1941 KGVI Perf 14 10c red-brown and orange in an unmounted mint block of four, very fine. S.G. 134b, £520. Photo on Page 91.
Suggested price: GBP200-240
Worldwide Stamps and Postal History #33
By: Argyll Etkin Ltd
Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History #33
Europe and Africa Wreck Mail from the Collection of Robin Gwynn, RDP; Unique Watermark Master Plates; The Michael Goodman Collection of Forces Mail; Hospital Ship Mail; Kenya Railways; New Zealand Goldfields & extensive G.B Postal History with Isle of Man, Parcel Posts, Parliamentary Mail, Mulready Caricatures and Postal Stationery, the property of 48 vendors.
Lot #590 - kenya
Lot #591 - kenya
1960 2s50 Pictorial definitive depicting rhinos and a candelabra tree, die proof in brown of the frame only, on gummed paper, numbered "66", 73x48mm, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 91.
Suggested price: GBP250-300
Lot #592 - kenya railway postal history
Postcards/Photos. 1909-33 Picture postcards depicting trains (3, one a real Photo card posted in 1909), railway lines, bridges or stations (5), a fine c.1905 real photo of the station at Maji Mazuri with the Indian Station Master outside, also various notes, photocopies, cuttings and c.1952 photos all mounted on album pages.
Suggested price: GBP100-120
Lot #593 - kenya railway postal history
1897 (Dec 5) BEA 1a reply card (reply half) written by an Indian clerk in the railwayױs Chief Engineers Office at Kilindini, posted from Mombasa to India, with a "MOMBASA" single ring c.d.s. An early card connected with the Uganda Railway, construction of which commenced in 1896. Light vertical fold, otherwise fine.
Suggested price: GBP100-120
Lot #594 - kenya railway postal history
1899-1917 Covers and cards addressed to employees on the railway, comprising 1902 Zanzibar 1a postcard uprated with a 1/2a stamp sent to Station Master Stobbs at Makindu; 1898 Zanzibar 1a wrapper to "The Superintendent of Police, Uganda Railway, Kilindini"; 1908 East Africa & Uganda 6c envelope from Nairobi to "The Acting Traffic Manager, Uganda Railway, Nairobi"; and 1917 postcard from Nairobi to "Miss W. Smith, c/o H. Rushton, Asst....
Lot #595 - kenya railway postal history
1901 (Apr 14) BEA 2a registration envelope size F bearing a 1a stamp, both tied by "RAILHEAD / MOMBASA" squared circle, sent to India backstamped "RAILHEAD / MOMBASA" c.d.s (Apr 15) and at Mombasa (Apr 22) and Bombay, with Indian void oval handstamp containing the registration number. The front with some surface loss at left edge due to the removal of the Indian registration form (a small piece of which remains on the reverse), otherwise fine...
Lot #596 - kenya railway postal history
1901 (Dec 21) Printed envelope with a decorative border and design in the upper left corner, the lower left corner with printed senders details "From / Accounts Office, Uganda Rly. / NAIROBI (B.E. Africa)", headed "STAMPED" with "India" in the address. Posted registered to the stamp dealer W. T. Wilson in Birmingham with boxed "R / NAIROBI" handstamp, franked on the reverse by BEA 1/2a pairs (2) and 1a pair. Senders surname erased, otherwise...
Lot #597 - kenya railway postal history
1901-24 T.P.O and railway cancels on BEA or Kenya & Uganda stamps (33, twelve on piece) including "EXPERIMENTAL P.O / E.A.P" tying BEA 1a on 1901 piece and on 1902-04 stamps (2); 1902 "RAILHEAD / MOMBASA" c.d.s on BEA 2r; 1902 "ESCARPMENT" squared circle on BEA 1a; "T.P.O OUT / SET No." datestamps (2); violet "RAILWAY PROVINCIAL / E.A.P" on KEVII 1r and 3r; 1924 "NAIROBI-NAKURU / SORTING CARRIAGE" datestamps (4, three on piece); various...
Lot #598 - kenya railway postal history
1902 Uganda Railway Telegraph stamps, upper halves used, 1r with violet "MOMBASA" cancel and 2r with violet "PORT FLORENCE" cancel. (2).
Suggested price: GBP80-100
Lot #599 - kenya railway postal history
1903 (Nov 16) Picture postcard of a train on the Uganda Railway at Mombasa, posted to Germany with BEA 1a tied by "T.P.O IN / SET No 2" c.d.s, used on the Mombasa to Kisumu T.P.O. The c.d.s a little faint but clearly readable, scarce.
Suggested price: GBP120-150
Lot #600 - kenya railway postal history
1905 (Jan 14) Registered cover to London franked on the reverse by KEVII 1a vertical strip of three tied by two fine strikes of "T.P.O IN / SET No. 1" c.d.s, used on the Mombasa to Kisumu T.P.O, with Mombasa and London registration datestamps and oval framed "R". Small fault to one stamp, otherwise fine and scarce. Photo on Page 93.
