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Auction: 24023 - British East Africa - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 144

British East Africa
1895 Protectorate Handstamp Issue
8a. blue, a top left corner block of eight (4x2), unused with large part original gum, fresh and fine. The only unused block recorded. S.G. 42, £960+. Photo

Note: Several of the stamps have a marked misplacement of the handstamp, noticeably Positions 1-3 and 5; there is also evidence of a very faint second impression on Position 1 extending into the margin.

provenance:
Donald Hunt, January 1966
J.R. Danson, May 1971
John Minns, April 2001

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Sold for
£2,200