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Auction: 6004 - British Empire Stamps & Covers, featuring Australia
Lot: 1102

x Tanganyika - Mafia Island 1915 (May) "g.r./post/6 cents/mafia" handstamp on German East Africa Yacht issue values Handstamped in Violet 6c. on 21/2h. brown, neatly cancelled by part F.P.O. c.d.s. and tied on small piece; fine and scarce. B.P.A. Certificates (1948) and (1995), the latter stating "c.d.s. applied posthumously in 1917". S.G. M11, £1,500; Mi. 11, €2,600. Photo Estimate £ 500-600provenance: Col. J.R. Danson, 1971

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