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	\|designer=		\|designer=John Hobson Nicholson; portrait by [[wikipedia:en:Dorothy Wilding\|Dorothy Wilding Ltd.]]
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	This variety has a frame flaw at row 20, position 1, on cylinder 1 with no dot. It retains the two phosphor bands of the normal [[IM-SG-7]]. The underlying stamp was issued on 4 September 1968; the catalogue entry supplies no separate date for the variety.<ref name="SG2022" />		This variety has a frame flaw at row 20, position 1, on cylinder 1 with no dot. It retains the two phosphor bands of the normal [[IM-SG-7]]. The underlying stamp was issued on 4 September 1968; the catalogue entry supplies no separate date for the variety.<ref name="SG2022" />

			The design is credited to John Hobson Nicholson, with the portrait credited to [[wikipedia:en:Dorothy Wilding\|Dorothy Wilding Ltd.]]. The stamps were printed by [[wikipedia:en:Harrison and Sons\|Harrison and Sons]] using [[wikipedia:en:Photogravure\|photogravure]].<ref name="SG2022" />

	The stamp is printed on chalk-surfaced paper without a watermark and is perforated 15 × 14. The sheet format is 240 stamps (12 × 20).<ref name="SG2022" />		The stamp is printed on chalk-surfaced paper without a watermark and is perforated 15 × 14. The sheet format is 240 stamps (12 × 20).<ref name="SG2022" />

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{{Stamp
|image=
|country=Isle of Man
|country-code=[[wikipedia:en:Isle of Man|IM]]
|catalogue=[[wikipedia:en:Stanley Gibbons catalogue|Stanley Gibbons]]
|catalogue-number=7a
|variant=Frame flaw; two [[wikipedia:en:Phosphor banded stamp|phosphor bands]]
|issue-title=Queen Elizabeth II regional definitives — no watermark
|issue-date=
|withdrawn-date=1 March 1972 (invalidated for postage)
|year=
|face-value=5d
|subject=[[wikipedia:en:Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]]; Isle of Man [[wikipedia:en:Country definitives|regional definitive]] design
|stamp-type=[[wikipedia:en:Definitive stamp|Definitive]]
|stamp-subtype=[[wikipedia:en:Country definitives|Regional definitive]]
|format=[[wikipedia:en:Postage stamp|Stamp]]
|designer=
|printer=
|printing-process=
|colour=Royal blue
|dimensions=
|perforation=15 × 14
|watermark=No watermark
|paper-gum=Chalk-surfaced paper; gum not specified
|other-catalogues=
|fdc-pages=
|notes=Confirmed from the Stanley Gibbons catalogue, page 197. The catalogue does not give a separate issue date for this variety; the date and year fields are left blank.
}}

'''SG 7a''' is a listed variety of the 5d royal blue Isle of Man [[wikipedia:en:Country definitives|regional definitive]] depicting [[wikipedia:en:Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref name="SG2022">{{Cite Catalogue
|author=Stanley Gibbons
|title=Channel Islands and Isle of Man 2022 Edition Stamp Catalogue
|edition=31st combined edition
|publisher=Stanley Gibbons
|year=2022
|section=Isle of Man — Regional issues
|page=197
|catalogue=Stanley Gibbons
|catalogue-number=7a
|isbn=978-1-911304-89-0
|notes=Place of publication: Ringwood.
}}</ref>

This variety has a frame flaw at row 20, position 1, on cylinder 1 with no dot. It retains the two phosphor bands of the normal [[IM-SG-7]]. The underlying stamp was issued on 4 September 1968; the catalogue entry supplies no separate date for the variety.<ref name="SG2022" />

The stamp is printed on chalk-surfaced paper without a watermark and is perforated 15 × 14. The sheet format is 240 stamps (12 × 20).<ref name="SG2022" />

The stamp ceased to be valid for postage on 1 March 1972, under the catalogue’s invalidation statement for Isle of Man SG 1–7.<ref name="SG2022" />

== Related stamps ==

* [[IM-SG-7]]
* [[IM-SG-7Ey]]

== References ==

<references />

IM-SG-7a - Revision history

PhantomSteve at 23:18, 22 September 2026