SELECTED NON AFRICA
GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS - OMNIBUS
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NAURU 1916 KGV 5/- Seahorse, rose-carmine, Waterlow printing. Superb used cancelled crisp part 'P.O. PLEASANT ISLAND / NAURU' sc datestamp, this most likely dated 2nd September 1916. BPA certificate (1956). RARE. SG 17
Note: three sheets of 40 from this printing were overprinted, resulting in 120 possible. Few of these were used, and some cancelled by the Postmaster, Mr. H B Pope on the 2nd September 1916, apparently the day he left the island to join Allied Forces |
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