of printings--

1/2d. golden yellow, deep golden yellow, pale orange, vermilion,
deep orange vermilion, citron,[1] pale ochre.[1]
1d. lake, deep lake.
2d. pale rose, rose, deep rose.
3d. pale ultramarine, deep ultramarine, deep blue.
4d. sepia brown, deep sepia brown.
6d. pale blue, blue, deep blue.
1s. bright green, deep green.

[Footnote 1: The 1/2d. citron and 1/2d. pale ochre are generally believed
to be changelings, due to atmospheric or other influences after the
stamps were printed.]

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[Illustration: Fig. D.]

[Illustration: Fig. E.]

The watermark on this issue appears variously upright or sideways,
varieties of each being inverted. The normal "sideways" may be taken
as from left to right. Portions of the marginal lettering and the
vertical division lines of the panes are also to be found. The
following is a synopsis of these varieties--

Crown C.C. vertical (Fig. A).
" " inverted (Fig. C).
" sideways (Fig. D).
" " inverted (Fig. E).
Portions of words "CROWN COLONIES."
Division lines of the panes.

The subject of perforations is of peculiar interest in this and the
next issue of the stamps of Gambia, as while to a certain extent the
printings are to be differentiated by shade the chief distinctions may
be made in the case of blocks and sheets by the perforations.

At first the stamps were perforated by a single line machine gauging
14. A single line machine, as its name implies, simply makes a single
long row of holes in one direction--

.................................................................

In the present case, where the sheets were so small, the row is much
longer than necessary, so in the sheets it extends through the margins
on all sides, as in plate II.

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The horizontal rows may be perforated first (one row at a time),
and then the sheet is turned sideways and the vertical divisions
are similarly perforated. A peculiarity of this style of perforating
machine is that the points where the vertical lines cross the
horizontal lines rarely fail to fall foul of each other, and an effect
is produced like this--

[Illustration: Single line perforation. Note the crossing of
perforated lines.]

In this manner it is possible to tell blocks and pairs of this
perforation without any side margins. Single copies perforated in
this manner can occasionally be detected by the distance between t