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Auction: 17026 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1117

British East Africa
1896-1901 Small Queen Issue
Covers
1903 (22 Feb.) 2a. registered envelope (H2) from Nakuro to Cape Town, bearing ½a., 1a., 2a. and 2½a., each tied by "t.p.o. in/set no 2" c.d.s. and showing, on reverse, Mombasa (24.3) and Zanzibar (25.3) transit datestamps; the envelope stained and with some peripheral scorch marks. Rare, Rossiter records only five T.P.O. covers in the 1901-03 period, this being the only registered cover. Also a used picture postcard of a Uganda railway train. Photo

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Sold for
£500