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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1376

Liberia
Early Letters
1842 (7 June) entire letter to Philadelphia, headlined "Colwell West Africa", showing blue crayon "27" with red "ship" h.s. and New York c.d.s. (17.9); 1850 (15 Apr.) entire letter to New York, headlined "Kentucky", showing "ship" h.s. and handstruck "7" in red with Baltimore c.d.s. (4.6) in blue; 1851 (11 July) entire letter (small faults) to Philadelphia, headlined "U.S. Ship Germanstown, Bassa Cove, Liberia", showing manuscript "8" (deleted), "16" (deleted) and "37", unframed "bristol/ship letter" in blue (S.11) and New York c.d.s. (8.10); and 1857 (13 Aug.) entire letter from Monrovia to New York, showing handstruck "5", "ship" h.s. and Baltimore c.d.s. (5.10), all in blue. An interesting lot

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