+ Issue Date : 1921
+ Classification : Postage Stamp
+ Printer : De La Rue & Co, Limited
+ Printing : Intaglio / Recess
+ Perforations : 14
+ Separations : Normal Perforations
+ Gum Type : Gum
+ Shape : Rectangular
Type I - Plate I - Produced by Electrotyping
Type II - Plate II - Produced by Transfer Die
A new common centre plate, Plate II was prepared from the original die in 1926. Stamps from Plate II, produced using a transfer die, show considerably more detail of the ground and have the oxen's, ploughman's hat and his clothing much more deeply cut.
Produced by De La Rue & Co, Limited using the 'wet' method of recess-printing during which the stamps contracted when they were dried before gumming. From 1933, the firm adopted the 'dry' method, using pre-gummed paper, with the result that stamps were up to 0.5 mm larger in size. Of the low values as Type I in this series only the 2 cents was still current when the 'dry' method was introduced.
Stamps as Type I can be perforated either comb or line. The 1 cent and 4 cents come comb only, the 3 cents line only and 2 cents either way.
