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The George VI Definitives 1938 to 1955
One Shilling Black & Olive-Green
One border plate and three vignette plates were used between 4 May 1938 and 7 July 1955. The earliest border
and vignettes plates had no number in the margin, but are known as Plate (1).
Border Vignette No. Sheets
Plate Plate Printings Printed
(1) (1) 2 1,940
(1) 2 4 or 5 7,017
(1) 3 8 or 9 15,230
Totals 15 24,187
Of all of the printings Waterlows undertook for Sierra Leone, only one cannot be definitely assigned to a
particular plate. Requisition 3038/1 of 1 September 1943 could have been printed from Vignette Plate 2 or 3;
the number of sheets printed has been split evenly between the two totals given above.
Block with sheet number from a sheet that was sent to the Colony. Border Plate (1) Vignette Plate 2.
Border Plate (1) and Vignette Plate 2.
