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MALTA postal history one of those wonderfully distressed fragile cover fronts with adhesive missing which would have been a fine exhibition item with creased GB QV 4d despatched B/MALTA/JA 20 73 to Henry Bevan, 95th Regiment, Aldershot, Farnham, England with FARNBORO STATION D/JA 29 73 forwarded Athlone, Ireland showing C/WICKLOW/FE 3 73 and DUBLIN FE 4 73 with manuscript "Not Known" added prior return to FARNBORO STATION D/FE 5 73 collecting handstruck "1d" due. £125
MALTA with chisel slits to Genoa, ITALY postal history 1865 part contents wrapper to Genoa, Italy with GB QV 4d tied MALTA "A25" duplex dated A/JY 26 65 with boxed PIROSCAFI/POSTALI/ITALIANI and disinfected by two chisel slits.
Other 1865 entires with chisel slits are recorded for OC 17 65 to Catania, OC 31 65 to Corfu, NO 14 65 to Tunis, NO 21 65 to Genoa, Italy, NO 23 65 to Messina, Sicily. £185
C38 used CALLAO, PERU to JAMAICA postal history: A UNIQUE FRANKING TO JAMAICA combination cover with Peru 1868-72 1d green, GB QV 6d pale buff (assumed Plate 11), GB QV 1/- green Plate 6 (SG.Z43, Z53) tied Callao "C38" cancels addressed John Small, Port Maria, Jamaica with 3-line PANAMA/3 AP 1873/TRANSIT plus pencilled "2" on face, b/stamped A/CALLAO/MR 26 73, Kingston IIIA/AP 8 73 and Port Maria C/AP 9 73 cds. Cover soiled with peripheral base tear and GB QV 6d with pale colour. This Peru 1 dinero was cancelled "C38" from stocks held at the British Packet Agencies to comply with the tax on all outgoing mail. £1400
MALTA postal history 1875 wrapper to Livorno with GB QV 2½d Plate 2 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/DE 14 75. Plate 2 seems to have appeared in late 1875, until mid-1876. Earliest DE 14 1875, latest MR 28 1876. £50
MALTA postal history (Plate 1 white paper) 1875 wrapper with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Catania (Sicily) with early use QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 1 white paper pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/AU 3 75. Plate 1 issued JY 1 1875 £75
MALTA postal history (Plate 1 blued paper) 1875 wrapper with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Genoa with QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 1 blued paper pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/OC 12 75. £375
MALTA postal history 1876 entire on printed A. Gatt, Malta albino sender lettersheet marked "Via Italy" to Carmelo F. Caruana, New York with GB QV 2½d Plate 2 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/FE 8 76. £60
MALTA postal history 1876 entire with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Marseilles with GB QV 2½d Plate 6 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/NO 28 76. £40
MALTA postal history 1878 entire with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Constantinople with GB QV 2½d Plate 11 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated D/MALTA/MY 30 78 with blue crayon "11" alongside. £60
MALTA postal history 1879 cover to Naples with GB QV 2½d Plate 13 tied "A25" duplex sated C/MALTA/FE 6 79, reverse clear Napoli 9 2-79 arrival cds. £45
MALTA postal history 1878 albino embossed A. L. MICALE, MALTA sender lettersheet with full written content to Catania (Sicily) with GB QV 2½d Plate 9 tied "A25" duplex dated A/MALTA/OC 31 78, full clear backstamps. £48
MALTA postal history 1872 wrapper to Livorno with GB QV 1d Plate 125 and GB QV 3d Plate 8 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated A/MALTA/OC 18 72, accountancy and full clear backstamps which can display. £125
F87 used SMYRNA, British Levant postal history 1877 mourning cover with content to Mrs. H. Lee Wilson, Lancaster Gate, London with GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 9 tied "F87" with SMYRNA A/DE 14 77 cds alongside, reverse red PADDINGTON Z/DE 20 77 arrival. Part letter, one sheet, enclosed which talks about a walk around the town, mention of the Roman, Saxon, Norman remains, and of the stone coffins containing glass and jewellery excavated whilst building the new railway stations. £200
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
MALTA postal history 1871 wrapper to Messina, Sicily with GB QV 1d Plate 129 and QV 3d Plate 6 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated A/MALTA/DE 26 71. £110
MALTA postal history 1880 cover to Innsbruck, Austria with early use GB QV 2½d blue Plate 17 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/AP 29 80, some toning. Plate 17 was the only plate used for both the QV 2½d rosy-mauve and 2½d blue. £75
MALTA postal history Ex LLOYD-LOWLES 1875 wrapper by Italian steamer "Milano" to Messina, Sicily with GB QV 1d Plate 160, QV 3d Plate 15 twice tied A25 duplex dated C/MALTA/FE 16 75 with boxed red P.D. 2 3/4 accountancy. Ex LLOYD-LOWLES. £140
MALTA Postal history 1880 wrapper to Messina, Sicily with late use GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 16 tied "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/JA 19 80, reverse Messina 20 1 80 arrival which displays clear of flap. Plate 16 rosy-mauve issued NO 22 1879 and Plate 17 blue issued MR 5 1880. £75
MALTA postal history 1872 cover to Firenze, Italy with GB QV 1d red Plate 125 and GB QV 3d Plate 7 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated A/MALTA/AP 13 72, red handstruck 2 3/4, flap missing, various complete backstamps. Ex Michael Lewis. £90
MALTA postal history (Ex Lloyd-Lowles) 1863 entire with albino embossed sender's oval to Messina with GB QV 1d, QV 3d (no plate numbers) tied pmk'd Malta "A25" duplex dated A/JY 12 63 with boxed "PIROSCAFI/POSTALI/FRANCESCI" handstamp alongside and red crayon "1½" accountancy. Ex LLOYD-LOWLES. £195