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Auction: 23023 - The Lionheart Collection of Great Britain and British Empire Part XVII
Lot: 1248

(x) Tanganyika
Mafia Island
1916 (7 July) envelope to S. N. Faulkner at the Audit Office in Zanzibar bearing 1915 German East Africa Statistical Charges Fiscal 12½h. drab handstamped 'o.h.b.m.s./ mafia' in bluish green and tied to envelope by 'mafia' c.d.s. in violet; philatelic, but a great rarity on cover. S.G. M22

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£800