ZULULAND 1893 6d dull purple imprimatur, SG16 Hong Kong stamps The printing varieties

The printing varieties

The sepia-toned portrait

Superb imperforate example in red on gummed multiple cypher watermarked paper

Very fine used well centred example lettered GC neatly canceled by a crisp Glasgow cds for NO

ZULULAND 1893 6d dull purple imprimatur, SG16 Hong Kong stamps The printing varietiesSouth Africa Zululand 1893 6d dull purple, type 1 De La Rue overprint on Natal, IMPERFORATE IMPRIMATUR, SG16. A fine example with good to large margins and fresh part original gum. Minor gum wrinkles, which do not detract, and still fine and most attractive. A very rare imprimatur of the first stamps used by Zululand on becoming a Crown Colony, which were overprinted stamps from Natal. The stamp is signed on reverse "Holcombe", (Peter Holcombe) the