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Auction: 18045 - The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
Lot: 290

Covers
1896 (31 Oct.) Scheithauer envelope registered to Germany, bearing 1r. green and aniline carmine with antique "r", 2r. carmine and yellow-brown with normal "z", 3r. brown and green with normal "z" and 5r. ultramarine and violet with antique "r" and tall second "z", all cancelled by single-circle registration datestamps, Dresden arrival datestamp (28.11) on reverse. Rare with only six covers with large format stamps recorded, all philatelic. S.G. 18 var., 19, 20, 21C. Photo

provenance:
Spink, July 2004

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Sold for
£1,600