Provisionals (1923–1927)
sheets of 50 surcharged in panes of 25 after being folded down the center and with margins removed, except type of 1927 (“wavy lines”) which was overprinted with a setting of 50 and with margins left on;
four types of obliterator bars:
type I “fancy cross ornaments”, setting of 5 x 5, on official stamp in red (1923 and 1926) and on regular and official stamp in black (1926) with one spelling error “Gents” for “Cents” (position 10), on official stamps only;
type II (1926) “black bar” often made up of two bars of unequal lenght, setting of 5 x 5, in black on regular stamp with variety “TwoCents” lacking space between words (position 2), and, in addition, on official stamp with “Two Gents” spelling error (position 10);
type III (1926) “red quads” usually aligned horizontally giving the appearance of two parallel bars, but also featuring several varieties with some quads being oriented vertically, setting of 5 x 5, on official stamp in red and again one known spelling error “Gents” for “Cents” (position 10);
type IV (1927) “wavy lines”, one setting for whole sheet of 10 x 5, on regular and official stamp in red with six sub-types of wavy lines, and with the following setting varieties and errors of “Two Cents”: “T wo” (position 4), “Ceuts” (position 20 & 36), “Cen ts” (positions 28 & 29), “Vwo” (position 32), “Two 1Cents” caused by lead spacing bar showing (position 42), and “Twc” (position 50).
regular and official stamps
228
228a
229
229 big 2
O155
O155b
O156
SGO182
O157