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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 395

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 1898 (19 Mar.) unstamped envelope to England, marked "No stamps available" and with a fine strike of the datestamp, manuscript "2 1/2" charge mark and Bath arrival c.d.s. (21.4), Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (20.4) on reverse; small faults though the earliest use seen of this datestamp as a handstamp. Photo Estimate £ 400-500

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