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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 178

Gold Coast Addah 1881 (Apr.) envelope "via Liverpool pr Landana" to Italy, "3" accountancy mark in red crayon and bearing 1876-84 1/2d. olive-yellow block of four and 1d. blue (2) cancelled with four fine strikes of the oval intaglio seal h.s. (Type 4) and additionally cancelled with light strikes of the "554" obliterator in transit at Accra, showing Addah ("8" on year date only) and Accra Type 2 c.d.s. and Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (19.5), the reverse with London (20.5) and Milan (22.5) c.d.s. Highly attractive and one of the finest of the intaglio seal handstamp covers. S.G. 4, 5. Photo Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 provenance: Col. J.R. Danson, 1971

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