Page 126 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL

Jamaica:
The Queen Victoria

Key Plates.

One Penny, a full sheet, two
panes, from key plate 3.

The duty plate is very worn,
so this is probably from the
printing invoiced on 30
December 1893, the last
from duty plate 1 before it
was replaced.

The marginal inscriptions
of CA watermark paper
can be used as an aid to
plating marginal pieces,
especially useful for
overprinted stamps.

The watermark of this
sheet shows crosses in
the top left, bottom left
and bottom right margins.
CROWN AGENTS FOR
reads up the left margin,
THE COLONIES
reads down the right
margin and
CROWN AGENTS
reads across the top,
where there would be an
interpanneau gutter if this
paper were used for 240
set printing. This is
therefore the lower half of
a full watermarked sheet.