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Auction: 13040 - British East Africa and Uganda - The Award-Winning Collections of George T. Krieger
Lot: 92

(x) British East Africa
British East Africa Company Administration
1891 Mombasa Provisionals
Manuscript value and initials in black
½a. on 3a. Black on Dull Red initialled "AB"
Cover
1891 (2 July) large part envelope from Mombasa to H.L. Churchill, H.M. Vice-Consul at Zanzibar, bearing "½ Anna" on 3a. black on dull red marginal block of three, horizontal pairs (2) and singles (3, one marginal), all neatly cancelled by c.d.s. with a further fine strike at foot, the reverse with despatch and arrival (3.7) c.d.s.; the envelope truncated at right, where a further vertical pair have been cut away leaving one stamp in the block with perfs. cut away at right, nevertheless a remarkable group of these rare stamps, and the sole recorded example of this stamp on cover. S.G. 24. Photo

Note: This cover was first reported in the "Monthly Journal" for December 1899 when the envelope had at that time already been truncated

provenance:
Hunt 1966
Andy Reynard, October 2009

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Estimate
£15,000 to £18,000