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Jamaica: The Nyasaland Key Plate Stamps: George V, 1912 - 1927.

All George V values were printed from separate 120 set key and duty plates, except for the 60 set 2s.
240 set sheets used two 120 set key and duty plates, but both the key plates were still numbered 1.
Watermark Multiple Crown CA. Comb perforated 14.
George V 1d Value.
Four panes of 60 in 240 set sheets. 20 printings invoiced between 4 November 1912 and 7 October
1920, 28,382,640 stamps. Issued on 5 December 1912 in booklets, in sheets February 1913.

1912 – carmine. 1916 – scarlet. 1913 – 15, De La Rue

supplied three orders
of 1d stamps in coils,
552,000 stamps.

This coil
strip, 1
October
1915, is
the only
known.

Ex Swarbrick.
Extract from the General Post Office annual report for 1917 - 18:-

George V 1½d Value.
Four panes of 60 in 240 set sheets. Issued on 13 July 1916.
6 printings invoiced between 2 June 1916 and 31 December 1919, 11,557,680 stamps.
This number includes an estimated 10 million locally overprinted War Stamps.

1916 – 1919 –
brown- yellow-
orange. orange.