of some printing fault, only half of those 400 sheets were acceptable to the Crown Agents' inspector." Taken from e-mail conversation with R. Vouden (British Library)
|
|
|
1/2d |
360,000 inc. 400 sheet 30 set |
|
1d |
240,000 inc. 602 sheet 30 set |
|
11/2d |
228,000 inc. 200 sheet 30 set |
|
2d |
236,000 inc. 350 sheet 30 set |
|
21/2d |
237,000 inc. 482 sheet 30 set |
|
3d |
232,000 inc. 560 sheet 30 set |
|
4d |
161,000 |
|
6d |
180,000 |
|
7d |
180,000 |
|
1/- |
120,000 |
|
2/6d |
90,000 |
|
5/- |
90,000 |
|
10/- |
60,000 |
Plate Numbers 1-1 (all values) Sheets 60(10 x 6)11/2d.; (6 x 10) others Imprint: Central Bottom Margin Withdrawn 11.12.61
1953
Coronation
3d black and deep reddish violet For Bureau 1,500 sheet 30 set 309,000 numbered 1 up and parcelled in 500s
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plate Number 1-4 Imprint: Central bottom margin Printed in sheets of 60 (10x6)
Quantity Sold: 309,579 Withdrawn 31/12/53 Invalidated: 1/6/60
1954
Requisition 4962/1
3d Value
To be taken from the Bureau and dispatched to colony by parcel post. Sheets of Stamps to be numbered 1 up.
Sheets Ordered Sheets Printed Date Dispatched Stamps Printed 1,000 1,000 23/8/54 60,000
1955 Requisition
4986/1
1955 Requisition 4986/1
1856-1956 Centenary
Issue
With the exception of the Bureau supplies sheets of stamps to be numbered 1 up each duty.
GPO Specimens 382
Bureau 240,000 stamps each value
3d 5,000 300,000 3,885 1,000 4d 4,500 270,000 3,700 500 6d 4,500 270,000 3,672 500
Bureau Sheets
Colony Sheets
Released 3rd January 1956 Watermark Script CA Comb Perforated 111/2
1955/6
Requisition 5389/1
1955/6 Requisition 5389/1
1/2d and 2d Duties
To be taken from Bureau and dispatched to Colony. Bureau 300,000 with the exception of the Bureau supplies sheets of stamps to be numbered 1 up
1957
Requisition 5877/1
1957 Requisition 5877/1
1/2d and 11/2d
Duties
To be collected from Bureau. Numbered 1 up. No replacements
Value Sheets Ordered Sheets Printed Stamps Printed Dispatch Date 1/2d 500 500 30,000 12/7/57 11/2d 500 500 30,000 12/7/57 -
1958
Requisition 6081/1
1d and 3d duties
To Colony Parcel Post. Numbered 1 up Value Sheets Ordered Sheets Printed Stamps Printed Dispatch Date 1d 1,000 1,000 60,000 10/4/58 3d 1,000 1,000 60,000 10/4/58
Requisition
6250/1
Requisition 6250/1
11/2d Duty
No inspection- No exchange. With exception of Bureau supplies Numbered 1 up Value Sheets Ordered Sheets Printed Stamps Printed Dispatch Date 11/2d 1,100 (Bureau1,000) 100
66,000 60,000 (Bureau
1