Long Island 1916 2½d black on wove, SG32 Basutoland stamps 1d in red-brown

1d in red-brown

Shellal-Halfa T

"POSTAGE" 29½mm long

Stanley Gibbons catalogue value: £6

no: MI II 425/12 E469

Long Island 1916 2½d black on wove, SG32 Basutoland stamps 1d in red-brownLong Island 1916 (7 May) 2d black typewritten (carbon) on thin wove with initials in indelible pencil, SG32. A fine mint example. There is some minor paper disturbance from a previous stamp hinge, which has been removed. It, however, remans a fine example as most examples known have condition issues. An extremely rare stamp as only 96 were originally produced (72 carbons + 24 top copies), from which 29 were destroyed as remainders. Gibbs recorded just