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;) ;) | POLIGNAC COVER DENIED DESTINATION DUE SIEGE OF PARIS, St. Vincent postal history This Duke de Polignac wrapper arrived at Calais NO 29 1870 on the same day that the “Jacquard”, the 34th ballon monté, crashed into the Irish Sea off the Scilly Isles killing the pilot Alexandre Prince; some bags of mail were later recovered. Paris, at this time, was surrounded and besieged by the Prussian army period SP 17 1870 until the FE 28 1871 Armistice. No mail could get in, hence the re-routing to the small hamlet of St. Jean du Cardinay, Maromme in Normandy. French aeronauts suggested to the postal authorities in Paris that balloons be used to maintain communications with the provisional government in Tours, and beyond. In total 67 well documented outgoing flights were made carrying over 2 million pieces of mail to places around the world with rare survivors having reached Mauritius, Hong Kong, and Japan. This unique NO 9 1870 cover bears the earliest recorded use of the QV 1/- brown in combination with printer’s guide-line positional strip of three, and single QV 1d rose-red, the former invoiced AU 13 1869 but held back for 14 months as seemingly not a suitable oil-lamp match for the latter. All further uses of the 1/- brown pay the single rate to England, and a replacement QV 1d in black was hastily ordered on JA 6 1871. £6000 |
;) | A10 used KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postmark (PML.3) from the short-lived brown ink period on 1862 QV 6d deep green (SG.4). See PML handbook Page 86 £18 |
;) | A10 used KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postmark (PML.2) on 1880 QV 6d bright green (SG.30, Cat.£70). £24 |
;) | DICKOYA, Ceylon postmark on forged ST. VINCENT stamp 1899 QV 5/- green & blue (SG.75, Cat.£170 used), a forgery believed to have been cleverly executed by the Belgian forger Dr Julian Smeets by bleaching out the design of used copies of the 1886 Ceylon QV 5c dull purple (SG.195) to a give a "blank" CA wmk P.14 stamp; only immediately given away by the indelible ink portion of a DICKOYA (Ceylon) cds which could not be removed. £95 |
;) | CO used COLONARIE, St. Vincent postmark in red dated MY 15 82 on QV 1d drab (SG.37), shallow thinning below hinge with nick into design top right and str. edge at base. £48 |
;) ;) ;) | MOGADOR, Morocco postal history 1887 use of the ST. VINCENT QV 1d carmine Post Card overprinted for use in GIBRALTAR written from MOGADOR with "Mog. 5/4 87" with turquoise PER "EMPUSA" to Stuttgart, Germany pmk'd at Gibraltar with "A26" duplex dated A/AP 10 87, some harsher toning. The Mogador Post Office opened in 1887 £325 |
;) | ST. VINCENT to BELGIUM postal history 1920 underpaid cover with KGV 1d pmk'd Kingstown C/23 NO 20 to Belgium with 30c Postage Due tied Antwerpen cds, small repaired opening tear. £48 |
;) | PARCEL-POST, St. Vincent postmark (25mm) dated C/SP 27 01 on QV 4d yellow (SG.56). £48 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | A UNIQUE IMPERFORATE PROOF SHEET SHOWING THE UNISSUED TRANSPOSED AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ERROR 1975 200th Anniversary of American Independence issue: Two differing mint imperforate proof sheets exist (this one having DARKER PINK BACKGROUND TO LOWER MIDDLE LABEL than found on the issued stamps, the reason unknown) showing wrong portrait of Franklin Pierce on the 5c, and wrong portrait of Andrew Johnson on the 10c (transposed portraits error). The other transposed Presidents error sheet, also mounted by the printers on white card, has lighter black backgrounds behind portraits of the Presidents than found on issued stamps. This sheet is uniquely marked "Q541 BLACKS" in lower selvedge being the House of Questa printers reference number presumed connected with the black printing. The error was noted after completion of printing with ALL SHEETS DESTROYED by the Crown Agents and printers, and the corrected printing sent to St. Vincent (the two error sheets accepted by O.J. Urch, philatelic adviser, from Prime minister of St. Vincent Milton Cato per "accountable items" original envelope which is enclosed). For the complete story of how this error occurred see BLOGGS SECTION and newspaper article "A NEW STAMP ISSUE IS BORN". £1525 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | A UNIQUE IMPERFORATE PROOF SHEET SHOWING THE UNISSUED TRANSPOSED AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ERROR 1975 200th Anniversary of American Independence issue: Two differing mint imperforate proof sheets exist (this one having LIGHTER BLACK BACKGROUND behind portraits of those Presidents than found on the issued stamps) showing wrong portrait of Franklin Pierce on the 5c, and wrong portrait of Andrew Johnson on the 10c (transposed portraits error). The other transposed Presidents error sheet, also mounted by the printers on white card, has a much darker pink background to the lower middle label than found on issues stamps, and is marked "Q541 BLACKS" in lower white selvedge being the House of Questa printers reference number presumed connected with the black printing. The error was noted after completion of printing with ALL SHEETS DESTROYED by the Crown Agents and printers, and the corrected printing sent to St. Vincent (the two error sheets accepted by O.J. Urch, philatelic adviser, from Prime Minister of St. Vincent Milton Cato per photocopy of "accountable items" text enclosed). For the complete story of how this error occurred see BLOGGS SECTION and newspaper article "A NEW STAMP ISSUE IS BORN". £1500 |
;) | A10 used KINGSTOWN plus A10 used GEORGETOWN combination, St. Vincent postmarks (PML.4) horiz. "A10" in black applied Kingstown overstriking red vertical "A10" (PML.5) used Georgetown on QV 1d black (SG.18). £18 |
;) | A10 used KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postmark (PML.3) from the short-lived brown ink period on 1862 QV 6d deep green (SG.4), printer's guide-line at top left identifies as sheet position 6. £24 |
;) ;) | Black "K" with black horiz. "A10" (used Kingstown) combination, St. Vincent postmarks a rare combination dated during "81" on marginal position 1880 QV 6d bright green (SG.30, Cat.£70), some light toning. £60 |
;) | GEORGETOWN, St. Vincent postmark New ERD dated A/JA 3 99 on QV 1d red (SG.48b). The previous gap between code letters was C/DE 23 98 and A/JA 6 99 (both as reported by West Indies Postal History Review by Joe Chin Aleong). The "A" code had a short life on QV 1d red, current last date being A/AP 18 99, and strikes on the QV 1d red are not as plentiful as one might expect. £24 |
;) | EDINBURGH postmark on St. Vincent stamp Black ink Edinburgh JA 13 77 arrival "killing" lightly pmk'd red horiz. "A10" on QV 6d deep blue-green (SG.19b, Cat.£50). Dated arrivals rarely found for this period (useful for confirming precise date of a Head Office killer). This stamp would have sailed with the DE 28 76 1/- claret cover (Ex Glossop) to London £24 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1891 QV 1/- orange (SG.58) with forged KINGSTOWN C/JY 2 09 cds. £12 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1877 QV 4d deep blue (SG.25, Cat.£550), a beautiful lightly mounted mint copy with fresh colour and being exceptionally well-centred for this issue, sideways small star wmk. £350 |
;) | A10 used at Kingstown, St. Vincent postmark (PML.1) fine impression on 1861 QV 1d rose-red (SG.1). £6 |
;) | LONDON postmark on St. Vincent stamp QV 2½d on 1d blue (SG.55a) with arrival sqc dated DE 12 94. £5 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1877 QV 6d pale green (SG.23, Cat.£50), fine used pmk'd black horiz. "A10". £14 |