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Auction: 9028 - British Empire Stamps & Postal History
Lot: 551

Zanzibar The Indian Post Office Manuscript Overprints 1890 (2 Aug.) Eastern Telegraph Company Limited printed envelope (227x104mm.) to London, bearing 1882-90 4a.6p. green with "india" deleted and with replaced with manuscript "Zanzibar" across the centre, neatly cancelled with squared-circle d.s.; the envelope with a couple of vertical creases clear of the adhesive. Fine, rare and unusual. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: The Eastern Telegraph Co. was engaged in laying an underwater cable between Mombasa and Lamu, having previously completed a cable link between Zanzibar and Mombasa provenance: Feer, 1968

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