The 6d image was a composite image taken from various images of tea pickers, plantations and tea leaves of Mlanje Mountain. Originally intended to be two colours, the artwork was endorsed by Colin Cameron with the provision blue was added to the sky.
- Photo A – taken from Kodachrome transparency inscribed “Tea estate, near Likabula, Mlanje,” showing a typical tea-garden at the base of the Mlanje Mountain.
- Photo B – an image of the leaf of the tree Thea sinensis.
Details
- Designer: Victor Whitely
- Printer: Harrisons & Sons Ltd, London
- Process: Photogravure
- Paper:
- Watermark:
- 1st/2nd Printing – None
- 7th Printing – Cockerels
- Perf: 14.5 (comb)
- Cylinders: 1A (Violet) 1A (Light Blue) 1A (Green)
- Sheet: R10 x 6 (60 stamps)
- Quantity:
- Reprints:
- 2nd Printing – February 1965
- 7th Printing – 16 May 1967
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References
- Gibbons Stamp Monthly (June 1964)
