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Spink were kind enough to send me the scans of the pages before
they were cut up into Country lots and what follows has been
extracted from the foregoing archive. It included essays from
Ascension, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Natal (Entertainment
Duty), Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Rhodesia & Nyasaland,
St. Helena, South Africa, South West Africa, Southern Rhodesia,
Swaziland and Tristan da Cunha.
Before they were cut up, sorting the original pages out was
quite a task - For instance page 105 included eight South
African essays, dated 28/8/22 at the top, in the middle there
were eight items from Iraq, followed by three from Lithuania.
Bottom left four designs for Strait Settlements Postage Dues
and rounded off at bottom right with another six Union Essays
dated 9/1/23.
At the bottom of the Previous page 104, there
are four Union essays, also dated 28/8/22 and appear to be
part of the eight at the top of page 105, next to each essay
is a X with a dot below it, what this signifies is open to
debate.
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