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;) | BANNERMAN TOWN, Bahamas postmark (T.7 II, D3) 14 NOV 50 on KG6 1½d (SG.151a) piece. £7 |
;) | ELMINA/PAID, Gold Coast postmark (T.3, PD1) MR 10 81 on QV 1d blue CA wmk P.14 (SG.5). £8 |
;) ;) | FIRST SAILING WITH NEW 1/- PER HALF OUNCE RATE, Jamaica postal history 1863 entire written and postmarked London AP 1 63 with heavily cancelled GB QV 1/- green tied barred oval "12" to Messrs Barclay & McDowell, Jamaica backstamped Kingston-Jamaica AP 20 63 arrival. New rates were set from London and the rate to the British West Indies was increased from 6d to 1/- per half ounce on AP 1 1863, RMSP "La Plata" departed from Southampton AP 2 1863. £120 |
;) ;) | MAIL TO THE WRITER OF THE WHITE HORSES OF WILTSHIRE, Canada postal history 1868 cover to The Reverend W. Ch. Plenderleath (1831-1906), Cherhill Rectory, Calne, Wiltshire with QV 12½c tied Quebec oval of bars with cds dated FE 1 68, reverse very fine Chippenham A/FE 21 68 arrival. Accompanied by good condition copy of his illustrated book. Travelled by Allen Line "S.S. Austria" sailing from Portland FE 9 68 arriving Liverpool FE 20 68. £225 |
;) | TIAMA, Sierra Leone postmark (151.01) */AU 23 29 on KGV 2d (SG.134), blunt corner perf. £30 |
;) ;) | NEW ZEALAND postal history 1870 mourning cover from the Reverend A. Stock to the Reverend E.H. Heywood, Cathedral Library, Auckland with the interprovincial rate paid by 1d pale orange-vermilion and 2d blue pmk'd Wellington "070" duplex dated JU 25 70, backstamped Auckland JU 29 arrival. Reverend Arthur Henry Stock (1823-1901) was a photographer and the b/w photograph shows his house in the Te Aro district of Wellington. £225 |
;) | CLARENCE TOWN LONG ISLAND, Bahamas postmark (T.7a, D3) in purple dated 6 MAR 20 on KGV 2d (SG.83). £16 |
;) | BENETTS HARBOUR, Bahamas postmark (TRD 2C2, D1) in blue dated SEP 29 1953 on KG6 1½d (SG.151a) piece. £24 |
;) | LUNSAR, Sierra Leone postmark (089.02) */17 AU 60 on QE2 1/3d (SG.218). £5 |
;) ;) ;) | MAIL TO CRIMEAN WAR GENERAL WHO INVENTED A HEATED CANNONBALL AS A BED-WARMER, Canada postal history 1863 cover to General Higginson, 9 Wilton Crescent, London with QV 12½c tied Montreal duplex dated AP 17 63. Grenadier Guards General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson was born in Wilton Crescent Belgravia and during the Crimean War improvised a bed-warmer for the freezing nights by heating up a cannonball in the campfire. £225 |
;) | KAMABAI, Sierra Leone postmark (060.00) */AU 2 8 (single digit year for 18), on KGV 1d (SG.113a) piece, unusual. £24 |
;) | 288, Cape of Good Hope postmark on 1d (SG.59a). £7 |
;) | V.R. EVRYKHOU, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV 1pi (SG.42). £40 |
;) | 11 used ST. LUCY, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1872 (1d) blue Small star (SG.52). £9 |
;) | 292, Cape of Good Hope postmark on 1d (SG.59a). £7 |
;) | SAN SALVADOR, Bahamas postmark (T.7, D6) 19 DEC 53 on KG6 1½d (SG.151a). £7 |
;) ;) | BAHAMAS postal history 1866 cover (with two conflicting dated cancels) to Charleston, South Carolina b/stamped BAHAMAS MR 9 1866/A dbl-arc with QV 4d Chalon pmk'd "A05" rated red "4" and landed N. YORK BR. PKT 5/MAR 17 with boxed "ADV/MAR 30/1865" and "UNCLAIMED" between horiz. bars with CHARLESTON N.C. APR 30 cds on reverse, surface hole in frontal paper stock adjacent to adhesive. (On April 2 1865 the victory of Grant over Lee concluded the American Civil War). £280 |
;) | SPANISH WELLS, Bahamas postmark (T.1, D2) C/20 SP 13 on KGV 1d (SG.83). Illustrated Page 20 "The Bahama Islands" by Ludington and Raymond £50 |
;) | ABERDEEN, Sierra Leone postmark (001.01) */SP 8 31 on KGV 1d (SG.132a), perf, faults. £24 |
;) | HATCHET BAY, Bahamas postmark (T.7 II, D3) 27 NOV 41 on KG6 1½d (SG.151). £9 |