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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1336

Lagos
Handstamps and Postmarks
"post office. lagos/west coast of africa" double-ring datestamp in blue
1870 (12 Aug.) entire letter from Porto Novo, Dahomey to Marseilles, marked "Via Liverpool", showing fair but legible strike of "post office, lagos/west coast of africa" double-ring d.s. in blue, blue crayon "1", "gb/1f 60c" accountancy h.s. (Fig. 3040), handstruck "10" (decimes), Calais entry d.s. (9.9) with, on reverse, London (9.9) and arrival (11.9) datestamps. Photo

provenance:
R.B. Sanderson, April 1980

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£280