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| Country: Ceylon Clear Subject: SUPERB PMKS Clear | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | 48, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1880 QV 4c rosy-mauve Crown CC wmk (SG.123). £8 |
;) | 58, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1886 QV 15c sage-green Crown CA wmk (SG.196). £12 |
;) | 94, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1886 QV 15c sage-green Crown CA wmk (SG.196). £36 |
;) | 14, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1886 QV 5c dull purple Crown CA wmk (SG.195). £12 |
;) | 16, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1886 QV 5c dull purple Crown CA wmk (SG.195). £10 |
;) | 34, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1886 QV 5c dull purple Crown CA wmk (SG.195). Note: no trace of lowest base bar. £14 |
;) | 58, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1886 QV 5c dull purple Crown CA wmk (SG.195). £12 |
;) | 72, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1886 QV 5c dull purple Crown CA wmk (SG.195). £8 |
;) | 106, Ceylon postmark/cancel on strip of three 1886 QV 5c dull purple Crown CA wmk (SG.195). £20 |
;) | 72, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1872 QV 16c pale violet Crown CC wmk (SG.126). £16 |
;) | 48, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1885 15c on QV 16c orange-yellow (SG.189). £24 |
;) | ST. LUCIA (Smeets forgery) stamps: 1885 QV 1/- orange-brown (SG.36), a forgery believed to have been cleverly executed by the Belgian forger 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 KOTAGALA (Ceylon) OC 19 97 cds which could not be removed. £140 |