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Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd.
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The extra flagstaff
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Is the best known of the Silver Jubilee varieties. Appears in Plate 1, Row/Column 9/1.
Is a 3½ mm vertical line just to the left of the Winchester Tower. Occurs in 13 of 15 colony printings by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Believed to be due to ink debris. It is thought to have first occurred during printing of Hong Kong 5c stamp. Some stamps from second printings had the flagstaff removed from the printed sheet by scratching it out with a pointed instrument (see extra flagstaff removed).
Note: The extra flagstaff has been described in the Jamaica booklet.
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Distribution of Extra Flagstaff Variety on Common Design Stamps
Colony
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Value
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Bechuanaland
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1d
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2d
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3d
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6d
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British Honduras
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3c
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4c
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5c
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25c
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Falkland Islands
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1d
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2½d
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4d
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1/-
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Gambia
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1½d
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3d
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6d
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1/-
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Gibraltar
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2d
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3d
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6d
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1/-
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Gilbert & Ellice Is.
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1d
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1½d
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3d
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1/-
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Gold Coast
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1d
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3d
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6d
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1/-
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Colony
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Value
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Hong Kong
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3c
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5c
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10c
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20c
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Jamaica
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1d
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1½d
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6d
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1/-
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Malta
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½d
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2½d
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6d
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1/-
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Seychelles
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6c
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12c
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20c
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1r
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Sierra Leone
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1d
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3d
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5d
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1/-
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Swaziland
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1d
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2d
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3d
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6d
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Trinidad & Tobago
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2c
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3c
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6c
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24c
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Note
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Gilbert & Ellice Islands
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No variety. First colony to be printed. Plate 1 not used
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Newfoundland
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All values single composite vignette & frame plate
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Falkland Islands
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1/- (2nd printing only - maximum of 94 stamps possible)
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Gambia
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6d, 1/- (flagstaff removed during 2nd printing)
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Malta
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½d, 6d, 1/- (flagstaff removed during 2nd printing - There was no 2nd printing of 2½d)
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Seychelles
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12c (Flagstaff only with 2nd printing. Maximum number possible 51 stamps)
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