File:BEA-KUT 1938 MiNr0053 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of British East Africa - KUT ("KUT" = the British colony "Kenya", the British protectorate "Uganda", and the British mandate area "Tanganyika"); 1938; definitive stamp of the issue "Pictorals - King George VI of the United Kingdom"; stamp drawing with several people in a dhow on the Lake Victoria (drawing type II) with portrait of King George VI of the United Kingdom in oval; stamp postmarked
: At "Type II" of this drawing is the left hand rope at the most right standing person joined to the sail.
Stamp: Michel: No. 53; Yvert et Tellier: No. 51; Scott: No. 67
Color: green / black
Watermark: British East Africa No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 5 C. (Cents)
Postage validity: from 1938 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 31.0 x 24.5 mm
Date (first issue of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Royal Mail for British East Africa
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Picture description Several people in a Dhow on the Lake Victoria (drawing type II) with portrait of King George VI of the United Kingdom in oval
First day of issue
Publisher Royal Mail for British East Africa
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer ? (...Bradbury, Wilkinson...?)
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 13 : 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Britisch-Ostafrika, Nr. 53
SCOTT Nr. British East Africa (Kenia, Uganda und Tanganyika), No. 67

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