"I have a copy of the 5 PENCE on 4d. (1892 ), S.G. 59, overprinted "SPICEMEN" but I do not know if this is one of the three known copies referred to by Mr. J.J. Turner in Bulletin No. 2. p.17. I acquired it a few years ago at an auction in a small lot of "Specimens". I think it must be rare but also those stamps of St. Vincent cancelled with a horizontal black line are also "Specimen" stamps and of equal rarity. I only have one copy of S.G. 8. and two of S.G.15. These stamps have a straight line right across them drawn by the aid of a ruler and probably the whole sheet was done at one time. In my view they are not as BAHAMAS, S.G. 1. also mentioned by Dr. N. Garrard in the same issue which he states has an irregular line across it, but I have never seen one. Similar straight lines were used to make "Specimen" stamps of JAMAICA but only, I believe, on the 3d. pine. Our President has an irregular block of this from the marginal corner of a sheet which seems to show that the whole sheet was so treated. By an extraordinary coincidence Dr. Urwick has a single which fits exactly into Mr. Collett's block. These are the only examples I have seen. It would appear that the black line cancellation was the forerunner of "Specimen" stamps before they were stamped "SPECIMEN'. but I consider these were only made for record purposes and were never sent to Berne.'