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| Country: Great Britain Clear Subject: QV covers (early) Clear | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS complete outer wrapper with blue/white CURTIS'S & HARVEY buckled label affixed lower flap (as seal) with damaged GB QV 1/- Plate 4 pmk'd London MY 16 67 with Belize JY 6 67 (51 days transit) showing red crayon "1(d)" due to the Colony on the 1/- per half ounce rate, unusually with black handstruck "2" applied London, assumed to be 1d Late Fee plus 1d Fine to be collected from recipient. £125 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS cover front with GB QV 1/- Plate 5 (reduced wing margin at left) pmk'd London JA 17 73 showing FE 10 73 arrival. £40 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS outer wrapper with GB QV 1/- Plate 4 pmk'd Liverpool 1 MR 66, reverse London MR 2 and Belize AP 2 66. RMSP contract expired AP 9 1866. £80 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS postal history (Ex ADDISS) 1869 outer wrapper with GB QV 1/- green Plate 4 tied London Z/AP 30 69 "76" duplex to Wm. Guild & Co, Belize, red boxed Liverpool "L1" late fee and Belize MY 21 68 arrival on address panel. Ex ADDISS Illustrated BWI Bulletin 145. £160 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1875 covers, both with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown marked "per R.M.S. via Plymouth NOV 25 1875" and "DE 5 1875" each with GB QV 1/- Plate 12 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated NO 25 1875 and DE 5 75 and both showing CAPE TOWN N/JA 1 76 transit, reverse of each with Grahams Town JA 5 76 arrival. The former was posted too late for the sailing specified and has small red handstruck circled cross on the address panel. £75 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1875 cover, with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with GB QV 1/- Plate 12 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated DE 25 1875 showing CAPE TOWN D/JA 29 76 transit, reverse with Grahams Town FE 2 76 arrival. Carried by the "American" on her record breaking voyage to Cape Town. £40 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1876 cover, with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with pair GB QV 6d Plate 15 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated JU 24 1876 showing CAPE TOWN B/JY 22 76 transit, reverse with Grahams Town JY xx 76 arrival. £40 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1876 cover, with enclosed letter, marked per Steamer "Anglian" to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with GB QV 1/- Plate 9 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated SP 27 1876 showing CAPE TOWN G/OC 25 7(6) transit and purple "3" accountancy, reverse with Plymouth cds and Cape Packet Plymouth cds both dated SP 28 76 and Grahams Town OC 30 76 arrival, front soiled and creased. £30 |
;) ;) ;) | Surbiton Hill, Great Britain destination mail to Fort Murray, BRITISH KAFFRARIA postal history 1859 mourning cover to George Brownlow, Fort Murray, British Kaffraria, Cape of Good Hope from SURBITON HILL (no date slugs backstamp) with GB QV 6d pale lilac tied KINGSTON-ON-THAMES "422" duplex dated D/SP 5 59 showing red crayon 1d credited to the Cape Colony, reverse London S.W., DEVONPORT E/SP 6 59, red CAPE TOWN NO 16 1859 arrival, under flap "Ansd letter to Edward 12 Dec 1859". (Carried by the "Dane" packet boat). The area annexed to the British Cape Colony on 10 May 1835 as Queen Adelaide Province, but on 5 December 1835 the Cape Colony disallowed the annexation and it was renamed Queen Adelaide Land district with Grahamstown as its capital until 1847. On 17 December 1847 it was again annexed to the Cape Colony as British Kaffraria Colony with King William's Town as its capital. On 7 March 1860 British Kaffraria became a separate crown colony. It was finally re-incorporated into the Cape Colony on 17 April 1866. £425 |
;) ;) ;) | GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve PLATE 17 on entire, Malta postal history 1880 complete entire "p. S.S. Nantes" with TEOFANI & MERICAS, MALTA cachet to Istra (Croatia's heart-shaped peninsular shared by Croatia, Slovenia and Italy) with GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 17 tied "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/FE 12 80. £500 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | RECEIVED ON BOARD NEAR THE EQUATOR, Germany and Falmouth (Cornwall) postal history: 1882 stampless cover to Warin, Mecklenburg (Western Pomeramia), Germany marked along top "p. N. German Bark Alma Elisabeth/Received on bord near the Equator" landed with FALMOUTH SHIP LETTER cds dated AP 19 72 and rated "5" in blue crayon, side flap opens to display further FALMOUTH SHIP LETTER AP 19 72 cds overstruck red SHIP LETTER LONDON A/AP 20 72 as it travelled in the overnight sealed ship letter bag with turquoise VERVIERE (Belgium) 20 4 transit, a little sea water staining at left. A lovely research item. £500 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1873 cover to P.A. Fraser, Barbados Railway Company, Bridgetown with GB QV 1/- green Plate 8 tied BEAULY "39" duplex dated A/NO 30 73 with BARBADOS I/DE 19 73 arrival on lower flap. The Barbados Railway Company was formed in 1873, the line opened 1st August 1882. £95 |
