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Grenada


Chapter overview
  • Airport Tax (catalogue numbers prefixed A)
  • Impressed revenue stamps (catalogue numbers prefixed Z)
  • Labels (catalogue numbers prefixed L)
  • Revenue stamps (catalogue numbers prefixed R)
  • Revenue usage of Postage stamps (catalogue numbers prefixed F)


Acknowledgments
  • Donald L Duston, British Commonwealth - Update to Barefoot and Hall (4th Edition), The Revenue Journal, vol II 1 (June 1991), pp23-25
  • Chris Harman, Grenada: The Perkins, Bacon issues - Part of a display given by the Revenue Society to the Royal Philatelic Society on 15th October 2015 (unpublished, scans held in Revenue Society library)

See also general acknowledgments on the main West Indies page.
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Currency
  • (Until 1949) 20 shillings = 1 pound sterling (12 pence = 1 shilling)
  • (1949-1965) 100 cents = 1 British West Indies dollar
  • (1965-present) 100 cents = 1 East Caribbean dollar

Airport Tax
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A1, A6, A11
1989-2006 (recorded usage).  Inscribed Grenada Airports Authority / Airport Service Charge / Receipt.  Imperf.  No watermark.  Security number in black (A1) or red (A6, A11)

a) Approx 80 x 75 mm, Coat of Arms in black, inscribed Point Salines International Airport
  A1. $25 black on buff

b) Similar to a) but name of airport not given
  A6. $35 black on yellow

c) 115 x 70 mm, Coat of Arms multicoloured
  A11. $50 multicoloured

Recorded usage: A1 (Aug 1989), A6 (Nov 1997), A11 (Feb 2006).

Impressed revenue stamps
Picture
Z1/6
PictureHand-drawn essays on tracing paper
1914-32 (see note 1).  Imperial Crown, inscribed GRENADA.  Value in sterling currency.  17½ x 29 mm.  No date plugs or check letters.

  [Z1. ¼d vermilion (1932)]
  [Z2. ½d vermilion (1932)]
  Z3. 1d colourless
  [Z4. 2d vermilion]
  [Z5. 3d vermilion (1932)]
  [Z6. 6d vermilion (1932)]

Notes:
1. The earliest recorded usage of this issue is the 1d cancelled 1914.  The 2d was probably issued later.  The other four values are recorded in the Crown Agents Requisition books (Req 3019), which states that the four dies were sent to Grenada on 18th May 1932.
​2. The values shown in brackets are known as essays but not as issued examples.
​3. Illustrated above right are hand-drawn essays of the ¼d, ½d, 3d and 6d on tracing paper.

Picture
Z11/17 on specimen sheet (see footnote)
PictureZ11 issued example
1960s-70s.  As previous issue but changed to decimal currency.  All values colourless.

  Z11. 5c
  [Z12. $50]
  [Z13. $100]
  [Z14. $200]
  [Z15. $500]
  [Z16. $2500]
  [Z17. $5000]

Note: no issued examples are recorded of the dollar values, which are known only from the specimen sheet illustrated above.  This sheet was supplied in July 1973 by the Permanent Secretary of the Grenada Ministry of Finance, who stated that these impressed stamps were still in use at the time on documents such as conveyances and licences.


Labels
Picture
L1/4
1914-17.  World War I fundraising labels.  44 x 47½ mm, imperf (L1); 32 x 26½ mm, rough perf 11 (L2); 33 x 27 mm, roulette 6½ (L3); often with one or two sides imperf.  L4 dimensions and perfs unknown.  No watermark.  L1/2 inscribed One Fraction and probably sold at ¼d or ½d each.

  L1. [One fraction] red (BELGIAN RELIEF / LIÈGE / LEMAN)
​  L2. [One fraction] red (RED CROSS SOCIETY)
​  L3. ¼d red (RED CROSS SOCIETY 1914 1915)
​  L4. ¼d red (RED CROSS SOCIETY 1914 1915 1916 1917)

Note: L1/2 are known used in 1915 and were probably issued then or in 1914​.  The inscription on L1 refers to General Leman, who commanded the Belgian forts at the first battle of World War I - the Battle of
Liège in August 1914.  Based on the dates inscribed on the labels, L3 and L4 were presumably issued in 1915 and 1917 respectively.
Picture
L11/16
1944.  Propaganda labels similar to contemporary postage and revenue stamps of Great Britain but incorporating Communist and/or Jewish symbols, overprinted LIQUIDATION OF EMPIRE GRENADA in rectangular frame.  Printed in Germany under the authority of the Nazi government.

