Van ---First I could not find anything about a missing "S" in the overprint . Second on your copy the "frica" of AFRICA is too large in your overprint . The curve at the top of the "E" in EAST should be more straight downward . Hope this helps .
I'll go with Tony. Minns (in his Handbook of British East Africa philately) doesn't list this. Definitely forgery. Also, the cancel is wrong for British East Africa, where a double-ring or a "killer" squared circle were used exclusively.
As I thought, it is probably a forgery. Seems kind of ironic that someone took some amount of time to create a forgery but forgot how to spell "British". The perfs do look funny and to me look like they were "repunched" especially down the right side where they seem to be angled to the frame of the stamp. Thanks to all, especially the note about the cancels used in BEA.
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Posted 08/18/2016 8:29 pm
Looks like an apprentice piece.
