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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 23

Cameroons Boundary Commissions 1913 Belgian Congo 5c. stationery card to Oxford, headed "3rd October. H.M.S. Dwarf at Boma, River Congo, West Coast of Africa", uprated with 5c. and both cancelled by "boma" c.d.s. (10.10), fine Estimate £ 100-120 Note: H.M.S. Dwarf was engaged on a boundary commission delimitation in 1913 between the Belgian Congo and British East Africa. Between 23rd and 27th September 1914, the Dwarf was engaged in taking Duala.

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