Page 6 - Farrimond Jamaica Miscellany

- JAMAICA

The "Laureated Head" of Queen Victoria
Pineapple watermark

De La Rue Archival Records

It is thought that these stamps Archival copies of the 6d and
are from a sheet of stamps that 1 s values are also found with
was retained in the De La Rue these diagonal lines
archives for "specimen"
purposes and defaced with the
diagonal pen strokes when the
issue became obsolete. Provenance: ex Hemmings

De La Rue Ink Recipes

De La Rue used a dummy stamp design depicting Queen Victoria (designed in 1863) for its ink trials. The
dummy stamps were attached, usually in blocks of four, to double-sided pages within an ink ledger containing
the recipes for each ink colour. These were used in the print works so that the company could faithfully
replicate specific colours when later requisitions were made for additional stamps to be printed.

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Provenance: ex Swarbrick & Jarvis
De La Rue dummy stamps printed
in "red cochineal" ink as a record of
the ink recipe used for the Jamaican
two pence postage and one penny Two pence postage and one
revenue stamps (on a copy of the penny revenue stamps printed
ink ledger page) using this ink recipe
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