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;) | ST. LUCIA postal history 1946 St. Lucia Philatelic Society First Exhibition unaddressed cover with KG6 ½d pmk'd Castries 10 FE 46 d/ring. £24 |
;) | MAIL TO BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO, Barbados postal history 1950 cover to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, M.G.M. Studios, Culva City, California with 2 x 1½d Badge pmk'd GPO 28 FE 50 with handstruck red 2-line "UNCALLED FOR AT/METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER", reverse Culver City MR 22 1850 machine cancel. £75 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) | TWO DIFFERENT REIGNS, THREE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, Jamaica postal history to Sicily 1936 cover to Eastbourne College, England with Jamaica KGV 1½d chocolate pmk'd Mandeville AP 12 37 d/ring. On arrival in Eastbourne, Sussex forwarded to Taormina, Sicily with pair contemporary GB KE7 ½d green pmk'd 27 APR 1937 with 25c green Postage Due tied 1-5 37. The KG6 issues not released until 10 May 1937. £120 |
;) | CONFUSED TOURISTS: GREAT BRITAIN and BERMUDA postal history combination 1932 cover from confused tourists staying at The New St. George Hotel, St. George's, Bermuda addressed Oakland, California with Bermuda 2½d Caravel placed over pair Great Britain KGV 1½d tied ST. GEORGES 23 FEB 32 cds. £48 |
;) ;) | POSTAGE DUES TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1937 (AP 9) KGV 2c pair underpaid franking from Georgetown most unusually addressed by the sender to three locations arriving Paris (AP 28) with 1fr due added and re-directed MY 10 to London (MY 13) with GB 1d due tied MY 15 37, various tax marks, return to sender, unknown additions as expected for a cover attracting postage dues in two differing countries. £120 |
;) | BOGUS CANCELLATION and REGISTRATION, LEEWARD ISLANDS postal history Bogus mourning cover to London with genuine Leewards 1949 KG6 ½d slate-grey tied forged 26mm ANTIGUA with fleuron at base cds dated OC 17 94 for 49 purporting to prepay the registered rate with blue "R" in oval appended "2895", reverse forged WEST EALING 11.45 PM 11 NOV 1938 arrival cds. The genuine ANTIGUA fleuron at base measures 23½mm and was used period 1890 to 1901. £120 |
;) ;) ;) | DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, BERMUDA postal history 1966 (JU 9) lengthy typewritten letter from a 19 year old Colonel's daughter to Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk on an overprinted for Government use Air Letter (overprinting deleted as used personally) mailed with GB QE2 4d pmk'd Post Office Maritime Mail. £65 |
;) | FRENCH MAIL for FRANCE, BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1906 with printed sender "FRED J. BANKART, SUCCESSOR TO A. PEROT & Co. DEMERARA" marked "p. French Mail" to Beaune, France with 5c pmk'd Georgetown 4 JUL 1906, alongside octagonal d/ring CAYENNE A FORT-DE-FRANCE LC dated 6 JUL 06. There are strong links between the Perot's of British Guiana and Bermuda. Covers from Demerara (1859) and Berbice (1872) are known to William H. Perot, Baltimore, son of the famous William Bennett Perot of Bermuda. Two 1833 entires from Demerara to Philadelphia have manuscript endorsement “Hamilton, Bermuda. Forwarded by Your Most Ob Servant Wm. B. Perot” whilst working as a forwarding agent during the period before he was appointed Postmaster of Bermuda by warrant dated SP 6 1836. £120 |
;) ;) | BERMUDA postal history 1908 1d red Dock design with simulated perforations printed on paper to resemble a newswrapper with purposeful indecipherable cancellation addressed St. Etienne, French postage dues from another cover added pmk’d St. Etienne 6-3 07. £135 |
;) ;) | Via SURINAM for DUTCH MAIL to HOLLAND, BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1895 use of "2 CENTS" on 3c carmine Post Card pmk'd Georgetown JA 30 95 routed through Surinam with PARAMARIBO 4/2/1895 d/ring to Amsterdam, Holland, some faults. £48 |
