"I should be very interested to know if anyone can throw and light on the £l mauve, (S.G.6.) in my possession which has the ornamentations in the oval under Tobago painted out in mauve and with POSTAGE painted in white with the side ornaments as in the 1880 issue. The stamp is stuck down on a small piece and obliterated with double pen marks crossed. Is it an artist is proof for the Pound which was not issued?"
"It may be of interest to collectors of Tobago to know that S.G.29 (1d. on 22d. blue) occurs bisected and was used as a 2d. I have it in a strip with two whole stamps on a letter to Saxony - August 1891.
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