File:BEA-KUT 1960 MiNr0113 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"); 1960; definitive stamp of the issue "Animals and plants - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom"; stamp drawing with two animals of the spezies Gazella thompsoni under an acuminated oval with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom wearing crown with view to half-left; stamp postmarked in 1961
Stamp: Michel: No. 113; Yvert et Tellier: No. 110; Scott: No. 125
Color: orange red to red
Watermark: British East Africa No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 30 C (Cents)
Postage validity: from 1 October 1960 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 18.0 x 22.0 mm
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Author Royal Mail for British East Africa
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Picture description Drawing with two animals of the spezies Gazella thompsoni under an acuminated oval with the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom wearing crown with view to half-left
First day of issue
Publisher Royal Mail for British East Africa
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer De La Rue and Co. Ltd
Printing technique Photogravure printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 15 : 14
MICHEL Nr. Britisch-Ostafrika, Nr. 113
SCOTT Nr. British East Africa, (Kenia, Uganda and Tanganyika), No. 188

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