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;) | ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada postmark/cancel (small lettering) postally used on QV 2d REVENUE dated C/MY 9 95. £28 |
;) | A08 used PLYMOUTH, Montserrat postmark/cancel in bluish ink on Leewards QV 1d (SG.2). £18 |
;) | STEWARTVILLE, British Guiana postmark/cancel (T.3) JA 22 86 on DLR 12c carmine CA wmk (SG.174). £28 |
;) | KHTM ER ROSEIRES TPO, Sudan postmark/cancel (D1) skeleton dated 3 JA 57 on 5mms (SG.127) piece. £12 |
;) ;) ;) | Code 4 used ST. GEORGE, Barbados postal history (M2-R, replacement cds with wording further away from outer rim) arrival dated (4)/JA 8 (87) both code and year not inserted (LRD) on QV ½d red-brown Post Card written "St. John's Jany 8th" and posted with Bridgetown open bootheel duplex dated A/JA 8 87 to His Honor, The Speaker, Greens, St. George. Confirmation that this is the Parish code 4 cds comes with the damaged rim at 8 o'clock as found on earlier dates on loose adhesives. The current ERD for the M3 series cds is only 10 days later, JA 18 87. The earliest strikes JA 18 87 to OC 23 90 also show no code 4, at some point thereafter the code 4 was inserted. £240 |
;) | E58 used LITTLE RIVER, Jamaica postmark/cancel Topaz unrecorded blue ink on QV 2d CC wmk (SG.9), thinning at top, first recorded example on this issue, very rare. £80 |
;) | UNION, St. Vincent postmark/cancel reversed C/JU 18 84 on QV 1d drab Crown CA REVERSED wmk (SG.39x), heavy central thinning and corner perf. fault. The reversed C code is currently C/AP 28 84 to C/OC 9 84, only 10 examples currently recorded. £55 |
;) | 1341, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.69). £8 |
;) | ADDAH, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.2, 20mm) AP 3 78 on 1d blue CC wmk P.14 (SG.5), with manuscript cross, pale colour and corner perf. fault. £14 |
;) | ST. JOSEPH, Trinidad postmark/cancel (T.2) C/AU 11 91 on horiz. pair QV ½d (SG.106). £8 |
;) | 242, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.59) piece. £14 |
;) | 1172, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on ½d (SG.58). £5 |
;) | MOUNT EDGECOMBE, Natal postmark/cancel (Type N) in violet dated P/JA 9 03 on QV 1d (SG.99a) overstruck LONDON arrival dated JA 31 03. £14 |
;) | A73 used ST. ANN'S BAY, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d OFFICIAL (SG.04). £18 |
;) | 17 used COLENSO, Natal postmark/cancel on 1876 Chalon QV 6d violet (SG.83). £12 |
;) | ALL SAINTS, Antigua postmark/cancel C/OC 25 99 on Leewards QV ½d (SG.1), faults. £7 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | TITCHFIELD (two differing dates showing flexibility of handstamp), Jamaica postal history 1903 cover from The University of Chicago with 5c franking pmk'd Chicago APR 5 1903 to Prof. D.S. Johnson PhD, Chester Vale, Gordon Town, Jamaica variously forwarded with twelve differing backstamps including purple boxed TITCHFIELD (TRD 11) for both 16.4.03 and 17.4.03 (showing movement of "J" under "TC"), cover with corner fault. William Fawcett was the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908, and having returned to Britain was the co-author of the first volumes of Flora of Jamaica. £180 |
;) | WESLEY (used MARIGOT), Dominica postmark/cancel dated */AP 28 04 on ½d View (SG.27). The WESLEY office closed July 31 1903 and business moved to MARIGOT 3 miles away. The current ERD for use of the MARIGOT cds is C/MR 2 06. £10 |
;) ;) | PHOENIX, Mauritius postmark/cancel (T.2) dated A/PHOENIX/JA 2 92 on TWO CENTS on QV 4c (SG.118) showing distinctive stop between "T" and "S" of "CENTS". £24 |
;) | A91, Virgin Islands postmark/cancel on 1870 4d lake-red/pale rose paper (SG.15, Cat.£75). £40 |