- £225.00
Portuguese Colonies. (Portuguese Azores). 1903. Portuguese Azores Postage Dues SG D179, 5r brown / SG D185, 100r blue set of 7 in vertical strips of three overprint 'SPECIMEN'
Stamps of the Azores were received by the Rhodesia 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 1904 Postage Due set of 7 in vertical strips of three overprinted '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 early 1980's and have just appeared on the market.
