File:BEA-KUT 1952 MiNr0063 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"); 1952; 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. 63; Yvert et Tellier: No. 86; Scott: No. 77
Color: brown / lilac to dark purple
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 1 April 1952 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 23.5 x 29.0 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author Royal Mail for British East Africa
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This is because it is one of the following:

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Other versions

- Stamp in the same drawing and value, but other color and perforation: Michel No. 62D from 1942

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  • Stamp in the same drawing and value, but other colors and perforation (Michel No. 62A from 1938)
    Stamp in the same drawing and value, but other colors and perforation (Michel No. 62A from 1938)
Picture description 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; inscription "Jinja Bridge by the Ripon Falls"
First day of issue
Publisher Royal Mail for British East Africa
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer ? (...Bradbury, Wilkinson...?)
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation ?
Perforation Comb perforation, K 13¼ : 13¾
MICHEL Nr. Britisch-Ostafrika, Nr. 63
SCOTT Nr. British East Africa (Kenia, Uganda und Tanganyika), No. 77

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