3d., blue, dark blue (shades). 6d., dark green, yellow-green ( ” ). 1s., lilac-mauve, dull violet ( ” ). _Varieties._—All three stamps are found cut in two and used for half the nominal values, although, as we see from Mr. King’s paper, the Three Pence was alone authorized to be mutilated in this manner. _Remarks._—The colour of the paper varies considerably, from deep blue to almost white. All the surcharges catalogued on the stamps of this issue may be put down to obliterations, or as due to fraud. (_Vide_ Mr. King’s papers.) Issue II. May 1st(?), 1853. _One value._ Engraved and printed in _taille-douce_ by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon, and Co., upon stoutish blue wove paper; yellowish gum, imperforate. Design: Diademed almost full-face portrait of Queen Victoria looking to left, within a single plain-lined lozenge-shaped frame with engine-turned background. The spandrels are filled in with arabesque ornamentation, in which four eight-rayed stars, that are cut in half by the lozenge-shaped frame, figure prominently. At the top, bottom, and two sides there are narrow coloured bands, composed of diagonal crossed lines, containing inscriptions in plain Roman capitals. Plain square blocks in the four corners, with coloured Roman numeral of value. Shape, square. (_Illustration 89._) T. “NOVA.” B. “SCOTIA.” R. “POSTAGE.” L. “ONE PENNY”—both the latter reading downwards. 1d., reddish-brown (shades). _Remarks._—Specimens of this stamp are known upon white paper, but, like the Three Pence of New Brunswick, the variety is only due to the discharge of the blue colouring matter from the paper. This is the only stamp of Nova Scotia Mr. King is unable to give the exact day of issue of. A note in _The Philatelic Record_, vol. x. page 48, states that the first supply was sent over to the Colony by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon, and Co. in April, 1853; so the issue most likely took place on or about May 1st in that year. Issue III. October 1st, 1860.