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;) | BERMUDA postal history (BERM59002) 1884 cover marked per Orinoco to Roxbury, Massachusetts with QV ½d stone, QV 2d bright blue CC wmk (SG.19,4) tied K3a 5 duplex used Paget East dated A/AP 10 84. A rare combination as such. The David Pitts chart only recorded K3a 5 on one example 2d blue CC (SG.3/4) and two examples on ½d stone. My own chart could only record K3a 5 on one 2d blue CC and one copy ½d stone. £1750 |
;) ;) | BERMUDA postal history (BERM58788) 1883 cover p. S.S. Orinoco to Troy, Ohio with QV ½d stone, pair QV 1d rose-red (SG.19,23) tied HAMILTON K3 1 duplex dated A/DE 6 83 during the first blue ink period March 1882 to January 1884. This is a very rare combination as the few covers known in this band of use are normally made up with QV ½d, 2d franking. The OC 1 1876 USA-Bermuda postal convention set a 2d rate effective OC 3 1876 between the two countries but allowed Bermuda to charge 2½d per half ounce. Bermuda had no ½d adhesive until the ½d stone was issued MR 25 1880 and accepted the loss during the interim years. £375 |
;) | PRIVATE SHIP NUBIAN (second voyage), BERMUDA postal history (BERM58783) 1884 cover marked per Nubian with 1880 QV 4d orange-red (SG.20) pmkd ST. GEORGES K3 2 duplex dated A/FE 21 1884 to London locally directed with crowned R handstamp to denote no additional charge, reverse with (early) black HAMILTON (H1, first period blue ink ended January 1883) dated B/FE 21 84 and red London MR 13 84. A rare cover from the second voyage of the Nubian. The first voyage of the Nubian, in transit from Virginia on an experimental new service for the Union Line, was announced to call at Hamilton on JA 10 1884. The ship was five days late and single covers are known from St. Georges pmkd JA 10 1884 and JA 15 1884 and both landed with red LIVERPOOL SHIP cds. £450 |