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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1274

Gold Coast
The Stamp Period
Axim
1879 (22 May) envelope to France, bearing 1876-84 6d. orange (4) cancelled with three "axim" (22.5) c.d.s. with day in manuscript, showing red crayon "6" and "1/6", fine "paid-at-cape-coast-castle" c.d.s. (29.5), "paid/liverpool/br. packet" (25.6), and London Paid (26.6) transit c.d.s. with arrival datestamp. A rare, clean and attractive cover in unusually fine condition. Photo

provenance:
"Ashanti", January 1991
McCaig collection.

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