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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 966

(x) Niger Company Territories
Akassa
1897 (22 July) pre-printed envelope (central vertical fold) "per R.M.S. Volta" to Liverpool, bearing 1887 2½d. purple on blue cancelled by a superb strike of "the royal niger company,/chartered & limited./post office,/akassa" framed datestamp (Sacher Type 9A) in violet and with Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (25.8) in red at left. Photo

provenance:
Pilkington, May 1954
Col. J.R. Danson, March 1971

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Sold for
£350