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;) | SINGAPORE "balsa wood cover", Malaya postal history 1959 hand-illustrated "balsa wood" cover to Liverpool with QE2 2c, 10c pmk'd Singapore 27 NOV 1959, some opening tears top left. £80 |
;) | PALMETTO POINT, Bahamas postal history (T.7 1) on KE7 2½d cover to Washington DC pmk'd 16 NOV 07, a very rare office on cover KE7 period. £180 |
;) ;) | INDIA cloth bullion bag postal history Insured home-made cloth bullion bag for sending coins registered at Jalore, wax seals. £125 |
;) ;) | INDIA "147" postal history 1868 decorative mourning cover with QV ½a tied "147" numeral, b/stamped FE 21 68, some toning. £120 |
;) ;) ;) | KINGSTON, JAMAICA - to Robertson Gladstone, brother of the future British Prime Minister. 1841 lengthy and newsy 4 page entire from Archibald Kelso to Robertson Gladstone, Liverpool rated 1/- unpaid (quarter ounce rate JA 1 1840 to DE 31 1841) with KINGSTON, JAMAICA dbl-arc dated JY 29 1841, contents include "I have since received yours of the 15th alto announcing the result of Sir R. Peel's motion of a want of confidence. I am glad to observe that the Conservatives will return an overwhelming majority of members for the next Parliament. Your Brother...." The 1841 United Kingdom general election, was held between 29 June and 22 July 1841 to elect the new Parliament of the United Kingdom. In this election, there was a large swing as Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives took control of the House of Commons. Melbourne's Whigs had seen their support in the Commons erode over the previous years. Whilst Melbourne enjoyed the firm support of the young Queen Victoria, his ministry had seen increasing defeats in the Commons, culminating in the defeat of the government's budget in May 1841 by 36 votes, and by 1 vote in a 4 June 1841 vote of no confidence put forward by Peel. According to precedent, Melbourne's defeat required his resignation. £225 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1923 cover to Syracuse, New York with 8 x Farthing Seal issue pmk'd GPO 8 NOV 23. £60 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | TRINIDAD (RANDOLPH RUST, pioneer of the Oil Industry) via BARBADOS to NOVA SCOTIA THE ONLY RECORDED TRINIDAD COVER QV PERIOD TAKEN TO BARBADOS FOR ONWARD TRANSMISSION - 1892 cover with purple RANDOLPH RUST/PORT OF SPAIN/TRINIDAD W.I./COMMISSION AGENT sender cachet (not previously seen) taken to Barbados with QV ½d dull green tied open bootheel duplex dated A/DE 31 92 addressed Halifax, Nova Scotia. £450 |
;) | 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 |
;) | DOUBLE 2d rate plus 1d LATE FEE, New South Wales postal history 1877 mourning cover to Wagga Wagga with 2d x 2 (double rate) plus 1d (late fee) pmk'd Sydney K/NO 16 77 duplex appended "Late Fee", creased with flap tears. £80 |
;) ;) | BRITISH HONDURAS postal history 1904 reg. cover with QV 5c (postage) and QV 6c (registration) on "On His Majesty's Service" cover (Queen Victoria died JA 22 1901 but KE7 adhesives not available until OC 10 1902 per SG. Catalogue) with Coat-of-Arms flap pmk'd Belize A/FE 26 02 to Newark, New Jersey. £65 |
;) | LONG CAY, Bahamas postal history (T.3b, D3) full reg. cover to Tacoma, USA pmk'd 16 FEB 3, opened three sides. £50 |
;) | CLARENCE TOWN, LONG ISLAND Bahamas postal history (T.7a) full reg. cover pmk'd 16 FEB 30 to Tacoma, USA, backstamps. £45 |
;) | VICTORIA to QUEENSLAND postal history 1863 cover to Rockhampton, Queensland with QV 6d pale grey-black pmk'd MELBOURNE duplex 5 O/SE 24 63, b/stamped OC 6 arrival. £80 |
;) | VICTORIA to QUEENSLAND postal history 1863 cover to Rockhampton, Queensland with QV 6d grey-black pmk'd MELBOURNE duplex 5 K/DC 3 63, b/stamped DE 14 arrival. £80 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) ;) | Bacchus Marsh "15" travelling on ill-fated S.S. "Emeu", Victoria postal history 1857 cover marked "via Marseilles" (deleted for Southampton routing) with QV 6d orange tied "15" with red London Paid DE 7 57 on address panel (after 122 280days), reverse Bacchus Marsh and Melbourne JY 28 1857. Sent on the S.S. "Emeu" (under charter of the Australian Royal Mail Co.) which left Sydney on September 11 bound for Suez, but stranded on October 22nd in the Red Sea, on the Guttal el Bunna, a coral reef 120 miles from Jeddah. She was refloated the following day and beached for repairs near Duber Dubb finally reaching Suez on the 3rd November, the mails however having been transferred to the P.&.O S.S. "Madras" which reached Suez on the 19th November (16 days after the "Emeu"!). Paid for delivery in Southampton the cover was sent from Alexandria on the P.&.O "Ripon" arriving December 7th. £280 |
;) | VICTORIA to NEW ZEALAND 1876 printed blue flap of The Commercial Bank of Australia/Geelong marked "p. Albion" to Napier, New Zealand with QV 2d pmk'd Geelong "2" duplex dated 3 X/NO 22 76, neatly b/stamped Melbourne 4 A/NO 23 76 and Napier 6 DE 70/L. £125 |
;) ;) ;) | 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 |
;) ;) ;) | NEW SOUTH WALES to ANTIGUA postal history 1869 flimsy stock cover to Clare Hall, Antigua marked "Per R.M.S. Malta" with QV 2d x 3, QV 10d x 3 (3/- rate) pmk'd Sydney DE 31 69 showing London 25 FE 70 transit, reverse, clear of detached flap, Antigua B/MR 17 70 arrival. Faults. £525 |
;) | VIRGIN ISLANDS to TRANSVAAL postal history 1921 reg. cover from The Tortola Drug Store to Langlaagte, Transvaal with KGV ½d, 1d x 3, 2½d (6d rate) pmk'd purple ink TORTOLA A/JA 5 21 d/rings with matching ink ROAD TOWN registration etiquette h/stamped numeral "10", b/stamped Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas JAN 9 1921 and New York 1-17 1921 transits, unevenly opened at right but a wonderful destination cover. £240 |