  L11. ½d green (opt in red)
  L12. 1d red
  L13. 1½d red-brown
  L14. 2d orange
  L15. 2½d ultramarine
  L16. 3d violet (opt in red)

Revenue stamps
Picture
R1/12
PictureOriginal duty plates (R1/24) on left, with later redrawn types (R31/36) on right for comparison
1875-79.  19 x 22½ mm.  Portrait of Queen Victoria.  Clean-cut perf 14 (comb).  Printed (recess) by Perkins Bacon in sheets of 120 and perforated by Somerset House.

​a) Wmk Large Star (July 1875)
​  R1. 1d orange and green
​  R2. 1½d orange and green
​  R3. 2d orange and green
  R4. 3d orange and green
​  R5. 4d orange and green
​  R6. 6d orange and green
​  R7. 9d orange and green
​  R8. 1s orange and green
​​  R9. 2s orange and green
​​  R10. 5s orange and green
​​  R11. 10s orange and green
​​  R12. £1 orange and green

Picture
R21/24, with Large Star and Small Star wmks for comparison
Picture1d bisect on piece
b) Wmk Small Star (March 1879)
​

  R21. 1d orange and green
​  R22. 2d orange and green
​  R23. 4d orange and green
​​  R24. 2s orange and green

PicturePlate varieties (see note 3)
Notes:
1. Examples of R21/24 can be found with a marginal watermark of parallel lines.
2. Illustrated above right is the R21 bisected on piece.  Such use was unauthorised and its status is uncertain.
​3. Numerous duty plate varieties are recorded from the 1875 and 1879 printings due to poor make-up and loose type.  Many of these varieties are relatively insignificant including irregular spacings and misshapen letters, but the following missing or substituted letters (some of which are illustrated at right) are worth noting
:
  • ​1½d: THRFE for THREE; HALH for HALF; PFNCE for PENCE
  • 2d: TVVO for TWO
  • 4d: FONR for FOUR
  • ​1s: Missing second I in SHILLING
  • 2s: TVVO for TWO; OWT for TWO; missing second I in SHILLINGS
  • 5s: Missing second I in SHILLINGS
  • ​10s: Missing second I in SHILLINGS
Morley additionally lists the following varieties which I have not seen: 1½d IENCE for PENCE, 2d TWC for TWO, 3d THRFE for THREE, 3d PFNCE or PENGE for PENCE.

PictureForgeries: Jeffryes die proof and £2 plus £3.10s produced from genuine 10s with THREE POUNDS added
4. The design of these stamps was popular with philatelists due to its similarity to the Penny Black and became the subject of a celebrated philatelic forgery by George Kirke Jeffryes within a few years of its issue.  Spurious values such as £2 and £5, as well as die proofs, were produced by Jeffryes and can be distinguished from genuine stamps by the cruder engraving as shown at right.  Forgeries of the £3 and £3.10s values have been produced by amending the surcharge on genuine 3d and 10s stamps respectively.
5. R1/24 were authorised for postage in 1887, and some values are known with postal cancels.
​6. Barefoot states that R21/24 have sideways watermark but this seems to be a confusion with the later issue (see R31ff below).
7. 
Quantities printed:
R1/12: 1d - 108,000 (two printings); 1½d - 12,000; ​2d - 12,000; 3d - 24,000; ​4d - 6,000; ​6d - 48,000; ​9d - 6,000; ​1s - 48,000; ​​2s - 30,000; ​​5s - 9,000; ​​10s - 6,000; ​​£1 - 3,000.
R21/24: 1d - 72,000; ​2d - 12,000; 4d - 12,000; ​2s - 30,000.

Picture
R31/36
PictureR31 and R31a
1882 (January).  As 1875-89 issue but new printing using redrawn duty plates and change to rough perf 14¼ (line) by Perkins Bacon.  Wmk Small Star (upright on 1d and 10s, sideways on other values).

