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;) | BANANA BANK, British Honduras postal history Roger Wells reg. cover to Grimsby with Plate 1 positional strip of three KG6 3c Coronation tied BANANA BANK temporary rubber datestamps lightly dated DEC 6, reverse Registration 7 DE 39 cds, lightly tone speckled. £225 |
;) ;) | CONSULAR MAIL CARRIED BY DIPLOMATIC POUCH, Brazil and British Honduras postal history cover from the British Consulate General, Sao Paula (Brazil) 2 JAN 1976 received in the Post Room of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (13 JAN 1976), posted London (14 JA 1976), and received B.E.C (15 JAN 1976) at The Belize Estate and Produce Co. Ltd, Belize City, British Honduras. £40 |
;) | Manuscript "Lo Deadmans Cay/18/12/53/Bahamas", Bahamas postal history Manuscript across KG6 ½d, 1d on Voice of Prophecy cover to Nassau, crumpled along base. £125 |
;) | UNITED VILLE brass mailbag seal, British Honduras postal history and UNITED VILLE 26 AP 69 d/rings on QE2 1c, 2 x 2c cover to the Sharon, Pa, USA. £36 |
;) | GUINEA GRASS, British Honduras postal history (TDC-1) temporary rubber datestamp in mauve MAY 3 1919 tying KGV 1c WAR, KGV 2c on large part cover (sender address portion cut away) to Montgomery Ward, Chicago. £75 |
;) ;) ;) | CAY CAULKER, British Honduras postal hisory (SC-1a) C/1 JY 29, five poor/one fine cds tying block of four KGV 5c on J M’Michael reg. cover to Renfrewshire, affixed over right edge and mainly reverse "BRITISH HONDURAS POST OFFICE Received open or torn and officially sealed" label pmk’d REGISTRATION 6 JY 29, soiled with cover fault top right. £180 |
;) | F87 used SMYRNA, British Levant postal history 1883 cover to Thomas Stephenson, Glen Caladh by Greenock with GB QV 2½d tied "F87" with Smyrna B/DE 15 83 cds alongside, b/stamped Greenock DE 25 83. Glen Caladh Castle had a number of owners including George Stephenson (1781-1848), nephew of the famous engineer and designer of the steam locomotive Rocket. During World War II the castle, situated on the western shores of Loch Riddon north of the Isle of Bute, was requestioned as a training establishment by Combined Operations becoming the Beach Pilotage School 1942-45, and designated H.M.S James Cook, a reference to the advancing navigation skills that the founder of Australia introduced into the Royal Navy, and reflected the task of operators of troop landing craft and their cargoes, and tank landing operations. The property was demolished in 1960, having been rendered unsafe by dry rot. £225 |
;) | MAIL TO CO-FOUNDER OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, Jamaica postal history 1891 cover with U.S. 5c with SWAMPSCOTT MAY 13 1891 to Capt. L.D. Baker, Port Antonio, Jamaica with Boston (MY 13), Kingston (MY 23) and Port Antonio (MY 24 91) b/stamps, reverse stained. The actual history of the UFCo does not start until its foundation in 1899 but the “legend” of the Company goes back to May 1870 when Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, a well-known Yankee sea captain and owner of the two-masted schooner “Telegraph” arrived in Jamaica from his home port of Wellfield, Massachusetts and filled spare deck cargo space for his return trip to New Jersey with 160 stems of bananas purchased at 14 cents each. On arrival in Jersey City he found they readily sold on the quayside at $2 per stem, and so began Captain Baker’s interest in the banana industry. Six years later in 1876 Captain Baker joined forces with Andrew W. Preston to found the Boston Fruit Company. Some 20 years later forces were joined with Minor C. Keith who had built a railroad in Costa Rica and was using it to transport bananas from the plantations. The three men, each giants in their own field, evolved plans to form a new Company, and on the 30th March 1899 co-founded a new firm, to be called the United Fruit Company, with assets of some 213,000 acres of land in the Central American Republics, some 110 miles of railway, a small fleet of ships and approximately $11,000,000 in capital. Captain Baker’s initial 160 stems of bananas turned into 17,000,000 stems being shipped annually for consumption in the USA by 1899. £140 |
