MADAGASCAR UPU ARCHIVE RECEIVING AUTHORITY SPECIMENS: 1902 KEVII 2½d - £20 (2½d, 4d, 4/-, £1.10, £5, £10 & £20) each overprinted "SPECIMEN" and attractively affixed in neat arrangement to complete ledger page, handstamped with circular "POSTES ET TELEGRAPHES / COLLECTION / DE BERNE / MADAGASCAR" in red. The ledger sheet bears Post & Telegraphs audit certification at base. A spectacular group sent from the UPU in Berne to the Madagascar Post Office where they were mounted on the ledger page and tied by the Madagascar handstamp. Superb, rare, a magnificent, colourful exhibition array for connoisseur.
