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Tristan Da Cunha
On 2nd November 1951 Tristan Da Cunha's first definitives, overprinted St Helena stamps, were dispatched to the colony. It was a fairly simple, and straightforward issue with the 1/2d to 1/- values having 18,000 stamps printed from 300 sheets, and the 2/6d to 10/- 6,000 stamps from 100 sheets. The stamps were to be collected from Crown Agents Bureau and dispatched to St Helena numbered 1 up each duty, and that was that.
Well not exactly, for it seems that this was actually the third requisition for the colony. The first Requisition numbered 2467.1 required printings of all the values, except the 11/2d and 2d, which were then dispatched under the second Requisition number 4060.1, the majority of which went to the Bureau itself . The Crown Agents record books show that the stamps were no longer required in Tristan Da Cunha so they must have been surplus to requirements hence being kept by the Bureau. If the original order was to be under the Requisition number 2467.1 then it would be feasible to surmise that this issue was planned sometime before or during 1944, as Requisition 2548/1 was the 1944 total reprint for St Helena.
4153/1 was the Requisition that finally went to the colony in November 1951. |
