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;) | UNDERPAID WITH PRE-CANCELLED POSTAGE DUES ADDED, Jamaica postal history 1886 underpaid printed return cover with Jamaica QV 4d tied Kingston MR 23 86 sqc to New York collecting tax and “16 Cents” charge handstamps, on arrival pre-cancelled in blue ink U.S. 2 x 3c, 10c Postage Dues added. £165 |
;) | F87 used SMYRNA, British Levant postal history 1883 cover to Thomas Stephenson, Glen Caladh by Greenock with GB QV 2½d tied "F87" with Smyrna B/DE 15 83 cds alongside, b/stamped Greenock DE 25 83. Glen Caladh Castle had a number of owners including George Stephenson (1781-1848), nephew of the famous engineer and designer of the steam locomotive Rocket. During World War II the castle, situated on the western shores of Loch Riddon north of the Isle of Bute, was requestioned as a training establishment by Combined Operations becoming the Beach Pilotage School 1942-45, and designated H.M.S James Cook, a reference to the advancing navigation skills that the founder of Australia introduced into the Royal Navy, and reflected the task of operators of troop landing craft and their cargoes, and tank landing operations. The property was demolished in 1960, having been rendered unsafe by dry rot. £225 |
;) | MAIL TO CO-FOUNDER OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, Jamaica postal history 1891 cover with U.S. 5c with SWAMPSCOTT MAY 13 1891 to Capt. L.D. Baker, Port Antonio, Jamaica with Boston (MY 13), Kingston (MY 23) and Port Antonio (MY 24 91) b/stamps, reverse stained. The actual history of the UFCo does not start until its foundation in 1899 but the “legend” of the Company goes back to May 1870 when Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, a well-known Yankee sea captain and owner of the two-masted schooner “Telegraph” arrived in Jamaica from his home port of Wellfield, Massachusetts and filled spare deck cargo space for his return trip to New Jersey with 160 stems of bananas purchased at 14 cents each. On arrival in Jersey City he found they readily sold on the quayside at $2 per stem, and so began Captain Baker’s interest in the banana industry. Six years later in 1876 Captain Baker joined forces with Andrew W. Preston to found the Boston Fruit Company. Some 20 years later forces were joined with Minor C. Keith who had built a railroad in Costa Rica and was using it to transport bananas from the plantations. The three men, each giants in their own field, evolved plans to form a new Company, and on the 30th March 1899 co-founded a new firm, to be called the United Fruit Company, with assets of some 213,000 acres of land in the Central American Republics, some 110 miles of railway, a small fleet of ships and approximately $11,000,000 in capital. Captain Baker’s initial 160 stems of bananas turned into 17,000,000 stems being shipped annually for consumption in the USA by 1899. £140 |
;) ;) | RMSPCo “PARA” (Colombian War of a Thousand Days, Spanish La Guerra De Los Mil Dias 1899-1903) Colombia 10c rate cover pmk’d Cartagena FEB 20 1900 with purple handstruck "PARA" mailboat arriving Weymouth MR 15 1900. (Civil War between Liberals and mainly Conservative Government that resulted in between 60,000 and 130,000 deaths, extensive property damage and national economic ruin. The Liberal party represented the coffee plantation owners and import-export merchants, and due a drastic downturn in the international price of coffee many growers were operating at a loss by 1899. The Conservatives, suffering from reduced customs revenues, responded by issuing unbacked paper currency, causing the value of the peso to drop precipitously and war broke out, the first phase, lasting about seven months, ended with defeat of the Liberal forces at Palonegro on 25 May 25 1900. During the next two years guerrilla-style warfare raged in the rural