Page 235 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL

Jamaica: War Stamps 1916 - 1920.

First issue, overprint double.
The double overprint was found within a single complete sheet of 240 stamps. The upper two panes
and the first two rows of the lower panes were normal. The impression on the fourth row was thick
and heavy and from there downwards a second impression began and progressively detached itself
from the first until, in the bottom row, the two overprints are distinct. With six rows of twelve double
overprints there can have been only 72 copies printed.

Row 4,
thickened impression.

Row 5,
first traces of doubling.

This
reconstruction of
rows 4 to 8 is Row 6.
ex Baillie, Davis.

Davis had not
seen rows 9 and
10 and so
described their
state as “not at Row 7.
present known.”

The block of Row 7. ↑ Left stamp also shows
rows 9 and 10 is raised quad, WARISTAMP.
added here to
show the
complete Row 8.
progression from
row 4 to row 10.

Row 9.
Strong doubling in these
bottom rows. All four
overprints tilt down to the left.

Row 10.