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Lot 4: UK 1948 The Strand Stamp Album, World Collection, British Commonwealth & US

2026-11-04T10:00:00Z

UK 1948 The Strand Stamp Album, World Collection, British Commonwealth & US

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Description

A vintage The Strand Stamp Album, cloth-bound in green with a gilt-stamped title and shield device to the front cover. This world collection is arranged by country and territory on pre-printed grid pages, containing a large assortment of used and unused postage stamps from the early-to-mid 20th century. The collection has a significant focus on British Commonwealth territories and Middle Eastern issues.

Identified sections include:
India: Featuring definitive issues of King George V and King George VI, including the 1937 series and 1948 Gandhi memorial stamps. Notable cancellations include circular date stamps (CDS) from Bombay and Calcutta.
Palestine: A series of pictorial definitives under the British Mandate, including views of the Citadel in Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, with trilingual overprints in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Syria: A selection of early 20th-century architectural definitives, including views of Aleppo and Hama in various colour shades.
East Africa: George VI era stamps for Tanganyika, Kenya & Uganda featuring the crane and monarch profile.
United States: A comprehensive page of early 20th-century definitives and commemoratives, including the Washington-Franklin series and various early 1930s-40s issues in values ranging from 1 cent to 50 cents.

The album cover features the printed title The Strand Stamp Album in a stylized font within a shield border. The internal pages are titled with geographic headers and historical information for each territory.

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