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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1714

Sierra Leone
Transit Mail
1864 (23 Mar.) entire from Liverpool addressed to "Carabane, Casamance River, West Coast of Africa", bearing 1862 6d. lilac clearly tied by duplex and showing, on reverse, manuscript "Missent to Loanda" with Sierra Leone double-arc d.s. (19.10) and, on face, fine the only recorded example of "missent-to/sierra leone" h.s. in red. A rare and remarkable cover. Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, September 1994

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Sold for
£1,400