SG85
London 1862
SG85
1862 - Lilac with hair lines - plate 4
SG85a
Imperforate
SG85c
THICK paper
SG85e
Hyphen omitted
Watermark
Emblems
Watermark
Showing the watermark as seen on the reverse of the stamp.
PLATE #'s
#85 comes from plate 4 and has hair lines
Plate 3
11,040,000 stamps
Plate 4
5,080,000 stamps
1865 Overseas Mail. A pink envelope sent from Reading to Lieutenant J.M. Helsall, H.M.S. Phoebe, Mediterranean bearing a 6d Lilac (SG85, Pl.4 Hairlines) neatly tied by a Reading '635' duplex for MY.8.1865. Backstamped by a London transit datestamp for MY.9.1865 and a Malta arrival cds for MY.15.1865.
The launch of the HMS Phoebe in 1854. Up to 1860 she was a fifty gun wooden warship. By 1860 she was already outdated and was converted to a screw ship until her demise in 1875
Printing Dates
Plate 3
9th September 1862 - 11th April 1864
Plate 4
11th April 1864 - ?
Essays and proofs
Imprimatur
Registration Dates
Plate 3
17th October 1861
Plate 4
15th April 1862
Essay
Unadopted design on card
Proof
Plate 4 die proof on on glazed card
Panes
Wing margin stamps come from the center part of the sheet. In the pane shown above the left column of stamps have wing margins, There is no such thing as a straight edge perforated stamp in GB stamps.
Surface Printed - with small letters
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