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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 479

Niger Coast Protectorate Old Calabar 1894 (7 Nov.) OHMS envelope (221x96mm.) from the Commissioner General (red wax seal on reverse) to "The District Commissioner District of Victoria Kamerun", bearing 1894 (May) 5d. deep violet neatly cancelled with "old calabar" squared-circle d.s., Freetown transit c.d.s. (30.11) at left, small part Kamerun c.d.s. (date unclear) on reverse; the envelope a little creased though an unusual item of OHMS mail being prepaid to a foreign country. S.G. 55a. Photo Estimate £ 250-300

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