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(25 April 2020) Mail which has travelled across the Atlantic and cannot be delivered is found with “Unclaimed”, “Deceased”, “Left the Island” etc handstamps or manuscript endorsements and assumed to be returned to sender, when known, free of further charge. Mail which has crossed “both ways” falls into two groups. Unpaid mail, as a result of the Act of 1847 made it compulsory for the sender to pay postage on returned unpaid letters, and short-lived handstamps surmounted by a Crown and inscribed “The Party to whom this letter/is addressed has not Called for it/(date)" were applied at London, Edinburgh, or Dublin. The second group is prepaid additional postage adhesive mail, with illustrations from Barbados (JU 9 1860), and Trinidad (MR 8 1864).
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Yes! The left half of the KG6 ½d Fresh Water Lake definitive is UNDENOMINATED and therefore could not reflect a ¼d denomination. Two covers are known to me and I am curious as to whether the ROSEAU */FE 9 40 and */FE 19 40 cds are genuine! The PAID AT NEVIS Crowned Circle cover is completely bogus albeit the QV 1d carmine stamp is genuine. The author being well aware that genuine strikes of both the Crowned Paid and Nevis cds have an oily appearance at this period has cleverly used his paint brush to simulate the oily stains within the Nevis despatch cds and soiled the cover at top left for good measure to simulate toning. The ENGLISH HARBOUR backstamp is also bogus and on similar covers the author often just used the day slug in different dates like the Roseau cds's. The PAID at NEVIS crowned circle appears on the QV 1d carmine and horizontal pairs QV ½d dull green, but only as "loose" stamps, no genuine covers existing. So why not make one!! To me there exists a similarity in the handwriting style of the Nevis cover and Dominica FE 19 40 cover, and the style of the cds's look as if they have come from the same stable.
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This cover has a reluctance to show year of posting clearly, but as 40 and 42 would require censorship it would seem to have been posted at St. John's, Antigua A/AP 8 49. The reverse has no transit or arrival cancels and just has a "Mrs. A Forrest, Antigua" sender's address. The airmail rate of 2/6½d is correct but why is there a handstruck RECEIVED FROM H.M. SHIPS? Your thoughts appreciated.
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