BEA-KUT 1938 MiNr0062A pm B002 - Public domain portrait drawing

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BEA-KUT 1938 MiNr0062A pm B002 - Public domain portrait drawing

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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"); 1938; definitive stamp of the issue "Pictorals - King George VI of the United Kingdom"; stamp drawing with a drawing of the Jinja Bridge (Uganda) over the Nile under the portrait of King George VI of the United Kingdom in ornamented circle with crown; stamp postmarked
Note: The Jinja Bridge is a bridge of the first railway in Uganda ran from Jinja to Butiaba on the shore of the Lake Albert. The (old) Jinja Bridge crossed the Nile near the Ripon Falls, how the inscription indicates.
Stamp: Michel: No. 62A; Yvert et Tellier: No. 55; Scott: No. 76b
Color: blue / black
Watermark: British East Africa No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 30 C. (Cents)
Postage validity: from 2 May 1938 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 23.5 x 29.0 mm

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02/05/1938
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UK Government artistic works
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