Saint Vincent, with notes and publishers' pricesNapier, Francis John Hamilton Scott
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Saint Vincent, with notes and publishers' prices
Napier, Francis John Hamilton Scott
Postage stamps -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
We have called the colour of the One Penny, “carmine,” and that of the
Four Pence “red-brown.” In the _Philatelic Record_ of May, 1885, they
were called “bright-rose” and “reddish-chocolate,” but in July, 1886, the
editor of that periodical, says, “… we think it better to explain that
the colour of the One Penny of 1885, when compared with the more recent
issue, must be rather termed ‘vermilion-red’ than ‘bright-rose.’”
The Four Pence is rather scarce even used, and unused it is decidedly
rare.
All the stamps of this issue are perforated 14 by the guillotine-machine,
and the Halfpenny is one of the values that still remain in issue in the
Island.
Issue 25.
_June 1886._
1d., pink, shades.
1d., rosy-lake.
4d., purple-brown.
4d., lake-brown, shades from deep to pale.
The change in colour of the two values of this issue was first chronicled
in the _Philatelic Record_ of July, 1886, where they were spoken of
as “recent arrivals,” and their colours described as follows: “The
present colour of the One Penny is a decided pink, and it is printed in
water-colour; while the Four Pence is a very dark puce-brown.” For the
One Penny we have adopted the term “pink,” but prefer “purple-brown” to
“puce-brown” for the Four Pence. Besides the usual pink shades of the
One Penny we have found that stamp in a colour identical with some of
the specimens of the rosy-lake One Penny, which, surcharged “2½ Pence,”
appeared in 1883. We have given this stamp a separate number in the
Reference List, as, had we been content to include it as a shade of
“pink,” it might in time have come to be considered as an error of Issue
20, without surcharge, which it certainly is not. There must have been
a great number of printings of the One Penny made since 1886, as the
stamp is still current. They are now coming over, in 1895, in shades
undistinguishable from the carmine stamp of Issue 24.
If there are any shades of the purple-brown Four Pence they are very
slight. It is by no means so scarce a stamp as the red-brown Four Pence
of the last issue, but it is not nearly as common as any of the shades of
the lake-brown Four Pence, and we think there could only have been one
printing of it. The Four Pence, lake-brown, is certainly the result of
later printings, but we cannot say for certain when the first of these
was made; the earliest date we have found on one is October 2nd, 1886.
All the stamps of this issue are perforated 14 by the guillotine-machine.
Issue 26.
_October 1888._
6d., dark lilac.
5s., lake.
The Six Pence, dark lilac, was first chronicled by the _Timbre-Poste_
of November, 1888, although by some oversight M. Moens in the current
edition of his _Catalogue_ has dated it December, with the Five Shillings
lake. These two stamps were probably sent out together, and issued in
October, 1888.
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