Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

Set of three perfined "SPECIMEN", mint and used, in mint blocks of four, 20c unmounted with broken leaf variety, set on F.D.C and other covers including "MOMBASA EXHIBITION / 1937" skeleton datestamp, set on registered 1937 (Nov 24) cover to New Zealand with "Received in damaged / condition at Auckland" cachets and N.Z Officially Sealed labels on all four sides, etc. S.G. £212 + covers. (22 stamps + 7 covers).
Suggested price: £ 100-...

5c Handstamped violet "SPECIMEN" (10x2mm), affixed to a piece of brown card cut from a sample book, very scarce. Photo on Page 186.
Suggested price: £ 150-200

Imperforate frame proofs on white paper with horizontal blue lines, comprising 1/- brown block of four, 10/- blue pair, and 20c orange blocks of four (2, one with reversed "6" in margin), block of eight and a block of 14 with imprint and plate number "10A" in margin, dated "16/4/52" in manuscript. Also 3/- ultramarine vignette, imperforate vertical pair on white paper (vertical fold). An interesting group of proofs from the De La Rue...

5c Single and a block of four with De La Rue imprint and a 10c block of four, the 5c stamps with much gum, a little paper adhering to the reverse, the 10c block stuck down on paper, each stamp with local violet "SPECIMEN" handstamp, Samuel type K4. From the two unique sheets of 100 (the 5c plate 5 - 3A and the 10c plate 9 - 7B), the 5c the unique imprint block; with photocopies of both sheets and the 1997 B.P.A Certificates issued for each...

c.1954 Presentation folder, the card cover entitled "Postage Stamps of Kenya Uganda Tanganyika" below the royal arms, containing 1c - £1 set of 15 (all the first colours issued), lightly mounted with hinges.
Suggested price: £ 100-120

1942 1c Black and chocolate-brown, frame plate 2-2, head plate 4A, a complete unmounted mint sheet of 100 including the varieties retouched value tablet (9/6, S.G. 131ad), break in birds breast (2/5, S.G. 131ae), double frame line at right (1/10), etc. S.G. 131a, £165+.
Suggested price: £ 80-100

20c Black and orange imperforate pair with upper margin, mounted in the margin only, the pair unmounted, believed to be an issued variety and not a proof though unlisted by S.G., light gum creases, otherwise superb and very scarce. Photo on Page 186.
Suggested price: £ 500-700

1950 Perf 13x12 1/2 50c Reddish purple and black block of four, the upper left and lower right stamps with the dot removed, fine mounted mint, a scarce block. S.G. 144eb, £1,000. Photo on Page 186.
Suggested price: £ 200-250

10/- Perf 131£4 Purple and blue block of four superb unmounted mint. S.G. 149, £560. Photo on Page 183.
Suggested price: £ 150-200

1c - £1 Used study on pages showing varieties, perforations and shades, including 1c retouched value tablet within a plate block of ten, 10c black and green with mountain retouch (2, both S.G. 135a), 50c with rope not joined to sail and dot removed in pair with normal, etc, also three covers. (228).
Suggested price: £ 280-350

1/- Black and brown with mountain retouch (R5/10) covering the peak and hills to its right, fine used. S.G. 145ad, £650. Photo on Page 186.
Suggested price: £ 150-180

1938 (May 2) First Day Cover bearing 1c - 10/- all cancelled to order with Nairobi datestamps, the 50c with variety rope not joined to sail (S.G. 144a). S.G. £310 as stamps.
Suggested price: £ 100-120