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;) | SUNGEI PATANI, Kedah postmark dated 28 SE 1936 on 25c piece. £8 |
;) | TEYATEYANENG, Lesotho postmark dated 18 IV 74 on 3c piece. £7 |
;) | FORCES POST OFFICE, Gibraltar postal history PARCEL POST dated 2 JNE 82 tying ½d HMS Opossum on plain card. £20 |
;) | YAMANDU, Sierra Leone postmark (159.01) */FE 11 26 on KGV 1d (SG.132). £30 |
;) | K3a "11", Bermuda postmark on 1881 QV 3d yellow-buff P.14 x 12½c CC wmk (SG.10). £65 |
;) | EVRYKHOU, Cyprus postmark (T.2) A/DE 21 14 on KGV ½pi (SG.75b). £24 |
;) | V.R. EVRYKHOU, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on 1904 KE7 ½pi MCA wmk (SG.62). £95 |
;) | Christchurch code "2", Barbados postmark (M2, close to outer rim) on small star (1d) 2/MR 24 73 (inward tear, crease) plus 2/JA 27 88 on 1d reversed CC wmk. £40 |
;) | E.R. KOPHINOU (Turkish), Cyprus postmark (T.21) on 1904 KE7 ½pi MCA wmk (SG.62). £50 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1859 land route "via France" to London with GB QV 1d red strip of three, GB 6d lilac pmk'd "G" with greenish-blue A/JA 7 59 despatch, backstamped London JA 17 59 arrival. Flap with tape stain. £825 |
;) | K4a "11", Bermuda postmark on 1889 QV 1d aniline carmine CA wmk (SG.24a). £30 |
;) | C82 used PERNAMBUCA, Brazil postmark on 1866 10r vermilion P.12 (Scott 53), rare as such. £375 |
;) | POSTMEESTERS KANTOOR JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal postmark previously unrecorded dated 5 SEP 00 on cut-out piece £24 |
;) | KAYIMA, Sierra Leone postmark (071.01) */17 JU 55 on KG6 2d (SG.191a). £65 |
;) | NEWTON, Sierra Leone postmark (120.02) reversed C/AP 16 50 on KG6 2d (SG.191a), perf. faults. £10 |
;) | ST. KITTS PAID (used during shortage 1d stamps for the internal rate) to NEVIS. 1889 stampless cover to Miss. Richardson, opposite the church, Charlestown, Nevis with the (1d) rate covered by black undated ST. KITTS PAID with ST. KITTS C/DE 10 89 despatch and NEVIS A/DE 11 89 arrival backstamp. Minor blemishes but unique as such and the latest recorded use. Ex BROOKES. The 1889 shortage of ½d, 1d, 2½d, 4d stamps currently spans a 22 day period NO 21 1889 to DE 12 1889. New supplies were invoiced NO 29 1889 comprising ½d dull green (6,080 stamps), 1d carmine-rose, 2½d ultramarine, 4d grey (6,100 each) all Crown CA wmk, with expected arrival in time for the DE 19 89 sailing to UK. Only four covers and two cover fronts are recorded comprising NO 21 89 (at the over 300 miles rate) to Trinidad, NO 21 89 and DE 5 89 cover fronts (at the 4d UPU rate) to Edinburgh and London respectively, DE 5 89 and DE 12 89 (at the 2½d under 300 miles radius rate) to Barbados and Antigua respectively, and DE 10 89 (at the 1d local rate) to Nevis. £1350 |
;) | ST. KITTS PAID (used during shortage 2½d stamps for the under 300 sea miles rate) to ANTIGUA. 1889 stampless cover to Joe Goodwin, High Street, (St. John's), Antigua with the (2½d) rate covered by black undated ST. KITTS PAID with ST. KITTS C/DE 12 89 despatch being the latest known date of use. Frontal vertical fold and with no arrival backstamp which is consistent with covers to Antigua at this time. Ex FORSYTH, BROOKES. The 1889 shortage of ½d, 1d, 2½d, 4d stamps currently spans a 22 day period NO 21 1889 to DE 12 1889. New supplies were invoiced NO 29 1889 comprising ½d dull green (6,080 stamps), 1d carmine-rose, 2½d ultramarine, 4d grey (6,100 each) all Crown CA wmk, with expected arrival in time for the DE 19 89 sailing to UK. Only four covers and two cover fronts are recorded comprising NO 21 89 (at the over 300 miles rate) to Trinidad, NO 21 89 and DE 5 89 cover fronts (at the 4d UPU rate) to Edinburgh and London respectively, DE 5 89 and DE 12 89 (at the 2½d under 300 miles radius rate) to Barbados and Antigua respectively, and DE 10 89 (at the 1d local rate) to Nevis. £1250 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | ST. BARTHELEMY taken to St. CHRISTOPHER for posting to TURKS ISLANDS postal history 1879 entire headed "St Barths 11 Septr 1879" to The Post Master, Grand Turk, Turks Islands, enclosing a letter for Mr. Gibbs (presumed George Gibbs, the Salt Merchant, and Commission and Forwarding Agent at Grand Turk). Conveyed to neighbouring St. Christopher for onward transit where QV 6d green affixed and tied by the "APMY" dumb cds with weak ST. KITTS despatch (thought SP 12 79), rated red "4". On arrival most unusually handstruck internally with pristine TURK'S-ISLAND code removed/OC 10 79 cds probably as a record of receipt to show date acted upon for any future reference. Additionally unique for being the only known St. Christopher UPU member cover to a non-UPU member commanding a 6d rate (St. Christopher was full member from JY 1 1879, Turks Islands did not join the UPU until JA 1 1881). An exceptional showpiece conveyed through British Colonial Post Offices during the second year of French reoccupation. On NO 26 1781 St. Eustatius was captured by the French under Marquis De Bouille, St. Martin was seized the following day, and Saba and St. Bartholomew soon after. The latter island remained French until 1784 when it was suddenly sold by one of Louis XVI's ministers to Sweden in exchange for trading rights in the Swedish port of Gothenburg. In 1877 France bought back the island from Sweden for 400,000 francs with the agreement ratifield in Stockholm NO 9 1877 and in Paris MR 4 1878. On MR 16 1878 the French officially reoccupied St. Barthelemy. A census in 1875 indicated there were around 2,300 inhabitants on the island. (Note: this is similar to the expectation of how a Cayman Island cover for the period would travel, if one existed, and equally as rare). £12500 |
;) | DALI, Cyprus postmark (T.2a) sideways up C/NO 1 23 on KGV 30pa (SG.88). £18 |
;) | DALI, Cyprus postmark (T.2a) sideways up C/NO 1 26 on 1928 3/4pi (SG.123). £18 |