BATUM BRIT OCC 1919 5r brown and 7r brownish red, SG17/18

BATUM BRIT OCC 1919 5r brown and 7r brownish red, SG17/18Batum British Occupation 1919 (10 Nov) 'BRITISH OCCUPATION' 5r brown and 7r brownish red, (SG17 18), respectively in horizontal and vertical strips of 3, tied to separate pieces each by two strikes of circular date stamps, '25 6. 20' and '8 4. 20', the latter also showing part '30 AP 20' (London) arrival circular date stamp. Fine quality used examples and scarce commercial usages of multiples. SG Catalogue Value: 90+. Batumi (formerly Batum) is a city

to print an emergency issue of three stamps

shamrocks and thistles

A lightly used example

the majority being cut into

Hepburn has signed in the bottom right corner

the owner quietly asked if he wouldn’t mind signing

depicting Isma'il Pasha

but to be included in the next GB Specialised Volume 2 catalogue

This example could only have been signed in a seven month window between July 1977 and January 1978

The Stanley Gibbons catalogue price for this set is £150

good example

bottom marginal block of 12 is lettered SD-TI