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Indicium 8½d with 6d Extra Registration

The minimum inland registration fee of 6d for £5 cover was superseded
on 1 Jun 1956 when the cheapest fee became 1s for £10 cover. A feature
of the embossed design was that the lead time for a new denomination was
relatively long, leading to provisional arrangements.
The Post Office needed to print new envelopes which detailed on the back
the revised compensation figures; at the same time the main heading on the
front was to be reworded to become INLAND REGISTERED LETTER rather
than the extant REGISTERED LETTER. Due to the slowness of obtaining a
new 1s 2½d embossing die, it was decided to print each envelope with a
double-ringed design reading MINIMUM REGISTRATION / 6 / EXTRA.
D
There was a stock of Size F and K envelopes and these were used by adding
only the double-ringed EXTRA 6 design, leaving the incorrect compensation
D
‘fee of 6d’ information on the back. These envelopes are both scarce.
Registration dates of issued envelopes:
Size F 13 Jun 1956
Size K 20 Jul 1956 .

Above Size F. Die recorded: 7 Below Size K: Die unreadable