Echoes from 1976 : notes on the 1/2d green table

Abstract

All information and numbers as quoted in the 1h.d Green Table in the PSM Magazine Dec. Issue, page 38 are to be found in the Invoices reproduced on pages 39 to 42 which I, with my wife, copied from the (volumes) 83 Day Books of Messrs. De La Rue, in the archieves of the London Post Office, on two different occasions. As the P.S.M Magazine is printed by means of a photo-set process, in order not to re-type and re-set the various columns, use was made of some of the columns as they appear in the table of the 1/2d Green as published by Clive Smith in his publication 'The Victoria Half-Penny'. The table published in the P .S.M. Magazine is not a faithful in toto reproduction of what appears in Smith's publication, as the one published in the P .S.M. Magazine contains the important information about supply No. 30, which was in yellow, not included in Mr. Smith's table of page 72. [excerpt]