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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1385

Liberia
Post Office Markings
Harper
1861 envelope to Bristol, Maine, bearing 1860 6c. red (straight-edges at right and at top) and 24c. green, both clearly cancelled by "harper/liberia" circular h.s. with large "paid" h.s. alongside and showing light "paid/liverpool/br. packet/5a" c.d.s. (11.10) in red overstruck by "5/n. york br. pkt" c.d.s. (26.10). A major rarity. Photo

provenance:
R.B. Yardley, November 1944
Charles Lathrop Pack, November 1945

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Sold for
£5,500