FIJI 1912 £3 on £1 purple and black/red REVENUES

Fiji 1912 King Edward VII £3 on £1 purple and black/red, 'R and vertical bar' overprint with additional surcharge in words.

Two fine examples used on document piece with two 1914 King George V 2s6d (die I) with similar overprint, tied by blue crayon lines and light M/S.

A remarkable and rare usage.

Barefoot Revenues Catalogue No 26, with 29.

Revenue-only stamps overprinted with a letter R and a vertical bar were first introduced in Fiji on 1 January 1911. These were the first stamps to be overprinted this way depicting King Edward VII.

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