​  R31. 1d orange and green
   a. Wmk sideways
​  R32. 1s orange and green
​​  R33. 2s orange and green
​​  R34. 5s orange and green
​​  R35. 10s orange and green
​​  R36. £1 orange and green


Notes:
1. New duty plates were used for all six values.  The new plates used narrower font and had much better quality control than previously.  The differences between the old and new plates of each value are illustrated above alongside R1/12.
​2.
No missing or substituted letter varieties are recorded from this final printing, though some variations in spacing can be found, and the 2s is known with inverted first S in SHILLINGS.
​3. Morley lists both the 1d and the 2s imperforate vertically but I have not seen these.  The 2s imperf between is listed in the Gibbons catalogue with 4d postal surcharge (SG41d).
4. R31/36 are generally found in deeper shades than the earlier printings.
​
5. R31/36 were authorised for postage in 1887.  Some values are known with postal cancels.
​6. Quantities printed (1882 printing only): 1d - 72,000; 1s - 36,000; 2s - 72,000; 5s - 24,000; 10s - 24,000; £1 - 12,000.
Picture
Top row: R41, R41a, R41b, R41c (R41b/c images from Harman); Bottom row: R42, R43, R43a
PictureDetail of R41 (left) and R41b (right)
1884-90.  1½d and 2s values (R2 and R33) surcharged locally.

​a) Surcharged
1d (figure of value 9 mm tall) (July 1884)
​  R41. 1d on 1½d orange-yellow and green
   a. Double surcharge
   b. Flat top to figure 1
   c. Figure of value 7 mm tall

b) Surcharged
d.1 Revenue with 2 mm space ​between d and 1 (January 1887)
​​​  R42. 1d on 2s orange and green​

PictureDetail of R43 (left) and R43a (right)
c) As b) but ½ mm space between d and 1 (January 1890)
​
​​​  R43. 1d on 2s orange and green
   a. Roman letter I in place of 1

Notes:
1. The plate varieties found on R2 and R33 also exist on these surcharges.
2. ​Morley lists R41 with variety 'stop dropped' and Barefoot lists R42/3 with variety 'no stop after d' but I have not seen these.
3. Similar surcharges were produced between 1883 and 1891 with the overprint Postage or Postage and Revenue.  I have not seen any of these with revenue cancels.
​4. R41/43 were authorised for postage in 1887 and can be found with postal cancels.

Picture
R51/61
PictureOverprint essays (see note 1) and 1d bisect (see note 3)
1884.  19½ x 21½ mm.  New key type featuring portrait of Queen Victoria, inscribed Grenada Revenue at top.  Perf 14 (comb).  Wmk Crown CA.  Printed (typo) by De La Rue in upright and inverted rows alternating within the sheet.

  R51. 1d dull purple and red
​  R52. 2d dull purple and blue
  R53. 3d dull purple and green
​  R54. 4d dull purple and black
​  R55. 6d dull purple and purple
​  R56. 9d dull purple and red-brown
​  R57. 1s green and red
​​  R58. 2s green and blue
​​  R59. 5s green and black
​​  R60. 10s green and brown
​​  R61. £1 green and orange

Notes:

1. Stamps in a similar design but inscribed Grenada Postage at top and overprinted REVENUE in capital letters (as illustrated above right) are essays.  A similar imperforate essay also exists in green but inscribed GRENADA (without Postage) at top.
2. The plate set-up with alternating upright and inverted rows means that inverted watermark is as common as normal, and that any vertical pairs or strips of this issue will be tête-bêche. Surviving tête-bêche pairs are know of all values to 2s.
​3. Shown above is an example of the ​1d value bisected on piece with postal cancels.  Such use was unauthorised and its status is uncertain.
​4.
R51/61 were authorised for postage in 1887, and some values are known with postal cancels.

Picture
R71/73
PicturePrinter's samples (see footnote 2)
1904-1927.  25 x 30 mm.  Badge of the Colony.  Inscribed Grenada Revenue.  Perf 14 (comb).  Printed (recess) by De La Rue in sheets of 60.

