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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1361

Lagos
The Stamp Period
1874-75 Watermark Crown CC, Perf. 12½
1877 (26 May) double rate envelope ex the "Bailey" correspondence to London, marked "Per S.S. Corisco", bearing 4d. carmine and 1/- orange (value 16½mm.) cancelled by "L" in diamond of bars, showing red ink "10" over "2/1/-", "lagos/a" c.d.s. with straight-line "registered-letter" h.s., "paid/liverpool/br. packet/2b" (25.6), "registered/liverpool" double-ring and arrival datestamps, all in red. Photo

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