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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 137

Gold Coast The Ashanti Wars The Northern Territories 1896 (11 Aug.) OHMS (deleted) envelope to Bedfordshire, with original contents headed "Camp, 150 miles N of Kumasi", bearing 1891 2 1/2d. clearly tied by "kumasi/gold coast" double-ring d.s., showing "paid/liverpool/br. packet" c.d.s. (16.9) in red with, on reverse, Cape Coast (22.8) and arrival (17.9) datestamps. The fascinating content includes "I am at present on tour with Pigott in command of escort. Mr. Samori, a big Mohammedan Chief who you might have read of in the papers has we find been raiding all over the hinterland with the consequence that Trade has been diverted east and west to the Germans and French respectively and the Colony left destitute. Mr. S. has frequently written expressing his great loyalty and friendship for the British so I am afraid he must be a bit of scamp...he has about 30,000 followers, ten thousand of whom comprise his Cavalry. Photo Estimate £ 500-600 provenance: Soler and Llach auction, February 2008

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