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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 376

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 (15 June) large Royal Niger Company envelope piece (160x102mm.) to London, bearing 1883-84 2/6d. dull lilac and 1887-92 2 1/2d. purple on blue, 5d. dull purple and blue and 10d. dull purple and carmine (2), twice cancelled with fair to fine strikes of the datestamp and with Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. in black at left with a further weak strike also cancelling the 2 1/2d. and 5d. values; traces of foxing on a couple of values. A rare and colourful franking. S.G. Z20, 22, 25, 26. Photo Estimate £ 600-700 provenance: R.B. Sanderson, 1980

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