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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 215

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888 - 1899 Handstruck Stamps Burutu "the royal niger company/chartered & limited,/post office,/burutu." double-framed d.s. in sans-serif capitals (Sacher Type 8, S.G. Type 6) 1898 (27 June) unstamped envelope written at Assaba ex the "Planque" correspondence to Lyon, France, showing fine strike of the datestamp in black, "T" h.s. and bearing France Postage Due 50c. applied and cancelled on arrival with, on reverse, Liverpool Br. Packet d.s. (31.7) and arrival c.d.s. (2.8). Rare. Photo Estimate £ 600-800

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