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        "country_area": "Rhodesia and Nyasaland",
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        "date": "1954-56",
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        "description": "UNIQUE: Variously described as 'printer's samples', otherwise as Waterlow Recess printed Plate Proofs colour correct £1. Olive-green and lake initialled 'J.G.Bignell' (?) vignette indicated print run 212,000 stamps in 3534 pulls of 60 stamp panes/312,000 stamps in 5,200 pulls of 60 stamp panes, faults highlighted and commented accordingly, security punched as usual. Vignette plates x two in proof colour and final olive-green colour. The whole upon gummed unwatermarked paper, usual wrinkling/paper creasing visible but not impacting overall appearance and rarity. Variously dated Apil/May 1954. (3 proof items) Imperfections negligible - EXHIBITION Status. Unique. Beautiful and RARE",
        "classification": "P",
        "size": "E",
        "plate": "98",
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