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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1281

Gold Coast
The Stamp Period
Cape Coast Castle
1877 (9 June) envelope registered to Dundee, bearing 1876 1d. blue (4) and 6d. orange, each cancelled with "556" in oval of bars, showing red crayon "1" and "5", crisply struck "paid-at-cape-coast-castle" c.d.s., "paid/liverpool/br. packet" and "registered/liverpool" d.s. (both 1.7), neat boxed "registered" handstamp and, on reverse, Dundee arrival d.s. (2.7). Very fine with lovely clear strikes. Photo.

provenance:
Soler y Llach auction, February 2008

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Sold for
£1,400