VIRGIN ISLANDS temporary rubber datestamps postal history EAST END and ROAD TOWN, the unique side by side combination of temporary rubber datestamps both dated 4 JUL 1907, the latter in purple, on Ursula ½d Post Card to Islington. Exceptionally clean and exciting exhibition item. No example of the ROAD TOWN TRD has been found on loose stamp, the only other example known is on the reverse of envelope from same correspondence when writer sent the Post Office Order enclosed in an envelope from EAST END with TRD cancelling adhesive on face. £3000
VIRGIN ISLANDS ..... Ex HOPKINS long tailed "S" on 1/- black & rose-carmine/greyish (SG.20a, Cat.£2000), fine mint with full extended margin from sheet position 11. Ex Adrian HOPKINS (1936 RPS certificate). Robson Lowe encyclopaedia Page 169 considers the sheets perforated outside the border to be an experimental printing limited to 25 to 50 sheets. All examples being rare. £1200