BECHUANALAND
Postal Stationery
REGISTERED ENVELOPES  -  British Bechuanaland
AB2602
ESSAY for the 1887 registered postal stationery envelope. Utilising a Great Britain 1883-85 2d blue registration envelope (size H) without compensation notice. Surcharged ‘FOUR’ with bars cancelling the word ‘TWO’ (as adopted) and overprinted with ‘BRITISH BECHUANALAND’ in tall, thin seriffed black capitals in an arc above the imprinted stamp on the flap. Very fine and rare. Thy / Inglefield-Watson type RE E(13).
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