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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1267

Gold Coast
Postmarks and Handstamps
"missent to/cape coast" framed handstamp in red
c.1874 fragment of O.H.M.S. envelope, marked "Opened by mistake by the Colonial Secretary of Cape Coast Castle" and signed, showing clear framed "missent to cape coast" handstamp in red. The only recorded example. Photo.

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