Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection                                                                                                                   
                    
                    Lot: 1309
                
                    
                        Ivory Coast
1868 (28 May) unstamped envelope to Netherlands, marked "pr African Mail", showing superb "cote d'or et gabon/assinie" c.d.s. in blue, handstruck "12" (decimes) also in blue, "col. fr. angl./amb. calais" c.d.s. (4.7), manuscript "60" and, on reverse, red arrival datestamp (5.7); envelope with most of flap missing. Photo  
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