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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1305

Gold Coast
Incoming Mail
Mail from Java to Dutch Gold Coast
1857 (2 Aug.) entire letter from Bandong Java, addressed to "Gouveneur de la Cote de Guinee a St George d'Elmina, Afrique", "70" and "10d" accountancy marks, showing "batavia" c.d.s. in red (9.9) and indistinct Singapore c.d.s., re-addressed to "Banka, aux Indies Orientales" with "london/ paid" c.d.s. (6.11), eventually received at Muntok, Banka on 19.2.61, An extraordinary re-directed cover to a most unusual destination. Photo

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