BECHUANALAND
Bechuanaland Protectorate Stamps
BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE  -  1897 CAPE ½d YELLOW-GREEN OVERPRINTED ‘BRITISH / BECHUANALAND’
AB4469
1897 Cape ½d yellow-green with lines of overprint 13½mm apart (lower line 15mm long). Upper left corner marginal BLOCK OF SIX (3x2) showing plate number ‘2’. The lower row showing an albino overprint (inverted and reversed) with ‘BRITISH’ particularly prominent. Mounted in the margin only, the stamps are superb fresh unmounted mint. A rare multiple. Brandon opinion (2011). SG 57, 57 var.
£450