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Weekly Feature #228
For the week of November 27th - December 4th, 2004
COMPLETE OIL RIVERS
These days we read and hear comment on the important role that oil plays in geo-political questions. Stamp collectors can relate that more than a hundred years ago before the age of the automobile there was a British Protectorate known "Oil Rivers". This area of the large oil-producing country of Nigeria lay along the coastline east of the Niger River. It was declared a Protectorate in 1885 and first issued stamps in 1892 by overprinting issues of Great Britain with a three line overprint "British / Protectorate / Oil Rivers". In the following years stamps issued for the Niger Coast Protectorate began replacing those of the Oil Rivers. Incidentally Oil Rivers was named not for petroleum oil, but for palm oil (which was a more valuable commodity in the nineteenth century and before).
This week we offer a lovely registered envelope from Oil Rivers on which is the complete first set of overprinted British stamps. (Scott #1-6). Postmarked and registered at Old Calabar on Nov. 21 1894, it arrived in London on Jan 14, Liverpool the same day and its destination the following day.
CDN$450
US$375
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