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             In the National Postal Museum there is an album which contains
        an infinite variety of trial overprints on G.B. stamps in their issued
        colours, a typical example being illustrated above. There are also trial
        overprints in red on stamps in black.

                             SPECIMEN STAMPS

             An album compiled at the Post Office Supplies Department at
        Hemel Hempstead, and passed to the Philatelic Bureau at G.P.O.
         Headquarters in May 1963, contains an extensive range of the stamps
        of the Gulf Agencies overprinted SPECIMEN.





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