“Second row, fourth stamp: Two full stops, one above the other, after ‘STG.’

“Second row, fifth stamp: Full stop before ‘S’ in ‘STG.,’ apparently put there instead of after ‘STG.,’ which has none.

“Two Pence, printed in sheets of one hundred; ten rows of ten stamps in each.

“Third row, tenth stamp: Part of ‘T’ in ‘TWO’ off, making it look like inverted I. Full stop before ‘T’ in ‘TWO.’

“In the older printing of the One Penny a peculiarity exists which some of our readers may have in a complete form; that is, an outer line all around the stamp. I have four specimens with this line in the golden yellow and yellow-brown shades, perforated 12. Specimen No. 1 was the last stamp in the row, and has the marginal part of the sheet attached to it. The line is the full length of the right hand side of the stamp, the perforation going directly through it. No. 2 has the line on left hand side and bottom, the full length and width of stamp, with traces of it showing on perforation at top and right hand side. No. 3 has line showing in parts at left hand side and at bottom. No. 4 shows only at bottom. The last two are of the yellow-brown shade.

“This peculiarity may also be found in the Four Pence, but parts of the line only showing. A peculiarity of the Four Pence is that in the diamond, on each side of the stamp, there is a small oval ornament, which has in the diamond on the right hand side of the stamp a small line to it at top and bottom, but on the oval at the left hand side none at all in any. The Cent issue with one exception is free from those errors or secret marks, or whatever they may be. The one is in the Three Cents, which are printed in sheets of one hundred, ten rows of ten stamps in each. The seventh stamp of the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth rows has a full stop between ‘PRINCE’ and ‘EDWARD,’ thus ‘PRINCE. EDWARD.’ The varieties in the Pence issue mentioned above are, I think, some kind of secret marks, although they are not found in a regular rotation as in the Three Cent, being arbitrarily scattered here and there over each sheet, the varieties of each stamp when they occur being precisely the same, so that it is hardly possible that such a series of errors could be made unintentionally; but of this some one with more knowledge of the stamps may be able to speak.

“David Lang.”

Issue II. 1st November, 1868(?).

One value. Engraved and printed by Mr. Charles Whiting upon medium white wove unwatermarked paper; white gum. The entire sheet consists of thirty stamps arranged in six horizontal rows of five. Design: The same diademed profile of Queen Victoria to left, as in the preceding issue, upon background of horizontal lines. Curved scrolls of solid colour at top and bottom of the stamp, the upper inscribed with the name of the Colony, and the lower with the value in words. Beneath the top scroll a small curved label of solid colour inscribed “POSTAGE.” All the inscriptions are in white block letters. Fancy ornaments at the sides of the stamp and a single outer line of colour complete the design. Shape: Upright rectangular, machine-perforated 11, 11½, 12, and compound. ([Illustration 101.])