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Help With Lagos Queen Victoria

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Posted 01/04/2022   8:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add floortrader to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The reason someone try to add the red SI cut out to the stamp is because the stamp with the purple letter SIX is not as valuable as the red colored printed value . Here is a example from my collection of the two different types .



Here is a different part of the German seapost cancel on a Lagos stamp from my collection .
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Posted 01/04/2022   8:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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and there I found a small piece pasted on the corner


Fascinating, I have come across 2 similar, in 20 odd years of collecting
Mount it on a page for curiosity!

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Posted 01/04/2022   8:48 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Mrita75 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes! I was trying to think how to display it. Along with other misfits and oddities.

Floortrader - that one shilling is stunning. It is nice to see what it should look like. Mine is ultra washed.
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Edited by Mrita75 - 01/04/2022 8:50 pm
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Posted 01/06/2022   06:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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The reason someone try to add the red SI cut out to the stamp is because the stamp with the purple letter SIX is not as valuable as the red colored printed value


Possible, but it might also be because he just did not have his lilac biro at hand.
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