North Borneo 1961 10c value with broken right inner frame line

The North Borneo 1961 issue and subsequent overprints in 1964 has many variations and varieties that are not catalogued. Waterlow & Sons only did one printing run before the business was sold and eventually taken over by Thomas De La Rue in 1961. DLR did reprinting of the stamps in different tranches. There were differences when compared to the printing done by Waterlow especially in the perforation patterns. The main alteration being that the bottom margin of the printed sheet was left unperforated to the margin of the selvedge by Waterlow but perforated through at the top. The DLR printed sheets were directly the opposite in addition to other patterns of perforation as well as varying selvedge margins.

There were also slight differences in shade with some of the values. One of the varieties that has been recognised in recent years is that in some of the 10c stamps, presumably DLR reprints, has an imperfect right inner frame line as shown below.

The block of 8 shows the normal printed stamps without any flaws. The image below of 4 stamps has arrows pointing out the breaks and deficiencies in the right inner frame line. 

    

Variations of the Labuan D8 cancellation

 

The double ring Labuan D8 cancellation was used during the administration by the Straits Settlements between January 1910 and August 1913. In common with Straits cancellations of that period, it has a time or letter code which is sometimes omitted even though I do not have an example to show it here. The known letters used are A,B,C,D and E.

D8 code A

D8 code B

D8 code C

This D8 code C on North Borneo were used on a paquebot cover which landed at Labuan before being transmitted onwards.

Similarly, these stamps with D8 code D were on a paquebot cover.

This code D is included because Straits perfin stamps used at Labuan are rare. This is a Borneo Company Limited perfin. 

A postcard sent from Switzerland on 1-VIII 11, transited Singapore 25 AU 1911 and arrived at Labuan c/o John Hardie on 5 SE 1911 with D8 code E. 

This is another postcard sent from Switzerland c/o the same person in July 1913. It arrived at Labuan c/o John Hardie on 5 AU 1913 D8 code E and then redirected to Jesselton North Borneo on the next day with a B code cancel. There are also faint Singapore and Jesselton cancellations. 

The name of John Hardie was actually quite significant in the business history of Sarawak and Labuan. In fact, he was very much a pillar of Labuan society in those early days. The following obituary tells his story.