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;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1909 6d Arms (SG.94) ovp'd "SPECIMEN" and handstamped "ULTRAMAR in purple ink, thinned and unused no gum. £24 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1909 1/- Arms (SG.101) ovp'd "SPECIMEN" and handstamped "ULTRAMAR in purple ink, unused no gum. £28 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1907 3d Arms (SG.94) ovp'd "SPECIMEN" and handstamped "ULTRAMAR in purple ink, unused no gum. £28 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1907 2½d Arms (SG.97) ovp'd "SPECIMEN" and handstamped "ULTRAMAR in purple ink, unused no gum. £28 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1907 1d Arms (SG.95) ovp'd "SPECIMEN" and handstamped "ULTRAMAR in purple ink, unused no gum, perfs. on right side folded back. £25 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1887 QV 1d red (SG.48b), patchy thin gum unused handstamped "Specimen" (Type II), £120 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1916 KGV 1d red WAR STAMP (SG.122/122a, Cat.£180), a fresh mounted mint pair, right stamp OVERPRINT DOUBLE, hinge remains. £60 |
;) | 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 |
;) | CHATEAUBELAIR, St. Vincent postal history 1919 cover to Montgomery Ward, Chicago with KGV 1d pmk'd CHATEAUBELAIR C/JA 19 20, minor soiling. £90 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1886 QV 1d rose (SG.48a), fine appearance mounted mint handstamped "Specimen" (Type II), some thin paper adhesion lower right corner. £125 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1887 QV 4d chocolate (SG.51a), fine appearance unused without gum handstamped "Specimen" (Type II). £100 |
;) ;) | C38 used CALLAO, PERU to JAMAICA postal history: A UNIQUE FRANKING TO JAMAICA combination cover with Peru 1868-72 1d green, GB QV 6d pale buff (assumed Plate 11), GB QV 1/- green Plate 6 (SG.Z43, Z53) tied Callao "C38" cancels addressed John Small, Port Maria, Jamaica with 3-line PANAMA/3 AP 1873/TRANSIT plus pencilled "2" on face, b/stamped A/CALLAO/MR 26 73, Kingston IIIA/AP 8 73 and Port Maria C/AP 9 73 cds. Cover soiled with peripheral base tear and GB QV 6d with pale colour. This Peru 1 dinero was cancelled "C38" from stocks held at the British Packet Agencies to comply with the tax on all outgoing mail. £1400 |
;) ;) ;) | Mail to St. George's DETAINED AT AMERICAN CONSUL FOR 13 YEARS, Bermuda postal history 1879 cover from P.D. Slocum & Co., Clothiers, New Bedford, Massachusetts to Mr. Holder B. Slocum, 1st Mate Brig V.H. Hill, Capt. Sylvia, Bermuda (showing "Care Am Consul" at lower left) with U.S. 5c blue Zachary Taylor tied New Bedford cork dated MAY 10 with Boston MAY 10 transit and ST. GEORGES MAY 20 1879 oval receiving backstamps (LRD on incoming mail), after 13 years marked in red manuscript "Remained at American Consulate until 23rd April 1892/Not called for" with presumed Consulate Dead Letter Office purple pointing hand "RETURN TO THE WRITER. D.L.O." handstamp and placed in the mail with ST. GEORGES B/AP 23 92 cds (H1, usually applied at a transit or arrival datestamp, Ludington Page 141) with DEAD LETTER OFFICE/S A triangle dated MAY 11-92 on reverse. A fascinating item. Previous history: The whaling schooner Varnum H. Hill of and from Provincetown, was captured by the rebel steamer "Florida" on 27 June 1863 and released on bond of $10,000 on condition that she would take prisoners belonging to the destroyed ships "Southern Cross" (June 6, burnt same day), "Red Gauntlet" (June 14, kept in company as carrying coal and burnt on the 26th), "Benjamin Hoxie" (June 16 carrying silver bars valued at £500,000, sunk June 27) into Bermuda. Some 54 seamen were landed at Hamilton on 4 July and were taken in charge by the American Consul, and on 7 July Captain Doe of the British brig "Henrietta" agreed to take the seamen brought in by the V.H. Hill to New York. (Research shows no further mention of the V.H. Hill allowing no explanation for this incoming letter of 1879, and it being detained at the American Consul for 13 years until released in 1892). The "Florida" was a highly successful commerce raider in the Confederate States Navy capturing 37 prize ships. £525 |
;) | KELLY, KINGSTON 14, Jamaica postmark/cancel purple TRD dated 24 APR 1954 on QE2 2d (SG.154) piece, some toning. £4 |
;) | A57, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 2d Keyplate (SG.28). £5 |
;) | AYER TAWAR, Malaya (Perak) postmark/cancel (D4) 7 JUL 54 on pair Peral 35c (SG.136). £5 |
;) | 18 used CATHKIN, Natal postmark/cancel (Type G) on 1873 QV 1/- purple-brown ovp'd "POSTAGE" (SG.63), thinned top left corner. £16 |
;) | TAIPING, Malaya (Perak) postmark/cancel (D22) 31 JAN 52 on Perak 10c (SG.136). £3 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1907 ½d Arms (SG.94) ovp'd "SPECIMEN" and handstamped "ULTRAMAR in purple ink, unused no gum. £30 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: Litho perforated forgery of the "fat face" QV 1d in deep bluish-green, fine used. £16 |