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;) | ECUADOR to BAHAMAS full Hotel Metropolitano sender cover to Nassau (MY 19) from RIOBAMBA APR 11 1931, opened for display. £48 |
;) | BAHAMAS full cover from The Priory to a Venerable Sister (nun) in Hastings, Minn., pmk'd Nassau JUN 11 1929, no b/stamps. £12 |
;) | BAHAMAS full reg. cover to Germany with KGV to 5/- (7 values) pmk'd Nassau 6 MAY 14, b/stamped London MY 18 and Halberstadt 19.5.14. £75 |
;) | BAHAMAS full cover with U.S. Washington 3c pmk'd Benton Park Saint Louis JUL 2 1918 to the Bahamas with pmk'd 5d SPECIAL DELIVERY, b/stamped Nassau 17 JUL 18. £75 |
;) | SAN SALVADOR, Bahamas reg. cover front from United Estates, Watlings Island pmk'd */FE 11 31. £24 |
;) | STANYARD CREEK, Bahamas full cover pmk'd bluish-black ink 18 FEB 35, no b/stamps. £36 |
;) | STANYARD CREEK, Bahamas full reg. cover pmk'd 21 MAR 26, b/stamped Nassau and London. £75 |
;) | SPRING POINT, Bahamas full cover pmk'd 23 JAN 32, no b/stamps. £60 |
;) | BAHAMAS Full underpaid cover pmk'd Nassau 10 NOV 24 to Switzerland, pair 20c Postage Dues tied Winterthur 27 XI 24 d/rings. £80 |
;) | THE BIGHT, Bahamas full cover pmk'd 2 APR 27 (7 inverted), no b/stamps. £48 |
;) | THE FERRY, Bahamas full cover pmk'd 23 AUG 32, Miami and Tacoma b/stamps. £25 |
;) | THE FERRY, Bahamas full cover pmk'd 28 JUL 30, no backstamps. £40 |
;) | THE FERRY, Bahamas full KGV 2d PSRE pmk'd 22 FEB 26, opened 2 sides. £40 |
;) | BAHAMAS to Contentment Island full Red Star Line (printed red flag flap) cover pmk'd Nassau 17 FEB 12 re-addressed Contentment Island (America's richest real estate). £24 |
;) ;) | MAIL FROM THE PROLIFIC FORGER Raoul De Thuin, British Honduras postal history 1939 reg. printed address cover with previously unseen Belize's French Stores, DE THUIN, PAZ & Co., P.O. Box 206, Belize sender address to Monsieur T. Allen, 5 Blake Hall Road, Wanstead, London E11 re-directed Frinton-on-Sea with KGV 10c pmk'd 2 FE 39 being just one of numerous printed address aliases used by the prolific stamp forger Raoul de Thuin to circumvent the spotting by the U.S. Post Office of his fraudulent activities to particular persons or firms (full details in BWISC Journal under article headed Around The Caribbean 7). Further research shows that the cover is addressed to the famous Tommy Allen, who did live at both Wanstead and Frinton-on-Sea. ALLEN, Thomas 1895-1984. Originally dealer in British Colonial rarities, who with Charles Nissen purchased, in 1936, the Perkins Bacon stock and records; most of the records were afterwards acquired by RPSL. Council Member RPSL. Curator of its forgery collection, 1954-67. Member of Expert Committee, for whom he reorganised their vast quantity of reference photographs. A philatelist of wide experience, he was a member of the Executive Committee for the London International Exhibition 1960, and served on the jury at FIPEX, New York 1956. De Thuin (born Belgium 1890, died Guayaguil Ecuador 1975) started his philatelic “work” as early as 1916 leading to a shop in Brussels in 1927. He entered Mexico in 1931 on the run from French and Belgian police who wanted him for forgery. He was expelled from Mexico for setting up a forgery ring and moved to Tegucigalpa, Honduras where he was jailed and expelled in 1936, and then lived in Belize until moving back to Mexico in 1941 where he settled until 1968 when he moved to his wife’s home in Guayaguil. He specialised in forging overprints of Central and South American countries, especially Mexico, turning common stamps into rarities. “The Yucatan Affair” published by The American Philatelic Society illustrates his fabrications on much of the 523 pages. He is quoted as saying that “I have no conscience at all at having deceived all those foolish people. They are just fanatics who neglect their families for their passion.” £360 |
;) ;) | BAHAMAS postal history 1918 cover to a Private in the 3rd Somerset Light Infantry, Palace Barracks, Holywood, Nr. Belfast, Ireland, forwarded initially from London 27 JU 18 by The West Indian Contingent Committee (per b/stamp), with KGV 1d WAR TAX and 1d Red Cross showing "full extra tree-trunk" variety pmk'd Nassau 4 JUN 18 £140 |
;) | MONKEY RIVER, British Honduras postal history 1919 pencil addressed col. ppc of East Indian Coolie Hut to Government House, Belize with KGV 3c WAR affixed pmk'd MONKEY RIVER sideways down C/MR 5 19 cds. £80 |
;) | ORANGE WALK to QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO postal history 1928 opened-out cover to Quintana Roo with KGV 2c lightly tied ORANGE WALK 2 MY 28 cds with purple boxed PREVENT PINE FOREST/FIRES - IT PAYS and 2-line BUY BRITISH GOOD/AND GET THE BEST (Proud HS2 applied at Orange Walk) and handstruck "REZAGOS" (absent) and "AUSENTE", b/stamped various transit with final marking at the DEAD LETTER OFFICE 22 OC 28. £225 |
;) ;) | MASKALL BANK, British Honduras postmark on cover to Republic of Honduras 1929 opened-out reg. cover to La Ceiba, Republic Honduras from Peter Melnikov, Northern River with KGV 10c pmk'd at Belize 5 OC 29, wide display of transit cancels with handstruck mauve REBUT and AUSENTE finishing return journey with MASKALL BANK temporary rubber datestamp dated MAR 19 1930 (TDC-17, D2). A rare commercial cover. £625 |
;) ;) | VREED-EN-HOOP, British Guiana to SENEGAL, West Africa postal history 1930 reg. opened-out cover marked "Per F.M.S. Biskra via France" to M'Bour, Senegal with KGV 2c, 4c, 6c pmk'd Vreed-En-Hoop */29 MY 30 with boxed "INCONNU" and "RETOUR/A L'ENVOYEUR and purple NON RECLAME/NOT CALLED FOR (style unlisted by Proud) with re-direction to Dakar and numerous transit datestamps. Exotic destination. £300 |