areas being finally ended by the Conservatives offering amnesty and political reform on 12 June 1902). Michael Rego research shows that RMSP had no Atlantic main line packet link to South America and German vessels filled the gap from 1897 to 1914. The HAPAG monthly route during this period was Hamburg, St. Thomas, Trinidad, La Guaira, St. Thomas, La Havre, Hamburg. HAPAG ship Valdivia sailed from Colombia, Venezuela, Curacao for St. Thomas and landed there 1 March 1900. The mail from Venezuela for the UK was probably landed at Trinidad and transferred to Barbados for connection with RMS Para. The RMS Para left Southampton on a fortnightly service on JA 24 1900, landed Barbados FE 4 1900 for Jacmel, back to Barbados, Plymouth MR 15 1900. (In 1900 the RMSP no longer called at Colombia, Venezuela or St. Thomas, but stuck to a short time-table with main ports). £625 |
;) | ST. LUCIA to MEXICO postal history 1898 commercial use of QV 1d pale red UPU Post Card pmk'd C/NO 26 98 routed through New York DE 10 98 with very fine MEXICO DIC 16 98 arrival. £240 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS postal history 1894 cover to New York with QV 6c tied "K.65" with Belize A/AP 26 94 cds, very fine Per S.S. "GAMBETTA" handstamp. £90 |
;) | BELIZE, British Honduras postal history 1896 printed address reg. cover with portrait of the recipient Wilhelm Breimeier in Stadthagen, Germany with 20 CENTS on QV 6d pmk'd Belize A/JA 16 96 with London transit and 4.2.96 arrival b/stamp. £140 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS full cover with two pairs GB QV 1d lilac pmk'd Etchingham NO 30 87, b/stamped Burwash same day (both East Sussex villages) showing partial Belize DE 19 87 arrival. £100 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS full reg. cover pmk'd A/OC 30 91 to Saxony, b/stamped Altenburg 18.11.91. £120 |
;) | BAHAMAS to HOLLAND full QV 2½d PSE pmk'd Nassau C/21 OC 98(?), b/stamped 5 NOV arrival. £18 |
;) ;) | BAHAMAS full all-over Royal Victoria Hotel advertising cover, poorly opened at right, with QV 4d Chalon (fine) pmk'd A05 to Jacksonville, Florida FORWARDED St. Augustine, reverse A/BAHAMAS/AP 8 81 and Jacksonville APR 12. £120 |
;) | BAHAMAS full reg. cover to Masonic Temple address in Minneapolis, Minn., pmk'd Nassau 10 JAN 06, New York and arrival b/stamps. £36 |
;) | BAHAMAS full QV 2½d PSE with added QV 2½d pmk'd C/6 AP 93, reverse London AP 21 93. £20 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) | KALK BAY "447", Cape of Good Hope full text card written Noordhoek pmk'd Kalk Bay A/OC 25 02 with Cape Town OC 25 02 and Noordhoek I/OC 25 02, message re sending eggs by todays train. £40 |
;) | ROSETTA, Natal pmk'd C/SP 26 99, reverse GPO Natal J/26 SP 99 and Forfar OC 22 99, scissor cut at base. £24 |
;) | GRANDPASS, Ceylon full text card pmk'd JY 26 87. £9 |
;) | BAHAMAS postal history (Ex LUDINGTON) 1884 printed Royal Victoria Hotel, Nassau cover to New Haven, New York with Chalon QV 4d rose P.12 (SG.41) tied "B" obliterator showing framed SHIP landed Norfolk, Virginia with handstruck DUE appended 4 (2c ship + 2c delivery to New York), reverse clear strikes A/BAHAMAS/JA 29 84, New York Transit FEB 5 84, New Haven N.Y. FEB 6 1884, an interesting 6 full sides letter on 3 illustrated hotel pages included, top folds partially severed on opening. Ex LUDINGTON. £450 |
;) | BAHAMAS postal history (Ex URWICK) 1886 reg. cover front to New York with QV Chalon 6d deep violet pmk'd "A05" with red REGISTERED NASSAU cds dated A/MY 31 86. Ex URWICK £125 |
;) | BAHAMAS postal history 1893 reg. cover to Geo. F. Jackson, Kings Norton, Birmingham with QV £1.00 Venetian red (SG.57) pmk'd "A05" showing red REGISTERED, NASSAU dated A/15 DE 93 and London reg. oval dated I/31 DE 93 alongside address panel, b/stamped reg. Birmingham oval A/JA 1 94 clear of missing flap. £480 |