File:BEA-KUT 1935 MiNr0033 pm B002.jpg

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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 cameo portrait of King George V of the United Kingdom (without crown) with view to left in oval over shadow drawing of a lion ("Panthera leo") in savannah grass landscape flanked by palm trees (left: two trees, right: one tree); stamp postmarked
Stamp: Michel: No. 33; Yvert et Tellier: No. 35; Scott: No. 48
Color: yellow / black
Watermark: British East Africa, No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 10 C. (Cents)
Postage validity: from 1 May 1935 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 24.5 x 30.5 mm
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Author Royal Mail for British East Africa
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Picture description Drawing with a cameo portrait of King George V of the United Kingdom (without crown) with view to left in oval over shadow drawing of a lion ("Panthera leo") in savannah grass landscape flanked by palm trees (left: two trees, right: one tree)
First day of issue
Publisher 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 12 x 13
MICHEL Nr. Britisch-Ostafrika, Nr. 33
SCOTT Nr. British East Africa (Kenia, Uganda und Tanganyika), No. 48

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