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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1356

Lagos
The Stamp Period
1874-75 Watermark Crown CC, Perf. 12½
1876 (23 Feb.) double rate envelope ex the "Bailey" correspondence registered to London, marked "p S.S. China", bearing 4d. carmine and 1/- orange (value 16½mm.) tied by "lagos/a" c.d.s., showing red crayon 10" over "2/1/-", two strikes of straight-line "registered letter" h.s., "paid/liverpool/br. packet/3b" c.d.s. (2.4), "registered/liverpool" double-ring d.s. and Registered London transit d.s., all struck in red. Photo

provenance:
William C. Hinde, January 1959
R.B. Sanderson, April 1980

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