ITALY to BRITISH HONDURAS missent REPUBLIC HONDURAS full cover pmk'd Varese 11.6.76 to Belize with EXTRAVIADO A HONDRUSA str. line. £30
BAHAMAS to EGYPT Full cover with TAORMINA K.u.K.Y.G printed flap to Prince Colloredo Mannsfeld (originally an Italian noble family) in Cairo pmk'd Nassau C/MR 28 01. TAORMINA is a beach holiday town under Mount Etna in Sicily. £120
MALTA to ITALY chisel slit due cholera outbreak 1883 cover to Reggio de Calabria (Southern Italy) with two pair plus single Great Britain QV ½d pale green (SG.Z90) tied Malta "A25" duplex dated B/DE 6 83 showing single chisel slit on address panel, reverse 8 12 80 arrival, cover opened at both base and right edges. Chisel slits were applied due to a cholera outbreak in Southern Italy. Covers with such chisel slits have been noted on Malta outgoing entires for JY 4, JY 8, JY 29, AU 5, AU 12, NO 24, DE 6 1883. £200
SIRACUSA PORTO, Italy postmark on MALTA stamp dated 25.3.24 on 1½d (SG.127). £14
JUSQUA' A ROME, Malta postal history 1938 from A.J. Tayar, Lascaris Wharf (per flap) marked via Italy to Hamburg, Germany with KG6 1½d, 2½d pmk'd MY 17 38 d/rings, the airmail label struck through and purple boxed "PAR AVION JUSQUA' A ROME" added, reverse 19.5.38 transit. £75
BERMUDA postal history 1925 re-used envelope sent with outer brown skin as there is a postmarked unidentified stamp and address underneath posted with 1d Caravel pmk'd Hamilton 31 JAN 25 to Diano Marina, Italy with tax handstamp and 30c Postage Due affixed and cancelled. £145
DOUBLE RATE TO ITALY with SINGLE RATE ACCOUNTANCY HANDSTAMP ERROR, MALTA postal history 1871 wrapper with J. BORGES DA SILVA/MALTA sender's cachet to Livorno, Italy with double rate paid by pair GB QV 1d Plate 111, pair QV 3d Plate 6 pmk'd Malta "A25" duplex dated B/AP 28 71 showing red handstruck "2 3/4" accountancy reserved for single weight letters (the double rate was applied as "5½" in blue manuscript as no handstruck instrument was made). £275
TWO DIFFERENT REIGNS, THREE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, Jamaica postal history to Sicily 1936 cover to Eastbourne College, England with Jamaica KGV 1½d chocolate pmk'd Mandeville AP 12 37 d/ring. On arrival in Eastbourne, Sussex forwarded to Taormina, Sicily with pair contemporary GB KE7 ½d green pmk'd 27 APR 1937 with 25c green Postage Due tied 1-5 37. The KG6 issues not released until 10 May 1937. £120
GIBRALTAR postal history 1875 underpaid wrapper marked pr "Lesbian" to Genoa with pair GB QV 1d red Plate 155 tied "A26" duplex dated A/AU 7 75, on arrival Italian 40c Postage Due tied GENOVA 12 AGO 75 cds. Ed Gerd Born and Adrian Almond. £280
1937 ITALY to JAMAICA cover, b/stamped Constant Spring OC 31 37, minor soiling. £10
Parma 10c HAND-DRAWN Facsimile – one of 250 plus individually unique items discovered in a cream-coloured vellum stockbook belonging to a Walter D. Young in an old desk by a Cabinet making in Woking, Surrey about July 1951. The artist evidently spent a great deal of time on his work. £24