Lot 30240 – 1894-95, 5v black, third printing (narrow setting on white paper), in vertical strip of three on cover

1894-95, 5v black, third printing (narrow setting on white paper), in vertical strip of three, cancelled by ms “Ranomena 1/11 96” on envelope to a French resident Gustav Alby in Antsirabe (who had a few months earlier taken part in the defence of Antsirabe against an attack by theMenalamba rebels), paying the parcel rate of 1e5v and probably been attached to a parcel originally, collector’s annotation at left, a few cover tears of which one affects the strip at top, a unique multiple franking and the most important item of the Norwegian Missionary Mail; cert. Behr (2011). Illustrated in “Norsk Misjonspost I Madagaskars Innland, 1867-1897″, by Karl Sanne, 1989.