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Auction: 17026 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1089

British East Africa
1891 Mombasa Provisionals
New Value Handstamped in Dull Violet with Original Face Value Obliterated and Initials Added in Black Manuscript
"1 Anna" on 4a. brown initialled "AB" (Archibald Brown, Company Cashier), neat 13 March datestamp; fine. Rare. S.G. 21, £2,250. 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

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Sold for
£950