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;) | K3a "5", Bermuda postmark on 1873 QV 3d yellow-buff Crown CC wmk (SG.5). £75 |
;) | SCOTTS HEAD, Dominica postmark */17 FE 79 on 45c. £5 |
;) | KARENE, Sierra Leone postmark (066.01) C/AU 17 99 on envelope cut-out piece, very rare office. Illustrated Page 49 of "The Postmarks of Sierra Leone 1854-1961 Second Edition" by Walton, Quirk, Hamilton, Horry. £48 |
;) | KAMBIA, Sierra Leone postmark (062.01) A/16 FE 00 (ERD), a magnificent strike on seemingly envelope cut-out piece. Earlier than recorded in the new Walton handbook £30 |
;) | K1 "13", Bermuda postmark on 1865 QV 1d pale rose Crown CC wmk (SG.2). £50 |
;) | K3a "14", Bermuda postmark on 1883 QV 1d dull rose Crown CA wmk (SG.22). £40 |
;) | AUSE-LA-RAYE, St. Lucia postmark A/SP 22 08 on KE7 1d (SG.65). £32 |
;) | MESOPOTAMIA, St. Vincent postmark C/JA 21 92 on QV 1d carmine-red (SG.48c). £14 |
;) ;) ;) | SPAIN/GIBRALTAR combination requiring Forwarding Agent, Gibraltar postal history (Ex MOELLER) 1873 entire headed "Cadiz 20th June 1873" to Poole, England with "p. Archbold Johnston & Power Gibraltar 24 June 1873" manuscript forwarding on reverse with GB QV 2d strip of three affixed and pmk'd "A26" with GIBRALTAR A/JU 24 73. No Spanish charge as sent in another cover to Gibraltar from Cadiz. Very rare as such, Ex MOELLER. The Carlist Civil War caused intermittent interruptions to the overland route to the UK, and the maritime route from Gibraltar became a more reliable alternative but required the use of a Forwarding Agent in Gibraltar. (Of the Gibraltar/Spain adhesive combination covers currently seen 15 are ingoing to Cadiz, and only 4 are outgoing, all to Malta). £750 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1882 use QV 1½d red-brown Post Card "per Zoe" to London with design pmk'd open bootheel duplex dated A/FE 1 82, landed with red SHIP-LETTER/A/PAID/FE 20 82/LONDON cds. Soiling and with pieces paper obscuring parts of reverse text. Mail landed by private ship from Barbados to UK ports is rarely met for the later period. During period 1865 to 1886 only six entires are recorded as such, one landing Dover, five landing London. £185 |
;) | BOOTS & SHOES, Boston, Massachusetts American advertising cover, NEW BRUNSWICK postal history 1858 unusual local cover to Dorchester N.B. with 3d tied grill ovals with blue S.G. DAMON, THOMAS & CO. advertising oval, backstamped ST. JOHN JU 5 1858 with partial DORCHESTER arrival. Reverse opening tear justs affects top left corner. £250 |
;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history (Ex WILLCOCKS) 1863 cover to Lambeth, London with QV 6d plus (6d) REGISTERED pmk'd "36" with handstruck REGISTERED/BRAIDWOOD and red (crown)/REGISTERED applied on arrival, reverse Braidwood JA 19 1863 despatch clear of missing flap. Worn appearance. Ex Martin WILLCOCKS (1999). £195 |
;) | Exceptionally rare "BOTH WAYS" COMBINATION COVER, VICTORIA postal history 1858 cover with GB QV 6d pmk'd London S.W. duplex dated DE 21 58 to Melbourne, South Australia arriving MR 20 59, returned with tied 6d Queen on Throne to Shinfield, Reading. Soiling with some perf. toning. 144 days total in the mails. By THAMES Southampton JA 12 59 to Alexandria, COLUMBIAN sailed JA 30 from Suez to Melbourne MR 20 59. Back home by P&O MALTA Melbourne AP 18 to Suez, CEYLON Alexandria to Southampton JU 10 1859. Mail 89 days out, 54 home. £425 |
;) ;) | The UNIQUE QV 1d red INVERTED "S" cover, Montserrat postal history (Ex THOMPSON) 1886 commercial cover to Mrs. Witham, Basseterre, St. Kitts with accepted by Post Office and correctly tied diagonally bisected QV 1d red (SG.8ca) with full QV 1d red with INVERTED "S" (SG.8a) alongside partly pmk'd identically inked "A08" with both MONTSERRAT A/JA 23 86 despatch and ST. KITTS C/JA 29 86 alongside address panel. A further 1d stamp, making up the 2½d inter-island rate, was lost during transit or subsequently removed, peripheral faults. Ex THOMPSON (1977). This Perf. 14 bisect Cat.£1300 on cover, Inverted "S" Cat.£1000 and rated from x12 on cover. Sir Edward Bacon whilst examining a full sheet of 120 stamps established that the Setting was twice arranged in five horizontal rows with the inverted "S" appearing Stamp No.3 in both 2nd and 7th rows. £2500 |
;) | CLARENCE TOWN, Bahamas postmark (T.7a) 30 NOV 10 on KE7 1d (SG.72). £12 |
;) | BIMINI, Bahamas postmark (T.1) C/26 OC 6 (LRD) on KE7 1d (SG.72). £25 |
;) | RUM CAY, Bahamas postmark (T.1) B/MR 11 14 on KGV 1d (SG.82). £10 |
;) | 4 CONCENTRIC CIRCLES dumb handstamp on LEEWARD ISLANDS stamp full strike on QV ½d (SG.1). £24 |
;) | 524 numeral, Cape of Good Hope postmark on 6d (SG.52a). £5 |
;) | K3a "13", Bermuda postmark on 1866 QV 2d dull blue Crown CC wmk (SG.3). £48 |