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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1321

Lagos
Handstamps and Postmarks
"b/lagos" circular datestamp
1860 (10 Feb.) envelope (with original letter from Samuel Crowther, a freed slave and later Bishop on the Niger) to London, showing slightly over-inked "b/lagos" c.d.s. (earliest recorded date), handstruck "d6" and, on reverse, "liverpool/br. packet" (12.3) and arrival (13.3) datestamps. Photo

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