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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1330

Lagos
Handstamps and Postmarks
"b/lagos" circular datestamp
1873 (15 Jan.) envelope ex the "Nuttall" correspondence registered to Manchester, showing red crayon "3" over "2/5", superb "b/lagos" c.d.s., straight-line "registered" h.s., "paid/liverpool/ship" tombstone d.s. (18.12) and two strikes of "registered/liverpool" double-ring d.s., both in red, with arrival d.s. (18.2) on reverse. Most attractive. Photo

provenance:
H.G. Porter, February 1956
William C. Hinde, January 1959

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Sold for
£700