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Auction: 6027 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1265

Niger Coast Protectorate Niger Company Territories Akassa 1897 (22 July) envelope "Per R M S "Volta"" to Liverpool, bearing 21/2d. purple on blue cancelled with superb "the royal niger company,/chartered & limited./post office/akassa." Type 5 d.s. in violet, and with Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (25.8) at lower left corner; the envelope with vertical fold at centre, otherwise very fine. Photo Estimate £ 200-250provenance: Pilkington, 1954

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