​a) Wmk Crown CC (1904)
​  R71. £1 vermilion and green
​​
​b) Wmk Multiple Crown CA (c1910)
​  R72. £1 vermilion and green
​​
​c) Wmk Multiple Script CA (1927)
​  R73. £1 orange and green
​​

Notes:
1. The Crown CC and Script CA stamp (R71 and R73) are known with Specimen handstamps from the printer's archive dated November 1904 and December 1926 respectively, suggesting issue dates of early 1905 and early 1927.  The date of issue for R72 is unknown but it was certainly not reprinted after mid-1921 since no MCA printings are listed in the Crown Agents Requisition books. 
2. Imperforate printer's samples exist in black and orange-brown with two different types of Specimen overprint as illustrated above right.
3. R72 is known postally used on piece, though this usage was probably unauthorised.
​​4. Essays dated 8th June 1903 with the Coat of Arms in centre rather than the Badge of the Colony exist both for the £1 and for an unissued £5 value in green and violet.  Another £1 essay similar to the issued stamp but with an ornate inner frame was prepared on 11th September 1903.  The three unadopted essays are illustrated below.

Picture
£1 and £5 Coat of Arms essays dated 8th June 1903, and £1 Badge of the Colony essay dated 11th September 1903
Printings (wmk Multiple Script CA):
  • Req 2392 (sent to Grenada 31st January to 4th March 1927): £1 (200 sheets ordered)
  • Req 4390/5 (sent to Grenada 5th August to 19th October 1943): £1 (100 sheets ordered, 101 sheets sent)
Picture
R76
1950.  As previous issue but changed to decimal currency and now in sheets of 50.  Perf 14 (comb).  Printed (recess) by De La Rue.

​  R76. $5 orange and deep green


Printings:
  • Req 5126/2 (sent to Grenada 6th November 1950): $5 (260 sheets)
  • Req 7793/1 (sent to Grenada 28th October 1963): $5 (200 sheets)
Picture2c on 12c fantasy

​
Illustrated at right is a fiscally used example of the Queen Elizabeth 12c postage stamp with a forged 2c Revenue surcharge.  This was first reported by Duston in 1991.  Examples are believed to emanate from the collection of Jim Czyl (1947-2014), a noted figure in cinderella philately who produced labels and occasionally created bogus revenue stamps.

Picture
R81 (left) and R82 (right)
Picture
Types A and B enlarged
1965 (according to Barefoot).  Postage stamps locally surcharged with the figure 2 in two different fonts, and two horizontal bars cancelling the original face value.

​  R81. 2c on $1.50 (Type A)
​  R82. 2c on $1.50 (Type B)


​Notes:​
​1. R81 and R82 both come from the same sheet and can be found se-tenant.  Type A occurs 38 times and type B 12 times in the sheet of 50, as shown on the sheet diagram below.
​2. Inverted surcharge, double surcharge and double inverted surcharge errors are known, as well as surcharge omitted on one stamp of a se-tenant pair.  It seems likely that these may have been created by favour.
Picture
R81/82 sheet layout diagram

Revenue usage of Postage stamps
Note: for ease of reference, numbering follows the Stanley Gibbons Part 1 catalogue throughout this section.  Values listed here are those recorded as having been used for revenue purposes.

Picture
F40 and F46
1887.  Similar to R51/61 but inscribed Grenada Postage & Revenue at top.  Perf 14.  Wmk Crown CA (upright or inverted).  Printed (typo) by De La Rue.
  F40. 1d carmine

1891.  Similar type inscribed Grenada Postage at top, locally surcharged ​Postage and Revenue 1d.
  F46. 1d on 8d grey-brown


Printers: all Grenada postage and revenue stamps from F49 to F134 were printed (typo) by De La Rue except where otherwise indicated.
Picture
F49/55
1895-99.  New key type inscribed Postage & Revenue at sides.  Perf 14.  Wmk Crown CA.

  F49. 1d mauve and carmine (1896)
​  F50. 2d mauve and brown (1899)
  F52. 3d mauve and orange

  F53. 6d mauve and green
  F55. 1s green and orange
Picture
F57/66 and F71/73
1902-05.  Portrait changed to King Edward VII.  Perf 14.

