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;) ;) | 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 |
;) | 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. £1750 |
;) | 14 used Mooi River, Natal postmark (Type G) on 1861-62 QV 3d blue No wmk (SG.12, Cat.£40). £24 |
;) | DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, STANN CREEK, British Honduras fiscal cancel part fiscal strike part dated 8 AP(R) on colour washed 1907 $1.00 (SG.91, Cat.£130 postally used). £18 |
;) | K3a "7", Bermuda postmark on 1880 QV ½d stone (SG.19). £40 |
;) | K3 "4", Bermuda postmark on 1866 QV 2d dull blue CC wmk (SG.3), str. edge at right. £9 |
;) | K1 "13", Bermuda postmark on 1865 QV 1d pale rose CC wmk (SG.2). £48 |
;) | 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). £36 |
;) | 34 used Riviere Des Anguilles, Mauritius postmark on QV 17c on 4d (SG.87), some lighter tone blemishes. £25 |
;) | RADIO OFFICE G.P.O. BELIZE fiscal cancel undated as used for the 25c telegraph rate on KG6 25c. £8 |
;) | GRENADA stamps: 1875 1/- deep mauve with prominent raised inverted "S" in "POSTAGE" (SG.13c, Cat.£500), fine used. 500 sheets printed (500 errors). £180 |