WEST END, Bahamas postal history 1935 "New Years Greetings From Bahamas" printed cover to Kingston, New York with KGV S. Jubilee 1½d pmk'd WEST END (T.7, D3) 30 DEC 35 cds. £40
ARTHURS TOWN, Bahamas postmark (T.7 I, D3) dated 2 MAY 35 on a fine used block of six KGV 1½d brown-red (SG.117), exceptionally rare as such as very few early multiples are known with village cancels. £80
Vertical "A05", Bahamas postmark (Ex Hoey) (K2, unlisted Proud handbook) on QV 1d carmine-rose (SG.48), extremely rare. Ex HOEY. The only other copy seen being on QV 2½d (SG.52) overstruck Nassau C/JA 11 99 cds. £625
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas postal history 1935 cover to The McCarrie School of Mechanical Dentistry, Philadelphia, USA with KGV 1½d strip of three tied MARSH HARBOUR (T.5, D4) */AP 30 35 cds, full transit backstamps. £120
PAID AT BAHAMAS, Bahamas postal history 1940 OHMS stampless cover from the Development Board with PAID AT BAHAMAS crowned circle and Nassau APR 2 1940 meter slogan to Miami, Florida. £24
PAID AT BAHAMAS, Bahamas postal history 1942 Nassau Daily Tribune envelope coupled with THE DEVELOPMENT BOARD departmental cachet dated MAR 18 1942 mailed stampless by EXPRESS DELIVERY with PAID AT BAHAMAS crowned Circle and Nassau 18 MAR 42 segmented circle to the Associated Press Correspondent in Miami, Florida, at left EXAMINED BY 3922 label. £40
BIMINI, Bahamas postal history 1921 Bimini Bay Rod & Gun Club (sender's printed flap) commercial cover to Lemon City, Florida with KGV 1d tied BIMINI (T.7 1, D3) 07 OCT 21 cds (unusual with "07" day set-up). £55
DEADMAN'S CAY, Bahamas postal history 1915 reg. commercial cover with sender address to Montgomery Ward, Chicago with pair, single KGV 1d tied DEADMAN'S CAY 22 JAN 15 (T.7 1, D2) cds. £48
DEADMAN'S CAY, Bahamas postal history 1927 McFarlan cover to Downington, Pennsylania with KGV 1d pmk'd DEADMAN'S CAY (T.7 1, D2) 20 MAR 27 cds. £65
RAGGED ISLAND, Bahamas postal history 1917 commercial cover with sender address to Buffalo, New York with KGV 1d pmk'd RAGGED ISLAND sideways up B/28 MR 17 (T.1, D2) with boxed "NASSAU"/Tourist Season/Dec. to Apl. advertising slogan. £75
BAHAMAS postal history 1868 cover to Henry Dunn, New York with QV 4d Chalon tied "A05" with fine BAHAMAS OC 17 1868/C dbl-arc on upper flap which can fully display showing NEW YORK OCT 25 arrival with "3" due. Handstruck "CANNOT BE FOUND" and NEW YORK POST OFFICE/OCT 30/ADVERTISED oval with New York NOV 30 return cds on reverse. £525
KNOWLES, Bahamas postmark (T.7 1, D3) 21 JUN 52 on 2 x KG6 ½d (SG.149e) piece. £6
NASSAU via PHILADELPHIA to LONDON, Bahamas postal history 1852 outer wrapper docketted "Nassau 13 Oct 1852" landed blue PHILADELPHIA OCT 30 showing "24" surface charge to New York (where it caught the Cunard steamer “Europa” to Liverpool) and black circled "5" for ship to The Rev. George Osborn, Wesleyan Mission House, London rated 1/- with 17 NO arrival backstamp. In late September 1852 there was an outbreak of cholera in the Bahamas in which over a 1,000 persons died within a period of five months. The Daily Atlas described “Vessels in the harbour being crowded with people fleeing the scourge”. Also on NO 17 1852 the RMSP "La Plata" arrived Southampton “under melancholy circumstances” – nine dead on board and 21 taken ill during the voyage from the West Indies (Pratique 6/02).
£175
GOVERNORS HARBOUR, Bahamas postmark (T.1, D2) dated B/SP 2 86 (SP 2 inverted, 8 looks upright but might be year 98) on QV 2½d (SG.51). £20
ORANGE CREEK, Bahamas TRD postmark (TRD 3C, D1) in purple dated JUN 30 1951 on KG6 1½d (SG.151a) piece. £20
FRESH CREEK ANDROS ISLAND, Bahamas postmark (T3a, D2) 6 MAY 11 on two re-united hinged together singles KE7 ½d (SG.71). £55