page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Ghana
section_title: Lagos
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Ghana / Lagos
caption_attribution_description: English: Gold Coast 6d 1943 war savings stamps multiple script CA watermark. Examples of this stamp plus a 1d in turquoise-blue are believed to exist in the Crown Agents archive. Source: Templar Bar Auctions No. 81, 11 September 2013, p. 16. Bridger &amp; Kay, Bristol.
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Ghana, known as the Gold Coast before independence.
  Ghana is located in West Africa, borders Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.
context_section_description: The settlement at Lagos on the coast of Southern Nigeria was under Gold Coast control between July 1874 and 13 January 1886 when it became a separate colony. It had previously been under Sierra Leone.
caption: A block of four 1943 6d war savings stamps of Gold Coast.
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