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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 377

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 (30 Sept.) envelope (223x96mm.) to Sierra Leone, showing a superb strike of the very rare "agent general/niger territories" double-framed d.s. (Sacher Type 7) and with a good strike of the datestamp (10.10) and Freetown c.d.s. (24.10) in red alongside uncancelled 1887-92 2 1/2d. purple on blue; clean and attractive. S.G. Z20/79. Photo Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 provenance: H.G. Porter, 1956

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