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These are in photo-approval format with stock reference numbers, brief description and prices as per illustrated sample page of Orange Free State/Orange River Colony items. ORDERING can only be by return email quoting RED LIST and stock references. Orders will be checked for availability and confirmation sent together with a Paypal request invoice sent (unless bank transfer preferred). Postage is free.
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My current count for the different combinations of obliterators on QV Pine, CC, CA wmks, QV Keyplates, QV Falls, QV Fiscals, and 1903 Badge issues is 1,916 items. Although I am not a collector I have my own form of collection in that I now have 1,602 scanned combinations, and 314 missing for completion. These counts do not include Kingston Head Office A01 but only cover the town cancels A27 through to E. Included are coloured inks (only blue,and violet) and the two manuscript numbers of 36 and 37 and the possible A67 on QV 1/- CC Ex Duffus. Bisects are not included as they mainly come on complete cover. In mentioning coloured inks I have seen two examples red A01 supplied to John Buckner, Florida in the 1980s. Most elusive, for me, are those which fall on the 1903 Arms issues as I do not have a single scan. Lucky is the collector I sold a wonderful Arms cover cancelled by one of the oblits. many years back. Ideally 106 pages can be allocated for these 1,916 combinations so that all A27 fall on one page, and blue inks, or manuscripts, have their own pages. Probably the most diverse range are those for Cold Spring 193 - no examples are known on Pine wmks so far (the office opened end September 1874) but extremely rare examples of the QV 2/- (SG.14) and QV 6d orange (SG.23) have been found used at this office. Some offices give me quite a shock when I look at my pages. Probably the worst is Richmond A79(J) where I find I have 9 scans and 14 missing scans to complete the page. Added to these 106 pages are pages set up to show examples of the FALMOUTH cds (P11); MILE GULLY cds (P9) SAVANNA-LA-MAR manuscript X overstruck A01, SAVANNA-LA-MAR cds (P11); brass ½ on QV 2d Pine possibly used Spanish Town; manuscript assisted A67 used Port Royal; the newly discovered manuscript Manchioneal dated by Kingston cds A/JY 29 76 which all contribute to the obliterator story. Double and Inverted surcharges have been included in the count.
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Martha Edghill, at Welches, Barbados sent this cryptic hand-drawn cover to The President of the United States of America Lyndon Baines Johnson - any ideas anyone??
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(Updated 26 May 2020) The illustrated JAN 31 1910 and JUN 2 1911 strikes are different. The 1910 has closely set IC' and wider M in JAMAICA. The Maltese crosses may be different in format; and whilst the JAMAICA GOVT. RAILWAY in the 1910 strike has apostrophe and stop in GOVT. the 1911 may differ in it not having the stop. If you can supply decent full strikes for this period please do so. David Horry has very kindly supplied drawings of the two cancellations (subject clarification on the GOVT portion in the 1911 strike), and an overlay of the two cancels to show their difference.
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These bootheel cancels, issued in 1863, offer a spectacularly colourful display when collected on the Britannia issues. The 2 and the 9 are the most elusive, and 10 and 11 the commonest. There are many stamp/bootheel combinations, and many rarities. Fun for many years!
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(3 May 2020) These colourful illustrated items are infrequently met and add both character and appeal to album pages. The 1904 cover used from Barbados shows the Toronto Lith Company factory, and the 1972 cover from Mustique came by way of holiday maker previously at the Hotel Abacoa, St. Andres, Isla, Colombia.
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(3 May 2020) Great damage was caused to both the islands of Barbados and St. Vincent on SP 11 98. The chart below shows the earliest strikes known for each Parish office after that date. St. Lucy shows a large "unknown" period which hopefully you can help close by sending scans of dated copies.
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(2 May 2020) LCC Nicholson in 1949 mentions the A80 (K) with larger figures and suggests it may have been sent out earlier than the A80 (K) with smaller figures known employed at Mount Charles with later name changed to Hagly Gap. The reality is that the A80 (K) larger figures obliterator has proved so elusive that even the Charles Winand collection (of 1531 different combinations with stamp/numeral on Pine wmk to Keyplates A27 to E) contained not a single example, and Winand himself confused, even tried to separate his five examples A80 (K) small into smaller and larger versions of the same instrument! Confusion is further extended in the Proud handbook with the A80 small shown as a Type H horiz. obliterator. There is no evidence linking A80 (K) large to Mount Charles or elsewhere due there being no covers or dated pieces.
