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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 253

Gold Coast Mail Sent Via German Services 1895 (25 Jan.) 2d. G size registered envelope, uprated with 1884-91 2 1/2d. ultramarine and orange, "pr. Eduard Bohlen" to Hamburg, Germany, the 2 1/2d. cancelled with oval of bars with Type 5 c.d.s. at foot and showing, at left, unframed "Aus West-Africa/mittels Woerman-Dampfer/über Vlissingen und/Oberhausen (Rheinland)" cachet (Type G8), Hamburg arrival c.d.s. (13.2) on reverse. A rare cover carried on the fast route. S.G. 14. Photo Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 Note: On this route mail was carried by the fast route up the Rhine from Flushing (Vlissingen) to Oberhausen (just north of Essen) and then by direct fast train to Bremen and Hamburg

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