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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4591I

Niger Coast
Covers and Cancellations
1893 (11 Apr.) 1d. stationery card to Hamburg, clearly cancelled by "old calabar" double-ring parcel post h.s. (Type PP1; earliest recorded date), showing "old calabar river" c.d.s. with code "C" (Type D2) alongside and, on reverse, London (4.6) and arrival datestamps, 1893 (5 July) 1d. stationery card to Germany, redirected internally, cancelled by heavy "warri" double-ring parcel post h.s. (Type PP1; earliest recorded date) and showing, in opposite corner, "forcados river" c.d.s. with code "C" (Type D2) partly overstruck by arrival d.s and 1893 (19 July) 1d. stationery card to London, cancelled by "bonny river" c.d.s. (Type D2) with code "B", showing another strike at left, violet firm's oval cachet, "paid/liverpool/br packet" (18.8) and arrival datestamps in red and, on reverse, very fine "oil rivers protectorate/bonny" oval d.s. in violet (Type D1)

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£210