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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1352

Lagos
The Stamp Period
1874-75 Watermark Crown CC, Perf. 12½
1874 (7 Dec.) envelope ex the "Bailey" correspondence registered to Wolverhampton, bearing 4d. carmine and 6d. blue-green both centrally cancelled by "lagos/b" c.d.s., showing red crayon "5" over "2/7", "paid/liverpool/br. packet/5a" c.d.s. (8.1), "registered/liverpool" double-ring d.s. and, on reverse, straight-line "registered letter" h.s., all struck in red; the envelope with central vertical fold and scissor-cut alongside the 6d. A neat and attractive franking. Photo

provenance:
Col. J.R. Danson, March 1971

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