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Auction: 6027 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1270

Niger Coast Protectorate Niger Company Territories Burutu 1897 (29 Nov.) envelope registered to London, bearing 1d. lilac pair and 1/- green (a little faded) sharing a fine, slightly doubled, strike of the framed "the royal niger company/chartered & limited./post office./burutu." d.s. in violet and with Liverpool Registered d.s. (23.12) alongside, the reverse with London Registered oval d.s. (24.12). A very rare and almost certainly unique franking. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000provenance: Col. J.R. Danson, 1971

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