U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
January 9-10, 2013
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1060 PORTUGUESE COLONIES KIONGA 1916 registered cover franked with 2 1/2c on 100c and 5c on 100c, both cancelled by a single 10-12-17 violet datestamp, registration number filled in by hand, with "Postal Kionga" drawn in red, sent from Kionga to Nyassa, with largely intact wax seal and arrival (11 December) cds, fine-v.f., extremely rare, only a few registered covers are recorded. The Kionga Triangle was a tiny territory on the border between German East Africa (largely overlapping the present-day United Republic of Tanzania) and the Portuguese colony of Portuguese East Africa (present day Republic of Mozambique). Originally, the Germans established this as their outpost south of the Rovuma River, and there was a settlement called Kionga (now Quionga). After the war, the Treaty of Versailles defined the border as running along the Rovuma, thus allotting the triangle to Mozambique  | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