;) ;) ;) | ESCAPE BY ROYAL MAIL STEAMER, St. Vincent postal history Wrapper with ST. VINCENT dbl-arc JY 25 1846 carried by “Eagle” to St. Thomas (JY 29) and by “Teviot” to Fayal in the Azores (AU 13) with 6 or 7 days prior arrival at Southampton and London (AU 20) as diverted for an unscheduled stop at Madeira, as on AU 9 1846 an enraged mob of islanders broke into the house of a British missionary who had practised on the island of Madeira for several years. They ransacked his property and proceeded to burn his books, prints, medicines and other possessions. The doctor was absent, having fled the previous night, forewarned of the impending outrage. The doctor was sheltering briefly with a friend, and managed to slip aboard a Royal Mail Steamer in Funchal Bay and left Madeira, never to return. £280 |
;) ;) | RMSPCo “PARA” (Colombian War of a Thousand Days, Spanish La Guerra De Los Mil Dias 1899-1903) Colombia 10c rate cover pmk’d Cartagena FEB 20 1900 with purple handstruck "PARA" mailboat arriving Weymouth MR 15 1900. (Civil War between Liberals and mainly Conservative Government that resulted in between 60,000 and 130,000 deaths, extensive property damage and national economic ruin. The Liberal party represented the coffee plantation owners and import-export merchants, and due a drastic downturn in the international price of coffee many growers were operating at a loss by 1899. The Conservatives, suffering from reduced customs revenues, responded by issuing unbacked paper currency, causing the value of the peso to drop precipitously and war broke out, the first phase, lasting about seven months, ended with defeat of the Liberal forces at Palonegro on 25 May 25 1900. During the next two years guerrilla-style warfare raged in the rural areas being finally ended by the Conservatives offering amnesty and political reform on 12 June 1902). Michael Rego research shows that RMSP had no Atlantic main line packet link to South America and German vessels filled the gap from 1897 to 1914. The HAPAG monthly route during this period was Hamburg, St. Thomas, Trinidad, La Guaira, St. Thomas, La Havre, Hamburg. HAPAG ship Valdivia sailed from Colombia, Venezuela, Curacao for St. Thomas and landed there 1 March 1900. The mail from Venezuela for the UK was probably landed at Trinidad and transferred to Barbados for connection with RMS Para. The RMS Para left Southampton on a fortnightly service on JA 24 1900, landed Barbados FE 4 1900 for Jacmel, back to Barbados, Plymouth MR 15 1900. (In 1900 the RMSP no longer called at Colombia, Venezuela or St. Thomas, but stuck to a short time-table with main ports). £625 |
;) | MALTA postal history one of those wonderfully distressed fragile cover fronts with adhesive missing which would have been a fine exhibition item with creased GB QV 4d despatched B/MALTA/JA 20 73 to Henry Bevan, 95th Regiment, Aldershot, Farnham, England with FARNBORO STATION D/JA 29 73 forwarded Athlone, Ireland showing C/WICKLOW/FE 3 73 and DUBLIN FE 4 73 with manuscript "Not Known" added prior return to FARNBORO STATION D/FE 5 73 collecting handstruck "1d" due. £125 |
;) | BAHAMAS to SWITZERLAND full reg. cover with KE7 6d MCA wmk (SG.74) pmk'd Nassau 14 SEP 12, Bern 1 X 12 arrival b/stamp £48 |
;) ;) | GREECE to BRITISH HONDURAS Full 6-colour franking reg. cover pmk'd Aohnai with Belize City 20 JA 70 reg. packet receipt label. £24 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS to REPUBLIC HONDURAS full cover to San Pedro Sula, Honduras pmk'd AU 6 31, reverse TELA ans SAN PEDRO SULA arrivals. £24 |
;) | BERMUDA to FINLAND postal history 1933 cover with ¼d Caravel block of ten to Hameenlinna, Finland pmk'd St. Georges 13 DEC 33, the enclosed Christmas card signed by Mrs A. Booker. £60 |
;) | R.A.F. ground crews WAR EFFORT MAIL, Jamaica postal history In 1943 a scheme for the recruitment of tradesmen and technicians for the ground staff of the Royal Air Force was started in the West Indies. The scheme was a success and in March 1944 some 2000 West Indians were brought to England for ground staff duties in the RAF. The majority were Jamaicans but recruits from all West Indies colonies including British Guiana and British Honduras were amongst them. A further contingent of 1,935 arrived in the December and some West Indians were accepted for aircrew. The illustrated cover from Mandeville pmk’d SP 15 1945 is addressed to 723156 a/c Gardner O.G., c/o West India Committee, London and forwarded 3 OCT 1945 to 72.MU. R.A.F. CAMP, Roade, Northamptonshire. £250 |
;) | ST. LUCIA to MEXICO postal history 1898 commercial use of QV 1d pale red UPU Post Card pmk'd C/NO 26 98 routed through New York DE 10 98 with very fine MEXICO DIC 16 98 arrival. £240 |
;) | BELMOPAN, Belize full cover MINISTRY OF TRADE & INDUSTRY £5 |
;) | BELMOPAN, Belize full cover MINISTRY OF TRADE & INDUSTRY £7 |
;) | BELIZE full cover MINISTRY OF TRADE & INDUSTRY £8 |