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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 133

Gambia 1882 (22 Mar.) envelope from Bathurst "Per Stretha" to Auburndale, Mass., U.S.A., "3" accountancy mark in red crayon and bearing 1874 CC imperforate 4d. brown with just clear to large margins all round (small fault at lower right corner) neatly cancelled with "gambia/b/paid" c.d.s., showing a further superb strike of the despatch c.d.s. at left and, on reverse, London (11.4), New York Paid All (22.4) and arrival (24.4) c.d.s. A very rare stamp on cover. S.G. 5. Photo Estimate £ 8,000-10,000 provenance: Dale Lichtenstein, 1990

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