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NORTH BORNEO via SINGAPORE to GOLD COAST
1907 use of North Borneo 1c red REPLY POST CARD portion uprated with 3c tied SANDAKAN 22 FEB 1907 cds to Dr. Robert Fisch, Basel Mission, Aburi, Gold Coast showing Singapore MR 4 1907, Accra 14 APR 1907, and Aburi APR 15 1907 arrival, full commercial text.
Samuel Rudolf Fisch (1856-1946) was a Swiss-born physician, preacher, and medical missionary to the Gold Coast. Fisch built the Basel Mission Hospital in Aburi in 1885. Whilst there Fisch pioneered the application of prophylaxis for Malaria and founded the Blue Cross (originally named “Anidaho Fekuw” translated as “The Temperance Movement”) with a core mission of fighting against alcoholism and other substances.
£625

BARBADOS ST. PETER Parish "10" arrival
1868 cover with GB QV 1/- green (surface abrasions) pmk'd BATH "53" duplex dated MY 16 68 to W. B. Gibbons, Gibbes, Barbados showing very fine BARBADOS 10/JU 6 68 arrival (M2-original) alongside address panel, red London MY 18 68 b/stamp clear of missing flap.
£250

BARBADOS to NICARAGUA postal history
1890 use of QV 1˝d UPU Post Card pmk'd Barbados JY 1 90 open bootheel duplex to Managua, Nicaragua, purple TRANSITO COLON (JY 15), black TRANSITO PANAMA (JY 16), purple CORINTO, NICARAGUA (JY 24) with red MANAGUA duplex (JY 25) on full text reverse. Unusual destination.
£125

GLASGOW to ANTIGUA postal history
1869 entire from James Ewing with GB QV 1/- green Plate 4 tied Glasgow "159" duplex dated MR 16 69 to W.K. Martin, Antigua showing A/ANTIGUA/AP 2 69 arrival and red crayon 1(d) to be retained by the Colony. Illustrated in Britnor Page 22.
£75

RUSSIA to JAMAICA postal history
1905 col. ppc with 4kon tied Moscow 18.8.05 datestamp to the Manager of the Titchfield Cottages showing KINGSTON and PORT ANTONIO SE 20 05 arrivals.
£48

KUWAIT to CYPRUS postal history
1952 cover with GB KG6 ovp'd KUWAIT 6 ANNAS to Nicosia pmk'd AHMEDI 23 SP 52, b/stamped 29 SP 52 arrival.
£40

BARBADOS to TRIESTE (Austria) postal history
1890 printed address cover from N.E. Parravicino with QV 1d to Trieste pmk'd open bootheel duplex dated A/SP 12 90.
£75

RUSSIA to CURACAO postal history
1912 use of uprated 3k Post Card headed "Alexandropol 29 Marz 1912" to Willemstad with CURACAO 11 MEI 12 arrival.
£95


BAVARIA to NATAL postal history
1909 use of 10pf Post Card pmk'd WURZBURG 16 FEB 09 to the Trappists Mission, St. Faith's, Natal showing IXOPO MR 13 09, HIGH-FLATS MR 15 09, and ST. FAITHS MR 19 09 transits, reverse full text.
£48

VICTORIA to NEW ZEALAND
1876 printed blue flap of The Commercial Bank of Australia/Geelong marked "p. Albion" to Napier, New Zealand with QV 2d pmk'd Geelong "2" duplex dated 3 X/NO 22 76, neatly b/stamped Melbourne 4 A/NO 23 76 and Napier 6 DE 70/L.
£125



TRANSVAAL to ARGENTINA (gold mining period)
1894 use of 1d PSE with added defective 1d pmk'd Pretoria 25 FEB 94 additionally tied by red London MR 8 94 transit, reverse text headed by an unidentified 'camp' (purity, survey?) with Cape Town D/FE 28 94 transit and Buenos Aires AB 15 94 arrival, central vertical crease.
Gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand, in the Transvaal, in 1886. Thousands of white and black South Africans were employed on the mines by 1890. Even though the Transvaal gold mines were the richest in the world they were the most difficult to mine because the reefs lay so deep underground. The gold had to be mined by shafts as opposed to open mines, like diamonds.
£95



NEW SOUTH WALES to ANTIGUA postal history
1869 flimsy stock cover to Clare Hall, Antigua marked "Per R.M.S. Malta" with QV 2d x 3, QV 10d x 3 (3/- rate) pmk'd Sydney DE 31 69 showing London 25 FE 70 transit, reverse, clear of detached flap, Antigua B/MR 17 70 arrival. Faults.
£525

NEW SOUTH WALES to SOUTH AUSTRALIA
1868 cover to the Gas Works, Adelaide with QV 6d tied Sydney H/FE 26 1868 duplex showing GPO Adelaide N/MR 5 68 arrival alongside. Smaller faults but a scarcer inter-colonial destination.
Reverse docketted "G.C. Clark, Sydney 24 Feb 68 - didn't authorize sale of instruments."
£150

PRIVATE SHIP LETTER "AYR" 1d RATE cover to BARBADOS
1906 cover endorsed "Per Private Ship "Ayr" from DARTMOUTH" to Highgate House, St. Michael's, Barbados with GB KE7 1d pmk'd WALWORTH G.O. dated NO 15 06, partial arrival b/stamp.
Use of 1d by longer journey time private ship most unusual at this time as mail carried by contract vessels at the 1d Empire Rate.
£75

VREED-EN-HOOP, British Guiana
1927 use of KGV 2c PSRE with added 2 x KGV 2c pmk'd */15 OC 27 to The Hague, Holland, and ppc of the village with 2c pmk'd Georgetown 25 APR 01 to Nimes, France.
£24

ST. THOMAS, Danish West Indies to ST. LUCIA
1890 use of 3c pink UPU Post Card pmk'd ST. THOMAS 18 11 1890 to the Colonial Bank, St. Lucia with ST. LUCIA C/NO 21 90, some soiling.
£125

BRITISH HONDURAS to NICARAGUA
1929 cover to the c/o United States Consulate, Managua, Nicaragua with KGV 5c, 25c pmk'd Belize 22 OC 29, b/stamped OCT 23 1929 arrival.
£75


EGYPT to JAMAICA
Egypt 5m carmine UPU Post Card to the wife of Col. Caulfield, Up Park Camp, Jamaica pmk'd ALEXANDRIE 16 XI 93 with London NO 22 93, Kingston and UP-PARK-CAMP DE 8 93 arrivals, cross written message.
£90


INDIA to BRITISH HONDURAS
full printed content Aerogramme from THE STAR, a world famous spiritual society headed by His Holiness Swami Meshwaranandan of KABUL pmk'd 21.2.71.
£48

MAURITIUS with chisel slits to REUNION
1862 wrapper marked p. Str. "Ottawa" to Reunion with QV 4d pmk'd A/AU 20 63 "B53" duplex with top flap displaying St. Denis 22 Aout 1862 arrival, two diagonal chisel slits struck into address panel.
£425
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