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Although I have massively long text files of cancels I have handled, or seen, I do not have any postmark collections of my own. Written details of St. Vincent abbreviated and extended cds, with their incorporated dates and differing coloured inks in places are easy to understand, but even with years of experience I often stumble when it comes to the commonest obliterators on common stamps in my trying to remember just how common, or how scarce, they actually are. As a consequence I have recently undertaken trying to get an illustration of every different St. Vincent possibility on every different issue up to the end of KGV. The attached page for the PB QV 1d drab shows how far I have currently reached, and the item which is probably less common than all the others is the strike of the black vertical "A10" - which I would have overlooked thinking it much commoner!!
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Illustrated are all the combinations currently known to me on these DLR Perf. 12 QV 4d blues Crown CA wmk. The latest discovery is the vertical red "A10" applied Georgetown, not the best of strikes but currently unique.
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(Updated 28 April 2020) Not enough covers have survived to pin-point with accuracy when this rare red inked small “A07” on stained perfs. QV 1d lilac CC wmk P.14 (SG.5) was struck, but records may help in that a red inked DOMINICA 20½mm cds dated FE 21 83 on "loose" stamp QV 4d blue (SG.7) was offered almost precisely 100 years later in the 1983 BWISC auction lot 76 which Simon Goldblatt will without doubt remember describing. A return to black ink 6 days later is recorded on "loose" stamp QV 2½d red-brown Crown CC INVERTED wmk (SG.6w) dated no code/FE 27 83, and 4 days later also on QV 2½d red-brown (SG.6) but with NORMAL Crown CC wmk.
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St. Vincent stands apart from its immediate neighbours being Grenada, St. Lucia, and Barbados in that when havoc took its toll during the Queen Victoria and early King Edward VII reigns some post offices could only function with temporary manuscripts or use of obsolete instruments, whilst her neighbouring island post offices seem unscathed. This short article shows the activity of the then functioning St. Vincent and Grenadine islands post offices post the May 7 1902 eruption of the Soufriere volcano in the north of the island which killed over 2,000 people. When there are unaccounted activity periods (unknown periods) one can speculate as to what instrument, if any, was being used in the absence of further earlier dated examples, and in the case of Georgetown (8 weeks unknown period) one could fully understand if a re-introduced "G" abbreviate turned up!!
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The collecting of cancellations showing full extended village name and full date has always been an attractive proposition, but numeral strikes less so. Bob Topaz, in the USA, completely changed that situation when he contacted all fellow collectors of Jamaica and asked for a complete breakdown of all their numeral cancels on Pine wmk, Crown CC, Crown CA, QV keyplates etc. Armed with all the replies he established a chart which he published in 1967 showing their scarcity and allocated ER (extremely rare) down to C (common) for all the combinations. Later, in 1981, he completed his project by added £ sterling prices being the premium for fine strikes on top of catalogue value of the actual stamp. Blank spaces in his chart indicated that the obliterator had not been noted and "Topaz unrecorded" was always, and still is, a joy to find. Charles Winand of the UK probably amassed the finest collection of all known combinations but even he with all all years of collecting failed to acquire a single copy of the large vertical "A80" oblit, and not having ever seen one his album page of small vertical "A80" oblits were separated as either small or large if they looked just slightly different! Bozo Ivanovic acquired the Winand collection and kept it intact for many years adding new additions to a stock book rather than mounting them on the Winand pages. Bozo, in turn, sold me the complete collection. Before breaking it up I felt that it should be recorded for posterity and used to illustrate every known combination. Mike Rego prepared the template page for me, and with the help of Paul Hancock, also living in Dorset, scans of all strikes known to us were placed in each square and stepped up in quality when better strikes turned up. Photocopies of the Winand album pages were taken but have never been released. Blank squares show stamps not yet acquired and those squares with "Not Seen" are still Topaz unrecorded. Over 2,000 combinations of numeral/stamp are possible!
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The attached reports the discovery by Wolfgang Fuchs of Munich of red ink GB/40c used at Biabou, written up for the British West Indies Study Circle journal.
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This announcement leaflet was included in CAMEO (The Journal of the West Africa Study Circle, June 2015 edition) received by me today 23rd June 2015. The book should be ordered now but its not quite at the printers yet.
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I attach scans of the examples currently known to me. All appear on the 1880 QV 1d olive-green (SG.29), only one is dated having the abbreviated "CA" (used Calliaqua) JY 30 81. If you can provide scans of further examples please do so. I use Adobe photoshop and prefer small scans in perfect upright position (preferably against black background). I normally scan in Professional at 200 dpi and 50% ... they need to fit in the boxes!!! Thanks.
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