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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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Two IMPERFORATE PROOF error souvenir sheets sent to the Bureau, but long forgotten about by me, were recently acquired from Dauwalder's stamp shop in Salisbury and are currently available in the POSTAL HISTORY SECTION of this shop. All incoming proofs from the printers were carefully stored under lock and key at the Bureau, but these, and other proofs, came onto the market probably through the activities of the agency handling the dreadful St. Vincent mass productions in later years.
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My understanding is that this was printed by De La Rue on yellowish-white paper with overlay in bluish-grey. The 6d stamp depicting Priestman's River is printed in purple (shades). There are three settings. First, which includes forms overprinted SPECIMEN in black, has no dot between Y and T of ANYTHING and no dot before E of ENCLOSED in the 3-line warning. The second setting has the dot between Y and T only, and the third setting has both the dot between Y and T and the dot before E. The third setting was used from mid-1950 until 1954. The attached scans are both third setting form, one MISSING PRIESTMAN'S RIVER STAMP IN PURPLE COLOUR. The form has typewritten commercial letter from E. F. Aguilar to Muscotts dated Nov. 12, 1951. Tom Foster in his Jamaica Newsletter No. 15 explains that Aguilar was in the habit of dealing with much of his philatelic correspondence at the Kingston G.P.O. during his lunch hour. On one ocassion, having forgotten his notebook, a postal clerk gave him a wad of blank Air Letter forms which merely bore a blank square in place of a stamp. Many were used as note-paper for personal and business correspondence, often written in pencil, before it was realised they were ERROR forms. What is not explained is what happened next! Were the forms allowed to be removed from the G.P.O. Does anyone have error forms with pencil notes on them, have other typewritten, but not posted, error forms survived? Are there error forms from the third setting mailed with actual adhesive? Sightings and comments appreciated.
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I have a reluctance to put certain items in for a Certificate as you are either stuck with a yes or a no! If you were going to forge this DOUBLE SURCHARGE you would think of perhaps chosing a better stamp! Obviously it has manuscript cleaned and SG state "Many used examples of the Postal Fiscal stamps have had pen cancellations removed before being used postally". St. Lucia joined the U.P.U. January 1st 1881 and the postal rate to other full member countries was 4d. However there appeared to be a need for higher values as 6d and 1/- denominations were produced. I cannot see any plate flaw on the basic stamp to position, and as multiples of this QV 6d postal fiscal do not exist, one assumes that every stamp will have different characteristics in the overprint. This stamp clearly has matching broken top to "S" in STAMP but it would if it was a forgery, and it would if it was genuine! What about the "A11" cancel, forgery or genuine? Your thoughts are welcomed.
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article written for the Bermuda Post (June 2014 issue)
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