Suggested price: GBP280-350
Lot #601 - kenya railway postal history
1917 (Nov 26) 6c Postal stationery envelope from Kampala to Limuru with violet "N.E / POSTAL CENSOR / KAMPALA", backstamped by superb "T.P.O / SET No. 1 / 29 No. 17" on the Nairobi to Kisumu T.P.O, and a Nakuru c.d.s. The earliest recorded date of use of this datestamp in its second period of use (1917-20), fine and scarce. Photo on Page 93.
Suggested price: GBP180-220
Lot #602 - kenya railway postal history
1919 (May 12) Cover to Kisumu with KGV 1c, 3c, 6c tied by two strikes of 37mm "UGANDA RAILWAY SC" skeleton c.d.s, used on the Nairobi to Kisumu T.P.O, recorded Dec. 1917 - August 1919. Fine and very scarce. Photo on Page 93.
Suggested price: GBP350-400
Lot #603 - kenya railway postal history
1922 (Mar 14) Cover to England with KGV 10c tied "S CARRIAGE / NO 1" double ring skeleton datestamp, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 93.
Suggested price: GBP160-200
Lot #604 - kenya railway postal history
1921 (Mar 9) 3c Postal stationery postcard from Naivasha to India with superb "S CARRIAGE / NO 1" double ring skeleton datestamp applied in transit on the address panel, handstamped "T" and "OVERLAND POSTAGE / DUE / AS / 1", fine and scarce. Photo on Page 95.
Suggested price: GBP160-200
Lot #605 - kenya railway postal history
1921 10c Postal stationery envelope to Stanley Gibbons in London and a Certificate of Posting of a registered letter to England both with "S CARRIAGE / NO 2" double ring skeleton datestamps (Sep. 7 and Oct. 7), fine and scarce. (2). Photo on Page 95.
Suggested price: GBP220-260
Lot #606 - kenya railway postal history
1922 6c Postal stationery envelope bearing KGV 4c on 6c, sent to London cancelled by "S CAARRIGE / NO 3" double ring skeleton datestamp, an extraordinary and previously unrecorded error of spelling of the word װCarriageױ, fine and very rare, possibly unique. Photo on Page 95.
Suggested price: GBP300-350
Lot #607 - kenya railway postal history
1920 (Apr 31) Cover to England with KGV 10c tied "S CARRIAGE / NO 4" double ring skeleton datestamp, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 95.
Suggested price: GBP160-200
Lot #608 - kenya railway postal history
1922 (Sep 21) 6c Postal stationery envelope to the USA uprated with KGV 1c pair, 3c and 4c on 6c tied by three strikes of "SORTING CAR / NO 1" double ring skeleton datestamps, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 95.
Suggested price: GBP180-240
Lot #609 - kenya railway postal history
1921 (Apr 29) 10c Postal stationery envelope to the USA uprated with KGV 1c and 4c on 6c tied by two strikes of "SORTING CAR / NO 2" double ring skeleton datestamps, a couple of small tape faults to reverse, otherwise fine and scarce. Photo on Page 95.
Suggested price: GBP160-200
Lot #610 - kenya railway postal history
1921 (Jan 13) Cover to London with KGV 10c tied by "SORTING CAR / NO 4" double ring skeleton datestamp, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 95.
Suggested price: GBP160-200
Lot #611 - kenya railway postal history
1924 Registered cover from Herne Hill, London, bearing G.B KGV 1d (3) and 1/2d + 1d postal stationery cut-outs, sent to Uplands and redirected to Nairobi, backstamped by "NAIROBI * NAKURU / SORTING CARRIAGE 3" (Feb 11) and "NAIROBI-NAKURU / SORTING CARRIAGE 1" (Feb 12, date inverted) double ring datestamps, fine and very scarce. The only example of the No. 3 c.d.s recorded by Proud, whilst the No. 1 c.d.s is only recorded used February-April...
Lot #612 - kenya railway postal history
1924 (Apr 20) Cover franked KGV 10c sent from Songhor to England, backstamped by "NAKURU + KISUMU / SORTING CARRIAGE 2" and "NAKURU-KISUMU / SORTING CARRIAGE 1" double ring datestamps. Flap missing with the loss of the word "Kisumu" from the No. 2 c.d.s, otherwise fine and very scarce, these datestamps only recorded used January-April 1924, this April 20th use of the No. 2 c.d.s being the latest recorded example. Photo on Page 97.
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Lot #613 - kenya railway postal history
1926 (Jan 25) Cover to Switzerland, the reverse with KGV 10c and 20c tied by Mombasa c.d.s, handstamped violet boxed "Posted in / Late fee box", posted on the down mail train from Nairobi.
Suggested price: GBP100-120
Lot #614 - kenya railway postal history
1926 (Mar 24) Cover (flap missing) to the USA with KGV 10c and 20c tied by Mombasa c.d.s, posted on the down mail train from Nairobi, handstamped with violet boxed "Posted in / Late fee box". Photo on Page 97.
Suggested price: GBP120-140
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