The First Condominium Series of 1908 -- Remarks on the colour bars of the overprint.
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The composition of the colour bars
The bicoloured stamps had the word "FIJI" barred out with a band of colour approximating the
word. This band has a height of 8 points. As the printing was done in Suva I suppose that these
are Anglosaxon points and not Didot points! One 'As' point equals 1/72 of an Imperial Inch = 0.353 mm,
(one 'Di' point equals 1/72 of a French Royal Inch = 0.376 mm). |
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| 3pt/5pt | 5pt/3pt | 2pt/6pt | |
1.06mm / 1.77mm |
1.77mm / 1.06mm |
0.71mm / 2.12mm |
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| 6pt/2pt | |||
| 2.12mm / 0.71mm | |||
The printers realized these 8pt with a combination of two rules 3pt and 5pt or two
rules 2pt and 6pt, so the combinations 3/5pt or 5/3pt occur and 2/6pt or 6/2pt. | |||