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Overprint Settings and Printings Overprint Setting 3 Printing 4, 12 August 1896 - 4½a., 5a. and...
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Overprint Settings and Printings
Overprint Setting 3
Printing 4, 12 August 1896 - 4½a., 5a. and 7½a. "On BEA"
Remington again turned to the "On BEA" stamps to meet demands for stamps stamps above 2½a, which was the highest of the values of Indian stamps supplied in July 1896. The additional values were well chosen, the 4½a. being for a single letter plus registration fee of 2a., the 5a. for a double rate letter and the 7½a. for a triple rate letter. The numbers retained in Zanzibar rather than being sent on to Mombasa were again modest - 2,460 of the 4½a., 1,800 of the 5a. and another 1,800 of the 7½a.
4½a. orange-yellow sheet of sixty (6x10, upper right stamp removed and replaced with another) with margins on two sides, fresh mint; margin at left with small fault, a couple of thins and some perfs. re-inforced though a great rarity. See plating chart in Figure 9. S.G. 44, £3,600+. Photo
Note: Very probably this sheet is the same one referred to and plated by Hall in his study (Hall, pp 46-47). Hall did, however, describe the sheet in his possession as "uncut". If it was the same sheet as offered above it would have lost the stamp in R.1/6, which was substituted by another single stamp of the same issue
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Richard Knight, March 2003
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Overprint Setting 3
Printing 4, 12 August 1896 - 4½a., 5a. and 7½a. "On BEA"
Remington again turned to the "On BEA" stamps to meet demands for stamps stamps above 2½a, which was the highest of the values of Indian stamps supplied in July 1896. The additional values were well chosen, the 4½a. being for a single letter plus registration fee of 2a., the 5a. for a double rate letter and the 7½a. for a triple rate letter. The numbers retained in Zanzibar rather than being sent on to Mombasa were again modest - 2,460 of the 4½a., 1,800 of the 5a. and another 1,800 of the 7½a.
4½a. orange-yellow sheet of sixty (6x10, upper right stamp removed and replaced with another) with margins on two sides, fresh mint; margin at left with small fault, a couple of thins and some perfs. re-inforced though a great rarity. See plating chart in Figure 9. S.G. 44, £3,600+. Photo
Note: Very probably this sheet is the same one referred to and plated by Hall in his study (Hall, pp 46-47). Hall did, however, describe the sheet in his possession as "uncut". If it was the same sheet as offered above it would have lost the stamp in R.1/6, which was substituted by another single stamp of the same issue
Richard Knight, March 2003
Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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Overprint Settings and Printings
Overprint Setting 3
Printing 4, 12 August 1896 - 4½a., 5a. and 7½a. "On BEA"
Remington again turned to the "On BEA" stamps to meet demands for stamps stamps above 2½a, which was the highest of the values of Indian stamps supplied in July 1896. The additional values were well chosen, the 4½a. being for a single letter plus registration fee of 2a., the 5a. for a double rate letter and the 7½a. for a triple rate letter. The numbers retained in Zanzibar rather than being sent on to Mombasa were again modest - 2,460 of the 4½a., 1,800 of the 5a. and another 1,800 of the 7½a.
4½a. orange-yellow sheet of sixty (6x10, upper right stamp removed and replaced with another) with margins on two sides, fresh mint; margin at left with small fault, a couple of thins and some perfs. re-inforced though a great rarity. See plating chart in Figure 9. S.G. 44, £3,600+. Photo
Note: Very probably this sheet is the same one referred to and plated by Hall in his study (Hall, pp 46-47). Hall did, however, describe the sheet in his possession as "uncut". If it was the same sheet as offered above it would have lost the stamp in R.1/6, which was substituted by another single stamp of the same issue
provenance:
Richard Knight, March 2003
Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Overprint Setting 3
Printing 4, 12 August 1896 - 4½a., 5a. and 7½a. "On BEA"
Remington again turned to the "On BEA" stamps to meet demands for stamps stamps above 2½a, which was the highest of the values of Indian stamps supplied in July 1896. The additional values were well chosen, the 4½a. being for a single letter plus registration fee of 2a., the 5a. for a double rate letter and the 7½a. for a triple rate letter. The numbers retained in Zanzibar rather than being sent on to Mombasa were again modest - 2,460 of the 4½a., 1,800 of the 5a. and another 1,800 of the 7½a.
4½a. orange-yellow sheet of sixty (6x10, upper right stamp removed and replaced with another) with margins on two sides, fresh mint; margin at left with small fault, a couple of thins and some perfs. re-inforced though a great rarity. See plating chart in Figure 9. S.G. 44, £3,600+. Photo
Note: Very probably this sheet is the same one referred to and plated by Hall in his study (Hall, pp 46-47). Hall did, however, describe the sheet in his possession as "uncut". If it was the same sheet as offered above it would have lost the stamp in R.1/6, which was substituted by another single stamp of the same issue
Richard Knight, March 2003
Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The "On India" Provisional Stamps of Zanzibar, The John Griffith-Jones Collection
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