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;) | GREAT BRITAIN and CAPE OF GOOD HOPE "both ways" postal history 1902 mourning cover to De Beers, Somerset West, Cape Colony with Great Britain QV 3d Jubilee tied PADDINGTON AP 3 02, no arrival date but returned to the London Hospital, Whitechapel with strip of three, two singles ½d Hope pmk'd GPO Cape Town AP 23 02, no backstamps. 3d outgoing (presumed overpaid ½d) and 2½d return. £140 |
;) ;) | The GHOSTS of POINT ELLICE HOUSE, the most haunted house on VANCOUVER ISLAND 1898 cover to Mrs (Caroline Agnes) O'Reilly (1831-1899, thought to appear as an apparition in the grounds of her house) at Point Ellice, Victoria, Vancouver Island pmk'd KINGSTON AU 10 98 and then mysteriously spirited some 4,432 miles to DUBLIN (AU 24 98, husband Peter originated from Ballybeg, Co. Meath, only 45 miles from Dublin) before travelling a further 4,502 miles to VICTORIA, B.C. PM/SP 6 98 per b/stamp) with I/SP 7 98 and "10" cents tax due handstamp added the next day, some soiling. Husband Peter, former Indian Reserve Commissioner, is the subject of supernatural investigations at the house which went live on a YouTube video October 31 2020. Visitors and volunteers have had spooky encounters with lights switching on and off, a piano playing on its own, and apparitions chasing them away. In later years "a nice young lady in a blue dress" had shown visitors around the house giving many previously unknown facts, when questioned they went back inside the house and pointed to a blue gown lying across a bed, "that's the one she was wearing" in daughter Kathleen O'Reilly's bedroom. Kathleen had returned! For many years the whereabouts of the grave of Caroline Agnes was a mystery, but in her final year, being so ill, she made a last visit to her family in England, dying only a few days after arrival. Her remains lie in the cemetery at Cheriton, Folkestone (only 2.1 miles down the road, a 39 minute walk, from me!). £475 |
;) ;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history 1881 cover to Brooklyn, New York with QV 6d pmk'd Sydney JA 14 81 duplex with purple oval "PAID ALL" (seriffed letters applied Sydney), reverse San Francisco Paid All and Brooklyn AUG 16 arrival. £75 |
;) ;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history 1887 Wells & Leavitt, Sydney sender's cover to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin with QV 6d tied Sydney MY 18 87 duplex, matching part purple CHICAGO cds and oval "PAID ALL" (sans-serif, applied at Chicago), very fine Fond Du Lac JUN 16 arrival b/stamp. £125 |
;) | SPANISH WELLS, Bahamas postmark/cancel (T.1, D2) dated C/JA 15 08 (year in manuscript) on KE7 1d (SG.72). £20 |
;) | ACHIASI, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.16) 4 AUG 1952 on KG6 3d (SG.140). £3 |
;) | 997, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.59a). £3 |
;) | 822, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.59a). £5 |
;) | 824, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 2½d (SG.56a). £3 |
;) | 482, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 2½d (SG.56), perf. defect. £3 |
;) | 356, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.49a). £5 |
;) | 226, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 3d CC wmk (SG.39a). £5 |
;) | 997, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.59a). £2 |
;) | 145, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 3d CC wmk (SG.39), some trimmed perfs. £4 |
;) | 227, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on 6d (SG.52a). £5 |
;) | HASTINGS, Sierra Leone postmark/cancel (051.02) C/FE 1 15 on KGV 1d (SG.113) piece. £28 |
;) | HANGHA, Sierra Leone postmark/cancel (050.02) C/JA 11 18 on KGV 1d (SG.113a) piece with PASSED BY CENSOR handstamp alongside. £16 |
;) | LIPKE MATE, Gold Coast postmark/cancel (T.21) 9 FE 54 on KG6 2d (SG.138). £5 |
;) | To Captain of Ship "Achilles", NEW SOUTH WALES postal history 1861 cover from Newcastle to Captain Hurt, or present Captain, of Ship "Achilles", Sydney with QV 2d pmk'd "55", reverse Newcastle NO 15 1861 and SYDNEY A O/NO 16 61. £90 |
;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history 1858 cover to Captain Kent, 77th Regiment, Major of Brigade, Brigade Office with QV 1d pmk'd barred oval paying the "drop letter" rate, b/stamped SYDNEY MR 4 1858, both adhesive and cover with smaller faults. The 77th (the East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot embarked for New South Wales in June 1857 and then sailed for India in April 1858 to help suppress the Indian Rebellion. £125 |