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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 224

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 (29 Apr.) envelope to Birmingham, bearing GB 1d. lilac pair tied by fine strike of datestamp in violet and showing red Paid Liverpool Br. Packet d.s. (23.5); the envelope with some peripheral creases. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 provenance: H.G. Porter, February 1956

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