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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 202

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888 - 1899 Handstruck Stamps Akassa "the royal niger company/chartered & limited./post office/akassa" double-framed d.s. (Sacher Type 6, S.G. Type 4) 1896 (14 Mar.) envelope (223x96mm.) to Sierra Leone, showing a superb strike of the very rare "agent general/niger territories" double-framed d.s. (Sacher Type 7) and with a good to fine strike of the datestamp in violet (19.3), uncancelled GB 2 1/2d. and, on reverse, Freetown arrival d.s. (6.4). Photo Estimate £ 1,500-2,000 provenance: H.G. Porter, February 1956

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