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;) | KABALLA, Sierra Leone postmark (057.02) C/JU 1 42 on KG6 3d (SG.192). £7 |
;) | GARRISON MAIL, Sierra Leone postmark (320.04) */30 AU 55 on KG6 5/- (SG.198). £8 |
;) | N'JALA, Sierra Leone postmark (121.02) */16 AU 54 on QE2 1½d Coro (SG.209). Building a collection of village pmks on 1953 Coronation is very difficult £6 |
;) | CLINE TOWN, Sierra Leone postmark (025.03) */AU 19 37 on KG6 1d Coro (SG.185). £4 |
;) | SUMBUYA, Sierra Leone postmark (147.01) rare sideways up C/-Y 1 09 on KE7 2d (SG.89), very rare with "C" code on KE7 issues. £48 |
;) | YORK ISLAND, Sierra Leone postmark (164.03) sideways down C/JU 30 18 on KGV 1d (SG.113a) piece with "PASSED BY CENSOR" h/stamp. £14 |
;) | REDAN, Transvaal postmark 26 XI 47 on SA 1½d with 1947 1d Christmas seal piece. £5 |
;) | PRETORIA "2", Transvaal postmark 26 XI 39 on re-joined split perfs. bilingual horiz. pair 1939 1d Christmas label. £5 |
;) | INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID plus "triangle-type" Sierra Leone postmarks newly discovered str. line (allocated 726.02 as without "FOR AIR MAIL") and unlisted 15mm high triangles in greenish-black nullifying "T" handstamp on KG6 ½d, 1d pmk'd FREETOWN EAST */11 OC 55 piece with added KG6 ½d pmk'd FREETOWN 28 OC 55. Note small portion bluish "E" at extreme left £40 |
;) | FREETOWN-BO T.P.O., Sierra Leone railway postmark (202.02) */OC 22 25 on sixteen KGV 1d, block of 4 KGV 2d (SG.132,134) piece. £40 |
;) | JAGERSFONTEIN, Orange Free State postmark purple ink TRD part dated -- MAR 91 on "1d" on 3d (SG.54). £60 |
;) | COMMANDO-DRIFT, Orange Free State postmark dated FE 16 96 on 1d (SG.68). £24 |
;) | R.P.K. TERUG Z.A.R., Transvaal railway postmark on ORANGE FREE STATE stamps used UP TRAIN dated 17 JAN 97 on block of six 1d purple (SG.68) fragment, top right stamp with tears, creases, and corner fault. Late Fee charge being 6d £75 |
;) ;) ;) | ORANGE RIVER COLONY stamps: newly discovered 1890 CGH ½d green ovp'd "ORANGE RIVER COLONY" assumed OFFICIALLY DEFACED by G.P.O. on unused without gum horiz. pair (SG.133var), colour more bluish-green than normal. The Jamaica 1890 QV TWO PENCE HALF-PENNY on 4d red-brown is found similarly OFFICIALLY DEFACED Ex Winter, and described in the Swarbrick Sale (Cavendish 29 Sep 1995) as "thought only one pane was produced with this variety due to inking problems. They were returned to the G.P.O. for destruction but it is believed ten pairs exist. One pair is in the Royal Collection". £625 |
;) | MAFETENG, Basutoland postal history 1901 cover to Jacob Erasmus, Prisoner of War, Diyatalawa Camp, Ceylon with CGH 1d (SG.59a) pmk'd MAFETENG MR 3 01 with DIYATALAWA CAMP AP 19 01 arrival b/stamp, slight edge soiling. £120 |
;) | VIRGINIA STATION R.O., Orange Free State postmark 15 AU 97 on 2 x 1d (SG.49) piece. £50 |
;) | LAGOS W.C.A. OFFICIAL PAID, Lagos period postmark (Type 0.10) dated 30 SE 1905 (LRD) on KE7 1d (SG.55), white flecks on face, tear lower right side, defective lower left corner. Rarely seen. Lagos amalgamated into Southern Nigeria as of May 1st 1906 £24 |
;) | WATERVAL BOVEN, Transvaal postmark 20 JUN 1910 on KE7 1/- (SG.267). £9 |
;) ;) | FOREMAN-IN-CHARGE/S.A.R.&H/S.A.S.&H/SERULI 098/VERANTWOORDELIKE VOORMAN, Bechuanaland railway pmk newly discovered purple ink TRD-like d/ring oval dated 12-12-1933 on horiz. pair KGV 2d (SG.101) piece. Responsible foreman being Verantwordelike Voorman in Afrikaans £375 |
;) | PHIIPPOLIS, Orange Free State postmark (CDS) DE 5 91 on 1/- ovp'd "T F" (SG.85). £7 |