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Auction: 6027 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1268

Niger Coast Protectorate Niger Company Territories Burutu 1897 (18 Oct.) envelope to England, bearing 21/2d. cancelled with a fine strike of the framed "the royal niger company/chartered & limited./post office/burutu." Type 6 d.s. with day of month altered in manuscript, and with Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (16.11) alongside, Sheffield arrival c.d.s. (16.11) on reverse; also 1899 piece bearing 1/2d. pair, 1d. and 3d. similarly cancelled. Photo Estimate £ 150-200provenance: Col. J.R. Danson, 1971

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