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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 369

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888-99 Handstruck Stamps Akassa "the niger territories/post/office/p o/akassa." triple-oval d.s. Sacher Type 2, S.G. Type 1 1893 (Nov.) envelope "per s.s. Boma" to London showing, on reverse, a good strike of the datestamp without day date alongside London c.d.s. (27.12), the face panel bearing 1892-94 2 1/2d. purple on blue neatly cancelled with Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (26.12) in black; central vertical fold and some staining though unusual. S.G. 4. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 provenance: W.C. Hinde, 1959

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