Set/Series
Promoting Nature Week, running from 18 to 25 May, highlighting the natural history movement and wildlife conservation

GB1273 3d Nature Week
GB1274 4½d Nature Week

GB1274 Details
15 x 14 perfs; gum arabic; chalk-surfaced paper; multiple crowns watermark; no phosphor or three bands applied by photogravure; designed by Stanley Scott; printed photogravure by Harrison in sheets (6 x 20 x 2 panes); 12,474,061 non-phosphor and 1,132,921 phosphor copies sold

Colours & Plates/Cylinders
Cylinder numbers located in the left margin of sheets by column 1, rows 12 and 13, and by column 1, rows 18 and 19:

brown-red–yellow–magenta–blue–black
1A–1B–1C–1D–2E (non-phosphor and phosphor)
1A–1B–1C–1D–3E (non-phosphor and phosphor)

The following cylinders were created and used, but there's no evidence of printings from cylinder 1E on the market:

1A (brown-red) – 31,666,080 copies printed
1B (yellow) – 31,642,800 copies printed
1C (magenta) – 31,642,800 copies printed
1D (blue) – 31,642,800 copies printed
1E (black) – 244,320 copies printed
2E (black) – 19,583,280 copies printed
3E (black) – 11,865,240 copies printed

Notes
The stamp was issued both with and without phosphor. The first GB stamp printed in five colours

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