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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 241

Gold Coast Saltpond 1894 (19 June) 2d. H2 size registered envelope, uprated with 1884-91 2d. grey, 2 1/2d. ultramarine and orange (2) and 3d. olive-yellow, "via Sierra Leone" to Rio Nunez, French Guinea, all the adhesives cancelled with superb "554." and showing "saltpond" Code C c.d.s. (Type 2) alongside Freetown c.d.s. (1.7); vertical fold at centre though an attractive three-colour franking to a most unusual destination. S.G. 13, 14, 15. Photo Estimate £ 400-500 provenance: J.L. Castillejo, 2008

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£900