SG 63 1856 (no corner letters)
 Plate 1
or 2 (carmine)
next plate in 4d series
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| Watermark |
Medium garter |
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14 |
| Put to press |
25 Feb 1856 |
| Number issued |
1,320,000 |
The Surface printed stamps were introduced in 1855 and
replaced the high value (6d, 10d and 1s)
embossed
values of 1847-54. The low value
line
engraved stamps continued until 1879. The
Surface printed
stamps were printed by Thomas De La Rue & Co. The 4d value was first
introduced in 1855 to prepay letters to France and the die was engraved by
Jean Ferdinand Joubert de la Ferté (1810-1884)
a refugee from Napoleonic France.
The surface printed stamps of 1855-83 form four distinct
families.
| No corner letters (SG 62-73) |
| Small, white corner letters (SG 75-91) |
| Large, white corner letters (SG92-137) |
| Large, coloured corner letters (SG138-163) |
| For plates 1 to 17 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.
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