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.


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
R/C
Description
1
?/2
Two long parallel hairline marks arising from State Apartment just to left of Round Tower
8/4
Hairline mark arising from Home Wood Park (Left of Brunswick Tower)
9/1
Extra Flagstaff
2
2/1
Short Extra flagstaff
3
1/4
Lightning conductor on left side of gable of St. George's Chapel
2/2
Two swans in water in front of St. George's Chapel just to left of Jacob's Island
2/5
Lightning conductor on right side of gable of St. George's Chapel
7
7/1
Flagstaff on left side of Curfew Tower
8
9/5
Vertical hairline from Round Tower
10
7/1
Hairline mark going through right side of Brunswick Tower

Plate
1
2
3
5
8
10
R/C
-/2
7/2
8/4
9/1
2/1
1/4
2/2
2/5
7/1
9/5
7/1
Bechuanaland
2d
¨
6d
¨
British Honduras
5c
¨
25c
¨
Gambia
1½d
¨
3d
¨
6d
¨
1/-
¨
Gibraltar
3d
¨
6d
¨
Gold Coast
1/-
¨
Hong Kong
3c
¨
Jamaica
1d
¨
1½d
¨
Malta
2½d
¨
6d
¨
Seychelles
1r
¨
Sierra Leone
3d
¨
1/-
¨
¨
Swaziland
1d
¨
3d
¨
6d
¨
Trinidad & Tobago
24c
¨

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
R/C
Description
2A
10/1
Diagonal line at Brunswick Tower
10/2
Diagonal line at Brunswick Tower
4
8/4
Dot just above and to left of Flagpole
4/
10/1
Diagonally right slanting hairline from frame through to Brocas Meadow

Plate
2A
4
4/
R/C
10/1
10/2
8/4
Bahamas
2½d
¨
¨
Ceylon
9c
¨
Dominica
1/-
¨
Mauritius
5c
¨
¨
12c
¨
¨
Northern Rhodesia
1d
¨
¨
3d
¨
¨
St. Helena
1½d
¨
¨
2d
¨
¨

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
R/C
Description
2A
2/5
Dot to left of Round Tower
3/1
Vertical line from left edge of Brunswick Tower to frame edge
10/5
Dot in sky near first letter of Colony & dot on River Bank above Brocas Meadow
10/6
Kite and Vertical Log
7
1/5
Bird by Brunswick Tower

Plate
2
2A
5
7
R/C
2/5
3/1
4/4
10/6
6/3
1/5
Ascension
2d
¨
Bermuda
1d
¨
2½d
¨
1/-
¨
Nyasaland
1d
¨
2d
¨
Somaliland
2a
¨
3a
¨
¨
1r
¨
¨
Virgin Islands
1d
¨
¨
2½d
¨
¨
1/-
¨

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.