| ½d. | golden yellow, deep golden yellow, pale orange, vermilion, deep orange vermilion, citron,[[1]] pale ochre.[[1]] |
| 1d. | lake, deep lake. |
| 2d. | pale rose, rose, deep rose. |
| 3d. | pale ultramarine, deep ultramarine, deep blue. |
| 4d. | sepia brown, deep sepia brown. |
| 6d. | pale blue, blue, deep blue. |
| 1s. | bright green, deep green. |
The ½d. citron and ½d. pale ochre are generally believed to be changelings, due to atmospheric or other influences after the stamps were printed.
The watermark on this issue appears variously upright or sideways, varieties of each being inverted. The normal "sideways" may be taken as from left to right. Portions of the marginal lettering and the vertical division lines of the panes are also to be found. The following is a synopsis of these varieties—
| Crown C.C. | vertical | (Fig. A). |
| " | " | inverted (Fig. C). |
| " | sideways | (Fig. D). |
| " | " | inverted (Fig. E). |
| Portions of words "crown colonies." | ||
| Division lines of the panes. | ||
The subject of perforations is of peculiar interest in this and the next issue of the stamps of Gambia, as while to a certain extent the printings are to be differentiated by shade the chief distinctions may be made in the case of blocks and sheets by the perforations.
At first the stamps were perforated by a single line machine gauging 14. A single line machine, as its name implies, simply makes a single long row of holes in one direction—
