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Jamaica: Queen Elizabeth II Definitives.

Recess, De La Rue. 1 May 1956. Perforation comb 13.

Each De La Rue value was printed from two plates, frame and centre. Both plate numbers (for
example 1A 1A or 1B 3B) appear at the bottom right of the sheets; sheet numbers are at the top right.

½d, four printings from 1d, three printings from
four pairs of plates. twelve pairs of plates. Printer’s waste on

watermarked,
gummed paper.

2 August 1956.

2d, four printings from
ten pairs of plates.

2 August 1956.

2½d printed from
plates 1A-1A, →
1B-1B and 1C-1C.
Frame plate 1A,
row 12, stamp 3.
A flaw above the right-
hand value was
corrected promptly, but
left traces of the repair
under the restored
lines of shading.