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Auction: 1016 - Important Stamps & Covers
Lot: 109

Nigeria Niger Company Territories 1898 (25 May) large piece from Burutu to "The Royal Niger Company & Limited Surrey House Victoria Embankment London", bearing Great Britain 1/2d. vermilion, 2 1/2d. purple on blue (24), 3d. purple on yellow (4), 5d. dull purple and blue and 10d. dull purple and carmine, cancelled by sixteen strikes of the boxed "burutu" d.s. with sans-serif capitals, Paid Liverpool arrival datestamp (29.7); a few faults as might be expected with an item of this nature though chiefly fine and believed to be the largest number of stamps on a single item from the Niger Company Territories. S.G. Z43, 47, 48, 50, 53 Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 provenance: R.B. Sanderson, 1980

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