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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 381

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888-99 Handstruck Stamps Akassa "the royal niger company/chartered & limited./post office,/akassa." single-framed d.s. Sacher Type 9A, S.G. Type 5 1897 (6 July) envelope to Bristol, bearing 1887-92 2 1/2d. purple on blue cancelled with a fine sharp impression of the datestamp, Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (18.8) below; a fraction soiled in places, otherwise fine. The earliest recorded use of this datestamp as a cancellation. S.G. Z32. Photo Estimate £ 400-500

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