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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 616

Sierra Leone 1893 (3 Feb.) envelope registered to Halifax, Nova Scotia, bearing 1884-91 3d. yellow, 1890 6d. brown-purple and 1893 CA "half/penny" on 1 1/2d. pale violet with variety "pfnny", twice neatly cancelled with Freetown c.d.s. and showing oval-framed "R" h.s. and Liverpool Registered oval d.s. (20.2), arrival c.d.s. (5.3) on reverse. An attractive franking with the variety particularly rare on cover. S.G. 32, 36, 39c. Photo Estimate £ 600-700

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