No Longer Available - ZANZIBAR 1926 SGD7 Cover

Stock Code: P167006016

Postage Due. 1926 (JA 4) incoming printed "B. MOHANLALL, C/o Smith Mackenzie & Co, ZANZIBAR" cover, unpaid and with "T in circle" tax mark applied on despatch (presumably at Lucknow, India, by inference from other covers of this commercial correspondence). On reverse, type D9 "ZANZIBAR" arrival cds, with blue crayon "20c" (= gold centimes) calculation of deficiency on face, paid by 1926-30 12c black/green postage due (R1/1 on sheet), uncancelled as usual (until mid - 1929). Fine condition and a highly important cover, being the earliest recorded (by nearly six months!) with the 1926-30 issue. In fact, the deficiency should probably have been "40c" (= 25 Zanzibar cents), but the absence of despatch marking may have allowed a default to the lower charge. Ex Griffith-Jones (illustrated on p.287 of his book as fig. 11.5, with further discussion on p.288; census listing F.1) and Schuyler Rumsey sale Feb 2012 (realised £1725), with Sismondo cert (2011).

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