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Auction: 13040 - British East Africa and Uganda - The Award-Winning Collections of George T. Krieger
Lot: 8

(x) British East Africa
British East Africa Company Administration
India Used In British East Africa
Following the purchase of the Mombasa stock of the first issue by Whitfield King & Co., Indian stamps were obtained, almost certainly from Zanzibar, and were put into use at the Imperial British East Africa Co. Post Office at Mombasa between 23 May and 31 December 1890
Cover
1890 (20 Aug.) Eastern Telegraph Company Limited printed envelope (227x104mm.) registered from Mombasa to London, bearing ½a. blue-green, 1a. plum, 2a. blue, 8a. dull mauve (4) and 1r. slate, (a total of 51½a. and appearing to pay 11 times the 4½a. rate to the U.K. plus registration fee of 2a.), all but the first initialled "B.E.A." in red ink and all neatly cancelled with c.d.s., showing manuscript "Registered" in the same red ink alongside oval-framed "R" and with London Registered oval d.s. (9.9) in red additionally tying the ½a., the reverse with Aden transit c.d.s. (26.8); vertical fold towards left clear of the adhesives. A unique and colourful franking of Indian stamps used in Mombasa, being the record equalling earliest recorded date of the six covers recorded during this first period of use. Photo

Considered to be one of the most important British East Africa covers known

Note: The Eastern Telegraph Co. was engaged in laying an underwater cable between Mombasa and Lamu, having previously completed a cable link between Zanzibar and Mombasa

provenance:
Lt.. Col. T.L. Rose-Hutchinson, 1949
Donald R. Hunt, 1966
Andy Reynard, 2009



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Estimate
£28,000 to £30,000