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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 350

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888-99 Handstruck Stamps Akassa "the royal niger company chartered & limited/akassa" triple-oval d.s. Sacher Type 1, S.G. Type 3 1888 (14 Jan.) unstamped envelope to Scotland showing a fine light strike partially over-cancelled with "6d/f.b." tax h.s., Edinburgh arrival c.d.s. (25.2) on reverse; the earliest recorded use of this handstamp. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance: H.G. Porter, 1956 Col. J.R. Danson, 1971

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