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T42 (39) 1/2d green [MID] [LAR] |
T43 (40) 1d scarlet [MID] [LAR] |
T44 (41) 1 1/2d red - brown [MID] [LAR] |
T45 (42) 2d orange Die II [MID] [LAR] |
T46 (43) 1s bistre-brown [MID] [LAR] |
Design: Great Britain issue of 1912-13, Scott 159 (T42), 160 (T43), 161 (T44), 162a (T45), 172 (T46): King George V, designed by Sir Bertram Mackennal.
Printing (Base Stamps): Typography; Harrison & Sons, London and High Wycombe, printed in sheets of two panes of 120 subjects (12 x 10). The panes are aligned vertically, so a full sheet contains twenty horizontal rows of twelve stamps, with a horizontal gutter separating the panes.
Overprint: "Rialtas Sealadac na hÉireann 1922" (Provisional Government of Ireland 1922), in five lines, by Messrs. Alexander Thom & Co. Ltd., Dublin. Overprints are a shiny blue-black, and most commonly measure 15.75 x 16 mm. Standard widths of individual lines are as follows: "Rialtas" - 12.5 mm; "Sealadac" - 15.5 mm; "na" - 3.5 mm; "hÉireann" - 14 mm; "1922" - 6.75 mm. Two overprint plates were used for all the stamps in set 8T.
Separation: Perf. 15 x 14.
Watermark: Monogram Royal Cypher (Scott wmk. 33; Crown and GvR).
Date of Issue: No official announcements. Dulin points out that many sources list the dates of the overprinting as the dates of issue. Earliest known usages cited by F. R. A. McCormick in 1923 are as follows: 1/2d - 27 November; 1d - 12 December; 1 1/2d - 18 December; 2d - 1 December; 1s - 12 or 22 December. The accepted printing dates are 21 November for the 1/2d, 1 1/2d, and 2d; and 4 December for the 1d and 1s.
Numbers issued: 1/2d - 720,000; 1d - 240,000; 1 1/2d - 600,000; 2d - 1.4 m; 1s - 240,000.
Notes: Because the appearance of its own stamps seemed impending, the Irish Post Office tended to order relatively small quantities of British stamps for overprinting - perhaps four to six weeks' supply per order. By late 1922 supplies of some low values were running low, and Thom made a new printing of the 1/2d, 1d, 1 1/2d, 2d, and 10d values, using the now familiar five-line inscription and shiny blue-black ink. Thom appears not to have used the overprint plates created for sets 4T and 6T, but rather created several new ones (the old ones may have been destroyed in anticipation of the new Irish definitives). These November-December low-value overprints may be distinguished from Thom's previous efforts by the greater width of most of the individual lines; the difference is as much as 1 mm, and is quite noticeable. Hence the common references to set 8T as the "wide" settings.
Bibliography: Meredith 1927, 10, 25; EPA 1964, "Thom 5 Line Overprints," 72; Feldman 1968, 40-41; Foley, 1975, 3; Harrow 1987, "Setting Irish Overprints," 14; Priestly 1988, "Thom 5 Line Wide Setting," 47; Dulin 1992, 35-37; Whyte 1994, 6.
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