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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 390

The Royal Niger Company´s Territories 1888-99 Handstruck Stamps Burutu "the royal niger company/chartered & limited./post office,/burutu." double-framed d.s. Sacher Type 8, S.G. Type 6 1897 (16 Oct.) unstamped envelope "Per R.M.S. ´Volta´" to England, marked "Stamps not procurable" and showing a fine strike of the datestamp in blue alongside "5d" tax h.s., Liverpool Paquebot c.d.s. (16.11) and Birkenhead arrival c.d.s. (16.11); some faults though not unattractive. Photo Estimate £ 180-200 provenance: H.G. Porter, 1956

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