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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 22

Cameroons Boundary Commissions 1913 (May) unstamped envelope to Bordeaux, marked "Franchise postale", showing fine strike of framed "mission de delineation/Afrique Equatoriale Française - cameroun" in violet and "mongumba/congo francais" double-ring datestamp (12.5); the envelope a little soiled. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: As a result of the 1911 Morocco Crisis and subsequent Morocco and Congo Conventions, Germany recognised a French Protectorate in Morocco whilst France would cede territory to German Kamerun.

Sold for
£300