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| Country: All Subject: Pmks (in violet ink) Clear | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | WEPENER, Orange Free State postmark/cancel in purple ink dated C/26 JUN 86 on pair 1/- orange-yellow (SG.9). £60 |
;) | MOUNT EDGECOMBE, Natal postmark/cancel (Type N) in violet dated P/JA 9 03 on QV 1d (SG.99a) overstruck LONDON arrival dated JA 31 03. £14 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | TITCHFIELD (two differing dates showing flexibility of handstamp), Jamaica postal history 1903 cover from The University of Chicago with 5c franking pmk'd Chicago APR 5 1903 to Prof. D.S. Johnson PhD, Chester Vale, Gordon Town, Jamaica variously forwarded with twelve differing backstamps including purple boxed TITCHFIELD (TRD 11) for both 16.4.03 and 17.4.03 (showing movement of "J" under "TC"), cover with corner fault. William Fawcett was the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908, and having returned to Britain was the co-author of the first volumes of Flora of Jamaica. £180 |
;) | EAST END Grand Cayman RURUL Post Gollection, Cayman Islands postmark/cancel purple boxed on 1907 KE7 1d carmine (SG.26). £75 |
;) | VENTERSBURG, Orange River Colony postmark/cancel in purple ink dated AP 8 03 on KE7 1d (SG.140), minor toning. £10 |
;) | UTRECHT, Natal postmark/cancel (M.M.13.3) purple ink TRD dated 27 NOV 1902 on KE7 1d (SG.128). £18 |
;) | BALGOWAN, Natal postmark/cancel (M.1) in purple ink dated C/JA 5 11 on KE7 1d (SG.148) piece. £16 |
;) | UTRECHT, Natal postmark/cancel (M.M.13.3) purple TRD dated 6 JAN 1903 on QV 1d (SG.99a). £18 |
;) | UTRECHT, Natal postmark/cancel (M.M.13.3) purple TRD dated 13 AUG 1902 on QV 1d CA wmk (SG.99a). £15 |
;) | LUCKY HILL, Jamaica postmark/cancel (TRD 21, D1) undated in purple ink on ½d Exhibition (SG.94) showing partial d/ring with clear "21" year slugs. £15 |
;) | NKANDHLA, Zululand postmark/cancel (Z.3) purple TRD dated 18 OCT 90 on GB ovp'd QV 4d (SG.6, Cat.£75) faulty cut-to-shape piece. £48 |
;) | FUNAFUTI ISLAND, Gilbert & Ellice Islands postmark/cancel (D1) in violet dated 15 AUG 12 on 2½d (SG.11). £24 |
;) | 5, possibly used TRAKHONI RAILWAY STATION, Cyprus postmark/cancel in purple ink on 1904 KE7 ½pi MCA wmk (SG.62), perf. toning. £18 |
;) | RACE COURSE, Jamaica postmark/cancel (TRD 13) in purple ink possibly dated 9.8.05 on 1905 QV 3d MCA wmk (SG.46). £18 |
;) ;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history 1881 cover to Brooklyn, New York with QV 6d pmk'd Sydney JA 14 81 duplex with purple oval "PAID ALL" (seriffed letters applied Sydney), reverse San Francisco Paid All and Brooklyn AUG 16 arrival. £75 |
;) ;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history 1887 Wells & Leavitt, Sydney sender's cover to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin with QV 6d tied Sydney MY 18 87 duplex, matching part purple CHICAGO cds and oval "PAID ALL" (sans-serif, applied at Chicago), very fine Fond Du Lac JUN 16 arrival b/stamp. £125 |
;) | CONSIGNEE ENTIRE landed GRAVESEND SHIP LETTER, St. Vincent postal history 1910 cover marked "Consignee" and "p. S.S. St. Croix" to William Burr, Broad Street House, London with 1d re-drawn Arms (SG.99) tied purple str. line "THE EAST-ASIATIC COMPANY" handstamp with both GRAVESEND/SHIP-LETTER and GRAVESEND 2 AM/MY 18 10 arrival cds alongside address panel, reverse London E.C. 10.15AM MAY 18 10 arrival. The East Asiatic Company was founded in 1897 in Copenhagen by Hans Niel Andersen, initially to operate shipping services between Copenhagen, Bangkok and the Far East. In 1907 the "St. Croix" was sold to the Hamburg America Line. £750 |
;) | FRANCISTOWN, Bechuanaland postmark/cancel dated 27 MAR 28 on GB ovp'd KGV 6d (SG.96) on piece showing full boxed registration etiquette, stamp with fault. £9 |
;) ;) | KANGELA ST. ESHOWE on JAPAN hand-painted balsa wood cover via HONG KONG to ZULULAND 1908 balsa wood partly hand-painted cover to Eshowe, Zululand with Japan 10sen tied part 41.12 (for 14.12) cancel with superb purple MOJI, JAPAN dated 15.12.08 alongside, reverse with VICTORIA, Hong Kong 22 DE 08, Eshowe and rare KANGELA ST. ESHOWE, NATAL arrivals both dated JA 20 09. £175 |
;) ;) | Kyoto, Japan via Broome, Western Australia and Singapore to Egypt, Germany, Switzerland 1913 use of Japan 4 sen deep brown/buff UPU Post Card to The School of Medicine, Cairo written Kyoto 26 April 1913 with BROOME 5 JU 13, Singapore JU 18 13 (reverse), Cairo 8 VII 13 with re-addressing in red ink to Leipzig, Germany and the Hotel Kronenberg, Pontresina, Switzerland. £125 |