;) ;) | AROUND THE GLOBE IN 100 DAYS, York, Halifax N.S, San Francisco, Honolulu, Hong Kong, Batavia 1879 QV One Penny Farthing Foreign Post Card written by "John G. Dayn Jan 13th 1879 8pm" and pmk'd same night with YORK "930" duplex dated I/JA 13 79 with addresses and instructions for a bid to travel around the Globe in 100 days via Halifax, Nova Scotia, San Francisco, Honolulu, Hong Kong, Batavia, Java (with comment "out of the direct course"), and back to York showing Halifax JA 27 79, Hong Kong A/MR 19 79, Weltevreden 31 3 79 cds, some toning and closed base tear. Two other similar items are noted for the period with Hong Kong MR 21 79 cds on Denmark post card with USA, Hong Kong, Hawaii adhesives, and Hong Kong MY 10 79 cds on German post card with Hong Kong, South Australia adhesives and via Uruguay address. Jules Verne published his novel "Around the World in 80 days" in 1873. £225 |
;) | MALTA postal history 1871 cover marked "via Messina" to Naples with GB QV 1d Plate 121, 3d Plate 5 pmk'd Malta "A25" duplex dated A/FE 21 71. £120 |
;) | MAIL TO YALE UNIVERSITY SCROLL AND KEYS SECRET SOCIETY CO-FOUNDER 1875 cover to William L. Kingsley, New Haven, Connecticut with GB QV 2½d rosy mauve pmk'd London AU 2 75 duplex showing New York Paid All, forwarded with U.S. 3c green to Keene Flats, Essex County, New York arriving AUG 14. £240 |
;) ;) | FIRST SAILING WITH NEW 1/- PER HALF OUNCE RATE, Jamaica postal history 1863 entire written and postmarked London AP 1 63 with heavily cancelled GB QV 1/- green tied barred oval "12" to Messrs Barclay & McDowell, Jamaica backstamped Kingston-Jamaica AP 20 63 arrival. New rates were set from London and the rate to the British West Indies was increased from 6d to 1/- per half ounce on AP 1 1863, RMSP "La Plata" departed from Southampton AP 2 1863. £120 |
;) | EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF 1d RETAINED ON HALF OUNCE POST, Jamaica postal history 1860 GB QV 6d cover to Thomas Hendrick, Attorney, Kingston, Jamaica pmk'd LIVERPOOL "466" duplex dated 31 JY 60 showing both KINGSTON AU 20 1860 dbl-arc arrival and manuscript "1" for the allowed 1d on the half ounce, overall damp toning. An Act of JU 14 1860 authorised the Colony to retain 1d on the half ounce mail. On AU 1 1860 Jamaica took control of her own Post Office. £95 |
;) ;) | GREAT BRITAIN to GIBRALTAR postal history Probably used 1875 undated GB QV ½d green newswrapper with added bantam QV ½d Plate 12 pmk'd W/27 oval obliterator to Gibraltar, some faults. £45 |
;) ;) | GIBRALTAR destination postal history 1871 wrapper with sender's cachet to Gibraltar with Great Britain QV 6d (postage) and QV 1d (late fee) twice pmk'd London IX/21 AP 71 "9" duplex. £85 |
;) ;) | HRH Prince Alfred round-world-voyage ended by Fenian assassination bullet, Gibraltar postal history 1867 cover from Tinahely to W.H. Symes, HMS 'Galatea', Gibralter (sic) with pair GB QV 1d red Plate 84 and strip of three, single Plate 85 pmk'd Rathdrum "388" diamond numerals when Ireland was a part of Great Britain, Tinahely and Rathdrum backstamps for MR 16 67 with London MR 18 67 transit. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria's second son (1844-1900) was never expected to be King and joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman aged 12. In 1867 he commissioned and commanded the 'Galatea' for a voyage around the world which would include the first royal visit to Australia. On FE 26 1867 the 'Galatea' left Plymouth Sound for the Mediterranean with stops at Lisbon, Gibraltar (MR 14 to 26), Malta, a stay at Marseilles prior a crossing to Rio de Janeiro, returning via Tristan Da Cunha, staying at Cape of Good Hope prior onwards to Adelaide, South Australia with subsequent stays at Melbourne, Victoria and Tasmania. The tour was abruptly curtailed in Sydney NSW on MR 12 1868 when Henry James O'Farrell, a Fenian sympathiser, attempted to assassinate the Prince - the Duke fell forwards on his hands and knees exclaiming "Good God! I am shot; my back is broken". On board was surgeon James Young, M.D. and Assistant Surgeons William L. Powell and William H. Symes (1851-1933 of Tinahely), the two former names being mentioned as giving immediate assistance to His Royal Highness who was tended back to health by six recently arrived nurses trained by Florence Nightingale. Full details of the voyage can be found in the 487 page book entitled "The Cruise of H.M.S. Galatea" by John Milner and Oswald Walters Brierly. Prince Alfred was the first serious stamp collector in the royal family. He sold his collection to King Edward VII who shared his enthusiasm, who in turn gave it to his son King George V. Keenly expanded by the latter the two collections became the basis of what is now the Royal Philatelic Collection. £1250 |