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Double overprints.
Double overprints were produced in every one of the five settings. They are either inadvertent
repetition of an impression or the deliberate correction of a misplaced first strike.

Overprint double, one vertical.
Few copies are known. According to the Jamaica Handbook, all are from the second setting.

Both the examples below are from the fourth setting. The vertical, erroneous strikes are of positions
2 – 3 and 4 – 5, but these are not adjacent stamps, and seem almost certain to come from different
panes in the same print run. The horizontal corrective strike in both cases is position 1, so both
stamps are from the left-hand column, suggesting that the error occurred on the first pass of the pane
through the press. This makes sense, as attempting to print a second column at right angles to a first
would be very noticeable. It is difficult enough to imagine how a pane could have been placed on the
platen at right angles even once, given that the platen of the printing press used was only 20 x 30 cm
but a pane is 24 cm tall.
Fourth setting.

Position 2 misplaced. ↓ ↓ Position 4 misplaced.

Position 1,
correction → Position 1, Certificate
correction → BPA (1930).

Position 3 misplaced. ↑ Ex Mahfood. ↑ Position 5 misplaced.

Third setting, overprint double.

The short, third setting, which Vendryes recalled he composed and machined himself, was nearly
free of errors. Only double overprints exist, and few of those; this attracts forgers.

This block is one corner of a block of 10
Position 4, illustrated in Stamp Lover in 1914, since broken up.
struck twice. The single, position 5, would fit alongside that illustration.

Positions:

1 2

Position 12, 7 8
Position 5,
correction. struck twice.
Misplaced
Positions diagonally
and
11, 12, corrected
misplaced with a
diagonally.
second Certificate BPA
Certificate RPS 43153 (1956). strike. 16827 (1951).