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;) | THE BIGHT, Bahamas full cover with temporary rubber datestamps for NOV 23 1973, no b/stamps. £12 |
;) | TRUE BLUE, Bahamas full cover pmk'd 13 OCT 60, no b/stamps. £10 |
;) | THE BLUFF, Bahamas full cover with purple temporary rubber datestamps for 14 OCT 1969, no b/stamps. £10 |
;) | THE FERRY, Bahamas full cover pmk'd 29 JUL 67, no backstamps. £5 |
;) ;) | STANN CREEK, British Honduras to GOLD COAST 1955 mixed reign airmail cover with 72c franking pmk'd STANN CREEK 25 OC 55 to Kumasi, Gold Coast showing 4 NO 55 arrival, handstruck UNCLAIMED. Enclosed letter mentions "Corozal one of the northern towns was completely destroyed by Janet". £75 |
;) | BELIZE full cover Medical Department dated 8/12/76. £10 |
;) | CANTERBURY MONTEGO BAY skeleton postmark, Jamaica postal history (D1) dated */28 JA 58 tying QE2 1d on local cover to Mandeville. £80 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | M.V. "Staffordshire", Great Britain (Devon) postal history 1957 cover to the Fourth Officer, M.V. "Staffordshire", Brixham & Torbay Coaling Company re-addressed London with GB QE2 1d, 1½d tied Budleigh Salterton 9 MAY 57, handstruck "SIP SAILED", slightly soiled. £40 |
;) | CODRINGTON, BARBUDA postal history 1981 reg. cover to Celle, Germany with 20c x 2, ovp'd Antigua $1 pmk'd CODRINGTON 22 JAN 81 cds, fine boxed BRANCH OFFICE BARBUDA reg. h/stamp. £12 |
;) ;) ;) | UNCLAIMED MAIL TO THE PURSER ON BOARD "CARNARVON CASTLE", South Africa postal history 1953 cover to John Havers, Purser on the Carnarvon Castle, Cape Town Docks with boxed purple "UNCLAIMED/ON BOARD/23 NOV 1953/"CARNARVON CASTLE" re-directed both Dunnothar Castle and to Durban with KG6 2d pmk'd Cape Town 21-11 1953 machine, reverse purple Durban Agency of the Steamship Line cachet dated 27 NOV 1953. £65 |
;) ;) | PRESTWICK AIR CRASH, Bahamas postal history 1954 charred and grimy commercial cover to Kenneth Mackintosh, Nassau from Williamson's Linoleum store posted with red Lancaster & Morecambe meter machine for 1/3d dated 22 X11 54, three days later boxed purple "SALVAGED MAIL/AIRCRAFT CRASH/ PRESTWICK 25-12-54" cachet applied, intact Williamson & Son Statement of Account to the Community Furniture Store for goods received. £125 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | CRYPTIC HAND-DRAWN COVER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., Barbados postal history 1968 airmail cover with hand-drawn and coloured steamship marked "Wup" to Prestiment Johnson (sic), United States, U.S.A. with QE2 25c coral pmk'd CHRIST CHURCH 14 NO 68 showing small red NOV 16 arrival on address panel, sender address on reverse. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the USA 1963 to 1969 taking office after the Kennedy assassination. £175 |
;) ;) | REGISTERED AIR LETTER, British Guiana postal history 1962 use of illustrated Formula Air Letter to Mayfair Stamps, Pennsylvania with QE2 5c, 24c pmk'd skeleton GPO REG BRANCH (with inverted letters) with reg. label and arrivals, contents being offers of large quantities of stamps by parcels. £36 |
;) ;) | SUSPENDED POSTAL SERVICE, BERMUDA to SIERRA LEONE postal history 1978 printed Bermuda Bible Society large manila cover initially posted stampless from Hamilton to Paget on 28 MAY, re-addressed to Mohamed T. Bangura, Calaba Town, Wellington, Freetown, Sierra Leone with QE2 5c, 35c, $3 pmk'd PAGET 17 JUN 78 with address deleted by blue crayon and boxed "SERVICE SUSPENDED/RETURN TO SENDER" handstamp applied. £48 |
;) | BELVIDERE (CARRIACOU) GRENADA to ST. VINCENT postal history 1958 airmail inter-village inter-island cover from F. Paterson, Carriacou (reverse lower flap) to The Very Revd. Canon Ogden, St. Paul's Rectory, Calliaqua, St. Vincent with Federation trio pmk'd BELVIDERE */AP 22 58 cds, reverse top flap mostly missing, b/stamped CARRIACOU AP 28 58 (poor), GPO Grenada */AP 29 58, and poor CALLIAQUA */3 MY 58 cds. BELVIDERE should not be confused with BELVEDERE, the infamous mainland estate where Julien Fedon planned his rebellion (March 2, 1795 - June 19, 1796, also known as the Brigand's War) by converting his Belvedere coffee and cocoa plantation into a fortified headquarters for his army. The estate was near the top of a very steep mountain, and almost inaccessible, after the failure of one of the many unsuccessful British attacks Fedon ordered the death of 40 white hostages. £85 |
;) | H.M. PRISON, Barbuda postal history 1992 manila Government Service cover from Adrian Nicholas (flap) to Ms Denise Nicholas, Miami, Florida with Antigua Barbuda 60c pmk'd BARBUDA d/ring with H.M. PRISON/25 FEB 1992/ANTIGUA oval d/ring cachet alongside. £20 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | SYRIAN COMMUNITY in ANTIGUA postal history 1957 printed KALLIL SHOUL sender cover reg. to London with QE2 4c, 6c, 12, 24c pmk'd St. Johns */20 AP 57 d/ring. Kallil Shoul established the business in 1908, history of firm and family enclosed plus printed photo of the original shop decorated to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. £28 |
;) ;) | BOOK-POST rate INDIA to JAMAICA postal history 1955 cover pmk'd Calcutta 9 III 55 with previously unrecorded boxed purple RETURN TO SENDER/FROM KINGSTON, JAMAICA handstamp (with "NAMES" instead of "NO POST OFFICE NAMED). Filing punch holes at base, reverse return backstamps of R.L.O. 31 MA 55 and Bare Bazar 16 JNE 1955. £48 |
;) | LOWER PENVILLE, Dominica postal history: 1969 cover to Toronto, Canada with Churchill 1c, 24c pmk'd LOWER PENVILLE */MR 29 69. £18 |