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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1846

Niger Coast Protectorate 1894 (27 Mar.) envelope registered from Old calabar River to Whitfield King in Ipswich, bearing 1893 (Dec.) "One/Shilling" in violet on 2d. grey-green and carmine horizontal pair each neatly cancelled with c.d.s., showing boxed "registered" h.s. in violet, large "R" h.s., Liverpool (28.4) and London (29.4) oval Registered d.s., arrival c.d.s. (30.4) on reverse; fine and rare. Behr Certificate (2010). S.G. 37. Photo Estimate £ 3,000-3,500 provenance: Maurice Burrus, November 1963

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