Rare Isle of Man WWI postal history has been sold in London with Stanley Gibbons Group PLC.
The lots included the only known unused example in private hands of a stamp from the Knockaloe internment camp, established in the IOM during WWI.
The camp contained the only British post office to operate within a British prisoner of war camp.
The Knockaloe Post office had its own steel date stamp and printed registration labels.
A 2d red stamp on ungummed paper and featuring the camp fence and huts with the three legged symbol in each corner, was designed and printed within the camp, but withdrawn by the authorities before use.
Until 1981 it was believed that only an unused sheet of twenty-one of these stamps, held in the Manx Museum, existed.
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