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;) | A67 used PORT ROYAL, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d CA wmk (SG.18a). £5 |
;) | A64, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d Keyplate (SG.27). £6 |
;) | 14 used MAHEBOURG, Mauritius postmark/cancel on 1878 QV 20c on 6d (SG.88). £20 |
;) | A50 used MALVERN, Jamaica postmark/cancel on strip of four QV 1d Keyplate (SG.27), scarce multiple. £20 |
;) | T.15 used ST. MARY'S, Trinidad postmark/cancel (Type 0.9) on QV ½d dull green (SG.106). £18 |
;) | 11 used ST. LUCY, Barbados postmark/cancel (C2) bootheel on 1870 6d orange No wmk (SG.33), perf. faults. £36 |
;) | A03 used GEORGETOWN, British Guiana postmark/cancel on 2c orange with horizontal bar through OFFICIAL (SG.140, Cat.£80). £36 |
;) | A91, Virgin Islands postmark/cancel on 1884 QV 2½d ultramarine (SG.31). £14 |
;) | A08 used PLYMOUTH, Montserrat postmark/cancel in bluish ink on Leewards QV 1d (SG.2). £18 |
;) ;) ;) | Code 4 used ST. GEORGE, Barbados postal history (M2-R, replacement cds with wording further away from outer rim) arrival dated (4)/JA 8 (87) both code and year not inserted (LRD) on QV ½d red-brown Post Card written "St. John's Jany 8th" and posted with Bridgetown open bootheel duplex dated A/JA 8 87 to His Honor, The Speaker, Greens, St. George. Confirmation that this is the Parish code 4 cds comes with the damaged rim at 8 o'clock as found on earlier dates on loose adhesives. The current ERD for the M3 series cds is only 10 days later, JA 18 87. The earliest strikes JA 18 87 to OC 23 90 also show no code 4, at some point thereafter the code 4 was inserted. £240 |
;) | E58 used LITTLE RIVER, Jamaica postmark/cancel Topaz unrecorded blue ink on QV 2d CC wmk (SG.9), thinning at top, first recorded example on this issue, very rare. £80 |
;) | 1341, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.69). £8 |
;) | 242, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.59) piece. £14 |
;) | 1172, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on ½d (SG.58). £5 |
;) | A73 used ST. ANN'S BAY, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d OFFICIAL (SG.04). £18 |
;) | 17 used COLENSO, Natal postmark/cancel on 1876 Chalon QV 6d violet (SG.83). £12 |
;) | A91, Virgin Islands postmark/cancel on 1870 4d lake-red/pale rose paper (SG.15, Cat.£75). £40 |
;) | 6 used PINETOWN, Natal postmark/cancel (T.G) on 1870 Chalon QV 1d bright red (SG.60). £10 |
;) | 308, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.59a). £10 |
;) | A67 used PORT ROYAL, Jamaica postal history 1883 commercial reg. cover (opened top and right side) with SUNBEAM crested crown printed flap to Fraser, Manager of The La Guayra and Caracas Railway, Caracas, Venezuela with horiz. strip pf six QV 2d deep rose CC wmk (SG.9a) neatly pmk'd "A67" obliterators with PORT-ROYAL A/NO 12 83 backstamp, alongside address panel both Jamaica and St. Thomas registration handstamps and French Messageries Maritime line paquebot d/ring. The Venezuelan capital, Caracas, is situated seven miles from the Caribbean sea, but lies at an altitude of 3,000 feet. Surveys for a rail line from La Guaira began in 1867 and British and U.S. engineers disputed the route and financing for 14 years. An English group finally secured a contract in 1881, registered La Guaira and Caracas Railway Company in London, and began construction of a 23 mile line that involved neither cables, switchbacks nor rack, It ordered eight locomotives from Nasmyth, Wilson & Co. in Manchester and an assortment of passenger and freight cars, The line began carrying passengers in July 1883. £1650 |