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

George V 4d Value.
Two panes of 60 arranged in 120 set sheets. Issued on 4 April 1913.
8 printings invoiced between 8 October 1912 and 27 May 1919, 384,240 stamps.

The mill manufacturing the original paper closed.
1912 – a single printing of 43,360 stamps As a stopgap De La Rue coated the front of their
on the original yellow paper. white paper yellow.

1913 to 1915 – three printings of 179,280
on white paper coated yellow.

From 1916 alternative sources of supply of yellow paper were used.
Three major shade varieties are attempts to reproduce the original colour.

1916 – a single printing of 24,480 stamps 1917 and 1918 – two printings of 35,040 stamps
on lemon yellow. on yellow.

1919 – a single printing of 97,080 stamps on pale yellow.