NORFOLK ISLAND 2010 PITCAIRNERS ON "MORAYSHIRE" GUTTER 5

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1 5    J U N E   2010
PITCAIRN ISLANDERS EMIGRATION & ARRIVAL ON THE "MORAYSHIRE"
FRESH & SCARCE
NEVER HINGED (UNMOUNTED) MINT SET OF 4 WITH GUTTER TABS
Sc#1005-1008; S.G. 1088-1091
THE STAMPS
: were printed in two panes of 25 stamps (5 x 5),with a
gutter
between the panes.
On this gutter
, the names of all 194 Pitcairn Island arrivals were printed, with the words,
" The Morayshire 1856
" IN BLUE SCRIPT-STYLE superimposed across the complete gutter from stamp 1 to stamp 5, as below:
------------------->     "The" "Mor" "ays" "hire" "
1856
"   <-----------------
1       2       3        4         5
THE SINGLE SET ON OFFER
: row 1, stamp 5, lower pane - "
1856
" gutter tab SET of 4 - a unique gutter tab set, never offered before.
ON OFFER IN OUR eBAY STORE
: the gutter tab set of row 1 stamp 4, lower pane ----> "
hire
" <---- also unique, and never offered until now.
The history of Norfolk Island and Pitcairn Island have been happily and irreversibly intertwined since June 1856, when the Pitcairners arrived "en masse" at Norfolk on the 830-ton emigrant ship, MORAYSHIRE.  Norfolk was offered to the overcrowded Pitcairners as a gift by Queen Victoria, to be their new home, after being abandoned as a Penal Colony in 1855. In 1859, and again in 1864, small groups of homesick Pitcairners returned to their native island.
This
stamp issue
features reproductions of historic photographs of the new immigrants, snapped on Norfolk from 1856 to 1861.  An image of "Morayshire" appears at the lower left of each stamp.
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