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;) | A75 used SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Jamaica postmark/cancel (Type L) on 6d Pine wmk (SG.5). £15 |
;) | A79 used BALACLAVA, Jamaica postmark/cancel (Type K) on QV 2d Keyplate (SG.28), scarce. £7 |
;) | BARBADOS to TRIESTE (Austria) postal history 1890 printed address cover from N.E. Parravicino with QV 1d to Trieste pmk'd open bootheel duplex dated A/SP 12 90. £75 |
;) | A64 used PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica postmark/cancel in blue ink on QV 2d CC wmk (SG.9), rare as such. £60 |
;) | JAMAICA "A01" postmark transferred to G.P.O. London Foreign Section on BRITISH SOMALILAND stamp (Type E) cancelling uncancelled 1903 British Somaliland QV 6a olive-bistre (SG.7). Exceptionally rare on this. £150 |
;) | CANCELLED air mail sticker to Karachi, Great Britain postal history three reign cover to Karachi pmk'd Hastings 17 May 1937 with air mail sticker tied boxed "CANCELLED". £24 |
;) | UNION-ISLAND, St. Vincent postmark/cancel s/ways down C/JY 13 -- (no year) on horiz. pair 1905 KE7 ½d MCA wmk (SG.85). £36 |
;) | MESOPOTAMIA, St. Vincent postmark/cancel C/DE 20 86 on QV 1d rose (SG.48a). £36 |
;) | A57, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d CC wmk (SG.8). £2 |
;) | 74, Ceylon postmark/cancel on QV 16c pale violet CC wmk (SG.126) £10 |
;) | COLONARIE, St. Vincent postmark/cancel C/JU 8 87 on QV 1d rose (SG.48a). £24 |
;) | A52, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d CA wmk (SG.17). £2 |
;) | A54 (Type J) used MILE GULLY, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d CA wmk (SG.18a), very rare on this issue. £36 |
;) | 17 used COLENSO, Natal postmark/cancel on 1872 QV 3d bright blue (SG.61). £20 |
;) | 312 used IRON MINE HILL, Rhodesia on 1898 1d rose (SG.77). £60 |
;) | SINGAPORE "balsa wood cover", Malaya postal history 1959 hand-illustrated "balsa wood" cover to Liverpool with QE2 2c, 10c pmk'd Singapore 27 NOV 1959, some opening tears top left. £80 |
;) | A03 used Georgetown, British Guiana postmark/cancel in red ink on 1867 12c pale lilac P.10 (SG.97). £18 |
;) | ST. LUCIA postmark/cancel dated C/NO 1 85 on QV 1d carmine-rose (SG.32), rarely seen as such. £24 |
;) | A67 used Port Royal, Jamaica postmark/cancel on QV 1d CA wmk (SG.17), rare on this issue. £20 |
;) | MOOLTAN "36", India postal history 1871 mourning cover to Mrs Harkness, The Ivy House, Ore, Hastings, Sussex with 2 x QV 1a, 2 x QV 2a (6a rate) pmk'd MOOLTAN "36" duplex dated JU 8 71 with red boxed INDIA/PAID alongside, reverse Bombay 13 JU 71 and Hastings A/JY 17 71 arrival. John Granville Harkness (1831-1900) was a major-general in the British army during the Victorian era. During the 1830's his family moved to Ivy Lodge, Ore where he attended schools both in Hastings and Brighton. He entered the army on MY 13 1853 as Ensign in the 55th Regiment, without purchase - on the recommendation of the Duke of Wellington for his grandfather's service. Served throughout the Crimean War 1854-55 and carried the Queen's colours at Alma, for heroic conduct nominated for the Victoria Cross. He fought at Inkerman, the assault on the Quarries, siege and fall of Sebastopol and the Battle of the Great Redan. Two pencil drawings of the Crimea War by Harkness survive at the National Army Museum. In 1862 he was appointed to the 5th Fusiliers and ADC to the Governor of Mauritius, later served in South Africa 1864-67, took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-1880, and he commanded the column that cleared the entrance to the Khyber Pass. £450 |