OTHER BRITISH AFRICA / FOREIGN AFRICA
Mauritius to Nigeria
NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE
AM951
NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE / Postal History 1897 (15th June), long envelope addressed to Sierra Leone bearing a single QV 2½d pale blue (SG 54a) tied by a fine strike THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY / CHARTERED & LIMITED. / 15 JUN 1897 / POST OFFICE / BURUTU. boxed datestamp struck in bluish black. Freetown (JY 14) arrival backstamp. Folded vertically and some light staining, otherwise fine.
£175