Auction 309-320 - Australian States & Commonwealth British Africa, St. Helena - Day 2

1915 (Jan): German East Africa 15 h. ultramarine, handstamped "G.R. / MAFIA" in reddish violet, a fine unused block of nine, marginal from base of sheet, seven stamps handstamped and two stamps at lower left with variety "Handstamped Overprint Omitted", these initialled "JDM" by Lt. Col. J.D. Mackay, Governor of Mafia Island in manuscript ink. Fine with large part or unmounted slightly browned og. Probably just 300 stamps overprinted in total, a most exceptional large multiple. Signed Holcombe. Cert. Holcombe (1992) Gibbs 4C+4Ca /Gi = £ 7'500++.rnrnProvenance: Spink, London, 6 April 2006, lot 1087.