See "BUY THE BEST" for records of postmarks, scans of covers with text, provenance, maintained over 45 years. BUY YOUR OWN DIGITAL PDF FILE
| Country: All Subject: All | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | FRANCE postal history 1970's Hotel Edison, New York airmail cover used in France to Japan, some soiling etc. £15 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1862 refolded horizontally along top (to reduce/improve) wrapper front and back to London with 6d (SG.29) pmk'd Bridgetown "1" with BARBADOES NO 7 1862 despatch dbl-arc showing red London NO 29 62 arrival, discoloured at left. £85 |
;) | CAPE TOWN, CAPE COLONY postmark on TRANSVAAL stamp dated I/AU 9 80 on Transvaal QV 6d (SG.137a), minor perf. faults. £36 |
;) | RONDEBOSCH, CAPE COLONY postmark on TRANSVAAL stamp dated I/JA 23 83 on EEN PENNY on QV 4d (SG.170), blunt corner perf. £48 |
;) | 1 used PRETORIA, Transvaal postmark on NATAL stamp (T.6) coded barred triangular on Natal QV 1d (SG.99a), very minor toning. £18 |
;) ;) | TASMANIA postal history 1859 cover to London with QV 6d dull lilac pmk'd "59" with Launceston FE 12 despatch showing London AP 11 59 arrival. £225 |
;) ;) ;) | VICTORIA postal history 1883 cover with QV 2d sepia strip of three (right stamp large tear) to London pmk'd "587" with COBDEN SE 1 83 despatch. RPS (2012) Certificate. £475 |
;) | ANTIGUA stamp: 1870 DLR QV 1d STAMP DUTY Crown CA watermark twice pmk'd vertical "A02". £90 |
;) ;) | NEW ZEALAND to FRANCE postal history Ex WOOLFE, HACKMEY 1873 registered cover with "FORWARDED BY/CRUICKSHANK & Co/AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND" sender cachet on reverse to Libourne, France with Chalon 2d orange, 3d, lilac, 2 x 6d pale blue tied "1" numeral obliterators with REGISTERED, AUCKLAND FE 15 7318 despatch, routed via ALEXANDRIE (7/4) showing full transit and arrival marks on reverse plus boxed French rate mark, reverse flaps opened for display. Exhibition item ex WOOLFE, HACKMEY (2006 RPS Certificate). £4500 |
;) ;) | POLIGNAC COVER DENIED DESTINATION DUE SIEGE OF PARIS, St. Vincent postal history This Duke de Polignac wrapper arrived at Calais NO 29 1870 on the same day that the “Jacquard”, the 34th ballon monté, crashed into the Irish Sea off the Scilly Isles killing the pilot Alexandre Prince; some bags of mail were later recovered. Paris, at this time, was surrounded and besieged by the Prussian army period SP 17 1870 until the FE 28 1871 Armistice. No mail could get in, hence the re-routing to the small hamlet of St. Jean du Cardinay, Maromme in Normandy. French aeronauts suggested to the postal authorities in Paris that balloons be used to maintain communications with the provisional government in Tours, and beyond. In total 67 well documented outgoing flights were made carrying over 2 million pieces of mail to places around the world with rare survivors having reached Mauritius, Hong Kong, and Japan. This unique NO 9 1870 cover bears the earliest recorded use of the QV 1/- brown in combination with printer’s guide-line positional strip of three, and single QV 1d rose-red, the former invoiced AU 13 1869 but held back for 14 months as seemingly not a suitable oil-lamp match for the latter. All further uses of the 1/- brown pay the single rate to England, and a replacement QV 1d in black was hastily ordered on JA 6 1871. £6000 |
;) | GREAT BRITAIN USED TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, Malta postal history 1861 mourning cover to Lt. Colonel Duncan Munro Bethune (1816-1870), 1st Battalion. 9th Regiment, Vernon House, Farnham, Surrey with GB 6d pmk'd "A25" duplex dated A/MALTA/JA 23 61, backstamped Farnham JA 23 61 arrival and forwarded to London with GB QV 1d red pmk'd "292" numeral on JA 25 61 with London transits. Such GB combination covers are seldom found and extremely rare, and do not exist for most countries and agencies that were supplied with GB stamps. £1200 |
;) | V.R. MYRTON (error for MYRTOU), Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). "N" for "U" error caused by manuscript ordering for "Myrtou" £30 |
;) | V.R. MESS A OREA No.1, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £95 |
;) | V.R. MESS A OREA No.1, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £70 |
;) | V.R. MESS A OREA No.1, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £75 |
;) | MAGBELE, Sierra Leone postmark (095.02) sideways down C/JA 2- 14 on KE7 ½d (SG.99). This instrument very rare on KE7 issues. £95 |
;) | V.R. MARATHASSA, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.31), full perfs. £28 |
;) | V.R. MARATHASSA, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.31). £28 |
;) | V.R. MARATHASSA, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £32 |
;) | V.R. MARATHASSA, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.31). £24 |