Mounted Police, Maseru, Basutoland undated chrome ppc with no reverse printing, marked No.12 in ink. £25
BERMUDA postal history: KG6 3d PSRE piece with added GB KG6 1½d, 3 x 6d pmk'd undated red POST OFFICE/(5 BARS)/MARITIME MAIL. £10
BRIDGETOWN, St. Vincent postal history album page ex Peter Jaffe, lower foolscap cover (folded both ends) shows partial A/JU 1 = Bridgetown cds, other month last appears to be in the same hand. £20
STONY HILL MY 19 62 tying QE2 6d, 1/- added QE2 1d newswrapper. £9
JAMAICA postal history 1907 OHMS foolscap cover to Thorngumbald, near Hull with QV 6d yellow MCA pmk'd REGISTERED d/ring oval dated JU 25 07 with Bristol reg. label added in transit. £65
KG6 definitives FDC 1c to $2.40 complete set pmkd 1 MAY 50. £65
TRINIDAD postal history: PASSED BY/(Cown)3/POSTAL CENSOR handstamp (TR/1B in violet) on 1940 cover from Queens Park Hotel with KG6 51c rate pmkd AP 13 40. £30
SANTA FLORA skeleton (T.10) 18 JU 80 by airmail(!) commercial local use. £36
The EMPIRE BURE troop transporter 1945 arrival of smoke-stained British Empire Bure (West Africa-Liverpool-Bermuda-Cuba-Trinidad) troop transporter. Story assembled by skipper with 4 newspaper clippings (stowaway, soldier overboard rescue, terrific storm, arrival) with ppc of vessel arriving Cuba, 11 small b/w photographs (skipper, ships cat, local Trinidad views of Empire cinema, Navy House etc) all mailed to Essex, England under KG6 36c rate cover pmkd POS 8 DE 47. £150
TOBAGO postal history TOBAGO (20mm cds) C/NO 15 7 on KE7 2d PSRE with added 2½d Seated Britannia to Washington DC. £36
COLONARIE, St. Vincent postal history in violet ink on */JU 25 69 cover. £15
Vertical A10 (used Kingstown), St. Vincent postal history 1884 use of QV 1½d Post Card pmk'd vertical "A10" (PML.7) written Kingstown 20/2/84 with early use red KINGSTOWN A/FE 28 84 (PML.36) despatch, minor edge soiling and creasing. Only two other 1½d UPU Post Card currently recorded with red Kingstown "A" code cds (PML.36) for MY 28 84 and JY 31 84. £85
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent cover */21 JY 58 cover. £6
CONGO BRIDGE MOUNTAIN RAILWAY, Sierra Leone post card ppc pub Lisk-Carew, unused, tone-spotting address side. £14
EBUTE METTA skeleton (D6) 20 JU 23 on taxed cover to London, pair 1d Postage Dues added 9 JY 23. £45
MS HERMAN LANGREDER in blue, 3 x QE2 1c tied Plymouth */JY 22 59 despatch. £10
LEEWARD ISLANDS postal history Letter Card (fancy black typeset on eggshell stock) from proprietor of the Observer with QV 2½d DE 7 98 to London, thought privately produced. £85
Poisoned-pen mail to a licentiously got nasty bastard!! A rare example of anonymous poison-pen mail addressed Henry Smythe, 10 West Queen Street, (Kingston) on reverse QV ½d red-brown Post Card mailed at Kingston ID/ MY 18 91. Best full transcript reads Henry Smith mother is Eliza Doby the leader in Wesley Chapel, and George Smythe the parson. Why you don’t go back to St. Anns or christen after your father Smythe? Why you was shipped off to sea? and now you rob money in Colon you can’t go back? Pay Col. Morrice & Co for the goods you trust so long you damn thief. Show this to your friends. I can prove it, bring me up, you are a nasty bastard licentiously got, I know you well in St. Anns as a ragged boy. Face with Advertised and Unclaimed handstamps plus four Returned Letter Branch dated 17 JU 91. Reverse also shows m/script postal endorsements of “Not known” (twice with dates) and “No name”. A most interesting item for research, and why had Henry Smythe also known as Henry Smith disappeared? £75
SAUTEURS with EXAMINED BY/7991 label on */SP 24 42 KG6 cover to London. £18