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;) | BRIXTON HILL, Jamaica postmark 22 MAR 1951 temporary rubber datestamp on pair ½d WAR STAMP piece. £7 |
;) | CORNWALL MOUNTAIN, Jamaica postmark (D/R) */JA 13 56 on 3d (SG.221) piece. £8 |
;) | MOUNT PROVIDENCE, Jamaica postmark (CDS) */JY 26 66 on 3d (SG.221) piece. £10 |
;) | OLD HARBOUR BAY, Jamaica postmark (CDS) */NO 16 65 on 3d (SG.221) piece. £5 |
;) | BEQ used BEQUIA, St. Vincent postmark dated AP 16 5 on KE7 2½d Crown CA wmk (SG.79). £18 |
;) | WINNEBAH, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) rare A/DE 21 81 on QV ½d olive-yellow CC wmk (SG.4), top left corner thinned and faulty. £30 |
;) | MIDLAND T.P.O.2 railway postmark on TRANSVAAL stamps dated 4 DEC 11 UP on block of four KE7 1d (SG.274), light top right corner crease. £18 |
;) | TSIME, Basutoland postmark (D2) 30 XII 43 on KG6 ½d (SG.18). £36 |
;) ;) | P & O and BRITISH INDIA LINES, Greece postal history 1953 cover to Flixton, Manchester with GB KG6 2½d tied Greek machine cancel, reverse with purple boxed "TRAVEL & SHIP/BY P & O/AND/BRITISH INDIA LINES" and 2-line "VISIT GREECE/SUNSHINE - BLUE SKY" advertising handstamps. £45 |
;) ;) ;) | BEACHMOUNT HOTEL, BATHSHEBA, ST. JOSEPH, Barbados postal history 1936 Beachmount Hotel cover to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with 2½d Badge pmk'd Barbados 18 AUG 1936 machine with 4-sided printed brochure extolling the virtues of this recently renovated hotel (rates from $2.00 to $3.00 per day, no mosquitoes). £48 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1873 cover to P.A. Fraser, Barbados Railway Company, Bridgetown with GB QV 1/- green Plate 8 tied BEAULY "39" duplex dated A/NO 30 73 with BARBADOS I/DE 19 73 arrival on lower flap. The Barbados Railway Company was formed in 1873, the line opened 1st August 1882. £95 |
;) | THABA TSEKA, Basutoland postmark (D2) 17 MAY 29 (ERD) on South Africa 2 x 1d piece, perf. toning. £48 |
;) | THABA TSEKA, Basutoland postmark (D2) 20 MAY 36 on KGV 1d (SG.2) piece. £20 |
;) | THABA TSEKA, Basutoland postmark (D2) 16 JUL 36 on KGV 1d (SG.2) piece. £20 |
;) ;) | TSOLOANE, Basutoland postmark (D2) part dated 18 FEB 1- on South Africa KGV 1d piece. Proud handbook records period of use seen for this short-lived office as MAR 3 17 to JUN 17 18 (15 months) and therefore this cancel will not be found on Basutoland's own stamps. £120 |
;) | THABABOSIGO, Basutoland postmark (D2) dated 18 DEC 37 on KGV ½d (SG.1) piece. £65 |
;) | BARBADOS stamps: 1873 6d orange-vermilion Large Star wmk (SG.60b), a fine used marginal IMPERFORATE PAIR, exceptionally rare as such. £325 |
;) | FRANCE to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history 1855 (FE 12) entire written Paris to Monsieur le Consul de France, Cape de Bonne Esperance with 20c, 40c, 80c plus excised missing stamp arriving Cape of Good Hope MY 5 1855, adhesives with faults. £120 |
;) ;) | Great Britain 1971 Postal strike: EMERGENCY MAIL SERVICE, Rhodesia postal history 1971 complete with text AIR LETTER to Oxford, England with 2½c, 5c affixed for postage and additional 50c fee pmk'd CAUSEWAY 25 FEB 71 with circular EMERGENCY AIR SERVICE d/ring alongside. Writer mentions new service (inaugurated on or about the 20th February) for such airletters at a cost of 5/- or 50c cents local. Such letters were taken by private couriers. The UK postal workers strike was period January to March 1971. £75 |
;) ;) | D48 used ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Cyprus postmark on 1886 "½" on QV ½pi emerald-green Crown CA wmk with large "1" at left (SG.29a, Cat.£275). £250 |