SG 156 plate 1 1876 (large coloured corner letters)

sg156 pl 1

Plate 1 (orange)

The 8d was first issued to prepay the postage to India via Marseilles,
and to Australia via Brindisi in Italy

With corner letters RF this is a wing-margin,
yes I have digitally cropped the right-hand wing, silly me

Watermark Large Garter
Perf 14
Put to press 11 Sep 1876
Number issued 4,800,000
There were four panes of 60 stamps arranged as below. The wing-margin stamps would therefore have either an F or G in the SE corner.

AA AB AC AD AE AF
BA          
CA          
DA          
EA          
FA          
GA          
HA          
IA          
JA          
AG AH AI AJ AK AL
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
KA          
LA          
MA          
NA          
OA          
PA          
QA          
RA         RF
SA          
TA TB TC TD TE TF
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
TG TH TI TJ TK TL

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