The New Hebrides: Postal History & Stamps

1924 VARIA

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1920-24

1920-24 Stamps

"1924-surcharges"

1924 surcharges on 1911 weapons and idols. British issue 1d on 1/2d , 3d on1d , 5d on 2 1/2d and French issue 10c on 5c , 30c on 10c and 50c on 25c tied to large archival piece by multiple strikes of the large red cachet POSTES ET TELEGRAPHES * MADAGASCAR * COLLECTION DE BERNE. " certifié conforme LE DIRECTEUR des Postes et Télégraphes ". There were no official overprint SPECIMEN for these issues. (SeSi coll.)

"Big Point"

10c plate error "big point"
(Klinger coll.)

"Faded print"

50c with faded print ("SeSi" coll.)

Br. Issue: Horizontal block of 9. (click for blowup) (Mele coll.)

For study purposes, here are the full sheets of the 50c multiple Crown CA watermark which is illustrated in Hals / Collas page 107 and a sheet with the RF watermark. Click on the thumbnail pictures to open a new browser window. But be patient: these are very big files - and I mean very big - a 1.7 MByte picture, so you better have a fast connection. (Merot coll.)

..and the RF and CA sheets from the reverse:
50c sheet RF 50c sheet CA

1924 5d on 2½d, 1d & 3d/-

1d on 2½ overprint and 1d & 3d sheets. Image thanks to Corbitts

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