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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"); 1935; definitive stamp of the issue "Pictorals - King George V of the United Kingdom"; stamp drawing with a hilly landscape before the Mount Kilimanjaro (the highest mountain in Africa) and a cameo portrait medaillion with King George V with view to left in circle; stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 34; Yvert et Tellier: No. 36; Scott: No. 49
Color: red / black
Watermark: British East Africa, No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 15 C (Cents)
Postage validity: from 1 May 1935 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 29.0 x 23.0 mm
Date (first issue of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration of the Royal Mail for British East Africa
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Picture description Drawing with a hilly landscape before the Mount Kilimanjaro (the highest mountain in Africa) and a cameo portrait medaillion with King George V with view to left in circle
First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration of the Royal Mail for British East Africa
Design Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931) (designer of the cameo medaillion with King George V with view to left)

John Augustus Charles Harrison (1872-1954) (the engraver of the medaillion and probably also of the rest)

Printer "Harrison and Sons Limited, London, Hayes and High Wycombe" (?)
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 13 (this stamp)

Comb perforation, K 14 (other source)

MICHEL Nr. Britisch-Ostafrika, Nr. 34
SCOTT Nr. British East Africa (Kenia, Uganda und Tanganyika), No. 49

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