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(30 April 2020) Specialised collectors love to own the most important auction catalogues for their collecting areas. When it comes to the cancellations maybe a few items will get illustrated allowing provenance to be attributed when owned and included by you. Few records have survived showing the complete postmarks pages as owned by these famous collectors. The Osborn K3a page is now shared with all for the first time.
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(29 April 2020) I have not been keeping tabs on the Parcel Post cancels after the QV-KE7 period but Ray Stanton and Roy Bond have kindly furnished me with scans of the strikes listed in the Ted Proud St. Vincent handbook and the recent PML update by Charles Freeland, Roy Bond, Russell Boylan covering the period 1899-1965. Roy confirms that the illustrated KGV 6d, 1/- on piece dated 25 JU 26 has an unrecorded B code and will be incorporated in his update within the BWISC Journal in due course.
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(29 April 2020) Collecting made-to-order needs of the moment unusual instructive handstamps must be fun and quite challenging. This Jamaica cover with Hotel Titchfield flag-flying flap to San Antonio, Texas travelled uncancelled until it reached Pasadena, California on MR 9 1912 and the postmaster felt obliged to tell the eventual recipient that his cover was trapped inside a circular during transit. A nice item to include in an Arms display. The Anguilla Valley postmaster, in 1996, before any actual transit to Basseterre, has gone to extraordinary length with a mind-boggling message that the senders letter is certified to have been received in good condition at his post office! Bad condition yes, but good condition?
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(28 April 2020) During the Napoleonic wars correspondence was almost exclusively sent unpaid in duplicate or triplicate by different vessels in the hope that one entire would reach its destination. The contents of each incoming or outgoing letter were entered into Copy Books keeping a complete record of transmissions should loss occur. After the war mail continued to be sent mostly unpaid but with confidence growing in the safety of the seas and some writers using courtesy prepayment the Crowned Circle PAID AT handstamp was introduced having been proofed at the GPO, London on JA 30 1852. Prepayment to foreign ports was already established. Over the period JU 4 1852 to JU 6 1866 some 59 covers are currently recorded with the PAID AT ST. VINCENT mark showing varying uses. The strikes are always in red ink with the exception of the unique black strike on cover to Paris dated AU 10 1858. Examples on Perkins Bacon loose stamp are rarely found and their use, as such, has no ready explanation. The illustrated example on 1877 QV 6d pale green P.11½ to 12½ x 15 sideways star wmk (SG.23 , invoiced DE 30 1876, Ex Becker collection) shows that the instrument survived the Fire at the Kingstown Post Office on October 29 1866.
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(28 April 2020) Two spectacular covers dated MY 8 1871 and NO 7 1874 showing the two distinctly different accountancy handstamps. On the earlier cover the accountancy triplex was used as a "killer" on the 8c stamp, but as it could not be applied twice the 2c stamp is tied by black "A03".
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(Updated 27 April 2020 thanks to emails from Ed Barrow and Mike Kitson) It is becoming clear that not only the stamps of Great Britain were used at their postal agencies abroad but a more formal arrangement existed covering mail arrangements to and from those territories in the Caribbean basin. Early Jamaica QV stamps exist pmkd C51 (St. Thomas), D60 and red D63 (whereabouts unknown), E88 (Colon) and one 1876 ingoing cover shows a spectacular Cuba 50c, Great Britain 4d. and Jamaica 2d combination.
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(25 April 2020) This newly discovered unique example of the two different K3 2 duplex obliterators on 1880 QV 4d orange-red Crown CC wmk (SG.20) will challenge the thoughts of every specialised Bermuda collector who imagined that all there is to know about the numerals had already been written. There is undoubtedly a story to be told and only a careful watch of covers and dated stamps might eventually reveal its secrets. The enlarged illustration shows the differing measurements between the top of the tail of 2 to vertical inner bar at right as 4.75mm (handstamp I) and 3.75mm (handstamp II). A clearer test is that the upright serif of the 2 in handstamp II sticks out further to right than top right side curve of the 2. The current recorded period of the short-lived handstamp II is OC 21 1880 to DE 22 1880 but Ludington Page 139 recorded a second period of use with a single date of AP 14 1889 (not seen by me, and after the K4 series was issued on JA 1 1889). Ludington records use of the handstamp I from JU 3 1879 to AU 9 1888 with alternating bands of both black and blue ink. The established period for handstamp II (only found in black) is flanked by black ink periods of use of handstamp I for JU 25 1880 to OC xx 1880 and MR 2 1881 to MR 20 1882 as gleaned from covers, but there has been no study of loose dated stamps to determine whether handstamp I was also being used during the OC 21 1880 to DE 22 1880 handstamp II period.
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