See "BUY THE BEST" for records of postmarks, scans of covers with text, provenance, maintained over 45 years. BUY YOUR OWN DIGITAL PDF FILE
| Country: All Subject: Varieties Clear | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | SAN FERNANDO (M.O.O.), Trinidad postmark FE 28 1880 on horiz. strip of three SIDEWAYS Crown CC ½d mauve (SG.99a). Rare multiple. £150 |
;) ;) | VIRGIN ISLANDS ..... Ex HOPKINS long tailed "S" on 1/- black & rose-carmine/greyish (SG.20a, Cat.£2000), fine mint with full extended margin from sheet position 11. Ex Adrian HOPKINS (1936 RPS certificate). Robson Lowe encyclopaedia Page 169 considers the sheets perforated outside the border to be an experimental printing limited to 25 to 50 sheets. All examples being rare. £1200 |
;) ;) | 1916 heavily underlined GI with partial stop between N and I of VIRGIN ISLANDS on 1d carmine WAR STAMP (SG.78), fresh u/m, only three examples recorded to date. War Tax specialist John Cranmer has a positional multiple from top left pane (without Plate number) showing the variety Row 3/5. This prominent variety NOT listed in the newly published War Tax Stamps of the British Empire by John G.M. Davis. £125 |
;) | TRINIDAD stamps: COMPLETE OFFSET OF WAR TAX overprint on reverse 1917 ½d green WAR TAX (SG.177), u/m both sides. £85 |
;) | 1953 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL u/m IMPERFORATE se-tenant pair. £32 |
;) | SIERRA LEONE stamps: 1873 QV 1d rose-red CC INVERTED wmk (SG.11w), very fine used. £45 |
;) | 1951 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL IMPERFORATE PAIR u/m. £50 |
;) | VIRGIN ISLANDS stamps: VERTICAL DOUBLE PERFORATIONS on pair 1887-89 1d rose CA (SG.34), fresh m.m. £120 |
;) | 1884 QV 2½d (SG.31w) CA INVERTED wmk, fine m.m. £85 |
;) | 23 used CEDROS STEAMER, Trinidad postmark (0.7 large) AU 25 1880 on CC INVERTED HALFPENNY lilac (SG.98w). £40 |
;) ;) | TRINIDAD stamps: PROMINENT PLATE SCRATCH in a curve from base of A to top of D in TRINIDAD on KG6 12c (SG.252), fresh m.m. £40 |
;) | MAURITIUS stamps: 1902 6c purple & carmine/red CROWN CA INVERTED wmk (SG.146w), fine used. £10 |
;) | 41, Ceylon postmark/cancel on Crown CA INVERTED wmk QV 5c (SG.195w). £48 |
;) | 1935 Flag on small cat boat variety (SG.104), fine m.m. £30 |