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Auction: 7025 - Bechauanaland, Somaliland & Sudan, The John Inglefield-Watson Collections
Lot: 1051

THE BECHUANALANDS British Bechuanaland 1887 (1 November) Unappropriated Dies Cancelled and Specimen Stamps 2d., 4d., 6d. and 1/-, each overprinted "cancelled" (GB 14), unused without gum; the 1/- a little faded though a scarce group. Photo Estimate £ 120-150 Note: These stamps come from a printing when the Inland Revenue authorised De La Rue to apply this overprint to twelve examples of postage and revenue stamps printed or overprinted for use in various British territories and postal agencies. Six examples were placed in a record book held by the Inland Revenue controlling officers and De La Rue´s works and six were kept in company´s records The Inland Revenue record book, currently in the British Library, contains only one example of each value, with no evidence of the removal of the other five

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