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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 478

Niger Coast Protectorate Old Calabar 1894 (19 Oct.) envelope "via Bonny per 1st. Boat" to "Dido Town Cameroons River", bearing 1894 (May) 2 1/2d. pale blue cancelled with "old calabar" squared-circle in violet with another superb strike in lower left corner, sent via Sierra Leone and showing "missent-to/sierra-leone" h.s. and Freetown c.d.s. (11.11), both in brownish ink, eventually forwarded to Cameroon with "kamerun" c.d.s.(24.11) on reverse; envelope with flap missing though most attractive. S.G. 54a. Photo Estimate £ 200-250

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£350