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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 218

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 seriffed capitals (Sacher Type 10, S.G. Type 4) 1898 (10 Nov.) envelope (225x100mm.) to London and re-addressed to Cornwall, bearing GB 2 1/2d. tied by fair to fine strike of datestamp in violet and by Ealing arrival c.d.s. (7.12), and showing red Paid Liverpool Br. Packet d.s. (5.12); the envelope with some peripheral creases. Photo Estimate £ 200-250

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