Santa Fe Collections of South America and the Middle East
January 11, 2012
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #309 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN 1920 Kerak Provisional, Moab District Seal, horizontal pair, (1p) pale blue, with initials "A.K." (Alex Kirkbride), h.r., v.f., ex-Asch collection, extremely rare (taking the official seal of the Majlis Idara, the adviser impressed it on plan sheets of gummed paper in green ink, each impression falling within a pencil-ruled square 3.5cm in size. Several hundred of these stamps, valued at one piaster each, were so printed, each being initialed “A. K.”, in violet ink, by the adviser, Alek S. Kirkbride, later British Resident and eventually first British Ambassador to Jordan. They were put into immediate use, and eventually a few copies straggled through to Jerusalem where the postal authorities, now realizing that the need for Transjordan stamps at Kerak was a very real one, took effective steps to get through a small supply, by November 1920, when the new definitives came into general use throughout the country, * Catalog #SG 19a Catalog Value £ 7,000 | Price Realized $15,000.00 |
