A fascinating "MEANS OF DELIVERY" has been set up in POSTAL HISTORY + Subjects showing all types of British West Indies mail you might encounter.
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;) ;) | TRINIDAD postal history 1894 use of QV 2d PSRE with Wilson, Son & Co, Port of Spain sender's oval cachet to E.D. Bacon, London with added QV 2½d tied REGISTRATION NO 1 94 cds with reg. label affixed and tied reverse with hooded REGISTERED LONDON 15 NO 94 arrival. £30 |
;) | BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1892 use of 2c carmine newspaper wrapper pmk'd Georgetown 29 JU 92 sent enclosing "Exchange" publication to The Editor Eastern Australian & South African Journal of Commerce, London with Crowned "R" to indicate free within London re-direction, applied once even though re-directed Leadenhall Street and to Cannon Street, matching red London JY 14 92 backstamp. £36 |
;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history (Ex WILLCOCKS) 1863 cover to Lambeth, London with QV 6d plus (6d) REGISTERED pmk'd "36" with handstruck REGISTERED/BRAIDWOOD and red (crown)/REGISTERED applied on arrival, reverse Braidwood JA 19 1863 despatch clear of missing flap. Worn appearance. Ex Martin WILLCOCKS (1999). £195 |
;) | VICTORIA postal history 1867 reg. cover front to Locarno, Switzerland with QV 10d, 1/- pair, single (3/10d rate) pmk'd "3" numerals with REGISTERED CASTLEMAINE A/OC 25 67 alongside, soiling. £250 |
;) | PRETORIA GEREGISTREERD, Transvaal postal history 1893 reg. cover to Hanover, Germany with 4d bronze-green, 6d pale dull blue pmk'd red reg. ovals dated 13 JUN 93. £175 |
;) ;) | LIFE SAVING SCOUT & CHUM label, Jamaica postal history 1930 reg. cover with Scout label pmk'd REGISTERED oval OC 15 40, with further uncancelled label on reverse, on 6d, 1/- plus WAR FUND label to London re-addressed and handstruck red "C". The sender of the envelope was a Jamaican, Edward Stanislaus Benbow-Rowe. He had been a civil servant and was the director of a brewery in Kingston - a man of previous irreproachable character. Whilst on holiday in London in December 1934, he was arrested for shoplifting a necklace at Marks and Spencer in Oxford Street. He was found guilty and fined £10 on 1 January 1935 (per David Horry research) £48 |
;) ;) ;) | SALISBURY ST PRETORIA, Transvaal postal history previously unrecorded office with mauve REGISTRATION OFFICE/19 MAR 1959/SALISBURY ST PRETORIA d/ring oval on reverse reg. cover to UK pmk'd CENTRAL/SENTRAAL/STR. PRETORIA 18 III 59 d/ring. £24 |
;) | REGISTERED JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal postal history (D/R) in blue ink dated 7 APR 04 on KE7 1d pink PSE with added KE7 ½d, 1d, 4d to Hobart, Tasmania. Both low values with very large part of stamps removed, one by scissors, as if deliberately to hide previous (cancelled) use. £24 |
;) | JAMAICA postal history 1907 OHMS foolscap cover to Thorngumbald, near Hull with QV 6d yellow MCA pmk'd REGISTERED d/ring oval dated JU 25 07 with Bristol reg. label added in transit. £65 |