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A surface printed 1867 2s Blue?

s the highest value in the series of six – 3d, 6d, 9d, 10d, 1s, 2s – its issuing reflected in part the demand for higher value postage stamps in Britain’s explosively expanding business world in the late 1860s. Savage competition in a free enterprise economy encouraged companies to become more efficient. Obsessed time-saving office managers knew to a stopwatch second that a single 3d stamp of

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