Southern Cross plate flaw with broken "F" variety, St. Vincent stamps a fresh mounted mint copy of the 1894 FIVE PENCE on QV 6d lake (SG.60b) showing combination broken "F" in "FIVE" and the three distinctive coloured marks on Queen's neck (aptly named the Southern Cross plate flaw by Peter Jaffe) as always found on Row 5/1 of the complete sheet. £18
Southern Cross plate flaw WITHOUT short "F", St. Vincent stamp: a fresh mounted mint copy presumably from the FIRST PRINTING of the 1893 FIVE PENCE on QV 6d carmine-lake (SG.60) showing combination full "F" in "FIVE" and the three distinctive coloured marks on Queen's neck (aptly named the Southern Cross plate flaw by Peter Jaffe) as always found in conjunction with the short "F" overprint variety on Row 5/1 of the complete sheet. Not previously seen by me. £140
"Full extra tree-trunk" variety, BAHAMAS postal history 1919 reg. cover to Port Washington, New York with pair 1918 3d purple/yellow ovp'd "WAR TAX" (SG.94) pmk'd Nassau 7 MAR 19, the left stamp showing the full extra tree-trunk" variety. £80
BARBADOS stamps: 1873 (½d) green wmk Large Star (SG.58), used with DOUBLE PERFORATIONS at base, slight toning, unusual. £60
LANDFALL OF COLUMBUS, Bahamas stamp KG6 1½d (SG.164) showing broken top to first "U" and raised second "U" pmk'd GOVERNORS HARBOUR 13 MAY 43. £75
BARBADOS "tramlines" variety: 1876 ½d bright green P.14 with Crown CC REVERSED wmk (SG.72x), mint pair with left copy showing prominent diagonal lines through second "N" of "PENNY".
£125
BARRACKS, British Honduras postal history full cover with unaccepted for airmail rate strip of five KGV 4c pmk'd BARRACKS (variety missing "B" as found early part of 1931) dated 24 JAN 1931 addressed London, England. £120
BAHAMAS postal history 1948 slender intact wrapper to John Stewart, Bluff, Eleuthera with KG6 1d olive-grey (SG.150a) showing SHIFTED DUTY PLATE pmk'd SHIRLEY STREET 14 JUL 48. £150
INAGUA, Bahamas postmark/cancel 1906 KE7 6d MCA wmk pmk'd INAGUA 17 JAN 1906 with malformed "E" (SG.74a, Cat.£475) as found Row 6/6. £200
BAHAMAS postal history 1918 cover to a Private in the 3rd Somerset Light Infantry, Palace Barracks, Holywood, Nr. Belfast, Ireland, forwarded initially from London 27 JU 18 by The West Indian Contingent Committee (per b/stamp), with KGV 1d WAR TAX and 1d Red Cross showing "full extra tree-trunk" variety pmk'd Nassau 4 JUN 18 £140
DOMINICA stamps: 1886 "One Penny" on QV 1/- magenta (SG.19), unused without gum showing spaced "On e" error, stamp pale in colour/faded. £30
BARBADOS stamps: 1861 (1d) pale blue (SG.23), unused without gum showing previously unnoticed prominent large birthmark on Britannia's arm, a constant variety found Row 5/3 on Plate II. £36
K used KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postmark/cancel AP 15 85 (early use) on QV 1d red Crown CA REVERSED wmk (SG.48x). The DRL QV 1d red placed on sale April 2 1885. £10
2 used DURBAN, Natal postmark/cancel on broken vertical pin 1870 QV Chalon 1d bright red (SG.60). £24
A01 used KINGSTON, Jamaica postmark/cancel on vertical pair 1860 QV 1d blue (SG.1a) with DOUBLE PERFORATIONS, small imperfections but extremely rare as such. £100
STUBBS in combination with damaged 'T' duty plate variety, St. Vincent postmark/stamp dated C/AU 14 5 on KE7 1d MCA wmk (SG.86) showing damaged 'T' in 'VINCENT'. £48
MAJOR ERROR "Revenue" OVERPRINT OMITTED with Crown CA REVERSED watermark, St. Vincent stamps: 1883 THREE PENCE on QV 1d lilac Crown CA REVERSED wmk with "Revenue" OVERPRINT OMITTED (PML.10), superb unused without gum. PML records this error on Page 147 of the handbook. The later 1897 issues of THREE PENCE on QV 1d mauve and red-mauve (SG.63, 63a) have never been recorded with Crown CA REVERSED wmk. £425
KINGSTOWN postmark with combination damaged "T" and Crown CA INVERTED wmk, St. Vincent stamp dated A/OC 4 01 on 1899 QV 1d Keyplate Crown CA INVERTED wmk (SG.68w) in combination with damaged 'T' in 'VINCENT', probably impossible to find another as such. £140
BARBADOS stamps: 1876 ½d bright green CC wmk P.14 (SG.72), used showing prominent plate-scratches in second "N" of "PENNY", some trimmed perfs. Three used examples and one mint copy now recorded on this issue. £48