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Auction: 1028 - The "Wilkin" Collection of British West Africa Postal History and British Africa Stamps from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 85

Cameroons French Campaign 1914 - 1918 Military Mail 1916 (26 Jan.) picture postcard written from Ebolowa to Fort Lamy in Tchad, showing light circular cachet of the Commandant of Oubangui-Chari in blue and sent via the British Post Office in Duala (6.2) and Kano (15.3) in Nigeria; the card with corner faults Estimate £ 100-120 provenance: This cover is illustrated in "The French Navy and AEF Columns" Vol. II by Dudley Cobbs, page 73 and discussed on pages 35 and 37.

Sold for
£80