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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 222

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) 1899 (18 Feb.) envelope addressed to an Officer in the 24th Regiment at Pembroke Dock, bearing GB 1d. tied by very fine strike of datestamp in violet, showing red Paid Liverpool Br. Packet d.s. (14.3) with arrival c.d.s. on reverse. Exceptional quality. Photo Estimate £ 500-600 provenance: H.G. Porter, February 1956

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