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;) | AXIM, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.5) dated SP 14 96 on QV 2/-deep brown (SG.19a). £18 |
;) | TRUE BLUE (Crooked Island) temporary rubber datestamp, Bahamas postal history 1952 cover from Senorita G. Moss on Crooked Island to The Voice of Prophecy, Nassau with KG6 1½d (SG.151a) tied TRUE BLUE (TRD 3C, D1) dated APR 12 1952, some cover edge crumpling. £48 |
;) ;) | ORANGE CREEK (Cat Island) temporary rubber datestamp, Bahamas postal history 1950 printed card from Harold. S. Poitier on Cat Island to the Bible School, Nassau with KG6 1½d (SG.151a) tied purple ORANGE CREEK (TRD 3C, D1) dated OCT 16 1950. £75 |
;) | ELMINA, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.5) in blue dated sideways facing down C/OC 28 93 on QV 2½d (SG.14). The long standing McCaig/Proud ERD for this cancel remains as C/OC 7 93, only two examples with sideways down C code are recorded by me, the other dated C/OC 26 93. Nearest normal C codes are C/OC 14 93 and C/NO 10 93. £28 |
;) | ADDAH, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.2, 20mm) dated JY 2 77 on QV 1d blue CC wmk P.14 (SG.5). £28 |
;) | 17 used COUVA, Trinidad postmark/cancel on 1853 (1d) brownish red/blued paper (SG.7), margins cut into at top. £24 |
;) | 39, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.49), perf. toning. £2 |
;) ;) | CONSIGNEE'S LETTER into DUNEDIN, New Zealand postal history 1868 initially stampless entire (no indication of sender's origin) travelling with goods marked "Consignee's Letter per Margaret" destined for a merchant in Otahuhu, Auckland put into the Post Office at first port of call Dunedin with pair, single QV Chalon 1d dull vermilion added (affixed over writing) pmk'd Dunedin D/NZ/SP 25 68 duplex paying the 3d inter-provincial rate, b/stamped Auckland OC 7 transit and with OTAHUHU OCT 8 68 (13 days journey) on address panel, missing part flap. Extremely rare with Chalon stamps added. The letter, having been put into the Dunedin post office (South Island), would travel by land to the recipient advising details of goods to be expected, and the "Margaret" would continue its sea journey to the most convenient port in North Island for off-loading of same. £1625 |
;) ;) | THE UNIQUE "HALF OPEN BOOTHEEL DUPLEX" CDS COVER, BARBADOS Postal history (See BLOGS section) 1875 local cover to T.P. Goring, above "Rices", St. Philip with last and last recorded use 1872 (1d) blue (SG.52) tied 19mm BARBADOS I/JU 28 75 cds at Bridgetown with alongside previously unseen 21mm BARBADOS JU 28 75 code A cds which has now been shown to be part of the newly introduced cobbled together open bootheel duplex which took up duty 12 days later on JY 10 1875, no backstamps. Ex 'OLIVE BLOSSOM'. £2400 |
;) | FIRST SAILING with NEWLY INTRODUCED BOOTHEEL DUPLEX, Barbados postal history (See BLOGS section) 1875 full contents entire with blue LOUIS & Co. buckled double oval sender's cachet marked "Via United States" to Messrs de Grinchy Renouf Clement Co., Burgeo, Newfoundland with 1d deep blue and (4d) dull rose-red (SG.66, 49) tied newly cobbled together BARBADOS open bootheel duplex dated A/JY 11 75 rated red "4" with circled black "5" due, backstamped New York and St. Johns AU 12 1875 transits. £750 |
;) | GB/40c, St. Vincent postmark/cancel (PML.74) village use on 1886 QV 1d rose (SG.48a). £30 |
;) | CALLIAQUA, St. Vincent postmark/cancel C/JU 15 89 on QV 1d red (SG.48b). £15 |
;) | CALLIAQUA, St. Vincent postmark/cancel dated C/AU 4 90 on QV 1d red (SG.48b). £14 |
;) | CALLIAQUA, St. Vincent postmark/cancel C/SP 28 88 on QV 1d red (SG.48b). £15 |
;) | GB/40c, St. Vincent postmark/cancel (PML.74) village use on 1886 QV 1d rose (SG.48a). £36 |
;) | REDIRECTED, St. Vincent postmark/cancel (PML.99) straight line instructional mark on 1883 QV 2½d on 1d lake (SG.40), almost certainly unique on this stamp. Proofed at the GPO London in December 1866. PML handbook Page 129 records no known use, this being the only example seen by me. £275 |
;) ;) | Code 3 used ST. PHILIP, BARBADOS postal history 1879 locally addressed cover to J.G. Carter, Thurbun, St. Philip with 1d grey-blue (SG.74) tied Bridgetown open bootheel duplex dated A/JA 2 79 showing BARBADOS 3/JA 02 79 (M2-O) arrival alongside address panel, flap removed. Thought one of only two covers to St. Philip with this Parish arrival cds, the other has the arrival as backstamp. £250 |
;) ;) | ST. VINCENT provisionally used PERUVIAN VALE, St. Vincent postmark/cancel dated incorrectly C/MY 27 84 (84 instead of 94) on QV 1d red (SG.48b). The apparent loss of the "9" in "94" year slug would seemingly have inspired the manuscript cancel "Peruvian Vale 29.5.94" of two days later on QV ½d green (Jaffe collection). £48 |
;) | ST. VINCENT provisionally used at PERUVIAN VALE, St. Vincent postmark/cancel dated C/JU 2 93 on QV 1d red (SG.48b). £40 |
;) | BEQ used BEQUIA, St. Vincent postmark/cancel dated AU 23 96 on QV 2½d on 1d (SG.55a). £30 |