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;) | K3a "14", Bermuda postmark on QV 1d carmine-rose CA wmk (SG.24). £36 |
;) | K4a "14", Bermuda postmark on QV 1d rose-red CA wmk (SG.23). £48 |
;) | CLARENCE TOWN, LONG ISLAND Bahamas postal history (T.7a) full reg. cover pmk'd 16 FEB 30 to Tacoma, USA, backstamps. £45 |
;) | BARBADOS postmark (21mm, Benwell unlisted) dated I/DE 24 78 on 1d grey-blue (SG.74). £14 |
;) | STANN CREEK framed oval of 6 lines, British Honduras postmark (KD1) the obliterator portion of the rare TRD on "2 CENTS" on QV 1d (SG.37). £32 |
;) | A09 (used Charlestown), NEVIS postmark superb on 1884 QV 1d carmine (SG.27a, Cat.£25). £16 |
;) | VICTORIA to QUEENSLAND postal history 1863 cover to Rockhampton, Queensland with QV 6d pale grey-black pmk'd MELBOURNE duplex 5 O/SE 24 63, b/stamped OC 6 arrival. £80 |
;) | VICTORIA to QUEENSLAND postal history 1863 cover to Rockhampton, Queensland with QV 6d grey-black pmk'd MELBOURNE duplex 5 K/DC 3 63, b/stamped DE 14 arrival. £80 |
;) ;) | BAVARIA to NATAL postal history 1909 use of 10pf Post Card pmk'd WURZBURG 16 FEB 09 to the Trappists Mission, St. Faith's, Natal showing IXOPO MR 13 09, HIGH-FLATS MR 15 09, and ST. FAITHS MR 19 09 transits, reverse full text. £48 |
;) ;) | SIERRA LEONE to GERMANY postal history (pre U.P.U. April 1 1879) 1875 cover to Offenbach, Germany with QV 1d x 2, 6d tied "B31" showing Liverpool 22 JY 75 and London 23 JY 75 transits, reverse with finely struck red PAID-AT-SIERRA-LEONE JY 7 1875 broken dbl-arc with Offenbach 24 7 75 arrival. A very rare early cover to Germany. Few destinations are recorded with QV adhesives prior entry to the UPU, only to England, France, Germany (only this cover), Ireland, Sierra Leone (locally addressed), and the USA are known to me. £1450 |
;) ;) | Bacchus Marsh "15" travelling on ill-fated S.S. "Emeu", Victoria postal history 1857 cover marked "via Marseilles" (deleted for Southampton routing) with QV 6d orange tied "15" with red London Paid DE 7 57 on address panel (after 122 280days), reverse Bacchus Marsh and Melbourne JY 28 1857. Sent on the S.S. "Emeu" (under charter of the Australian Royal Mail Co.) which left Sydney on September 11 bound for Suez, but stranded on October 22nd in the Red Sea, on the Guttal el Bunna, a coral reef 120 miles from Jeddah. She was refloated the following day and beached for repairs near Duber Dubb finally reaching Suez on the 3rd November, the mails however having been transferred to the P.&.O S.S. "Madras" which reached Suez on the 19th November (16 days after the "Emeu"!). Paid for delivery in Southampton the cover was sent from Alexandria on the P.&.O "Ripon" arriving December 7th. £280 |
;) | VICTORIA to NEW ZEALAND 1876 printed blue flap of The Commercial Bank of Australia/Geelong marked "p. Albion" to Napier, New Zealand with QV 2d pmk'd Geelong "2" duplex dated 3 X/NO 22 76, neatly b/stamped Melbourne 4 A/NO 23 76 and Napier 6 DE 70/L. £125 |
;) ;) ;) | TRANSVAAL to ARGENTINA (gold mining period) 1894 use of 1d PSE with added defective 1d pmk'd Pretoria 25 FEB 94 additionally tied by red London MR 8 94 transit, reverse text headed by an unidentified 'camp' (purity, survey?) with Cape Town D/FE 28 94 transit and Buenos Aires AB 15 94 arrival, central vertical crease. Gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand, in the Transvaal, in 1886. Thousands of white and black South Africans were employed on the mines by 1890. Even though the Transvaal gold mines were the richest in the world they were the most difficult to mine because the reefs lay so deep underground. The gold had to be mined by shafts as opposed to open mines, like diamonds. £95 |
;) ;) | GRENADA sans-serif dbl-arc (only 4 known) (T.8) part contents wrapper to Major General Sir Robert Houston KGB in Clerkington, near Haddington rated 1/-, top flap displays GRENADA AU 27 1850 without code dbl-arc, London SP 19 and blue Haddington SP 20 arrivals. The other three examples are dated AU 9 1847 without code, NO 7 1848/A, and MR 10 1849/A, the instrument was sent out from GPO, London MY 1 1847 during the lifetime of Type A11 so clearly a separate duty was planned. These intermittent strikes came during the life of the GRENADA serifed dbl-arc (Type A11 proofed GPO London AP 5 1844) recorded period JY 25 1844 to OC 29 1857 and as a backstamp on early GB used Grenada entires. Major General Sir Robert Houston KGB (1780-1862) was a British military officer in the service of the East India Company, the fifth son of Andrew Houston, a wealthy Scottish banker and merchant in the West Indies. £725 |
;) | ANUM, Gold Coast postal history 1903 use of QV 1d PSE with added strip of three KE7 ½d to Dayton, Ohio, USA pmk'd four attractive strikes ANUM (T.5) cds dated DE 22 3, b/stamped Accra JA 1 1904 and Dayton JA 29 04. Very rare office and exhibition item. £1200 |
;) | APPAM, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) C/OC 30 87 on QV 2d slate (SG.13). £8 |
;) | TSINIANFORT (status uncertain) on British Honduras stamp dated 26/8/88 on 1891 5c on 3c on 3d red-brown (SG.49). £15 |
;) | K3a "15", Bermuda postmark on 1866 QV 2d dull blue CC wmk (SG.3), shortish perf. at top. £32 |
;) | SALT POND with manuscript markings, Gold Coast postmarks (T.2) two copies on QV 1d (SG.12a) dated JA 4 88 and SP 8 89. £25 |
;) ;) | BRITISH GUIANA "REGISTERED" MAIL 1875 cover with red crayon "Registered" to Mead & Son, London with 8c pink, 24c green (4d reg., 1/- postage) pmk'd "A03" and additionally tied red London reg. oval dated 28 AU 75 with blue crayon "51" changed "34", reverse superb intact BRITISH GUIANA POST OFFICE GEORGETOWN wax seal with Georgetown AU 15 75 d/r and London AU 28 75 arrival. (Holcombe cert.), Ex BRASSLER, VIVIEN SUSSEX, FREELAND. For the 1860-75 'Ship' issues period only two covers are recorded sent registered, the other locally addressed dated JY 9 69 to the Lunatic Asylum, Port Canje, Berbice. A third cover dated DE 7 70 sent with 24c green to Edinburgh was forced into compulsory registration on reaching London as marked "Coin". £1750 |