£100 - £120
1948-49 Proof impressions of forty differing handstamps from 35 different Post Offices, the handstamps for each office on a separate piece headed "Authenticated impression of date-stamp used at ...... for cancelling of B.P Silver Wedding stamps", with signature or handstamp of the Postmaster at Mafeking alongside "verified", several also with the Mafeking Post Office cachet. A unique group, obtained in 1949 on the instructions of the Colonial Office in London as a result of reports of forged datestamps appearing on the 1948 Silver Wedding stamps.
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