Did you see the Republic of Kenya 1964 stamps up thread? Unless they printed the stamps in the last two weeks of the year.
Yes, I saw them...but the earlier issues of their stamps all said only “Kenya.” This doc we’re dealing with is dated February 1964. The nation became a republic in December 1964. I’m sure they were cooking it up all year, and certainly would have prepared commemorative stamps in anticipation of the newly instituted “republic.” Nevertheless, it isn’t very logical to have been putting it on their official forms ten months earlier, when they didn’t put it on their currency or stamps or anything else I could turn up.
They might have anyway. I hope so. If not, that’s a damn good fake they got there. All those numbers and names on it, to confirm or not. That realistic old type. What self-respecting forger would foul up the name of the country on an otherwise ingenious fraud?
Just show us similar docs with “Republic of Kenya” and I’m a believer.