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Stamps: George V 1912 - 1927.
From 1907 the UPU prescribed colours for certain rates. Jamaica
adopted the universal colour scheme developed by De La Rue in
1907 - 08 through the lmperium colour trials. The 5s used a red
duty plate and green key plate on yellow paper.
No. 21 • , 51. Yellow Paper.
Border, S.P. Red. Head, D.F. Green.
lmperium essay
from Document
4a, March 1908.
Ex Oliver.
from the De La Rue archives.
~ page when first printed. Some are merely
late of first printing starting with the 3d in
I 1 ~d record that the 'overprint' (= duty) plates
Ex Hemmings.
Samuel Type 012).
