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| Country: Gold Coast Clear Subject: All | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | WINNEBAH, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) with no date slugs on QV 1d blue CC wmk P.14 (SG.5). £60 |
;) | PRAMPRAM, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) in red ink (short life) dated A/AU 16 88 on QV ½d (SG.11). Currently recorded in red ink period A/AP 3 88 to A/SP 1 88. £24 |
;) | WINNEBAH, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) without date slugs on QV 1d blue (SG.5). £48 |
;) | APPAM, Gold Coast postmark (T.2, 19mm cds with large letters wide M, D5) dated C/AU 20 8 (ERD, 8 for 89?) on QV ½d (SG.11). £60 |
;) | ADDAH, Gold Coast postmark (T.2, scarce 20mm, D1) AP 2 78 on QV 6d (SG.8). £18 |
;) | ELMINA/PAID, Gold Coast postmark (T.3, PD1) MR 10 81 on QV 1d blue CA wmk P.14 (SG.5). £8 |
;) | COURT CAPE COAST DIV. COURT, Gold Coast postmark fiscal cancel on 1898 QV 6d (SG.30), full perfs. £18 |
;) | CHAMA, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) MY 22 99 on QV 1d Keyplate (SG.27). £10 |
;) | KPONG, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) C/AP 6 94 on QV 2d (SG.13), toning. £5 |
;) | WINNEBAH, Gold Coast postmark (T.2, tall & narrow letters) C/OC 9 89 on QV 3d (SG.15). £20 |
;) | SECONDEE, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) dated C/JY 4 9 ("9" for year) on QV 1d (SG.12a). Recorded C/FE 2 9 to C/NO 25 9. No examples Secondee with years 94 and 95 inserted found so far £14 |
;) | CAPE COAST, Gold Coast postmark (T.2, standard lettering) C/JU 29 91 on QV 6d (SG.17), rare on this denomination with this code. £48 |
;) | AKROPONG, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) s/ways up C/SP 26 93 on QV 2d (SG.13b), extremely rare on this denomination. £50 |
;) ;) ;) | OBU(ASSI), Gold Coast postmark part strike in purple ink on QV 4d Crown CA wmk (SG.16), previously unrecorded. The text "WEST AFRICA" - I suspect - may have something to do with the fact that the cancellation was used by the "Ashanti Goldfields Corporation," which also mined gold in other parts of West Africa (e.g., in french territories like Mali and Ivory Coast). A similar three-lined oval cancellation is also used, for example, by the "NIGER COMPANY CHARTERED" in Akassa (Niger Territories). The Ashanti Goldfields Corporation is a gold mining company based in Gold Coast that was founded by Joseph Ellis and Joseph Biney both from Cape Coast. The Ashanti Mine, located at Obuas(s)i, 56 km south of Kumasi, has been producing since 1897. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation was one of the most important gold mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. £300 |
;) | "VOLTA" paquebot handstamp on Sierra Leone stamp in purple on KE7 1d (SG.74) with part CAPE COAST MY 15 -- cds. £48 |
;) | AXIM, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) B/DE 7 93 on QV ½d (SG.11). £10 |
;) | ANAMABOE, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) FE 26 91 on QV 1d (SG.12a). £9 |
;) | APPAM, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) A/JU 7 95 on QV 6d (SG.17). £15 |
;) | APPAM, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) A/DE 4 96 on QV 6d (SG.17a). £9 |
;) | APPAM, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) C/AU 17 99 on QV 4d (SG.16a). £14 |