ST. LUCIA postal history 1946 St. Lucia Philatelic Society First Exhibition unaddressed cover with KG6 ½d pmk'd Castries 10 FE 46 d/ring. £24
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
MARTINIQUE to MONTSERRAT missent to ST. LUCIA 1972 (18-7) cover to Montserrat with France 50c tied Fort De France machine slogan, boxed "Missent to St. Lucia" handstamp. £12
ST. LUCIA stamps Litho forgery of the 1863 QV (6d) green in pale greyish-green in a fine unused without gum unwatermarked sheet of 20 stamps, position 13 without constant diagonal line plate flaw at right (as found on similar sheets) and the last three stamps of each of rows 2, 3, and 4 moved upwards. £85
ST. LUCIA stamps Litho forgery of the 1863 QV (4d) blue in a fine unused without gum unwatermarked sheet of 20 stamps, position 13 with constant diagonal line plate flaw at right. £80
ST. LUCIA stamps Litho forgery of the 1863 QV (6d) green in a fine unused without gum unwatermarked sheet of 20 stamps, position 13 with constant diagonal line plate flaw at right. £80
ST. LUCIA stamps Litho forgery of the 1863 QV (1d) lake in brown-lake in a fine unused without gum unwatermarked sheet of 20 stamps, position 13 with constant diagonal line plate flaw at right. £80
NEWSWRAPPER "USED ABROAD", St. Lucia and Barbados postal history 1890 use of St. Lucia QV ½d green/cream newswrapper posted with Barbados QV 1d pmk'd open bootheel duplex A/MR 31 90 to Gosport, England. £48
BARBADOS postal history 1899 unsealed rate cover with handstruck purple "MAIL VIA ST. LUCIA." to New York with ½d Seal pmk'd B/JY 24 99. £60
BERMUDA to ST. LUCIA postal history 1933 (FE 9) underpaid "Panton" (name erased) cover to Castries with ¼d Caravel pmk'd PAGET, tax handstamp and St. Lucia 2d Postage Due added and tied 15 FE 33 cds. £80
Combination BERMUDA and ST. LUCIA postal history c1932 underpaid combination cover with Canadian Government Merchant Marine Ltd/(flag) flap with Bermuda 1d Caravel and St. Lucia KGV 2d to Sheffield, Massachusetts, tax handstamps. £48
AUSE-LA-RAYE, St. Lucia postmark A/SP 22 08 on KE7 1d (SG.65). £32
GRENADA postmark on ST. LUCIA stamp showing 1d WINDWARD ISLAND RATE Grenada Parish "A" (St. John's) dated 26 AU 97 on St. Lucia QV 1d (SG.44). The special Windward island rate was introduced NO 1 1895 for mail between St. Vincent, Grenada and St. Lucia. £48
GRENADA postal history 1944 stampless OHMS/S. DE S.M. cover to Mrs Rose Joseph, Gouyave Estate with purple oval WINDWARD ISLANDS/2 DEC 1944/GARRISON H.Q. cachet, reverse GOUYAVE */11 DE 44 and */14 DE 44 d/rings. £95
Forged ST. LUCIA postmark dated C/JU 16 93 with lettering further away from the outer rim than the genuine on QV 6d (SG.49). £10
CASTRIES, St. Lucia postmark forged CASTRIES cds dated C/JU 10 96 on manuscript cleaned 1891 QV 10/- dull mauve & black (SG.52, Cat.£300). £48
Arrival of James Grant Forbes, Planter, JAMAICA postal history (and ST. LUCIA historical interest) 1786 entire headed "Jamaica 12th November 1786" from newly arrived James Grant Forbes to his father Lieut. General James Grant in London rated 1/- with "IAMAICA" and JANUARY/M/22 experimental Bishop mark on lower flap.
Major General James Grant was born at Ballindoch, Banffshire in 1720. By 1757 he was a major fighting in the French & Indian Wars and captured at Fort Duquesne. Fought at the Siege of Havana, made Governor of East Florida. Served in the American War of Independence, was General William Howe's primary planning officer, led a division at the Battle of Long Island. In 1778 he led an expeditionary force to capture the French island of St. Lucia with its surrender at the Battle of La Vigie. Died 1806. £200
TWO DIFFERENT NUMBERS on 1d POSTAGE DUE, St. Lucia stamps 1930 1d black/blue unused vertical pair (SG.D1h, Cat.£2,000), top stamp showing numbers 6536 and 6537, lower stamp showing number 6537. Two different numbers on same stamp "few and far between" per Hap Pattiz. Partly erased with corrected number, and partially showing second number on same stamp much commoner. £925
ST. LUCIA stamps: QV 1/- (SG.50) with manuscript markings removed and forged "A10" (as used Kingstown, St. Vincent) added. £8
ST. LUCIA postal history 1877 cover with 1/- deep orange (SG.18a) pmk'd black "A11" smudge with similarly poor ST. LUCIA JU 28 1877 despatch dbl-arc to Paris, France re-directed to Fontainebleau (in the inverted position) on reverse. There is no indication that the adhesive belonged elsewhere, and the black smudge just extends onto the cover. Note the black vertical line in the cancel which matches the vertical crease below (and reverse) which strongly suggests there was an enclosure partly causing the poor strike. £200