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Auction: 13040 - British East Africa and Uganda - The Award-Winning Collections of George T. Krieger
Lot: 85

(x) British East Africa
British East Africa Company Administration
1891 Mombasa Provisionals
Manuscript value and initials in black
½a. on 2a. Vermilion initialled "AB"
This surcharge was applied in three different "hands", the third variant being similar to that on the ½a. on 3a. provisional also initialled "AB"
"Mombasa Provisional", Thin Manuscript
Used
"½ Anna" on 2a. vermilion, error "½ Annas", neatly cancelled with complete Mombasa c.d.s. for 30 February; very fine. S.G. 23a, £1,000. Photo

Note: March 1 was a Sunday in 1891 and the canceller was wrongly changed, either on Saturday night or Monday morning, to 30 February. The error was discovered during Monday and the datestamp altered to 2 March as shown by the stamp from the bottom row of the sheet used on cover and offered as lot 106 in the 1997 "Shivani" auction, and by the stamp used on piece offered as lot 100 in the same sale

provenance:
"Shivani", May 1997, when offered with a clear B.P.A. Certificate

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Sold for
£1,700