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Jamaica Telegraph.
Telegraph stamps, 1879.
De La Rue’s Ink Recipe No 975 for the 1879 3d.
The block of De La Rue dummy stamps shows the intended colour which the ink recipe calls Purple.
Ex De La Rue archives;
Swarbrick.
The second component, Aniline Purple Ink, is itself made up according to another recipe, No 673.
A Robson Lowe photocopy of a reverse De La Rue recipe page is below, with the original block of De
La Rue dummy stamps remounted to show the colour.
Ex De La Rue archives;
Swarbrick.
