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Auction: 24023 - British East Africa - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 16

British East Africa
1890-95 Imperial British East Africa "Sun and Crown" Definitive Issue
Imperforate Proofs
Lithographed printed imperforate proofs on thick paper of the 2r. in brick-red, the 3r. in slate-purple and the 4r. in ultramarine, all in their issued colours, fine. Photo

Note: About ten copies of each were supplied by Bradbury Wilkinson to the Imperial British East Africa Company. They were intended for use as presentations to Directors and "friends" of the Company. Surprisingly, those on offer remain the only recorded examples.

provenance:
Tommy Allen
Dr. Kenneth Pennycuick
John Minns, April 2001

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Sold for
£5,200