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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1332

Lagos
Handstamps and Postmarks
"post office. lagos/west coast of africa" double-ring datestamp in blue
1870 (3 Mar.) entire letter from Porto Novo, Dahomey to Marseilles, marked "Via Liverpool", showing good to fine strike of "post office, lagos/west coast of africa" double-ring d.s. in blue, blue crayon "1", "gb/2f__" accountancy h.s. (Fig. 3047), handstruck "10" (decimes), Calais entry d.s. (1.4) with, on reverse, London (1.4) and arrival (2.4) datestamps. Photo

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