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Auction: 18037 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 948

Gold Coast
1909 (13 Apr.) Q.V. ½d. stationery card to Austria, uprated with K.E.VII ½d. tied by Accra c.d.s. and bearing two strikes of the straight-line "missent to winneba" struck in black, the reverse with light Winneba c.d.s. (17.4). A very rare misdirection handstamp and believed to be unique. Photo

An example of the boxed "Missent to Cape Coast" was included in the John Sacher auction in December 2016, this was noted as the only recorded example

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Sold for
£580