All three printers had specimen stamps with varieties. The tables below list those I have identified to date. The Acrobat file includes the same information as well as my sources.
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De la Rue - Bahamas 2½d
Diagonal line at Brunswick Tower
Plate 2A. Either Row/Column 10/1 or 10/2
Only seven stamps possible.
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Waterlow - Virgin Islands 1d
Vertical line from left edge of Brunswick Tower to frame edge. Plate 2A Row/Column 3/1
Only seven stamps possible
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Bradbury Specimen Varieties
Plate
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R/C
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Description
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1
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?/2
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Two long parallel hairline marks arising from State Apartment just to left of Round Tower
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8/4
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Hairline mark arising from Home Wood Park (Left of Brunswick Tower)
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9/1
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Extra Flagstaff
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2
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2/1
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Short Extra flagstaff
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3
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1/4
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Lightning conductor on left side of gable of St. George's Chapel
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2/2
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Two swans in water in front of St. George's Chapel just to left of Jacob's Island
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2/5
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Lightning conductor on right side of gable of St. George's Chapel
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7
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7/1
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Flagstaff on left side of Curfew Tower
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8
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9/5
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Vertical hairline from Round Tower
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10
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7/1
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Hairline mark going through right side of Brunswick Tower
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Note:
1) Two varieties from two different plates are recorded for Sierra Leone 1/-. The possibilities are that one is a forgery or that sheets from different plates were used.
2) Bechuanaland 2d. Hairline variety from Plate 1 column 2 noted (row unknown).
De la Rue Specimen Varieties
Plate
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R/C
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Description
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2A
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10/1
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Diagonal line at Brunswick Tower
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10/2
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Diagonal line at Brunswick Tower
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4
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8/4
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Dot just above and to left of Flagpole
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4/
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10/1
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Diagonally right slanting hairline from frame through to Brocas Meadow
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Plate
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2A
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4
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4/
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R/C
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10/1
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10/2
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8/4
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Bahamas
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2½d
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¨
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¨
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Ceylon
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9c
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¨
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Dominica
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1/-
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¨
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Mauritius
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5c
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¨
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¨
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12c
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¨
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¨
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Northern Rhodesia
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1d
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¨
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¨
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3d
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¨
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¨
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St. Helena
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1½d
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¨
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¨
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2d
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¨
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¨
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Note: The position of these varieties (10/1 or 10/2) is not clear. This is due to the fact that the variety occurs in both positions and look the same. I have arbitrarily chosen 10/2.
Waterlow Specimen Varieties
Plate
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R/C
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Description
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2A
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2/5
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Dot to left of Round Tower
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3/1
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Vertical line from left edge of Brunswick Tower to frame edge
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10/5
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Dot in sky near first letter of Colony & dot on River Bank above Brocas Meadow
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10/6
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Kite and Vertical Log
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7
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1/5
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Bird by Brunswick Tower
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Note: Somaliland 2a and 1r and Virgin Islands 1d, 2½d and 1/- varieties could from either Plate 2A or 2B as these rows are common to both. It is not clear which plate the variety comes from.
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