1s., dull red, shades, sometimes with a tinge of yellow in it.

We now come to a series of issues of the One Shilling, which present a
good deal of difficulty to collectors, because of the number of colours
and shades they contain, all rather closely resembling each other. They
are not easy to describe in print, so as to be properly understood, owing
chiefly to the great divergence of opinion on the subject of the names of
colours, when these are closely allied.

On April 13th, 1872, Messrs. Perkins, Bacon & Co. despatched 9000 stamps
in 300 sheets of the One Shilling value printed in a colour they call in
their books “_pink_,” but this is a description we put out of court at
once, especially as the sample stamp in the firm’s books is a rose-red
one.

Inwhich “directs
that the present six penny postage stamps may be cut diagonally in
half—each half to be over-stamped _3d. Revenue_, and be used as a
revenue stamp of that value.” It was further used, with the surcharge
“Revenue,” as a fiscal Sixpence. This fiscal use of the Six Pence, bright
yellow-green, of Issue 14, is an additional reason for its now being so
rare in an unused state.


Issue 15.

_September 1881._

  ½d. in red on half 6d., bright yellow green, of Issue 14.

The necessity for a Halfpenny value arose from the Colony of St. Vincent
having joined the Postal Union on September 1st, 1881, and, pending the
arrival of the stamps ordered from England, this provisional was made
in the Island by dividing the Six Pence of the last issue by a vertical
line of perforation through