File:BEA-KUT 1958 MiNr0097 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"); 1958; definitive stamp of the issue "Local motives - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom"; stamp drawing with a lion ("Panthera leo") before tropical savannah forest landscape under a cameo portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with view to left in oval with crown; stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 97; Yvert et Tellier EA 93A; Scott: No. 109
Color: brown
Watermark: British East Africa No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 40 C (Cents)
Postage validity: from 28 March 1958 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 24.0 x 30.5 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Royal Mail for British East Africa
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This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It was published prior to 1974; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1974.

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Picture description Drawing with a lion ("Panthera leo") before tropical savannah forest landscape under a cameo portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with view to left in oval with crown
First day of issue
Publisher Royal Mail for British East Africa
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer ? (De La Rue...?)
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 12½ : 13
MICHEL Nr. Britisch-Ostafrika, Nr. 97
SCOTT Nr. British East Africa (Kenia, Uganda and Tanganyika), No. 109

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