Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1433
Portuguese Guinea
Incoming Mail
1879 (21 Jan.) envelope registered from Boston USA to Bissao, marked "via Southampton & Cape Verde Islands", bearing lightly cancelled 1873 10c. deep brown pair and showing "boston mass./reg." c.d.s., red crayon "91" (deleted) and blue crayon "6", "Crown/registered" h.s. and London transit d.s. (2.2) in red, and oval-framed "registrada/s. thiago de/c. verde" h.s. in blue. A rare and attractive item of incoming mail. Photo
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£2,800