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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 399

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 Aug.) envelope to England, bearing Niger Coast 1897-98 2 1/2d. slate-blue cancelled with a good strike of the datestamp, Paid Liverpool Br. Packet c.d.s. (21.9) at left, London c.d.s. (21.9 and 22.9) on reverse; envelope with central vertical fold though a most unusual usage of a Niger Coast stamp with this datestamp. S.G. 69. Photo Estimate £ 600-700 Note: The cover was addressed by Lieut. T.M. Webb of The North Staffordshire Regiment who was serving in West Africa with the rank of Captain. The cover is addressed to his brother, Capt. J.G. Webb, who was seconded to the newly-formed West African Frontier Force in the rank of temporary Captain and, who at this time, was on temporary leave in England provenance: W.C. Hinde 1959 R.B. Sanderson, 1980

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