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;) ;) | VICTORIA postal history 1868 cover to Edinburgh with strip of three QV 2d pmk'd "196" numerals with boxed "TOO LATE" handstamp alongside, reverse BRANXHOLME despatch datestamp showing "MR" slug, fine blue Melbourne AP 1 68 and Edinburgh JU 19 68 arrival, some toned perfs. This cover missed the previous ship, the GEELONG, by just one day £140 |
;) ;) ;) | VICTORIA postal history 1875 cover to Edinburgh with QV 9d pmk'd Geelong "2" duplex dated JY 13 75, sender's printed flap and Edinburgh SP 13 75 arrival backstamp. The "Ceylon" went aground and broke her shaft on her outward leg. £150 |
;) ;) ;) | VICTORIA postal history 1875 cover to London with QV 6d, 1/- pmk'd Melbourne SE 7 75 duplex, sender's printed flap, some soiling etc. £120 |
;) ;) ;) | VICTORIA postal history 1860 reg. cover with pair 1/- paying 1/- postage 1/- registration to Reading, Berkshire pmk'd "93" numerals with ARARAT C/MY 15 60 despatch and READING C/JY 8 60 arrival backstamps, left stamp with perf. faults. £175 |
;) ;) ;) | NEW ZEALAND postal history 1870 reg. cover front with 2 x 6d tied Wellington "070" duplex to the Old ground or the rookery, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland showing London 26 NO 70 transit and A/ENNIS/NO 29 70 arrival. Soiled in places. Approximately only 1 in every 100 NZ Chalon covers were sent registered. £265 |
;) ;) ;) | REGISTERED BOOK POST, New Zealand postal history 1871 opened-each-end foolscap wrapper (232 x 103mm) marked "Per Book Post to be Registered" and "via San Francisco" to Edinburgh, Scotland with QV 4d, 6d tied WELLINGTON duplex dated JA 3 71 with London 27 FE 71 transit and Edinburgh FE 28 71 arrival backstamp, some peripheral edge faults and filing crease but exceptionally rare and probably unique as such. With the termination of the route via Marseilles, the postage rate via Brindisi was reduced to 9d per half ounce letter on THIS SAME DATE of 3 January 1871 £1250 |
;) | JAMAICA postal history 1859 mourning cover front to Thomas Perrier, London with GB QV 6d pmk'd "A01" (SG.Z5) with KINGSTON-JAMAICA A/SP 10 59 and LONDON PAID OC 3 59 cds alongside. £120 |
;) | ARRIVING IN THE U.S.A. ON DAY LINCOLN ASSASSINATED, BAHAMAS postal history 1865 stampless cover "p. Corsica" to Miss Benjie Henderson, Newark, Delaware with red NASSAU/B/AP 10 65/PAID cds rated red "4" showing 5/APR 14 N. YORK BR. PKT cds (day Abraham Lincoln assassinated) and manuscript "Due 5 cts at Newark". Some soiling, no backstamps. On AP 2 1865 victory of Grant over Lee concluded the Civil War, on AP 14 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Washington DC and died the following day. During the Civil War Delaware was a slave state which remained in the Union £425 |
;) | 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 |
;) | DOMINICA postal history 1878 small stampless piece with red DOMINICA PAID/I/SP 27 78 cds (ERD) to J.W. Shannon, Barbados. £225 |
;) | NEW ZEALAND postal history 1866 cover "via Marseilles" to Loughborough with 2d deep blue x 2, 6d red-brown each initialled "K" (at Kowai) and overstruck "C" obliterator, reverse Christchurch AP 13 66 and Loughborough C/JU 11 66 cds £325 |
;) | CYPRUS postal history Ex GLASSCO 1878 with GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 12 pmk'd "942" with Larnaca B/DE 4 78 despatch to London, part flap removed. Ex GLASSCO. £350 |
;) | GRENADA postal history 1882 QV 1½d pale brown UPU Post Card to Forton Barracks, Gosport pmk'd blue A/GRENADA/MR 27 82 cds, rarely seen. £225 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1865 cover with rare printed sender's address of GOODRICH & HOUGH, PHOTOGRAPHERS, No. 1 BROAD STREET, Bridgetown, Barbados marked "via Colon" to McAdam, New York rated red "4" with (1d) deep blue, (4d) dull rose-red (SG.24,25) tied bootheel "1" with BARBADOS MR 11 65 despatch cds alongside, reverse ST. THOMAS MR 14 1865 transit dbl-arc. The (1d) stamp torn right through prior affixing, and cover slightly reduced at left. £280 |
;) ;) ;) | ST. LUCIA postal history 1877 cover with 1/- deep orange (SG.18a) pmk'd black "A11" smudge with similarly poor ST. LUCIA JU 28 1877 despatch dbl-arc to Paris, France re-directed to Fontainebleau (in the inverted position) on reverse. There is no indication that the adhesive belonged elsewhere, and the black smudge just extends onto the cover. Note the black vertical line in the cancel which matches the vertical crease below (and reverse) which strongly suggests there was an enclosure partly causing the poor strike. £200 |
;) ;) ;) | Code 5 used ST. JOHN, Barbados postal history (M2-Original) seldom seen dated 5/FE 3 74 as arrival on reverse GB QV 1/- green Plate 8 mourning cover pmk'd London JA 16 74 to Scottish railway Engineer P.A. Frazer, Bridgetown re-directed to "Windy Ridge, St. John" showing I/JA 31 74 arrival I/FE 2 74 re-direction cds. The M2-Replacement cds for this office shows lettering further away from outer rim. £325 |
;) | KINGSTON, Jamaica postal history 1868 cover with QV 1d, 2d Pine wmk issues pmk'd "A01" b/stamped Kingston C/JA 27 68 to Vere. £125 |
;) ;) ;) | TOO LATE used KINGSTON, Jamaica postal history 1868 worm-eaten edged cover open most of 3 sides b/stamped Kingston C/AU 10 68 to Richard Hill, Spanish Town showing TOO LATE (TL3, LRD) and Spanish Town A/AU 11 68 clear of address panel, flap with printed blue buckled DAT CURA COMMODUM (carefulness bestows profit). The absence of adhesive or manuscript postal charge being usual on official correspondence mailed within the island. £125 |
;) | JAMAICA postal history: 1871 cover with pairs USA 2c brown, 3c green pmk'd cork cancels with BROOKLYN MAR 21 despatch to wife of Alex Lindo, Attorney at Law, Kingston, handstruck black "4" applied St. Thomas changed to blue crayon "5" at Kingston, reverse ST. THOMAS A/MR 30 71 and KINGSTON C/AP 3 71 cds. Carried by U.S. and Brazil Mail Steamship "North America" departing New York MR 23 71 and arriving St. Thomas MR 30 71. Transferred to R.M.S. Elbe departing St. Thomas AP 1 71 arriving Kingston shortly after midnight AP 3 71. £225 |
;) | A UNIQUE COMBINATION, Bermuda postal history The second earliest adhesive cover from St. Georges with short-lived K1 "1" plus STG cds combination: 1866 local cover front (peripheral faults) to Mrs Reginald Smith, Olive Bank, Warwick with 1st printing QV 1d rose-red CC wmk (SG.1) tied short-lived K1 "1" with STG cds (P5) dated 15 MR 66 alongside. Only 9 covers are currently recorded with K1 plus STG cds combination: one with 1d, four with 6d, four with 1/- adhesives. The earliest 1d cover with B/1 and STG cds (P5) combination is dated JY 21 67. £450 |