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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1693

Sierra Leone
Incoming Mail
From Cape of Good Hope
1873 (5 Aug.) envelope from a Royal Navy carpenter on H.M.S. Flora at Simon Bay to Sierra Leone, marked "Via England", bearing 1864-77 1/- blue-green tied by barred numeral "1", showing Cape Town c.d.s. alongside, red crayon "4" and, on reverse, "sierra leone" double-arc d.s. (13.9); the envelope a little stained and with flap missing

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