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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 374

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888-99 Handstruck Stamps Akassa "the royal niger company/chartered & limited./akassa." double-framed d.s. Sacher Type 6, S.G. Type 4 1895 (1 June) Royal Niger Company printed linen-backed envelope (230x100mm.) "per R.M.S. ´Dahomey´" to London, showing a superb strike of the very rare "agent general/niger territories" double-framed d.s. (Sacher Type 7) and bearing 1887-92 2 1/2d. purple on blue, 5d. purple and blue and 10d. dull purple and carmine cancelled with a fair to fine strike of the datestamp (2.6) or "466" in transit at Liverpool with Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (10.7) alongside, the reverse with two Royal Niger Co. red wax seals and London c.d.s. (11.7); the envelope with a few small imperfections though a rare and spectacular franking. S.G. Z20, 22, 25/ 79-81. Photo Estimate £ 700-900

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