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Auction: 24023 - British East Africa - The Simon Greenwood Collection
Lot: 166

British East Africa
1895-96 "On India" Provisional Issue
Issued Stamps
1a. plum showing variety "Britlsh", a left marginal example used with ½a., 2a. and 2a.6p. on "first day after transfer" 1895 (11 Nov.) locally addressed Powter envelope, each neatly tied by Mombasa squared-circle d.s., the envelope with two tears at foot, fine. Extremely rare, Minns records four examples used on cover. S.G. 50a, £5,500+. Photo

Note: Six of these covers are known, all locally addressed and each bearing the four "On India" values available at Mombasa at that day. Of S.G. 50a, seven examples are recorded, two unused and five used of which four are on cover.

provenance:
J.R. Danson, May 1971

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Sold for
£6,500