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;) | BOLIVIA 15c HAND-DRAWN Facsimile – one of 250 plus individually unique items discovered in a cream-coloured vellum stockbook belonging to a Walter D. Young in an old desk by a Cabinet making in Woking, Surrey about July 1951. The artist evidently spent a great deal of time on his work. £24 |
;) | MONA, Jamaica postmark purple TRD dated 4 JAN 1952 £6 |
;) ;) | KINGSTON, Jamaica on Colombia PRINTED BOTH SIDES arrival d/ring dated 2G/AU 9 03 on Colombia (Barranquilla issues) 20c lilac La Popa Hill with sewing machine perforations. A unique exhibition item. £925 |
;) | MYRTLE BANK skeleton, Jamaica postmark dated FE 18 57 on QE2 1d (SG.160) piece. £28 |
;) | CATADUPA, Jamaica postmark (D/R) AP 19 00 on QV ½d (SG.16a), central crease. Extremely rare on QV issues. £25 |
;) | SAVANNAH-LA-MAR, Jamaica postmark
dated JA 3 16 tying pair ½d Arms (SG.38) and Red Cross label (slight abrasion) to piece. £10 |
;) | HOPE BAY skeleton, Jamaica postmark reads HOPEBAY, JAMAIC(A) (A missing) dated JY * 2/60 on QE2 2d (SG.178). £40 |
;) | NYLSTROOM, Transvaal reg. cover to Boston, USA with KE7 3d, 6d (9d rate, 4d reg, double rate 2½d postage) dated 2 SEP 05. £40 |
;) ;) | NYLSTROOM, Transvaal reg. cover to Austria with KE7 ½d, pair 1d, 2d, 3d (7½d rate, overpaid 1d or late fee?) dated 15 JUL 04, reverse sender's wax seal. £65 |
;) | NYLSTROOM, Transvaal reg. cover to Austria with KE7 ½d pair, 2½d, 3d (6½d rate) dated 4 AUG 06. £40 |
;) ;) | S.A.R. & H. GERDAU. 566, Transvaal incoming from India stampless cover b/stamped MAROLI BAZAR 21 MAR 33 with One Anna Due h/stamp added PONSRA, further tax h/stamps confirming 1d, pair 2d Postage Dues required tied 12 APR 33 arrival, some toned perfs and ragged opening at left. £250 |
;) | IFE YAGBO skeleton, Nigeria postmark (D1) 12 FE 1955 on QE2 2d. £6 |
;) | JEBBA, Northern Nigeria (T.2B, 2½mm) MY 21 1913 on horiz. pair Northern Nigeria KE7 ½d (SG.28). £16 |
;) | LOKOJA, Northern Nigeria (T.2b) OC 18 1905 on Northern Nigeria KE7 1d (SG.21). £3 |
;) | EBUTE METTA, Lagos postmark (T.9a) B/AP 8 1901 on Lagos QV 3d (SG.32). £18 |
;) | POST OFFICE IBADAN, Lagos postmark (T.11) A/FE 18 1898 on Lagos QV ½d (SG.21), minor soiling. £28 |
;) | 1900 (AP 7) BOER WAR - BLOEMFONTEIN O.V.S., Orange River Colony early V.R.I. civilian mail cover (non-military) dated AP 7 00 with 2 x ½d to Port Elizabeth, b/stamped AP 9 arrival. Bloemfontein, capital of the OFS, fell to the British 26 days earlier on March 13, 1900. (When Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal, was re-occupied by the British on June 5 1900, a civilan postal service began 13 days later). £120 |
;) | ANCHOVY, Jamaica (SQC) dated C/JY 16 96 tying 5 x QV ½d (SG.16a) on cover to London. £85 |
;) ;) ;) | BETHANY (STATION excised) R.O., Orange River Colony the tall letters cds (Putzel unlisted) dated SP 4 (00) on ½d Brief Kaart uprated with ½d for Germany, b/stamped Bloemfontein SP 4 19(00). The BETHANY STATION R.O. sighting was taken from the Batten collection (still intact) where only the "S" was visible but a full strike on loose stamp shows it to be BETHANY SIDING R.O. The correction will appear in the Putzel addendum £325 |
;) | ULSTER-SPRING, Jamaica postmark (SQC) B/OC 19 87 on QV 6d CC wmk (SG.12). £8 |