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Auction: 9029 - West Africa Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 638

Sierra Leone Dublin Bananas 1894 (23 Aug.) envelope to Freetown, bearing 1897 1d. dull purple and green placed sideways and cancelled "B31" on arrival and with superb "dublin bananas/sierra leone" c.d.s. and arrival c.d.s. (27.8) alongside; the envelope a little soiled and with fault at lower right corner though an early cover from this post office which only opened 18 months earlier. S.G. 54. Photo Estimate £ 500-600

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