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Comb
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3 printings. 40,573,440
Usage: A make up rate
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Electro 6
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Electro 7
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November 9, 1923. Colour change.
Cooke Electros Printed in August 1923, 1st printing only.
Qty: 19,027,980
Orange, Bright Orange. Pale Orange.
The colour was
changed to conform with U.P.U requirements, January 1922. Although Harrison printed this
value in orange that year, it took nearly two years for the green printings of the little
used value to be depleted. It was not until November 8, 1923, that this new colour was
finally issued.
Note that the imprint had already changed to Harrison's two line style, on
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Electro 8 |
Electro 9 |
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Harrison
electros.
1st printing:
April June 1924
2nd printing: August 1925
Ttl Qty: 21,476,160
Electros 8 and 9 have
no jubilee lines, and unlike the others are genuine Harrison creations. Upper and lower
plates can be distinguished by differences in lower plate L60 which has a
break in top frame. Or alternatively, upper L60 has left fraction bar
thickened.
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Positions
8L18,24
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A small flaw of almost no
visual significance appears on the upper electro (8) in 12 scattered
positions indicated in yellow. Slight wear to the die caused a small colour spot above
AUSTRALIA joining it to the adjacent wattle leaflet.
Its significance lies in the fact that it is a repeated
flaw found on several positions of the same sheet. It also indicates
that electro 8 was the last ½d electro produced.
It’s introduction is identical in every respect to that
found on the 3d Kangaroo, which was a deliberate addition of 15 new Die2 lead moulds and
grouped in the bottom corner of the forme. In this case however they
were simply scattered about.
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