标题：海峡殖民地印花税票

THE EXHIBIT:

By 1867, the Straits Settlements had become important enough to become a Crown Colony with its own Government and administration instead of being administered from India. A series of Indian Postage Stamps and Revenue stamps were overprinted for consideration for use in the Straits Settlements which were to supercede the stamps of India which had until then been used. The essays prepared took two forms. A Crown overprint to emphasise the new status of a Crown Colony; the name of the colony “STRAITS/SETTLEMENTS” in two lines. The number of surviving essays appears to be small and 18 of these are in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II. There are only 29 other existing essays in private hands, and they are all shown here.

Three key pages showing 27 examples of the Crown and Straits Settlements overprint essays are followed by comprehensive revenue and judicial stamp studies revealing subtle features of different printings and watermark varieties hitherto unrecorded.

展品介绍:

1867年，海峡殖民地脱离英属印度，成为一个有自己政府和管理部门的英国直辖殖民地。一组印度的邮票和印花税票遂被加盖专用于海峡殖民地，并以此替代以前一直使用的印度票。加盖试样票有二式。皇冠图强调了直辖殖民地新的身份，其名称“STRAITS/SETTLEMENTS”分为二行。留存至今的试样票很少，英国王室邮集中藏有18枚，另有29枚由私人收藏，这些样票在本展品中均有展出。

展品中的三个贴片，着重展示了27件皇冠图和“STRAITS/SETTLEMENTS”加盖的试样票，另展出了印花税票、司法印纸不同印刷的细微特征和迄今未报道过的水印变体。