German East Africa - Afrikanische Seenpost highest
Are you interested in this item?This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. This historically interesting item is an example of a $1 value stamp produced by the German-East-African company Schülke & Mayer for Seeen Post (ocean mail) use. However, before the stamps could be issued, the company lost its contract with the colony governer. The stamps were never used.Stamp is an original print, it has the typical underlying print & perforation. Gum shows some staining. Read more