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Zululand

1st May 1888

South African Province 6

Zululand SG1
Zululand SG2 Zululand SG12
  Sc1 SG1 Sc2 SG2 Sc12a SG12 xxx

Description Date Scott SG Mi Y&T  
GB overprints
½ penny vermilion Nov 1888 1 1      
1d deep purple   2 2      
2d grey-green and carmine   3 3      
2½d purple, blue Sep 1891 4 4      
3d purple, yellow   5 5      
4d green and deep brown   6 6      
5d dull purple and blue Mar 1893 7 7      
6d purple, rose-red   8 8      
9d dull purple and blue Apr 1892 9 9      
1 shilling dull green Apr 1892 10 10      
5/- rose Apr 1892 11 11      
Natal overprints
½d dull green o/p with stop Jul 1888 12a 12      
½d dull green o/p without stop   12 13      

Date of issue, where not May 1888.

Zululand was annexed by GB in 1887 and declared a Crown Colony. Control was assigned to Natal in December 1897.

Gibbons [1] lists it under South Africa.

Sources: ScS, SGP1 [1].

Image from David Olson, ebay.

FI ref: 253 Page credit: NB

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