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;) | CANCELLED on DOMINICA stamp in purple ink on KGV 1d (SG.72). £10 |
;) | DARLEY, Jamaica postmark/cancel purple TRD dated JUL 9 1946 on KG6 1d piece, reverse ST. MARGARETS BAY same dated d/ring. £5 |
;) | S.S. "LINGUIST" paquebot postmark/cancel on DOMINICA stamps purple boxed on block of four QE2 ½c (SG.140). £7 |
;) | DENBEIGH (error of spelling), Jamaica postmark/cancel Newly discovered 11 JUL 1967 temporary rubber datestamp tying perfs. pair QE2 1d Lignum Vitae (SG.217) to piece. The David Horry Encyclopaedia of British West Indies Postmarks Queen Elizabeth II illustrates the first DENBIGH with 20mm spacing base of "D" to "H" and the wider spacing DENBIGH with 27mm spacing base of "D" to "H". This error of spelling has 25mm spacing base of "D" to "H". £48 |
;) | POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS maritime postmark/cancel on DOMINICA stamp violet oval on Dominica 1d View (SG.48). £8 |
;) | R.M.S.P. Co. s.s. "CHAUDIERE" postmark/cancel on DOMINICA stamp in purple dated 21 JUN 1920 on 1½d on 1½d orange (SG.60) showing partial TRINIDAD JU 25 20 arrival cds, £30 |
;) | OTTOSHOOP, Transvaal postmark/cancel in purple ink part dated 31 AU- -- on 1/- green (SG.183). £12 |
;) | 25 used KOMATI, Transvaal postmark/cancel (T.3) in purple ink on 2d (SG.178). £24 |
;) | 34, Transvaal postmark/cancel (T.6a) in purple ink on 2d (SG.178). £28 |
;) | G.R. MARONI, Cyprus postmark/cancel (T.28) in purple ink on KG6 3/4pi (SG.153), some clipped perfs. £10 |
;) | MATHERAN, India postmark/cancel in magenta dated 12 MA 04 on QV 2a. £7 |
;) | UDI, Southern Nigeria postmark/cancel (Type 7c) in purple ink dated 20 MR 11 on horiz. pair KE7 1d (SG.34), a very rare office. £140 |
;) | PIETA DESTROYERS DEPOT, Malta cancel purple ink str. line on vertical pair 1d (SG.126). £30 |
;) | CUSTOM HOUSE Malta fiscal cancel purple d/ring oval dated 22 DEC 1914 on horiz. strip of three KGV 1d (SG.73), right stamp wrinkled paper at lower right corner area. £16 |
;) | FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA CRASH IN IRAQ, cover Muswell Hill to Invercargill, NEW ZEALAND postal history 1938 cover with several pages readable lengthy letter from Milly in Muswell Hill pmk'd 22 NOV 1938 to L.G. Crawford, Thomson & Beattie Ltd, Invercargill, New Zealand, stamp washed off with 2-line purple "RECEIVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA". £60 |
;) | 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 |
;) | METEMMA POSTAL AGENCY, Sudan postal history 1955 local use of 4½pi PSRE pmk'd purple METEMMA POSTAL AGENCY temporary rubber datestamp (Proud D1) for 15 JAN 1955, b/stamped Shendi 16 JAN 55. £60 |
;) ;) ;) | Mail to St. George's DETAINED AT AMERICAN CONSUL FOR 13 YEARS, Bermuda postal history 1879 cover from P.D. Slocum & Co., Clothiers, New Bedford, Massachusetts to Mr. Holder B. Slocum, 1st Mate Brig V.H. Hill, Capt. Sylvia, Bermuda (showing "Care Am Consul" at lower left) with U.S. 5c blue Zachary Taylor tied New Bedford cork dated MAY 10 with Boston MAY 10 transit and ST. GEORGES MAY 20 1879 oval receiving backstamps (LRD on incoming mail), after 13 years marked in red manuscript "Remained at American Consulate until 23rd April 1892/Not called for" with presumed Consulate Dead Letter Office purple pointing hand "RETURN TO THE WRITER. D.L.O." handstamp and placed in the mail with ST. GEORGES B/AP 23 92 cds (H1, usually applied at a transit or arrival datestamp, Ludington Page 141) with DEAD LETTER OFFICE/S A triangle dated MAY 11-92 on reverse. A fascinating item. Previous history: The whaling schooner Varnum H. Hill of and from Provincetown, was captured by the rebel steamer "Florida" on 27 June 1863 and released on bond of $10,000 on condition that she would take prisoners belonging to the destroyed ships "Southern Cross" (June 6, burnt same day), "Red Gauntlet" (June 14, kept in company as carrying coal and burnt on the 26th), "Benjamin Hoxie" (June 16 carrying silver bars valued at £500,000, sunk June 27) into Bermuda. Some 54 seamen were landed at Hamilton on 4 July and were taken in charge by the American Consul, and on 7 July Captain Doe of the British brig "Henrietta" agreed to take the seamen brought in by the V.H. Hill to New York. (Research shows no further mention of the V.H. Hill allowing no explanation for this incoming letter of 1879, and it being detained at the American Consul for 13 years until released in 1892). The "Florida" was a highly successful commerce raider in the Confederate States Navy capturing 37 prize ships. £525 |
;) | KELLY, KINGSTON 14, Jamaica postmark/cancel purple TRD dated 24 APR 1954 on QE2 2d (SG.154) piece, some toning. £4 |
;) | SUNGEI UJONG, Malaya postmark/cancel (D3) in violet ink dated AU 7 95 on block of four S. Ujong 1c on 5c green (SG.53). £18 |