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(29 April 2020) I have not been keeping tabs on the Parcel Post cancels after the QV-KE7 period but Ray Stanton and Roy Bond have kindly furnished me with scans of the strikes listed in the Ted Proud St. Vincent handbook and the recent PML update by Charles Freeland, Roy Bond, Russell Boylan covering the period 1899-1965. Roy confirms that the illustrated KGV 6d, 1/- on piece dated 25 JU 26 has an unrecorded B code and will be incorporated in his update within the BWISC Journal in due course.
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(Updated 27 April 2020 thanks to emails from Ed Barrow and Mike Kitson) It is becoming clear that not only the stamps of Great Britain were used at their postal agencies abroad but a more formal arrangement existed covering mail arrangements to and from those territories in the Caribbean basin. Early Jamaica QV stamps exist pmkd C51 (St. Thomas), D60 and red D63 (whereabouts unknown), E88 (Colon) and one 1876 ingoing cover shows a spectacular Cuba 50c, Great Britain 4d. and Jamaica 2d combination.
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(25 April 2020) This newly discovered unique example of the two different K3 2 duplex obliterators on 1880 QV 4d orange-red Crown CC wmk (SG.20) will challenge the thoughts of every specialised Bermuda collector who imagined that all there is to know about the numerals had already been written. There is undoubtedly a story to be told and only a careful watch of covers and dated stamps might eventually reveal its secrets. The enlarged illustration shows the differing measurements between the top of the tail of 2 to vertical inner bar at right as 4.75mm (handstamp I) and 3.75mm (handstamp II). A clearer test is that the upright serif of the 2 in handstamp II sticks out further to right than top right side curve of the 2. The current recorded period of the short-lived handstamp II is OC 21 1880 to DE 22 1880 but Ludington Page 139 recorded a second period of use with a single date of AP 14 1889 (not seen by me, and after the K4 series was issued on JA 1 1889). Ludington records use of the handstamp I from JU 3 1879 to AU 9 1888 with alternating bands of both black and blue ink. The established period for handstamp II (only found in black) is flanked by black ink periods of use of handstamp I for JU 25 1880 to OC xx 1880 and MR 2 1881 to MR 20 1882 as gleaned from covers, but there has been no study of loose dated stamps to determine whether handstamp I was also being used during the OC 21 1880 to DE 22 1880 handstamp II period.
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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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A dashing new arrival has been spotted in the form of a horizontal bar under the four digit year. Its purpose is probably meaningless but collectors might like to report dated sightings both with and without.
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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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