I have in my collection a Turks & Caicos stamp as the SG 163 item (GV 1922 1/2d). I believe the Scott's cat. no is #45.The Stanley Gibbons catalogue lists 3 colour variants, yellow-green bright green and apple-green. However my stamp is black (see image). I'm keen to hear from anyone as to whether this is a legitimate variant? Thanks for your interest.
Assuming it has the proper watermark and it perfs 14 (which appears to be the case), I'd assume it is a color changeling. Green inks are notoriously unstable.
The 1/2d stamps before and after this issue were also various greens, to correspond to the UPU's international printed matter rate. The farthings were black, so, changeling.
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