- £150.00
Portuguese Colonies. (Azores). 1910. King Manoel set of 14. SG 190, 2 1/2r lilac / SG 203, 1000r black and blue overprint 'SPECIMEN'.
Stamps of the Azores were received by the Rhodesian Post Office from the U.P.U. in Berne and applied with their own gum to pages from a commercially bought stamp album and the 'SPECIMEN' type R4 hand-stamp applied.
Portuguese Azores 'King Manoel set of 14 overprint 'SPECIMEN' with receipt date and dispatch number written alongside. The 'Specimen' hand-stamp is the fancy type R4 listed by Marcus Samuel and James Bendon unique to Rhodesia and certainly on the stamps of Portuguese Azores.
These unique 'SPECIMEN' stamps were 'Liberated' from the Rhodesia Post Office in the early 1980's and have just appeared on the market.
