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BRITISH HONDURAS "Permit No. 14827"
Foolscap size WAR ECONOMY reg. cover with KG6 1c,2c,3c,4c,5c, indistinctly cancelled to London, manuscript "Permit No. 14827".
£40

BAHAMAS
censor label IG/2957 on full cover pmk'd Nassau 24 SEP 43
£12

BAHAMAS
censor label IG/3045 on full cover pmk'd Nassau SEP 4 1944
£18

BAHAMAS
censor label IG/5647 on full cover pmk'd Nassau JAN 8 1945
£15

BAHAMAS
censor label IG/6842 on full cover pmk'd Nassau FEB 26 1945, sender printed flap of Ship - Ahoy, Nassau
£15

BAHAMAS
censor label IG/8674 on CAT CAY cover pmk'd 28 OCT 44
£48

BAHAMAS
censor label IG/9357 on KGV 3/- rate cover pmk'd Nassau 6 JUN 43
£28

GUATEMALA to BELIZE
full censored cover to the Consul, Belize, OPENED BY EXAMINER 622 label, received DEC 30 1932.
£48



AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ANTI-SEMITISM LABEL, ANTIGUA postal history
1941 U.S. 5c rate patriotic cover pmk’d Saint Louis, Missouri NOV 14 1941 with AJC (top corners) "WHILE THIS RULES/(Nazi serpent)/DONT BUY GERMAN GOODS" label to Antigua, PASSED BY CENSOR with ANTIGUA below on reverse with A/DE 1 41 arrival, some soiling.
£95





Boer War Irreconcilable F.C. LAUNSPACH (carved wooden serviette ring fame), Bermuda postal history
1902 cover to F.C. Launspach, Burts Island, Bermuda with 2 x Transvaal 1d ovp'd "E.R.I." tied BRAAMFONTEIN, B.O. JOHANNESBURG 4 FEB 1902 9.30am and b/stamped JOHANNESBURG 4 FEB 1902 10.30am where PASSED PRESS CENSOR worn handstamp applied to face, on arrival b/stamped HAMILTON MR 15 1902/C with "Not Darrells" and directed "Hawkins" in red manuscript, the cover opened left edge and at top leaving tears through flap. Very few Bermuda Boer War POW covers can be matched to actual events.
F.C. Launspach is listed as one of the prominent personalities amongst the Boer War prisoners detained at Bermuda, and as an irreconcilable was one of the last to leave on 20 August 1904 bound for the United States. Many of the prisoners occupied themselves by making handcraft which were sold in many of the stores in Bermuda. The POWs on Burts Island eventually formed the Industrial Association for Carvings and Curios, and some of these items are preserved in the South African National Museum of Military History including a wooden serviette ring with carved name F C Launspach (see photo of similar type serviette rings).
£240


Nebik, SYRIA to ST. CROIX postal history
1945 cover to Fru Lawaetz, Lille La Grange, Fredericksted, St. Croix , The Virgin Islands, USA with Syria 25c Aircraft and 25c Army Fund stamp pmk'd NEBIK 16.3.45, printed CONTROLE label and F. Sivertsen sender name on reverse.
The Lawaetz family migrated from Denmark in 1890. The Little La Grange Farm was established in 2015 to operate as a working organic farm and St. Croix's Lawaetz Museum.
£275

CENSORED BOTH COUNTRIES JAMAICA to SURINAME postal history
1941 cover from Miss Marilyn Gregory, Halfway-Tree to Paramaribo City, Suriname with corner fault KG6 3d pmk'd HALF-WAY-TREE MY 30 41 with censor label and handstamp and 30.6.41 (one month later) arrival backstamp, two vertical creases.
£25


SOUTH AFRICA to BERMUDA postal history
1942 censored cover to Hampstead, London with 1½d mining issue pmk'd JOHANNESBURG 16.1.42, forged violet CM21 PASSED BY CENSOR/47/BERMUDA added to reverse supported with deceiving address changing to The Princess Hotel, Hamilton, Bermuda as the cover never went to Bermuda, small corner fault.
£80



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

AGAR'S ISLAND, Bermuda internal postal history
1916 cover with 1d Ship pmk'd Hamilton 6 DEC 16 wavy lines machine locally to W.J. Crozier, Agars Island showing light P.C./BERMUDA (CM15) censor, re-directed New York with DEC 19 DUE 3 CENTS duplex then forwarded Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts arriving DEC 21 1916.
Agar's Island, bought 1611 by Sir Anthony Agar, is also known as Gunpowder Island due a top secret underground powder magazine built there in 1870, which was reputedly the largest in the world at that time. It was also home to Bermuda's first aquarium (destroyed in the 1922 hurricane). More recently it was the home of billionaire James Martin, a respected leader and contributer in computer science and futuristic technology, who prophesied that by 2050 mankind will experience a 'gigafamine' in which a billion people will die. Martin restored the underground chambers and Rudi Guliani hosted a 40 person private banquet there.
£150


MONTSERRAT postal history
1943 reg. cover to Romford, Essex with KG6 6d lightly pmk'd Plymouth */FE 20 43 with censor label A.A./2 (numeral in pencil) under brown tape, Antigua A/FE 24 43 transit, stamp with small blemish.
£80

BERMUDA postal history
1938 cover from H.A.& E. Smith Ltd, Hamilton (printed flap) with 2d, pair 3d to The Conestoga National Bank, Lancaster, Pennsylvania opened despite "SEALED ARTICLES/SECURE OWNER'S/PERMISSION TO/OPEN." handstamp with circled "PASSED/FREE OF DUTY", sealed with "Foreign Letter Package/COLLECT 10 CENTS" 5-line handstamp with U.S. 10c due affixed and tied.
£36



HAMILTON BERMUDA M.O.O. (Money Order Office), Bermuda postal history
1918 OHMS stampless cover with colourless embossed oval d/ring BERMUDA/(crown)/POST OFFICE printed flap pmk'd light purple HAMILTON BERMUDA M.O.O. d/ring dated SEP 11 1918 with Hamilton 13 SEP 18 wavy lines machine cancel to Halifax, Nova Scotia, black circled "P.C./BERMUDA" censor handstamp.
£120

BERMUDA postal history
1943 Lightbourn & Co cover to Bishop Auckland, England with KG6 7½d (defective) pmk'd Hamilton 25 FEB 43 with red handstruck boxed "Returned for (1/1½d) Postage" deleted when KG6 1½d, 1/- affixed the next day for postage due and pmk'd Hamilton 26 FEB 43, censor label C/8148 at left.
£60

ITW (Initial Training Wing) BULAWAYO, Rhodesia postal history
1944 stampless On Active Service cover to London with sender address on flap pmk'd ITW BULAWAYO FE 23 44 with purple OPENED BY CENSOR and crowned RHODESIA/OFFICIAL PAID/AIR TRAINING GROUP cachet.
£40
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