SPECIALISING IN THE UNUSUAL - WHETHER IT BE VILLAGE POSTMARKS, THE UNEXPECTED WITH BASIC STAMPS, UNUSUAL POSTAL HISTORY, OR EXCEPTIONAL QV COVERS
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;) | GREGORY TOWN, Bahamas on Order of Good Templars cover to Boston, Massachusetts 1901 cover to Boston, Mass. with QV 2½d pmk'd sideways up GREGORY TOWN C/AU 1 -- (T.1, D2 last digit of day, and year slugs missing) with NASSAU C/AU 19 01 cds alongside. £125 |
;) | CRAIGHEAD temporary rubber datestamp, Jamaica postal history in purple dated 10 FEB 1955 on 3 x KG6 2d commercial reg. cover to Kingston. £18 |
;) | MONA temporary rubber datestamp, Jamaica postal history in purple dated 21 NOV 1951 on pair KG6 ½d cover to Half Way Tree. £16 |
;) | CORNWALL MOUNTAIN, Jamaica postmark (D/R) */JA 13 56 on 3d (SG.221) piece. £8 |
;) | MOUNT PROVIDENCE, Jamaica postmark (CDS) */JY 26 66 on 3d (SG.221) piece. £10 |
;) | OLD HARBOUR BAY, Jamaica postmark (CDS) */NO 16 65 on 3d (SG.221) piece. £5 |
;) | KENSINGTON temporary rubber datestamp, Jamaica postal history in purple dated 28 NOV 1951 tying KG6 ½d, 1d on commercial cover to Kingston. £16 |
;) | B27 used QUITTAH, Gold Coast postmark on 1876 QV 1d blue CC wmk (SG.5). £12 |
;) | BEQ used BEQUIA, St. Vincent postmark dated AP 16 5 on KE7 2½d Crown CA wmk (SG.79). £18 |
;) | OFFICIAL PAID, ST. KITTS postmark */29 MR 46 on KG6 ½d blue-green (SG.68a). £12 |
;) | VICTORIABORG ACCRA, Gold Coast postmark (T.5) JY 14 94 on QV 2/- deep brown (SG.19a), rare on this denomination. £36 |
;) | WINNEBAH, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) rare A/DE 21 81 on QV ½d olive-yellow CC wmk (SG.4), top left corner thinned and faulty. £30 |
;) | JAMAICA postal history 1918 GOLDEN SEAL FLOUR advertising cover to Sav La Mar with KGV 1½d WAR STAMP tied Kingston FEB 20-18 machine cancel, reverse SAVANNAH-LA-MAR FE 20 18 arrival. £36 |
;) | DERNIERE RIVER, St. Lucia postal history 1974 cover to Welwyn Garden City with 10c, 25c tied two strikes DERNIERE RIVER cds dated 16 SP 74. £24 |
;) | MIDLAND T.P.O.2 railway postmark on TRANSVAAL stamps dated 4 DEC 11 UP on block of four KE7 1d (SG.274), light top right corner crease. £18 |
;) | TSIME, Basutoland postmark (D2) 30 XII 43 on KG6 ½d (SG.18). £36 |
;) ;) | P & O and BRITISH INDIA LINES, Greece postal history 1953 cover to Flixton, Manchester with GB KG6 2½d tied Greek machine cancel, reverse with purple boxed "TRAVEL & SHIP/BY P & O/AND/BRITISH INDIA LINES" and 2-line "VISIT GREECE/SUNSHINE - BLUE SKY" advertising handstamps. £45 |
;) ;) | ADEN postal history 1934 cover with colourless embossed sender's flap of "COWASJEE DINSHAW & BROS/ADEN" posted to London with India KGV 2as 6ps tied framed "PAQUEBOT" at PORT-TAUFIQ on 25 NO 34, central vertical crease. £45 |
;) | BERMUDA postal history 1883 printed O.H.M.S. cover (opened both left and right ends, and thought to have been used as a wrapper) from the "Clerk H.M. Council" to The Hon. G. Tucker in Paget partly tied blue HAMILTON B/OC 30 83 duplex with the numeral portion seemingly positioned to "tie" the content. £165 |
;) ;) | OFFICIAL PAID not accepted, Returned For Postage, Bermuda postal history 1951 OHMS foolscap airmail cover with Civil Aviation Department, Bermuda sender's address to G.A. Osborn, Air Traffic Control, Dusseldorf Airport, Germany initially posted Hamilton 9 JUL machine supported with red BERMUDA-OFFICIAL/PAID handstamp being subsequently deleted in red crayon with boxed red "Returned for/(1/6) Postage.", three KG6 6d added and pmk'd Hamilton 12 JUL 51 with FIELD POST OFFICE 893 d/ring dated 18 JY 51 as arrival backstamp. The authoritative Geoffrey Osborn formed one of the very best postal history collections of Bermuda. £75 |