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;) ;) | GOVERNMENT H.Q., Commonwealth of Dominica postal history 1980 OHMS stampless local cover (Coat-of-Arms on flap) to Mero, St. Joseph from the Ministry of Education and Health 7 AUG 80 pmk'd GOVERNMENT H.Q. */8 AU 80 using the official address name of COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA. £12 |
;) ;) | Great Britain 1971 Postal strike: EMERGENCY MAIL SERVICE, Rhodesia postal history 1971 complete with text AIR LETTER to Oxford, England with 2½c, 5c affixed for postage and additional 50c fee pmk'd CAUSEWAY 25 FEB 71 with circular EMERGENCY AIR SERVICE d/ring alongside. Writer mentions new service (inaugurated on or about the 20th February) for such airletters at a cost of 5/- or 50c cents local. Such letters were taken by private couriers. The UK postal workers strike was period January to March 1971. £75 |
;) | 1954 PRESTWICK DISASTER COVER and GREAT BRITAIN AMBULANCE COVER to JAMAICA 1954 charred edge back and front of cover pmk'd London 23 XII 54 together with contents to R.H. Ridler, Barclays Bank Ltd, Kingston, Jamaica, B.W.I. requiring completion of its journey, due such distressed condition, by Great Britain Post Office O.H.M.S. ambulance cover, both covers struck with purple boxed "SALVAGED MAIL/AIRCRAFT CRASH/PRESTWICK 25-12-54"., flap of latter poorly opened. BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser crashed on landing at Prestwick Airport in the early hours of Christmas Day 1954, 28 of the 36 onboard were killed. £325 |
;) | FRANCE postal history 1970's Hotel Edison, New York airmail cover used in France to Japan, some soiling etc. £15 |
;) ;) ;) | DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, BERMUDA postal history 1966 (JU 9) lengthy typewritten letter from a 19 year old Colonel's daughter to Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk on an overprinted for Government use Air Letter (overprinting deleted as used personally) mailed with GB QE2 4d pmk'd Post Office Maritime Mail. £65 |
;) ;) | LONG ISLAND (West Cork, Ireland) postal history 1973 cover with Eire 7½p airmail printed matter rate pmk'd Sgoile Mhure (Schull) 24 IV 73 on face and Long Island 4p Harbour issue tied to reverse addressed Bombay, India, returned with various handstamps showing Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin) 7 AUG 1973 return. Very few of these returned covers which travelled thousands of postal miles are known. Permission for Long Island locals was given by the Department of Posts, Dublin. After a year of preparation, much delayed by difficulty in finding a perforating machine, the stamps were issued AP 24 1973. First Day Covers were prepared and serviced in Schull (and collected later in the day) and over 1,000 others letters were posted that day to collectors and stamp trade worldwide. Instead of travelling the 60 miles direct to Cork Airport these letters reached nearby Skibbereen where postal rules dictated that all mail should be cleared before employees go home. Instead of the expected 15 or so letters over 1,000 arrived and on noticing the Long Island locals on reverse Dublin was phoned who said not to accept more mail until the matter was looked into. Orders were serviced in the following weeks, but due Government reshuffles no authorisation to continue ever came and the service, although legally approved, was eventually abandoned. £125 |
;) ;) | LONG ISLAND (West Cork, Ireland) postal history 1973 cover with Eire 7½p airmail printed matter rate pmk'd Sgoile Mhure (Schull) 24 IV 73 on face and Long Island 4p Harbour issue tied to reverse addressed Caracas, Venezuela, returned with various handstamps showing Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin) 22 AUG 1973 return. Very few of these returned covers which travelled thousands of postal miles are known. Permission for Long Island locals was given by the Department of Posts, Dublin. After a year of preparation, much delayed by difficulty in finding a perforating machine, the stamps were issued AP 24 1973. First Day Covers were prepared and serviced in Schull (and collected later in the day) and over 1,000 others letters were posted that day to collectors and stamp trade worldwide. Instead of travelling the 60 miles direct to Cork Airport these letters reached nearby Skibbereen where postal rules dictated that all mail should be cleared before employees go home. Instead of the expected 15 or so letters over 1,000 arrived and on noticing the Long Island locals on reverse Dublin was phoned who said not to accept more mail until the matter was looked into. Orders were serviced in the following weeks, but due Government reshuffles no authorisation to continue ever came and the service, although legally approved, was eventually abandoned. £125 |
;) | BERMUDA postal history 1967 (JU 5) stampless unpaid local cover from Devonshire South to Hamilton, "T" mark with POSTAGE/6d/DUE handstamp, some toning. £60 |
;) | BERMUDA postal history 1969 (SP 10) stampless unpaid internal town cover pmk'd within Hamilton POSTAGE/8d/DUE handstamp. £60 |
;) | BERMUDA postal history 1967 (DE 21) underpaid cover to Hamilton with U.S. 5c Washington pmk'd New York, taxed with POSTAGE/11d/DUE added on arrival. £48 |
;) | BERMUDA postal history 1953 (NO 24) small packet parcel outer (opened to display front and back) with QE2 2/-, 2/6d, 5/- (9/6d rate) to Rockland, Maine. FREE OF DUTY but 15c collect handstamp applied and U.S. 5c, 10c Postage Dues added and cancelled. £40 |
;) | KING'S OWN BORDER, Gibraltar postal history 1970 cover with regimental cachet (having just taken over from Black Watch) pmk'd FORCES POST OFFICE "95" dated A/20 JU 70. £18 |
;) ;) | AUTHORISED CONCESSIONAL RATE AIR MAIL, Rhodesia postal history 1960 opened-out printed AIR MAIL envelope with both oval Royal Coat-of-Arms on flap and "CODE No. 23-31." alongside to Foyles Book Shop, London with QE2 3d pmk'd Salisbury 28 DEC 60, red 5-line "Authorised for Transmission/by Air Mail at Concessional/Rate./U.K.S.L.S. (Army Element), Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia" handstamp. £75 |
;) | GREAT GUANA CAY ABACO, Bahamas postal history 1978 cover to Nassau with QE2 5c fish pmk'd GREAT GUANA CAY, ABACO purple TRD dated MAY 26 1978. £12 |
;) ;) | BICKERSTETH, Jamaica postal history 1991 cover to Mandeville P.O. with pair 25c fish pmk'd BICKERSTETH FE 25 91 with large purple "MISSENT" and reverse with JONES TOWN POST OFFICE purple TRD dated 28 FEB 1991. £14 |
;) | BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1958(?) cover to Bodmin, Cornwall with QE2 5c pair, 6c pmk'd 23 MY with purple "NOT IN THE AIR MAIL." and 3-line "Insufficient Postage for/transmission by/Air Mail." handstamps. £16 |
;) | BARBUDA postal history 1969 stampless OHMS cover to Upminster, Essex with BARBUDA 16 AU 69 and black boxed signed and dated WARDEN/BARBUDA cachet. £32 |
;) | 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, Gibraltar postal history 1967 cover with ORDERLY ROOM cachet. £16 |
;) | 1st Battalion ROYAL ULSTER RIFLES, Gibraltar postal history 1967 cover with cachet, also piece bearing unit stamp. £18 |
;) | FORCES POST OFFICE, Gibraltar postal history PARCEL POST dated 2 JNE 82 tying ½d HMS Opossum on plain card. £20 |