Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 386

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888-99 Handstruck Stamps Asaba 1893 (23 Aug.) envelope, complete with letter, from Francis Hatton to his father at Wragby, bearing 1887-92 2 1/2d. purple on blue neatly cancelled "466" and showing Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (29.9) at lower left, the reverse showing a fair strike of the Akassa triple-oval d.s. (Sacher Type 2, S.G. Type 1, "aug 96") and Wragby c.d.s. (30.9); the envelope with a little foxing though a rare and unusual mail from this up-country office. Photo Estimate £ 700-800

Sold for
£580