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T74 (79b) 10s blue [MID] [LAR] |
Design: Great Britain issue of 1919, Scott 179 (T72), 181 (T74): "Britannia Rules the Waves," designed by Sir Bertram MacKennal. This issue is the type of 1913, retouched (generally evidenced by the dot above the middle of the top frame on each value).
Printing (Base Stamps): Engraving; Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co., London, printed in sheets of forty subjects (4 x 10).
Overprint: "Saorstát Éireann 1922" (Irish Free State 1922), in three lines, by the British Board of Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London. Overprints are a dull or shiny black, and most commonly measure 15 x 8.5 mm. Standard widths of individual lines are as follows: Saorstát - 15 mm; Éireann - 13 mm; 1922 - 6.25 mm. The sheets of forty base stamps were overprinted by a setting of twenty cliches arranged in five rows of four. Each row was separated from the next by the height of two stamps, so that two printing operations were required, with the overprinting of rows in the second operation falling between those of the first.
Separation: Perf. 11 x 12.
Watermark: Monogram Royal Cypher (Scott wmk. 34: Large Crown and GvR).
Date of Issue: Approximate dates are: 2s6d - 9 December 1927; 5s - 7 February 1928; 10s - 15 February 1928.
Estimated Numbers Issued: Unknown.
Notes: The fourth "Saorstát" overprinting on the high value British "seahorses" (set 13T, represented here by the 10s blue) dates from December of 1927. It was preceded, earlier in the year, by the third or "composite" printing (set 12T, not shown), so called because Somerset House used cliches with both wide (6.25 mm) and narrow (5.5 mm) "1922" dates in making up its plates. These composite plates were withdrawn before year's end, and replaced by plates made up exclusivesly of wide dates (probably those used by Thom for set 9T in 1922). The stamps of this new Somerset House issue (13T) may be distinguished from the Thom printing by the color of the ink, which is black (as opposed to the blue-black of the Thoms). It is also commonly remarked that the overprints on set 13T tend to be heavy and rather coarsely defined, and that a tiny dot of overprint ink - visible here - characteristically appears between the "S" and the "a" of "Saorstát".
Provenance: William and Ann Waldron (all).
Bibliography: EPA 1965, 87-88; Feldman 1968, 55-56; Foley 1975, 5; Dulin and Williams 1978, 48; Dulin 1992, 42-44; Whyte 1994, 8.
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