SG187
Oxfordshire 1890
SG187
1884 ½d Slate-blue
SG187a
watermark sideways
Specimen
Specimen
Double overprint
Watermark
Imperial Crown
Watermark
Showing the watermark as seen on the reverse of the stamp.
c.1884 1/2d Slate Blue SG187 on a printed contents cover, cancelled by a London cancel and sent to Milan
Printing Dates
Printed
902,920,000 stamps
Earliest date of use
17 July 84
Plate 7
n/a
Plate 8
n/a
Plate 9
19 May 84 -5 Aug 85
Plate 10
19 May 84 -5 Aug 85
Plate 11
21 Aug 85
Plate 12
21 Aug 85
Plate 13
13 July 86
Plate 14
13 July 86
Essays and Proofs
Imprimatur
Registration Dates
Plate 7
20 Feb 84
Plate 8
20 Feb 84
Plate 9
19 May 84
Plate 10
19 May 84
Plate 11
21 Aug 85
Plate 12
21 Aug 85
Plate 13
13 July 86
Plate 14
13 July 86
Essay
Hand painted in brown and chinese white
Essay
Perkins Bacon Essay
Proof
DIe proof, printed in black on white glazed card
Reproduction
Lithographed
Colour Trial
Green on unwatermarked buff paper
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In issued colour
Panes
This production was in sheets of 240 (two panes of 120).
Unified Series- 1883-1884
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