Page 13 - BWISC 60th Anniversary Display at RPSL, November 2014
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Frame 8
ST. KITTS
from the collection of Brian Brookes, FRPSL
A photographic ‘mock-up’ in blue and drab-brown with the colours reversed and on thin card, imperf,
countersunk on heavy card and dated ‘21st June 22’, ex-De La Rue Archives.
To celebrate the Tercentenary of the Founding of the Colony in 1623, on 25 May 1922
St. Kitts requested De La Rue to produce a design. On 5 June 1922 one was submitted.
Later, on 21 June 1922, De La Rue submitted another design in duplicate with the wording
altered; this is shown. Combined cut-down Die Proofs with value tablets solid are followed
by a selection of cut-down Die Proofs with values inserted. All of these show white spots on
each side of the ship like ‘Shell Bursts’. Also shown are pairs of the imperforate values in the
issued colours apparently produced for the personal reference collection of a high official in
De La Rue around 1922, as well as the issue with ‘SPECIMEN’ overprints in reconstructed
blocks of four.
ST. KITTS
from the collection of Brian Brookes, FRPSL
A photographic ‘mock-up’ in blue and drab-brown with the colours reversed and on thin card, imperf,
countersunk on heavy card and dated ‘21st June 22’, ex-De La Rue Archives.
To celebrate the Tercentenary of the Founding of the Colony in 1623, on 25 May 1922
St. Kitts requested De La Rue to produce a design. On 5 June 1922 one was submitted.
Later, on 21 June 1922, De La Rue submitted another design in duplicate with the wording
altered; this is shown. Combined cut-down Die Proofs with value tablets solid are followed
by a selection of cut-down Die Proofs with values inserted. All of these show white spots on
each side of the ship like ‘Shell Bursts’. Also shown are pairs of the imperforate values in the
issued colours apparently produced for the personal reference collection of a high official in
De La Rue around 1922, as well as the issue with ‘SPECIMEN’ overprints in reconstructed
blocks of four.
