NIGER COMP. TERRS 1898 Cover to Dover with type 6 Burutu handstamp

Stock Code: P223014591

1898 (27 JUN) stampless cover to Dover, endorsed at upper right "No stamps procurable / W.S. Armitage / Capt. R.A.", with very fine strike of type 6 "BURUTU" boxed ds (sans-serif caps) in violet-black, applied in transit. Charged postage due on arrival with superb "2½d" tax handstamp at upper right, and backstamped at Liverpool (31 JY). Cover faults, still attractive and very scarce. Ex RL 29 Nov 1983 (lot 156 part) and RL 15 Feb 1978 (lot 110 part). [The addressee, Mr C Pilcher, has made a contemporary annotation at lower left, "This stamp is very rare + valuable."]

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