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VIRGIN ISLANDS ..... Ex HOPKINS long tailed "S" on 1/- black & rose-carmine/greyish (SG.20a, Cat.£2000), fine mint with full extended margin from sheet position 11. Ex Adrian HOPKINS (1936 RPS certificate). Robson Lowe encyclopaedia Page 169 considers the sheets perforated outside the border to be an experimental printing limited to 25 to 50 sheets. All examples being rare. £1200
1921 KGV 5/- yellow-green SPECIMEN (SG.64), the yellow-green issue fine mint. £24
K4a "12", Bermuda postmark on QV 1d CA wmk (SG.24a). £12
1916 heavily underlined GI with partial stop between N and I of VIRGIN ISLANDS on 1d carmine WAR STAMP (SG.78), fresh u/m, only three examples recorded to date. War Tax specialist John Cranmer has a positional multiple from top left pane (without Plate number) showing the variety Row 3/5. This prominent variety NOT listed in the newly published War Tax Stamps of the British Empire by John G.M. Davis. £125
1900 3/- Badge of the Islands (SG.109), m.m., slight off-setting on base of reverse. £15
TRINIDAD stamps: 1896 5d (SG.119) handstamped local SPECIMEN (TR 12), good mint. £50
ABA, Southern Nigeria (T.6a) OC 11 19 on KGV 2d rate cover to Chicago. £45
TRINIDAD stamps: COMPLETE OFFSET OF WAR TAX overprint on reverse 1917 ½d green WAR TAX (SG.177), u/m both sides. £85
1943 censored cover to India pmkd Hamilton 6 FEB 43 showing m/script reg. label, damaged at left plus part back removed. £20
ROMAGNE 8b 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
Spain 5c 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
UBOMBO, Zululand postmark (Z.7) purple ink TRD dated 24 MAY 1898 on Natal QV 1d (SG.99a). £70
1953 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL u/m IMPERFORATE se-tenant pair. £32
1957 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL u/m se-tenant pair. £6
1958 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL u/m se-tenant pair. £3
1959 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL u/m se-tenant pair. £3
1962 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL u/m se-tenant pair. £6
1953 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL fresh u/m block of four, printing crease. £6
1949 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL fresh u/m block of four. £6
1946 BERMUDA CHRISTMAS SEAL fresh m.m. block of four. £6