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Auction: 24023 - British East Africa - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 109

British East Africa
1891 Mombasa Provisionals
Manuscript Value and Initials in Black
"Mombasa Provisional", Thin Manuscript
"½ Anna" on 2a. vermilion initialled "AB", error "½ Annas", a top marginal example with clear central Mombasa c.d.s. for 30 February, a couple of short perfs otherwise fine. S.G. 23a, £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 in 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
£600