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Auction: 17026 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1130

British East Africa
Postal Stationery
1903 (15 Nov.) 1a. postcard, with message headed "Congo Staat, Grenze", from Max Weiss of the Uganda Boundary Commission to Germany, cancelled with Ankole datestamp on 4 December and with Kampala (11.12), Mombasa (16.12) and arrival (1.04) datestamps, all on face; most unusual. Photo

Note: An Anglo-German Boundary Commission had been set up in 1902 with headquarters at the German Vice-Consulate in Entebbe. Its duties included erecting boundary pillars. The border agreed in theory between German East Africa and Uganda in 1890 placed Mount Mfumbiro in British territory, but this had been based on faulty geography; the mountain lay west of the 30 meridian, not east, and so wholly within the land of the Congo already recognised in 1894!

provenance:
Stuart Rossiter, June 1983

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