Issue 31.
March 1893.
- 4d., canary-yellow.
- “Five Pence,” in black, on 6d., dull carmine.
- “Five Pence” ” ” carmine-brown.
These values were issued in March, 1893, and are perforated 14 by the guillotine machine. The Four Pence is the old design, but with the colour once more changed to canary-yellow. For the Five Pence Messrs. De La Rue & Co. printed the current Six Pence in a new colour, and surcharged each stamp, over the original value, with the words “FIVE PENCE” in a straight line of block capitals, measuring 13½ mm. × 2¾ mm. There are two very distinct colours of this stamp—dull carmine and carmine-brown. They were both in existence in November, 1893, at which date they were chronicled in Stanley Gibbons’ Monthly Journal.
The stamps of this issue are still current.
Appendix A.
SAINT VINCENT.
An Act to authorise the appointment of a Colonial Post-Master for the Colony of Saint Vincent, and to transfer to the Executive Government of the said Colony the control over the Post Office therein, heretofore exercised by Her Majesty’s Post-Master-General.