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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 495

Niger Coast Niger Coast Protectorate 1896 (20 Jan.) envelope registered "Per S.S. Bakana" to Canada, bearing 1894 (May) 2 1/2d. lake and 5d. deep violet each cancelled with "old calabar river" c.d.s. in red, showing "registered/old calabar" oval d.s. (20.1) at foot and Liverpool Registered oval d.s. (19.2), Halifax, Nova Scotia arrival c.d.s. (29.2) on reverse; an attractive franking to a scarce destination. S.G. 53, 55a. Photo Estimate £ 400-500

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