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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 371

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888-99 Handstruck Stamps Akassa "the royal niger company chartered & limited/post/office/akassa." double-oval d.s. Sacher Type 3, S.G. Type 2 1891 (3 Oct.) envelope to Sierra Leone, showing a fair strike of this very rare datestamp on reverse, the face panel showing a superb strike of the "agent general/niger territories" double oval d.s. (Sacher Type 4) for the same date, bearing uncancelled 1887-92 2 1/2d. purple on blue and with three Freetown c.d.s. (22.10). A clean and most appealing Agent General cover, being the earliest recorded use of this datestamp. S.G. Z78. Photo Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 Note: At this time stamps were being cancelled on receipt at Liverpool. Mail to Sierra Leone was normally uncancelled provenance: H.G. Porter, 1956 Col. J.R. Danson, 1971

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