;) ;) | SPECIAL FIGHT AROUND THE ISLAND, BARBADOS postal history 1939 cover with 2 x U.S. 3c Landing of the Swedes and Finns tied U.S.S. RANGER/BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS duplex dated MAR 16 1939 addressed Denver, Colorado with purple 3-line "SPECIAL FLIGHT/AROUND BARBADOES/BRITISH WEST INDIES" handstamp on front, reverse with ½d Badge of Colony tied GPO 6 MR 39 cds appended below "9 of 28" and signed "JS Johnson-Pilot, Bridgetown, Barbadoes". £150 |
;) ;) | PARCEL POST label, BRITISH HONDURAS postal history 1953 large piece painted with gum to which block of four plus single KG6 5c, and single KG6 $2.00 affixed pmk'd Belize 24 AP 53 alongside tied PARCEL POST form (140-51-P-41) No. 28808. £90 |
;) ;) ;) | INTERNAL AIRMAIL and INTERNAL CENSORSHIP, British Guiana postal history 1941 cover marked "By 1st Air Mail" from R. De FIGUEIREDO, "Bon Success", RUPUNUNI DISTRICT to Georgetown with pair KG6 6c lightly pmk'd RUPUNUNI */OC 5 41 cds censored due Spanish language with OPENED BY EXAMINER II/ label. £120 |
;) ;) ;) | MILITARY ADMISSION PASS BY POST CARD, Barbados postal history 1891 ADMISSION PASS to PRESENTATION OF COLOURS by way of QV ½d Post Card pmk'd open bootheel duplex dated A/MR 5 91 signed by the Capt. and Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion YORK and LANCASTER REGIMENT to admit Mrs. Jones carriage. Probably unique as such. £250 |
;) ;) | DELAYED THROUGH POSTING IN A LONDON LETTER BOX, BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1952 cover with KG6 1c, 2 x 2c pmk'd Georgetown */7 JA 52 to the Philaletic (sic) Traders Society, London with 24 John Adams Street address added, re-directed Tottenham Court Road, and finally directed to The Strand, rare use of red handstamp "DELAYED THROUGH BEING/POSTED IN A LETTER BOX/FOR 'LONDON' LETTERS./PLEASE ADVISE SENDER" added in London, backstamped London FE 18, and FE 19 (twice) cancels. £75 |
;) | CHRISTMAS CARD rate, BERMUDA to Finland postal history 1936 (DE 17) cover with ½d Caravel to Finland, the enclosed Christmas card signed by Mrs Booker. £36 |
;) | POSTMARKED DAY GB STAMPS ARRIVED and also on DAY THEY WERE PLACED ON SALE, Jamaica postal history FROM AN OFFICE ABOUT TO BOYCOTT THEM!: 1858 entire to Archibald Campbell in London with weakly struck GRANGE-HILL manuscript dated 6 May (185)8 marked "Paid "6" in red crayon showing both red JAMAICA/PAID MY 8 1858 and London Paid MY 31 58 arrival. This being a unique "associated first day cover" for the day that GB QV adhesives were placed on sale in Kingston, Jamaica. The GB QV 1d, 4d, 6d arrived on "Solent" MY 6 1858 and were placed on sale at Kingston MY 8 1858. When Grange Hill received its supply of GB adhesives it boycotted their use for some 3 months along with about 30 other offices (Thomas Foster handbook Page 127) as GPO London ruled on April 16 1858 that the PMG's deputies at the Post Towns would receive only 1% commission on sale of the GB stamps whereas they had been receiving 15% commission on prestamp letters prepaid in money. £350 |
;) ;) | POSTMAN'S DELIVERY ROUTE, BARBADOS postal history 1935 cover to the Ursaline Convent, Barbados with USA 20c Airmail pmk'd WALL ST. STA. dated FEB 1 1935, on arrival bluish 5-line instructional handstamp "YOUR POSTMAN'S ROUTE IS/BRIDGETOWN No.15/Please include it as part of your Address, and ask your correspon/dents to do so." (Proud Type 145, this being the only recorded date for No.15 instruction). £275 |
;) ;) ;) | POSTAL STATIONERY ENVELOPE with COMPLETE OFFSET, BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1896 use of complete 2c carmine PSE locally to Hopetown, West Coast, Berbice pmk'd Georgetown and on reverse FORT WELLINGTON OC 10 96 d/ring opened 3 sides to show full intense offset of the printed design. Not recorded in T+H handbook £140 |