Plate 8 was used to print black stamps (in 1840) and red stamps (in 1841).
Printing in Black
Plate 8 was registered on 31 July 1840 and 30,000 sheets were printed from it.
The earliest recorded usage is 5 September 1840.
[ID] cancelled with a red Maltese cross
[FK] cancelled with a red Maltese cross
[JC-JD] pair, cancelled with red Maltese crosses
[KD-KE] pair, cancelled with red Maltese crosses
[TJ-TK] pair, from Liverpool to Manchester, dated 6 January 1841, cancelled with dark orange Maltese crosses
[AC] cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[CJ] cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[KK] from London to Edinburgh, dated 12 February 1841, cancelled with a black London Maltese cross
[TA-TD] strip of four, cancelled with black Maltese crosses
[IB] from Kilkenny to London, dated 11 February 1841, cancelled with a red Maltese cross then re-directed to Brighton, and cancelled again with a blackMaltese cross 2 (to pay) mark on reverse
Printing in Red
Plate 8 was also used to print 22,000 sheets of stamps in red before February 1841.
The earliest recorded usage is 20 February 1841.
[ID] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[NH] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[QB] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[OA] in red, cancelled with an indistinct cancellation
[FC] in red, from Lambeth to Shaftesbury, dated 24 March 1841, cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[CJ] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross (state 1)
[CJ] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross (state 2)
[PB] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[TB] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[BA] in red, cancelled with a black Maltese cross
[JC-JD] pair, in red, cancelled with black Maltese crosses
[SE] in red, cancelled with a blue Maltese cross SE in state 3
[JD] in red, cancelled with a blue Maltese cross
[KJ] from Welshpool to Ludlow, dated 13 August 1841, cancelled with the distinctive solid centre Maltese cross of Welshpool [e]
This is one of 19 recorded examples of this obliterator
