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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1264

Gold Coast
Postmarks and Handstamps
"accra/paid" double-arc datestamp
1864 (20 May) envelope to "Government House, Sierra Leone", showing red crayon "4", slightly blurred strike of "accra/paid" double arc d.s. in red with Sierra Leone arrival c.d.s. (20.5) on reverse. One of only two recorded examples of this postmark, and unique in red. Photo.

provenance:
Sir Adrian Cadbury, June 2005
Soler and Llach auction, February 2008


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Estimate
£1,500 to £2,000