SOUTH WEST AFRICA 1949 UPU 3d bright blue variety, SG140b Batum stamps With some creasing and bumping

With some creasing and bumping to the edges

These stamps represented the first pictorial series from a major British colony

'f' x8 and 'g' x12]

neatly cancelled by an almost complete orange-red Maltese Cross

In 1988 he published A Brief History of Time

SOUTH WEST AFRICA 1949 UPU 3d bright blue variety, SG140b Batum stamps With some creasing and bumpingSouth West Africa 1949 75th Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union 3d bright blue, upper right corner block of 4, lower left stamp (R2 19) showing variety 'Lake in East Africa', SG140b. A very fine unmounted mint positional block with full original gum. Stamps issued to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union featured 310 stamps in total across 84 different countries. This was only the second British Empire Omnibus issue not to