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Auction: 13040 - British East Africa and Uganda - The Award-Winning Collections of George T. Krieger
Lot: 80

(x) British East Africa
British East Africa Company Administration
1891 Mombasa Provisionals
New value handstamped in dull violet over original face value, obliterating it, and initials added in black manuscript
Cover
1891 (2 Mar.) envelope from Capt. F.G. Dundas, R.N., to his son, a midshipman, on H.M.S. Edinburgh at Malta and subsequently redirected to him at Salonica, bearing "1 Anna" on 4a. brown horizontal strip of three with the right-hand stamp showing a line at top in the same colour as the surcharge and which is believed to have been caused by the handheld printing device, each neatly cancelled by c.d.s., Malta despatch c.d.s. (26.3) at left, the reverse with Aden (9.3) and Malta (22.3) arrival c.d.s.; a few small imperfections as to be expected on any of these provisional frankings. The earliest recorded use of this stamp. Cover initialled by H. Bloch. Stamp Trade Protection Certificate (1928) signed by P.L. Pemberton and W. Houtzamer. Photo

The only recorded multiple of the handstamped provisionals and one of only two covers recorded bearing this provisional. Considered to be one of the most important of all the provisional covers

provenance:
A.J.P. Baumann, September 1977

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Sold for
£28,000