Corinphila Auction 291-297 Day 1

Overprinted at the Zanzibar Gazette 1895/96: ½ a. blue-green in a horizontal pair, single 4 a. olive-green and 1 r. green & aniline carmine, all used on 2 a. 6 p. orange postal stationery envelope optd. in blue, sent registered to Leipzig and tied by "Zanzibar" thimble datestamps (July 17, 1896) in black. A charming and scarce cover.rnProvenance: Grosvenor, London, 12-13 June 2012, lot 1476.