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Jamaica: Llandovery Falls,1900-1901.

Complete sheet of 60 from plate 3.

Rivet hole. → ←
Rivet
hole.

Plate numbers.

De La Rue used a
different style of plate
number for these
recess-printed issues;
fine line-drawn
numbers in place of
the white numbers
within solid coloured
ovals that they had
hitherto used and
continued to use for
typographed stamps.

Plate numbers 1 and
3 are known, together
with an unnumbered
plate, which may be
plate 2.

Plate 3

←
Rivet
hole.
The
Rivet holes. fifth
hole,
There are 5 not
prominent found
circles, holes on late
precisely placed two-
in the plate colour
margins. These plates.
must have been
used at an early
stage of plate
preparation, as
they were filled
and machined
flat before inking
and printing.

Similar holes
are found in the
plates of other
recess printed
De La Rue
issues of the
period such as
the Bahamas
staircase, 1901.

Rivet
Rivet hole. hole.
→ ←