Jersey 1969 Pre-Decimal Definitives

Issued: 1st October 1969
Design: Victor Whiteley
Printed by: Harrisons (½d-1/9d) or Courvoisier (2/6d to £1)
Print Process: Photogravure
Sheet Format: (½d-1/9d) 60 (6 by 10) Horiz. or (10 by 6) Vert. (2/6d to £1) in Sheets of 25 (5 by 5)
Stamp Sizes: 44½mm x 28mm (½d-1/9d) or 28mm x 44½mm (1/9d) & 45mm x 30mm (2/6d to 10/-) or 30mm x 45mm (£1)
Perforations: 14 (½d-1/9d) and 12 (2/6d to £1)
Withdrawn and Invalidated: 14th February 1972 except £1 Withdrawn on 31st August 1977 (Still Valid). The ½d was sold out during October 1969.

Sheet Stamps - Horizontal Format

1/9d

£1

The £1 Original Printing of 1st October 1969 has the left Margin showing sheet Value in Pre-decimal Currency £25 0s 0d
The £1 was reprinted in March 1973 with left Margin showing Sheet Value in Decimal Currency i.e. £25
Purple back drop is a slightly lighter shade on the reprint.

Note: Cylinder Numbers appear in all 4 corners of the Sheets of 60 (6 by 10) on Harrison Printings Only. (See Below)

½d x 4

1d x 4

2d x 4

3d x 4

4d x 4

5d x 4

6d x 4

9d x 4

1/- x 4

1/6d x 4

1st Perforator 1/9d x 4

2nd Perforator 1/9d x 4

60 (6 by 10)

3d Missing Orange

9d design

FDC by WESSEX. Values ½d to 1/-

FDC by WESSEX. Values 1/6d to £1

Pack (Cover) Original Contains ½d to 9d

Pack (Cover) Reprint Contains 1d to 9d

Medium Value Pack (Cover) Contains 1/- to 2/6d

High Value Pack (Cover) Contains 5/- to £1

Issued on 1st October 1969
Note: The 7/- & 10/- Booklets Issued on a Creamy/White Paper but later on the 5th May 1970 issued on a Thinner Whiter Paper.
Panes within the 7/- & 10/- Booklets are from the left and right Vertical marginal strips of 10 from the normal sheets of 60 (6 by 10). This results in Panes being Upright or Inverted.