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;) | 6 in Concentric Circles, Mauritius cancel on 1863 QV 6d dull violet Crown CC wmk (SG.63). £125 |
;) | K3a "3", Bermuda postmark on 1881 QV 3d yellow-buff Crown CC wmk (SG.10). £25 |
;) | K3a "13", Bermuda cancel on 1883 QV 1d rose-red CA wmk (SG.23) showing positioning of duplex cds. £40 |
;) | ARODHES, KATO, Turkish Cyprus cancel (T.28) Turkish village on QE2 10m (SG.191) piece. £18 |
;) | K3a "8", Bermuda cancel on 1881 3d yellow-buff Crown CC wmk (SG.10). £120 |
;) | K4a "15", Bermuda cancel on 1886 QV 2d blue CA wmk (SG.25) showing positioning of duplex cds, stain at left, some creasing and tiny tear at base. £30 |
;) | PALISADOES, Jamaica skeleton cancel dated AU * 27/57 on QE2 6d, 1/- (SG.166,168) piece. £16 |
;) | "11" code (used ST. LUCY), Barbados postmark (M2-R) dated 11/MY 29 84 on QV 1d (SG.92). £8 |
;) | "10" code (used ST. PETER), Barbados postmark (M2-R) dated 10/JA 29 86 on QV 1d (SG.91). £10 |
;) | K3a "6", Bermuda postmark on 1881 QV 3d yellow-buff Crown CC wmk (SG.10) showing positioning of duplex cds. £115 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1878 wrapper to Malta with GB QV 2½d Plate 11 tied "A26" duplex dated A/AU 20 78, top flap with A/AU 24 78 arrival. Stamp with corner perf. fault. £40 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1878 wrapper to Malta with GB QV 2½d Plate 12 pmk'd "A26" duplex dated B/OC 28 78, top flap with C/NO 2 78 arrival. £48 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1880 wrapper per "Mongolia" to Malta with GB QV 2½d Plate 18 pmk'd "A26" duplex dated B/JY 11 80, top flap with E/JY 15 80 arrival, stamp crossed by filing crease along top. £48 |
;) ;) | B01 used ALEXANDRIA, Egypt postal history (Ex GRIFFITHS) 1869 entire with handstruck "POSTED AFTER/DEPARTURE OF PACKET" to Liverpool with pair GB QV 6d Plate 8 pmk'd "B01" with ALEXANDRIA JY 10 69 alongside, fine GIUSEPPE CAMPOS sender's cachet with Liverpool 27 JY 69 arrival on upper flap. Ex JOHN O. GRIFFITHS. £825 |
;) ;) ;) | North Africa BARBARY COAST and GB USED ABROAD combination, GIBRALTAR postal history 1871 mourning cover with unidentified blue Arabic-like origin cachet almost certainly originating in the Barbary Coast regions of North Africa, addressed with French salutation to Madame Isabella Wilson, Youngstown, Ohio with GB 4d, 6d pmk'd "A26" with GIBRALTAR A/NO 22 71 despatch showing London 7 DE 71 and New York Paid All (indistinct date) transits over red "2/CENTS" handstamp). No backstamps and smaller portion of flap missing. A currently unique and intriguing item. At that time there was no state postal system and foreign post offices were in only a few North African coastal towns. The Parmenter & Gordon handbook Page 1/5 states that "From 1st March 1858 mail from Tangier and other British Consulates in "Barbary" had to be prepaid in GB adhesives which were later cancelled in Gibraltar". The first TANGIER cds was sent from the GPO London on 16th March 1872 (some 4 months later than this cover, examples of use are TANGIER A/JU 29 73 and A/OC 15 73 placed below GB 6d, and GB 2d,4d each pmk'd "A26" on covers to Monsieur A. Boucard, London, Ex Glassco). Some irregular private couriers were also actively taking international mail to European Post Offices. The handstamp was probably carved from wood and the manufacturer chiselled it as he would see it but when struck it would appear in mirror image, ie reverse. It is also noted that if the third digit in the "date" were not inverted and reversed it might read 1871. (See also Kabyle Rebellion, Algeria) £4250 |
;) ;) | SAINT ANNS BAY, JAMAICA to SWITZERLAND postal history 1896 cover to Horgen, Switzerland with QV ½d, pair QV 1d (SG.16a,27) pmk'd SAINT ANNS BAY DE 7 96, reverse fine sender's cachet. £40 |
;) ;) | HY code used HACKNEY, British Guiana postmark (Proud D1 although his illustration thoroughly incorrect) dated HY/MY 24 82 (the year "2" being inverted) on DLR 4c blue CC wmk (SG.148), the instrument excised leaving wording "B. GUIANA" at about 2 o'clock (compare with GEORGE-TOWN D19, Proud Page 93). Part of a differing narrower double ring handstamp alongside. Probably the finest of the three known examples, scans (attached) of the other two dated HY/AP 25 without year, and HY/JY 1 82 kindly supplied by Paul Ramsaroop £425 |
;) | ST. JOSEPH, Barbados postmark (M3) dated 6/MY 8 99 on ½d D. Jubilee (SG.117). £5 |
;) | MAURITIUS postal history QV 9d brown/white PSE cut-out piece pmk'd blue oval of bars applied on arrival. £36 |
;) | MANGROVE BAY, Bermuda postmark dated A/OC 2 79 being the lesser seen cds portion of the K3 "4" duplex. £16 |