The differences between the Waterlow and DLR North Borneo/Sabah printed stamps

 The Waterlow Company Imprint

The  company imprint is located just below the bottom row stamps 95 and 96 of the middle two columns of a sheet. It has the company name and the unusual address of London Wall, London EC which is actually a street in the City of London near to the Moorgate and Barbican London Underground stations. The other important characteristic here is the unperforated lower margin of these sheets by Waterlow.

The DLR Company Imprint

The DLR company imprint is located in the same situation as that of Waterlow with a slight differences in distance from the perforated even between the DLR sheets themselves. The bottom margins here are perforated in contrast to that of Waterlow. Moreover the depth of these bottom selvedges are different in comparison to the precision of Waterlow.

The border and vignette plate numbers

There was only one printing of these stamps by Waterlow and the all use Border 1 and Vignette 1 plates. The numbers are in their corresponding colours and the number on the left under stamp 99 is the border plate number and the right under stamp 100 is the vignette plate number.

For the DLR reprints and the stamps printed for the overprint of the 1c value, a new border plate was made and the plate numbers for this 1c value was 2 - 1. With the overprints new border plates were also made for the 6c and 12c values but for the 6c the border plate number 2 was placed under stamp 92 instead of the usual 99.

The other two features of note with these stamps are firstly the bottom paper margins were perforated through in contrast with the Waterlow printings. And secondly, there is staining of the surrounding white paper with usually the ink used for the border which is not seen in the Waterlow stamps. This aspect will be discussed at a later stage.