​a) Wmk Crown CA (1902)
​  F57. ½d dull purple and green
  F58. 1d dull purple and carmine

  F60. 2½d dull purple and ultramarine
  F61. 3d dull purple and orange

  F62. 6d dull purple and green
  F63. 1s green and orange
  F64. 2s green and ultramarine
  F65. 5s green and carmine
  F66. 10s green and purple


b) Wmk Multiple Crown CA (1905)
​  F71. 3d purple and orange

  F73. 1s green and orange
Picture
F77/86
PictureF83
1906-11.  Badge of the Colony.  Wmk Crown CA (10s) or Multiple Crown CA (others).  Perf 14.  Recess-printed, ordinary paper (½d and 1d) or typo, chalk-surfaced paper (others).
​
  F77. ½d green

  F78. 1d carmine
​  F84. 3d dull purple on yellow (1908)
​  F85. 6d dull purple and purple (1908)

​  F86. 1s black on green (1911)
​  F83. 10s green and red on green (1908)

Picture
F90/100a and F126/133
PictureF134
1913-29.​  King George V.  Perf 14.  Chalky paper (3d to 10s).

a) Wmk Multiple Crown CA (1913-21)
  F90. ½d green
  F91. 1d red
  F92. 1d scarlet (1916)

  F93. 2d orange

​  F96. 3d purple on yellow
​  F97. 6d dull and bright purple

​  F99. 2s purple and blue on blue
​  F100. 5s green and red on yellow
   a. On pale yellow (1921)

b) Wmk Multiple Script CA (1922-29)
  F126. 6d black and carmine (1926)
  F129. 1s chestnut (1926)
​  F130. 2s purple and blue on blue
​  F131. 2s6d black and carmine on blue (1929)

​  F132. 3s green and violet
​​  F133. 5s green and red on pale yellow (1923)
​
  F134. 10s green and red on emerald (1923)

Picture
F136
1934.​  King George V pictorial issue.  Perf 12½.  Wmk Multiple Script CA.  Printed (recess) by Waterlow.

  F136. 1d black and sepia
Picture
F156/162 including 'a' numbers
PictureF155
1938-42.​  King George VI pictorial issue.  Perf 12½.  Wmk Multiple Script CA.  Printed (recess) by Waterlow.

  F155. 1½d black and scarlet
  F156. 2d black and orange
  F158a. 3d black and olive-green (perf 13½ x 12½)
  F159. 6
d black and purple
   a. Perf 13½ x 12½ (1942)
  F160. 1s black and brown
  F161. 2s black and ultramarine
   a. Perf 13½ x 12½ (1941)
  F162. 5s black and violet

Picture
F169/171
1949.  75th Anniversary of Universal Postal Union.

  F169. 6c olive
  F170. 12c magenta
  F171. 24c red-brown
Picture
F173/184
1951.​  King George VI decimal issue.  Perf 11½ (1c to 7c), 11½ x 12½ (50c and $1.50), or 11½ x 13 ($2.50).  Wmk Multiple Script CA.  Printed (recess) by Bradbury Wilkinson (1c to 7c) or De La Rue (others).

  F173. 1c black and emerald-green
  F174. 2c black and brown
  F176. 4c black and orange
  F179. 7c black and light blue
  F182. 50c black and blue
  F183. $1.50 black and yellow-orange
  F184. $2.50 slate-blue and carmine
PictureF186

​1951.  Inauguration of BWI University College.

  F186. 6c black and olive

Picture
F193/203
1953-55.​  As F173/184 but portrait and royal insignia changed to those of Queen Elizabeth II.  Perfs, watermark and printers as before.

  F193. 1c black and deep emerald
  F194. 2c black and sepia
  F195. 3c black and carmine-red (1954)
  F196. 4c black and brown-orange (1954)
  F197. 5c black and deep violet (1954)
  F200. 12c black and reddish purple
  F201. 25c black and sepia (1955)
  F202. 50c black and deep blue (1955)

  F203. $1.50 black and brown-orange (1955)

​Note: for F200 surcharged 2c Revenue, see note above R81/2.

Picture
F901/2
2013.  Parrots.
​
  F901. $50 multicoloured
​  F902. $100 multicoloured
​
Note: these stamps are the top values of a series of 13 issued on 21st October 2013.  The lower values (25c to $10) presumably served postal requirements but the high face values of these two stamps make it likely that they were issued for revenue purposes.  I have not seen a used example, either postal or fiscal.

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