Perlis State lies on the Northern part of West coast of the Malay Peninsula between Kedah on the South and Thailand on the North.

The 1951 set featured the image of Raja Syed Putra, and was printed on paper watermarked with Multiple Script CA from 1951 thru 1956. You can easily identify stamps from this set because there is only one catalog listed variety - the 10c issue. As many as five printings of the 10c values were created, but most values were only printed one or two times. So other than the 10c value, the rest do not require sorting.

Many collectors have trouble identifying colors. I find it helps to have a number of stamps to sort rather than just one or two. I place all of the same value stamps on black and then white paper and look at them under a strong light. The color differences tend to stand out when viewed this way. Then it becomes a matter of deciding if a stamp is a darker or paler in comparison to the other stamps in the group you are sorting. When you have isolated the color differences, look at your catalogue reference to see what is listed. Remember there were multiple printings of this set, so there should be some variation in many of the values. You can use the stamps shown below as a reference of what might be found.

The catalog numbers are from the 2008 Commonwealth King George VI Postage Stamp Catalogue (CW) published by Murray Payne, 2013 Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue (SG) and the 2011 Scott catalog (ST). The print dates are described in the 1968 Stanley Gibbons Elizabethan Postage Stamp Catalogue. You can access the catalogue publishers using the "Links to British Colonial Stamp Sites" at the bottom of this page.

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This article was written to help you identify your stamps.
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