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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 442

(x) Gambia
1902-05 1/6d., 2/6d. and 3/- each locally handstamped "specimen" (12x1.5mm.) and with part strikes of the "colonie du gabon et du congo francais/direction de l'interieur", no gum as usual. Ex the Gabon U.P.U. postal archive dispersed c. 1975. A rare trio with probably only five of each originally existed. Photo

Note: These parallel the local Specimen handstamps from Hong Kong and Rhodesia (see Samuel p. 58) which were produced at the request of the U.P.U. and sent to Gabon at the same period as a result of this newly established French colony requiring examples of current stamps no longer available from Berne

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Sold for
£170

Starting price
£150