Auction 333-341 Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan & Worldwide Postal History - Day 4

1903: Registered Stationery, 2 d. ultramarine, size H, used, uprated with 1903 ½ d. grey-black & pale-green, two singles and 1 d. grey-black & carmine, horizontal pair and a single, sent from Sapele to Banbury, England, dated 2 May 1904, cancelled by "REGISTERED SAPELE" oval with additional strike alongside. The rate being the correct postage for letters up to 2 oz. to Britian. The text under the flap is grey and reads: "THOS. DE LA RUE & CO. PATENT." being from the first or second printing. Some wear and creasing around the edges, nonetheless a rare example; the only recorded used example of this type. 
Reference: 'The Postal Stationery of Nigeria', by Peter Hørlyck, pg. 75.