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ST. JAMES 7/JA 10 90 arrival, Barbados postal history
1890 use of QV ˝d Post Card with Bridgetown open bootheel to Dr. J.E. Moore showing ST. JAMES 7/JA 10 90 arrival, reverse text reads "The Atrato from Jamaica is due here on Saturday morning 6 o'clock 19th July & will leave here for England at 5pm on the 19th".
£25


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

Crowned "R" free re-direction within London, Antigua postal history
1887 use of QV 1˝d brown UPU Post Card pmk'd "A02" to Edwin England, Southgate, London locally re-directed on arrival with Crowned "R" showing Antigua A/JA 21 78 (inverted 78) and London FE 7 87, full text.
Currently the only recorded example of use of the London Crowned "R" on Antigua QV period mail.
£65

JAMAICA - WORLD WAR ONE censored NEWSWRAPPER
Complete KGV ˝d yellow-green newswrapper with added Badge ˝d green marked "Book Post" pmk'd Kingston 3K/SP 20 15 d/ring to Domburg, Holland, mauve 2-line "Censuur/Gepasseerd" handstamp. A very rare example of a censored newswrapper.
£90

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

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



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



MAURITIUS - boxed "R" (bulbous top, straight leg) postal history
QV 2c Inland Post Card to Port Louis with adhesive pmk'd "B53" B/JY 12 79 duplex, reverse with pristine early strike of the black boxed "R" showing traces of the outer circular rim (see Ibbotson page 117).
£325



MAURITIUS - boxed "R" (narrow top, dancing leg) postal history
Text headed "Rose Belle 23 October 91" on QV 2c Post Card to Port Louis with design pmk'd "B53" duplex dated OC 23 91, alongside superb strike black boxed "R" (see Ibbotson Page 117).
£250

GOVERNMENT printed Formula Air Letter, British Honduras
1964 use of internally printed GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES Air Letter to New York with 15c postage re request for booklet describing the birds of British Honduras.
£24

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

48 used PUSILLAWA, Ceylon postal history
full card pmk'd JY 9 89.
£20

35 used HALDUMMULLAH, Ceylon postal history
full card pmk'd DE 18 86.
£18

A R (Avis De Reception), Bahamas postal history
1923 commercial use (opened only along top) of KGV 2d PSRE with added 1/2d, 3d to Huddersfield pm'd Nassau 13 AP 23, appended in pencil "AR" with blue crayon "23", some lighter toning.
£75

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


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

THABA 'NCHU, Orange River Colony
full KE7 1d PSE pmk'd 11 DEC 1906 in purple to Bloemfontein.
£50


KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postal history
red KINGSTOWN C/MY 13 88 arrival on incoming Trinidad QV 2d PSRE with added QV 2˝d (faults) to William Thomas, Georgetown, St. Vincent pmk'd ST. JOSEPH A/MY 12 88.
£90

KGV 5/- added KGV 2d PSRE, Bahamas to Isle of Wight
full PSRE with added KGV 5/- (SG.124) dated Nassau 6 MR 36
£75
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