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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 72

Cameroons French Campaign 1914 - 1918 Military Mail 1915 unstamped envelope (opened-out) to Paris, marked "Via Nigeria Liverpool" and "Franchise de Guerre", handstamped "smb" in violet, showing "maidugeri/nigeria" double-ring d.s. (3.10), Paris arrival c.d.s. (14.11) and, on reverse, Naraguta transit d.s.; the envelope with some minor peripheral faults. Photo Estimate £ 150-180 Note: This cover was from a French N.C.O., Sergeant Cordier, who was part of the Colonne du Nord invading German Kamerun from Tchad. literature: Illustrated in "The French Navy and AEF Columns" Vol. II by Dudley Cobb, page 74

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