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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 612

Sierra Leone 1892 (Mar.) envelope (flap missing) to Dakar, bearing 1884-91 marginal 1d. carmine and 1885 6d. dull violet bisected diagonally, each cancelled "B31" and showing, on reverse, Dakar arrival c.d.s. (23.3); exceptionally rare, being the only value accepted as being an authorised bisect. S.G. 28, 35a. Photo Estimate £ 2,000-2,500

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