nted on the same paper (Crown and C.A.) as the last issue,
comprised the following values--

Watermarked Crown C.A.

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1/2d. green and green.
1d. carmine and carmine.
2d. orange and mauve.
2 1/2d. ultramarine and ultramarine.
3d. magenta and ultramarine.
4d. brown and ultramarine.
6d. sage-green and carmine.
1s. violet and green.
1s. 6d. green and carmine on yellow paper.
2s. deep slate and orange.
2s. 6d. purple and brown on yellow paper.
3s. carmine and green on yellow paper.

[Footnote 2: Compare numbers overprinted in 1906 (Chapter VIII.).]

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In May, 1905, appeared also three new values printed on multiple
Crown C.A. paper, each stamp shewing portions of two or more watermark
designs instead of one more or less complete design as heretofore.
The new values were the 5d., 7 1/2d. and 10d. These being rather unusual
denominations, their appearance caused considerable ferment among
collectors, who ascribed their issue to motives not strictly
associated with legitimate postal business. Reference to the Post
Office Ordinance No. 6 of 1897 (quoted in Chapter I.) will shew that
the fees for insured parcels in force in the Gambia were 5d. for
compensation up to L12, 7 1/2d. up to L24, and 10d. up to L36; so it
is not unreasonable if, as one may assume, the colonists availed
themselves of these rates of insurance, that there was a use for such
denominations.

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The new multiple watermarked paper had been adopted for the 1d.
value in 1904, and was during 1905-6 introduced for all the regular
denominations except the 1s. 6d., 2s. 6d. and 3s. On this paper,
therefore, we get the following--

Multiple Crown C.A.

1/2d. green and green.
1d. carmine and carmine.
2d. orange and mauve.
2 1/2d. ultramarine and ultramarine.
3d. magenta and ultramarine.
4d. brown and ultramarine.
5d. grey and black.
6d. sage-green and carmine.
7 1/2d. green and carmine.
10d. olive-brown and carmine.
1s. violet and green.
2s. deep slate and orange.

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CHAPTER VIII.

Provisional Issue 1906.

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The next and only remaining issue we have to describe are in the
nature of Provisionals issued during a temporary shortage of halfpenny
and penny stamps. The Bathurst correspondent of _Ewen's Weekly Stamp
News_, writing April 30, 1906, communicated the