This stamp depicts a tobacco planter. The tobacco industry contributed a significant amount to the country’s foreign earnings. The illustration shows a tobacco planter removing suckers from the tobacco plant.
Details
- Subject: Tobacco Planter
- Designer:
- Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England
- Process: Recess
- Paper:
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 14 x 13.5
- Plates: None. Printed in four panes and separated by horizontal and vertical gutters. Distributed in one sheet of four panes.*
- Sheet: R6 x 10/4 panes (240 stamps)
- Quantity:
- 37,000,000 (ordered)
- 19,897,152 (sold)
One of the examples below shows the sheet number over the first pane, suggesting that the panes may have been broken down in one printing in London. It is unknown if this was a single pane or two panes.
Sheet Numbers
