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;) | DEWETSDORP, Orange River Colony KE7 1d PSE pmk'd 22 JUL 05 with "30" numeral, b/stamped Rustenburg, Pretoria and Silverkrans 30 JUL 1905. £50 |
;) | PARCEL-POST, Grenada postmark/cancel JU 8 03 on KE7 3d (SG.61). £28 |
;) | MONEY-ORDER-OFFICE, St. Vincent postmark/cancel Newly discovered with 'A' code part dated A/JU 2 on 1909 redrawn 1d Arms (SG.103) Normally found with 'C' code period C/AP 10 02 to C/MY 19 05. £95 |
;) | BELIZE B/MY 28 09, British Honduras postmark/cancel dated B/MY 28 09 (this cds being destroyed 2 days later in the MY 30 1909 GPO fire) on KE7 2c (SG.96), rounded corner perf. £18 |
;) | MOUNT THOMPSON, Bahamas postmark/cancel (TRD 2C2, D1) in purple dated SEP 18 1944 (ERD) on KG6 1½d (SG.151) piece. £75 |
;) | COROZAL, British Honduras postmark/cancel (D5) 2 NO 49 on KG6 4c UPU (SG.172). £6 |
;) | KNOWLES, Bahamas postmark/cancel (T.7 I, D3) 30 JUN 51 on KG6 1½d (SG.151a) piece. £8 |
;) | HOPE-TOWN, Bahamas postmark/cancel (T.1, D2) C/15 AU 90 on QV 4d (SG.53). £40 |
;) | HATCHET BAY, Bahamas postmark/cancel (T.7 II, D3) 16 DEC 48 on KG6 1½d (SG.151a) piece. £10 |
;) | DUNDAS TOWN, Bahamas postmark/cancel (TRD 20VI, D1) dated JAN 24 1948 on KG6 ½d, 1d (SG. 149, 150a) piece. £60 |
;) | D.R.W./1 code, British Guiana postmark/cancel dated SE 22 1862 on 2c yellow Type-set (SG.119, Cat.£650), thinning. £200 |
;) | HOPE TOWN, Bahamas postmark/cancel (T.7 III, D6 in purple dated 28 FEB 63 on QE2 6d (SG.208), perf. fault. £9 |
;) | K3a "13", Bermuda postmark/cancel on horiz. pair QV 2½d (SG.27) showing spacing between duplex cds and numeral, very rare on this issue. £90 |
;) | SPENCER'S POINT, Bahamas pmk'd Nassau 25 APR 12 to Abaco, SPENCER'S POINT dated 28 APR 12, handstruck UNCLAIMED in both blue and black, no backstamps. £225 |
;) | SNUG CORNER, Bahamas postmark/cancel (TRD 3C, D1) in turquoise ink dated JUN 7 1948 on KG6 1½d (SG.151) piece. £48 |
;) ;) ;) | BAHAMAS postal history 1948 slender intact wrapper to John Stewart, Bluff, Eleuthera with KG6 1d olive-grey (SG.150a) showing SHIFTED DUTY PLATE pmk'd SHIRLEY STREET 14 JUL 48. £150 |
;) ;) | INAGUA, Bahamas postmark/cancel 1906 KE7 6d MCA wmk pmk'd INAGUA 17 JAN 1906 with malformed "E" (SG.74a, Cat.£475) as found Row 6/6. £200 |
;) | BAHAMAS postal history (Ex LUDINGTON) 1884 printed Royal Victoria Hotel, Nassau cover to New Haven, New York with Chalon QV 4d rose P.12 (SG.41) tied "B" obliterator showing framed SHIP landed Norfolk, Virginia with handstruck DUE appended 4 (2c ship + 2c delivery to New York), reverse clear strikes A/BAHAMAS/JA 29 84, New York Transit FEB 5 84, New Haven N.Y. FEB 6 1884, an interesting 6 full sides letter on 3 illustrated hotel pages included, top folds partially severed on opening. Ex LUDINGTON. £450 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) | PORT HOWE, Bahamas postmark/cancel (T.7 1, D3) dated 22 FEB 33 (ERD) on pair KGV 1d (SG.116). £75 |