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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 379

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 1896 (18 June) envelope to Scotland, bearing 1881 1d. lilac (2) and 1887-92 1/2d. vermilion sharing a superb strike of the datestamp and showing a partially inked strike (27.6) alongside Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (30.7) at lower left corner, Edinburgh-Carlisle Sorting Tender (31.7) c.d.s. on reverse; central vertical fold, otherwise fine and most attractive. S.G. Z17, 18. Photo Estimate £ 500-600 provenance: R.B. Sanderson, 1980

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