Typographed, on slightly glace paper; perf. 14, watermarked CC and crown. This stamp, though not particularly striking, is very carefully engraved. The face is shaded almost all over; there being but a small white spot at the corner of the nose, and a small blank space at the top of the forehead. The ear is all shaded except the tip, which hangs down a little. Just under the middle A of BAHAMAS there is a small ring, or circle, with another circle in the center of it. The conch-shell (I think it is meant for a conch-shell), in the right lower corner, has a sharp spike projecting from the right-hand side about the center, and another from the left-hand side at the bottom. There are five leaves at the base of the pine-apple, and five more in the bunch at the top. If a straight line were drawn down through the center of the pine-apple, it would cut into the O of ONE, considerably to the right of the center. The white space round the inside of the central medallion is equally broad all round, and the outline of the portrait does not trespass upon this white space anywhere. There is a tiny full stop after the Etruscan bordering to the right, above the G of SHILLING; and the upper horizontal stroke of the last “key” in the pattern is wanting (the border cuts it off).