Lot 299
SWAZILAND 1938 (SPECIMEN) SG28s/38s lpog

Stamps & Covers of British Africa | 5956
Auction: 16 November 2023 at 10:30 GMT
£240
Description
1938(-54) set of 11 to 10s, perf 'SPECIMEN' (type D20), fresh large part o.g. A desirable set with fascinating provenance. Ex Third Reich presentation album of UPU specimen stamps, specially prepared and hand illustrated in 1941, entitled 'Die Raubpolitik Englands im Spiegel der Briefmarke' (The Imperial plunder of England, mirrored in stamps). The album was reported by Stamp magazine (September 1995) to have been found in the Fuhrer's private study at his Berghof mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden by an American serviceman when the war ended in 1945.

