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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1271

Gold Coast
The Stamp Period
Accra
1877 (14 Oct.) envelope to Boston U.S.A., marked "via Liverpool", bearing 1876 1d. blue pair, one bisected diagonally, and 6d. orange, all cancelled by "554" in oval of bars, showing red crayon "1d" and "6½d.", Accra c.d.s. (14.10), "paid/liverpool/br. packet" c.d.s. (12.11) with arrival c.d.s. (25.11). A rare and most attractive franking in a wonderful state of preservation. Only about four pre U.P.U. bisect covers are recorded. Photo

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£3,500