Memoir 7: The KG VI Postage and Revenue stamps of Northern Rhodesia

Plot

Preface vii
Acknowledgements vii
Dies and colour trials 1
Crown Agents requisitions 5
The issued stamps 12
Distinguishing printings 13
The small-format stamps 14
The large-format stamps 16
Plate numbers 17
Waterlow's 'in-house' plate numbers 17
Guide marks and marginal markings 19
The small-format stamps 19
The 120-set plates 19
The 240-set plates 20
Summary 33
The large-format stamps 34
Registration marks on Southern Rhodesia KG VI revenue stamps 39
Paper 41
Perforation 42
1½d imperforate between horizontal pair
Sheet numbers 44
Varieties 45
"Tick bird' flaw 45
"Extra boatman' 45
1d blue 45
Other varieties 47
Stamps perforated 'SPECIMEN' 49
Usage of the stamps 50
Usage of definitive stamps as postage due labels 52
References 57
Appendices
I Requisitions for Northern Rhodesia postage and revenue stamps bearing a portrait of King George VI as listed in the Crown Agents' requisition books supplemented with information from the plate-issue books 59
2 Comments on releases by the Crown Agents published in Gibbons Stamp Monthly 64
3 Comments on releases by the Crown Agents published in Stamp Collecting 67
4 The Royal Collection 69
Index 73