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;) | 39, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postmark/cancel on 1d (SG.49), perf. toning. £2 |
;) ;) | CONSIGNEES LETTER into DUNEDIN, New Zealand postal history (NZ64510) 1868 initially stampless entire (no indication of senders origin) travelling with goods marked Consignees 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) pmkd 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 |
;) | GB/40c, St. Vincent postmark/cancel (PMK.73, clean strike) on QV 1d black (SG.22) with "cut-throat" plate flaw. £12 |
;) | GEORGETOWN, St. Vincent postmark/cancel dated C/OC 13 97 on QV 1d red (SG.48b) with "cut-throat" plate flaw. £10 |
;) | STUBBS, St. Vincent postmark/cancel dated C/DE 16 91 on QV 1d carmine-red (SG.48c) with "cut-throat" plate flaw. £36 |
;) | A10 (brown ink) used KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postmark/cancel (PML.3) crisply struck in brown ink on 1866 QV 4d deep blue (SG.6), stamp with downward tear top left corner. The brown ink period is thought to be mid-October 1867 until the end of the year (PML handbook Page 86). £95 |
;) | EAST END, CAYMAN ISLANDS postal history 1911 large part cover to Headly Dalton (or Patton), Kingston, Jamaica with ¼d brown strip of four (one stamp facially damaged) tied two strikes purple boxed "EAST END/Grand Cayman./RURAL/Post Gollection." temporary rubber handstamp with BODDENTOWN JU 28 11 d/ring backstamp. On arrival eventually "ADVERTISED" and "UNCLAIMED." with red RETURNED LETTER OFFICE, JAMAICA d/ring dated 25 SE 11. Full of character, Ex MARSTON, PODGER. £575 |
;) | The SG uncatalogued 1866 QV 1/- in bluish slate (SG.8 variety), ST. VINCENT stamps: A very fine exceedingly rare fresh mounted mint example of this unlisted stamp with printer's guide-line lower right corner, together with a fine used example with crisp horiz. brown "A10" (PML.3), plus a mint pair of the QV 1/- indigo (SG.13) for comparison. The QV 1/- indigo (SG.13) was invoiced FE 27 1869 and the known covers spanning period AP 24 69 to OC 10 70 all fall within the use of the VERTICAL "A10" used period SP 25 68 to JU 10 72. Use of the horizontal "A10" on 1/- indigo is therefore an impossible contemporary combination. The St. Vincent PML handbook Page 34 acknowledges that the August 1866 QV 1/- Perforation B 11-13 exist in both the listed slate-grey (SG.8, Cat.£2500 mint) and also in a "bluish-shade" and initially surmised that at least two sheets perforated B slate-grey were mixed among the 500 plus sheets of the consignment. BWISC member Dr. Bruce Aitken has suggested that as this stamp was printed alongside the QV 4d deep blue (SG.6) the printers may have realised they were a few sheets short and made a special printing that came out a bit bluish in order to fill the order. Brown ink was used in the last 3 months of 1867, and used examples of this bluish slate variety were offered in the Jaffe collection. £3500 |