Since the issue of our special notice on April 27th, 1954, it has been ascertained that this stamp was affixed to a letter sent by a firm of shipping agents in Kingston, Jamaica to a similar firm in Calcutta in 1950. It would seem, therefore, that it came from a later printing of which there were no less than six between December, 1946, and December, 1950. In the circumstances it may be reasonably assumed that the entire sheet was purchased by the firm and this would rule out booklets as a source of the variety. The Archivist of De la Rue & Co. Ltd. has very kindly made exhaustive enquiries but is unable to offer any explanation.
Members will be interested to learn that the stamp will be included in the next issue of Gibbons' "Two Reigns" Catalogue and in subsequent issues of Part 1. It will also appear in future issues of the Commonwealth Catalogue. Although the widest publicity has been given to its existence no news of any further copies has so far been received.
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