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;) | EKUTULENI, Natal postal history Previously unrecorded d/ring with maltese cross at base dated 21 FEB 13 on Natal KE7 1d UPU Post Card with same day MELMOTH, ZULULAND transit to Klefoa, Sweden, full text. Head Office MELMOTH, previously named SITEKU (office opened 1910), renamed EKUTULENI (OC 1 1911). £150 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | TITCHFIELD (two differing dates showing flexibility of handstamp), Jamaica postal history 1903 cover from The University of Chicago with 5c franking pmk'd Chicago APR 5 1903 to Prof. D.S. Johnson PhD, Chester Vale, Gordon Town, Jamaica variously forwarded with twelve differing backstamps including purple boxed TITCHFIELD (TRD 11) for both 16.4.03 and 17.4.03 (showing movement of "J" under "TC"), cover with corner fault. William Fawcett was the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908, and having returned to Britain was the co-author of the first volumes of Flora of Jamaica. £180 |
;) | EAST END, CAYMAN ISLANDS postal history 1911 large part cover to Headly Dalton (or Patton), Kingston, Jamaica with ¼d brown strip of four (one stamp facially damaged) tied two strikes purple boxed "EAST END/Grand Cayman./RURAL/Post Gollection." temporary rubber handstamp with BODDENTOWN JU 28 11 d/ring backstamp. On arrival eventually "ADVERTISED" and "UNCLAIMED." with red RETURNED LETTER OFFICE, JAMAICA d/ring dated 25 SE 11. Full of character, Ex MARSTON, PODGER. £575 |
;) ;) | COLOMBIA postal history 1901 cover with pair 5c pmk'd at Honda SEP 10 1901 to Paris, France with two strikes JAMAICA/TRANSIT ("A" below middle of "M"), reverse Kingston 4H/SP 25 01 transit. £115 |
;) ;) | GREYTOWN, Natal postal history: rare interprovincial use of a parcel tag locally addressed to Fawn Leas with on reverse pair and block of six Transvaal KE7 1d (SG.274), the lower pair creased as folded out. £65 |
;) ;) | MAPUMULO, Natal postal history (M.2) JY 29 08 tying KE7 1d on Rhodesia ppc to Switzerland. £48 |
;) | UMLALAZI (former Zululand), Natal postal history (M.4.1) as arrival dated A/MR 1 07 on complete Natal KE7 ½d Newswrapper pmk'd Pietermaritzburg FE 25 07 to Magistrate, Empangeneni, Umhlazi Div., Zululand, no backstamps. £165 |
;) | SCHROEDERS, Natal postal history (M.3.4) dated D/JU 29 07 on uprated full text KE7 ½d Post Card to Berlin. £30 |
;) ;) ;) | BULWER, Natal postal history printed green flap with King's Crown/NP/NONGQAI of the Native Police on KE7 1d rate cover to Miss Jeune, South Hampstead, London dated AU 8 10. Fort Nongqai, situated on the outskirts of the town of Eshowe, was built to serve as the headquarters of the Zululand Native Police. This small force was established in 1883 to serve as a bodyguard to the then Resident Commissioner Sir Melmoth Osborne. The small force, initially just 50 men, was known to the Zulus as nongqai and hence the fort was given the name Fort Nongqai. £75 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | POA 57, Natal postal history tying KE7 ½d on NORWEGIAN col. ppc of the future King Haakon VII and Queen Maud (coronation 22 June 1906) addressed Stanger showing Pietersmaritzburg FE 15 06 transit, text includes the word "Eshowe". The Norwegian Missionary Society founded its first permanent mission station north of the Tugela in the 1840’s. £325 |
;) ;) | HILLARY, Natal postal history (M.4.1 with Hillarys "S" excised) arrival in purplish ink dated AU 18 09 on b/w ppc of "Robinson's Mine" mailed with KE7 ½d at Durban. £24 |
;) ;) ;) | SALONIKA mailbag postmark on British Levant stamp tying 1909 30 PARAS on GB ovp'd KE7 1½d (SG.16) on 26 OKT (12) cover to Athens. £625 |
;) | BELFAST, Transvaal postal history (D/R) dated 3 SEP 13 on KE7 1d PSE with added pair KE7 1d to Lugano, Switzerland. £18 |
;) ;) | SANTOS (AVULSA), Brazil postmark on Great Britain stamps dated 19 AGO 1907 tying 2 each GB KE7 ½d and 1/- on large, folded in places, foolscap cover with printed flap of "The Atlantic Transport Company Limited, Swansea" (size 288 x 122mm) addressed Rio de Janeiro, soiling/toning around adhesives. Scanned from reduced size photocopy £125 |
;) | 30, Orange River Colony postal history on KE7 1d PSE with added V.R.I. 2d (SG.114) to Germany, b/stamped DEWETSDORP 19 NO 04. £65 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | DUIVELSKLOOF and PIETERSBURG combination franking, Transvaal postal history on KE7 ½d Post Card pmk'd Duivelskloof 21 DEC 1906 with added KE7 1d tied Pitersburg 22 DEC 06 written at Medingen to Germany, some soiling. £85 |
;) | ZEERUST, Transvaal postal hisory on KE7 ½d x 3 (one, corner fault), KE7 1d cover dated 26 APR 08 to Denmark, slight soiling. £40 |
;) | ZEERUST, Transvaal postal hisory on KE7 1d PSE with added KE7 ½d, 1d dated 17 APR 11 to Switzerland, slightly soiled. £18 |
;) | 457 used BOWDEN, Cape of Good Hope postal history on KE7 1d rate cover to Transvaal dated JU 4 4, peripheral faults and opened 2 sides. £32 |