NIGER COAST 1893 'HALF PENNY.' on 2½d purple/blue, SG32

NIGER COAST 1893 'HALF PENNY.' on 2½d purple/blue, SG32Niger Coast 1893 (Dec) "HALF PENNY." on 2d purple blue, type 9 surcharge in blue, Old Calabar provisional, SG32. A fine used example with light Old Calabar River circular date stamp, in blackish violet dated "AP 9 94". A rare stamp and particularly challenging to find in such fine condition. The main post office of Niger Coast Protectorate was established at Old Calabar in November 1891. Initially, British postage stamps were used. In July 1892, they

Lennon also bought a handbag

neatly cancelled by part "(A)03" (from duplex)

Captain Mostyn Field of the Royal Navy Survey ship HMS Penguin was surveying the islands of the Western Pacific for the routing of a proposed new telegraphic cable with a secondary objective to deliver the "Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society" to Funafuti (Vanuatu archipelago) to test Charles Darwin's hypothesis for the formation of coral atolls

more famously known by his pen name Mark Twain

sent 1842 (December) from Charing Cross

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Gambia 1912-22 1½d olive-green and blue-green

Made by Eastman Kodak Company…Week of Sept 24

but the Arab members would not agree to this designation

Pieces signed three times are almost unheard of

of Higham (whose father planted the famous cedars at gads Hill Place)

An attractive presentation and rare in this format