BAHAMAS to HOLLAND full QV 2½d PSE pmk'd Nassau C/21 OC 98(?), b/stamped 5 NOV arrival. £18
BAHAMAS full all-over Royal Victoria Hotel advertising cover, poorly opened at right, with QV 4d Chalon (fine) pmk'd A05 to Jacksonville, Florida FORWARDED St. Augustine, reverse A/BAHAMAS/AP 8 81 and Jacksonville APR 12. £120
BAHAMAS full reg. cover to Masonic Temple address in Minneapolis, Minn., pmk'd Nassau 10 JAN 06, New York and arrival b/stamps. £36
BAHAMAS full QV 2½d PSE with added QV 2½d pmk'd C/6 AP 93, reverse London AP 21 93. £20
BAHAMAS to EGYPT Full cover with TAORMINA K.u.K.Y.G printed flap to Prince Colloredo Mannsfeld (originally an Italian noble family) in Cairo pmk'd Nassau C/MR 28 01. TAORMINA is a beach holiday town under Mount Etna in Sicily. £120
KALK BAY "447", Cape of Good Hope full text card written Noordhoek pmk'd Kalk Bay A/OC 25 02 with Cape Town OC 25 02 and Noordhoek I/OC 25 02, message re sending eggs by todays train. £40
BAHAMAS postal history (Ex URWICK) 1886 reg. cover front to New York with QV Chalon 6d deep violet pmk'd "A05" with red REGISTERED NASSAU cds dated A/MY 31 86. Ex URWICK £125
BRITISH HONDURAS postal history 1895 cover to New Haven, Connecticut with strip of five QV 1c (SG.51) pmk'd "'K.65" with BELIZE A/JU 28 95 despatch. In October 1894 the CURRENCY OF COLONY CHANGED TO UNITED STATES GOLD DOLLAR STANDARD - Aligned to gold standard with US $1 = 100 ½d, 5c = 2½d rate (previously 6c = 2½d) £75
COROZAL to ORANGE WALK, British Honduras postal history 1898 use of QV 1c Post Card locally used to Orange Walk with design cancelled "C" obliterator supported by COROZAL SP 20 98 cds, weak ORANGE WALK arrival alongside address panel, some sealed repairs. Contents include "I am sorry that Bread was not shipped last mail owing to my being in Belize and Baker not sending any to the House ..."
£175
MALTA to TUNISIA postal history 1892 use of QV 1d carmine UPU Post Card to La Goulette pmk'd Malta B/JU 2 92 "A25" duplex, alongside address panel 7 JUIN 92 arrival. £60
TRANSVAAL postal history to JAVA, Nederland Indies 1896 cover with ½d, 2d pmk'd Pretoria 30 JAN 96 to Bandoeng, Java forwarded Willerrede, handstruck RANTJA EKET village str. line, b/stamped BATAVIA 24 3 1896 d/ring, TJIANDJOER 24 3 1896 d/ring, BANDOENG 25 3 1896 d/ring. £325
15 used UNION-VALE, Mauritius postal history (Ex George R. WREN) 1880 use of QV 2c Post Card to Port Louis with design pmk'd "15" with UNION-VALE A/JU 1 80 cds alongside. Ex George R WREN (1963).
£90
BARBADOS to Pernambuco, BRAZIL postal history 1885 cover to Messrs. Pohlman and Co., Pernambuco, Brazil with QV 1d tied Barbados open bootheel duplex dated A/MR 29 85, lower flap can display PERNAMBUCO 22 ABR 85 arrival. A rare QV period destination. £140
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Canada postal history 1899 cover to Lancaster, Massachusetts with QV 1c pmk'd SYDNEY N.S. cds dated MY 22 99 with two line "INSUFFICIENTLY/PREPAID" and U.S, 2c brown POSTAGE DUE affixed. £75
ST. VINCENT used GIBRALTAR postal history 1889 use of the St. Vincent QV 1d UPU Post Card ovp'd "GIBRALTAR" headed "Government House August 12 1889" to Munich, Germany with design pmk'd "A26" duplex dated B/AU 14 89. Sterling issues ovp'd in CENTIMOS were introduced 1st August 1889. This duplex not listed in the Parmenter/Gordon handbook as handbook only covers cancellations used on GB stamps up to the end of 1885 when the use of GB stamps in Gibraltar officially ceased. The earliest strikes of this duplex are currently thought to be MY 6 1886 and MY 24 1886. £80
MALTA to ITALY chisel slit due cholera outbreak 1883 cover to Reggio de Calabria (Southern Italy) with two pair plus single Great Britain QV ½d pale green (SG.Z90) tied Malta "A25" duplex dated B/DE 6 83 showing single chisel slit on address panel, reverse 8 12 80 arrival, cover opened at both base and right edges. Chisel slits were applied due to a cholera outbreak in Southern Italy. Covers with such chisel slits have been noted on Malta outgoing entires for JY 4, JY 8, JY 29, AU 5, AU 12, NO 24, DE 6 1883. £200
BIRCHGROVE, Grenada postal history 1900 wrapper(?) piece with folded side flaps lightly handstamped PRINTED PAPER to W.H. Allder Esq, C.S. Office with QV ½d tied BIRCHGROVE C/JU 7 00 cds. £80
Code 4 used ST. GEORGE, Barbados postal history (M2-R, replacement cds with wording further away from outer rim) arrival dated (4)/JA 8 (87) both code and year not inserted (LRD) on QV ½d red-brown Post Card written "St. John's Jany 8th" and posted with Bridgetown open bootheel duplex dated A/JA 8 87 to His Honor, The Speaker, Greens, St. George. Confirmation that this is the Parish code 4 cds comes with the damaged rim at 8 o'clock as found on earlier dates on loose adhesives. The current ERD for the M3 series cds is only 10 days later, JA 18 87. The earliest strikes JA 18 87 to OC 23 90 also show no code 4, at some point thereafter the code 4 was inserted. £240
8 (used ISIPINGO), Natal postal history MISSENT to Scotland 1883 cover to Mrs. J. N. Leonard, Scotland, Massachusetts with QV ½d CC wmk, 1d, 6d CA wmk pmk'd "8" obliterators with two strikes circled "MISSENT" alongside address panel, reverse Durban 25 AU 83 shield, London SP 25 93, New York OCT 6 83 Paid All, Waltham OCT 6 1883 arrival. £175