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Auction: 13040 - British East Africa and Uganda - The Award-Winning Collections of George T. Krieger
Lot: 72

(x) British East Africa
British East Africa Company Administration
1890-95 Imperial British East Africa "Sun and Crown" Definitive Issue
Covers
1894 (10 Aug.) "on postal service" envelope from the Postmaster at Mombasa to U.S.A., bearing ½a. dull brown and 1a. blue-green (2) all cancelled by c.d.s. with a further strike at upper right, the reverse with Zanzibar (12.8), New York (25.9) and Roxbury, Mass. (26.9) datestamps; the envelope with a few small faults though the only recorded example of this On Postal Service envelope. Photo

Note: Official mail to overseas destinations required postage stamps to be affixed. When used domestically envelopes did not require the use of stamps and were probably discarded

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Sold for
£450