Auction 333-341 Western Australia & Great Britain - Day 3

Niger Company Territories / Akassa 1894: Great Britain 1887 Jubilee 2½ d. purple on blue, a single example on 1894 cover to Sierra Leone, uncancelled, with oval framed "AGENT GENERAL / NIGER TERRITORIES" cachet in violet (Oct 3, earliest recorded use) and reverse with oval framed "THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY CHARTERED & LIMITED / POST OFFICE / AKASSA" despatch (Sacher Type 3, SG Type 2) in violet (Oct 3). The obverse with three strikes of 'Freetown / Sierra Leone' arrivals (Oct 22). The cover with small corner tear at top right, but a wonderful Agent General cover of excellent provenance.
Provenance: Collection H.G. Porter (1956); Collection Colonel J.R. Danson, RL, London, 10 March 1971, lot 1601; Collection John Sacher, Spink, London, 12 Nov 2009, lot 371.