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;) | DOMINICA stamps: 1879 QV 6d green REVENUE Crown CC INVERTED wmk (SG.R2w), fine used with manuscript date. £75 |
;) ;) | Dancing shoes on QV 1d red "Revenue", ST. VINCENT stamps: 1885 QV 1d red ovp'd "Revenue" (PML.14) positional copies with dancing shoes "Re" in Revenue (guide-line lower right corner) and normal dated 29/12/85 (prominent dot in V of VINCENT). £28 |
;) | INISFADA LONG ISLAND, West Cork Ireland local carriage service postmark currently the only known copy with dramatic shift of magenta colour on 4p tied piece dated 24 APR 1973. £185 |
;) ;) | D48 used ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Cyprus postmark on 1886 "½" on QV ½pi emerald-green Crown CA wmk with large "1" at left (SG.29a, Cat.£275). £250 |
;) ;) | JAMAICA stamps: 1890 TWO PENCE/HALF-PENNY on QV 4d red-brown (SG.30c, Cat.£65), 1½mm Setting with PFNNY variety fine used. £30 |
;) ;) | JAMAICA stamps: 1890 TWO PENCE/HALF-PENNY on QV 4d red-brown (SG.30a), 1½mm Setting pmk'd "A78" with broken A variety, fine used. £10 |
;) ;) | JAMAICA stamps: 1890 TWO PENCE/HALF-PENNY on QV 4d red-brown Crown CA INVERTED wmk (SG.30w), 1mm Setting with broken E, pale shade and small perf. faults used. £60 |
;) ;) | ST. LUCIA stamps Litho forgery of the 1863 QV (4d) blue in a fine unused without gum unwatermarked sheet of 20 stamps, position 13 with constant diagonal line plate flaw at right. £80 |
;) ;) | ST. LUCIA stamps Litho forgery of the 1863 QV (6d) green in a fine unused without gum unwatermarked sheet of 20 stamps, position 13 with constant diagonal line plate flaw at right. £80 |
;) ;) | ST. LUCIA stamps Litho forgery of the 1863 QV (1d) lake in brown-lake in a fine unused without gum unwatermarked sheet of 20 stamps, position 13 with constant diagonal line plate flaw at right. £80 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps 1883 QV 1/- vermilion ovp'd "Revenue" P.12 Crown CA REVERSED wmk (PML.13), fine used with forged "A10" postmark. 1,800 issued (60 sheets, PML Page 147), "R" with "dancing shoes" as opposed to "feet firmly on floor". £80 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps 1886 1d.. vermilion on QV 1d rose-lilac Crown CA REVERSED wmk (PML.24), fine used manuscript dated "1.7.86". £40 |
;) | DOMINICA stamps 1887 QV 1d rose Crown CA INVERTED wmk (SG.22w, Cat.£200), fine used with partial vertical "A07" cancel. £75 |
;) | CHATEAUBELAIR, St. Vincent postmark dated C/OC 24 90 on 1889 QV 1d carmine-red (SG.48c) showing "cut-throat" plate variety. This village cds seldom found on this printing. £30 |
;) | St. Andrew's "D", Grenada postmark in the REVERSED position dated 1 SP 88 on QV 2½d (SG.32). £14 |
;) | GRENADA stamps: 1891 "2½d" on QV 8d grey-brown (SG.47), used with raised quad variety, blunt corner perf. £18 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1893 QV 2½d on 1d (SG.55a), fine used with "scratch on Queen's cheek" plate variety. £8 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1880 mourning wrapper from Larios Hermanos to Genoa, Italy with GB QV 2½d Plate 17 tied "A26" duplex dated A/MY 5 08 (year error), backstamped top flap for display with Estafeta De Cambio, Madrid (MY 7) and Genova (10 5-80). £75 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1880 mourning cover to Sir. Thomas Hare, Stow Hall (2nd Baronet 1807-1880), Downham Market, Norfolk with GB QV 2½d blue Plate 17 tied Gibraltar duplex dated A/MR 21 08 (year error), backstamped superb Downham A/MR 26 60 cds, small faults. Early use of the "08" year error and early use GB QV 2½d blue Plate 17 as issued in Great Britain FE 5 1880. £60 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | 74 used Hobart, TASMANIA postal history 1860 cover to The Right Reverend Bishop Goold in Melbourne, Victoria with Chalon 2d green showing some DOUBLING OF VALUE TABLET and engine turning and Chalon 4d (pencil marked "cobalt blue, fluorescent ink" on reverse) pmk'd Hobart "74" with part red Hobart Town alongside, reverse with ornate seal impressed black wax and Melbourne A/FE 4 60 arrival. James Alipius Goold, Roman Catholic Archbishop, was born NO 4 1812 into a prosperous family in Cork, Ireland. Ordained in Rome, returned Ireland where he gained permission to volunteer for missionary work in New South Wales arriving Sydney FE 24 1838. Visited Ballarat gold fields 1854 and 1855 and pacified Catholic miners particularly after the Eureka affair. £925 |