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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 394

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 (30 Nov.) envelope registered to London, bearing 1881 1d. lilac pairs (2) and 1887-92 1/2d. vermilion and 2d. green and carmine twice cancelled by fine strikes of the datestamp and with Liverpool Registered oval d.s. (23.12) alongside, London Registered oval d.s. (24.12) on reverse; attractive. S.G. Z57, 58. Photo Estimate £ 500-600 provenance: J. Grant Glassco, 1969

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