SOMALILAND PROTECTORATE 1912-13 ½a to 1r, eight values SPECIMENS, SG60/9s Literary Consequently they became known as

Consequently they became known as a 'Laurels' and 'Half laurels'

The Swan was used as it was the emblem of the Colony and a reminder of when it was known as the Swan River Settlement

A beautiful piece being the only block of four 2d blues cancelled by a blue Maltese Cross in existence

Earlier that day Marilyn visited her hairdresser Robert Freeman Champion at Bergdorf Goodman on New York's Fifth Avenue

SG H34/a/c/e

SOMALILAND PROTECTORATE 1912-13 ½a to 1r, eight values SPECIMENS, SG60/9s Literary Consequently they became known asSomaliland Protectorate 1912 13 a to 1r, watermark MCA, eight values (excluding 1a, 2a), with two examples each of 3a to 12a (the 3a and 6a to 12a in rejoined horizontal pairs), all overprinted 'SPECIMEN', with additional part strikes of receiving handstamps. From the Gabon Universal Postal Union (UPU) archive (dispersed c. 1975). The 2a, 3a, 8a, 12a with 'COLONIE DUE GABON SECRETARIAT GENERAL', the others with 'COLONIE du GABON et du CONGO FRANCAIS