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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1278

Gold Coast
The Stamp Period
Cape Coast Castle
1876 (26 Oct.) envelope registered to Wolverhampton, bearing 1875 6d. orange (2) and 1876-79 1d. blue (4), all cancelled with "556" in oval of bars, showing red crayon "10", framed "registered" with red crayon "fee 4d" alongside, "paid-at-cape-coast-castle" c.d.s. (26.10), "paid/liverpool/br.packet" d.s. (28.11) with arrival c.d.s. (29.11) on reverse. A small cover with the stamps previously folded over the top edge, subsequently opened out for display and pressed, nevertheless a rare and remarkable franking, one of four recorded first issue covers. Photo

provenance:
Robson Lowe (Whitfield), December 1978

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Sold for
£3,500