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PAID-ONLY TO ENGLAND, Malta postal history (Ex Lloyd-Lowles, Camillery)
1869 wrapper with blue P. ERYNAUD & CO, MALTA sender's cachet marked "via Marseilles by French Steamer" to New York, USA (the recipient's name cut out) with GB QV 6d Plate 8 pmk'd B/MALTA/AP 7 69 "A25" duplex with 2-line "PAID-ONLY/TO ENGLAND" with blue crayon "8 cts" changed "13" in black, New York APR 27 alongside address panel with red London NN/AP 13 69 transit on reverse. Ex LLOYD-LOWLES, CAMILLERY.
£350

MALTA postal history (Plate 1 white paper)
1875 wrapper with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Catania (Sicily) with early use QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 1 white paper pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/AU 3 75.
Plate 1 issued JY 1 1875
£75

MALTA postal history (Plate 1 blued paper)
1875 wrapper with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Genoa with QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 1 blued paper pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/OC 12 75.
£375

MALTA postal history
1876 entire on printed A. Gatt, Malta albino sender lettersheet marked "Via Italy" to Carmelo F. Caruana, New York with GB QV 2½d Plate 2 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/FE 8 76.
£60

MALTA postal history
1876 entire with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Marseilles with GB QV 2½d Plate 6 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/NO 28 76.
£40

MALTA postal history
1878 entire with green Petrocochino & Co. sender cachet to Constantinople with GB QV 2½d Plate 11 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated D/MALTA/MY 30 78 with blue crayon "11" alongside.
£60

MALTA postal history
1878 albino embossed A. L. MICALE, MALTA sender lettersheet with full written content to Catania (Sicily) with GB QV 2½d Plate 9 tied "A25" duplex dated A/MALTA/OC 31 78, full clear backstamps.
£48



GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve PLATE 17 on entire, Malta postal history
1880 complete entire "p. S.S. Nantes" with TEOFANI & MERICAS, MALTA cachet to Istra (Croatia's heart-shaped peninsular shared by Croatia, Slovenia and Italy) with GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 17 tied "A25" duplex dated C/MALTA/FE 12 80.
£500


MALTA postal history
1881 OHMS cover from the BOTANIC GARDEN with albino printed royal coat-of-arms flap to Frankfurt Am Main, Germany with GB QV 2½d blue Plate 20 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated D/FE 9 81.
The Argotti Botanical Gardens dates back to 1774 and is situated in Floriana, a short walk from the capital, Valetta. The gardens were originally the private gardens of Grandmaster Pinto and only became a botanical garden in 1805.
£120

MALTA postal history (Ex Lloyd-Lowles)
1863 entire with albino embossed sender's oval to Messina with GB QV 1d, QV 3d (no plate numbers) tied pmk'd Malta "A25" duplex dated A/JY 12 63 with boxed "PIROSCAFI/POSTALI/FRANCESCI" handstamp alongside and red crayon "1½" accountancy. Ex LLOYD-LOWLES.
£195


PIROSCAFI/POSTALI/FRANCESCI as "killer" (contrary to regulations), MALTA postal history
1863 wrapper on "G. Scicluna & Figli, Malta" albino printed paper stock plus handstruck cachet to Messina with GB QV 1d, QV 3d (no plate numbers) tied two strikes of the Malta "A25" duplex dated B/NO 21 63, the QV 1d poorly struck and additionally "killed" by boxed "PIROSCAFI/ POSTALI/FRANCESCI" handstamp contrary to regulations, alongside red crayon "1½" accountancy.
£180


HMS SULTAN (under command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh), MALTA postal history
1877 cover with H.M.S. SULTAN printed flap to the Honorable Mrs. Lindsay, Woodlands, Cardiff, South Wales (possibly written by Royal hand) with GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 5 pmk'd Malta "A25" duplex dated D/AP 6 77, flap intact but poorly opened either side of printing clear of light Cardiff C/AP 11 77 arrival.
In 1876 HMS Sultan was refitted and reduced from a small Channel Fleet coastal warship to a barque rig and posted to the Mediterranean under the command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Albert (1844-1900) second son of Queen Victoria. Alfred married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovana of Russia in St. Petersburg and their second daughter Princess Victoria Melita was born on 25 November 1876 in Malta. Prince Alfred, Honorary President 1890-1900 of what is now the Royal Philatelic Society, was the first serious stamp collector in the royal family and it is thought that he encouraged his nephew, later KGV, to collect stamps. Prince Alfred sold his collection to his brother King Edward VII, who shared his enthusiasm, who in turn gave it to his son King George V, and keenly expanded by the latter the two collections became the basis of what is now the Royal Philatelic collection.
£225


TRIPOLI, Barbary Coast to France, MALTA postal history
1878 entire on Emile de Testa printed paper written headed in French "Tripoli 17 Mai 1878" to Paris, France taken to Malta with GB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 10 pmk'd "A25" duplex dated C/MY 20 78 arriving 24 MAI 78.
£185


Rarely seen 2d RATE TO USA, GIBRALTAR postal history Ex METLISS, OSBORN, STIRRUPS
1874 printed headed entire by private ship "Pleiades" to New York with GB QV 2d blue pmk'd light "A25" duplex dated A/OC 9 74 landed with NEW YORK SHIP LETTER cds dated OCT 26 showing 4c to be collected. Ex METLISS, OSBORN, STIRRUPS.
'Direct' ship letters to New York were quicker and cheaper than mails via Liverpool.
£350


GIBRALTAR postal history
1877 cover with black "FORWARDED BY THE/AMERICAN AGENCY/GIBRALTAR/RENNY MASCARENHAS & Co/AGENTS" who added QB QV 2½d rosy-mauve Plate 7 pmk'd "A26" duplex dated A/AU 30 77 to Capt. E.D. Lane, Yarmouth, Maine, USA, opened right edge severing perfs.
£140

GIBRALTAR postal history
1880 mourning wrapper from Larios Hermanos to Genoa, Italy with GB QV 2½d Plate 17 tied "A26" duplex dated A/MY 5 08 (year error), backstamped top flap for display with Estafeta De Cambio, Madrid (MY 7) and Genova (10 5-80).
£75

MALTA postal history
1860 entire to Genoa, Italy with GB QV 4d pmk'd "A25" duplex dated A/NO 3 60 showing sender's cachet and backstamped GENOVA 9 NOV 60 arrival.
£75

GB used abroad at CALLAO, PERU postal history (Ex DALE LICHTENSTEIN)
1876 cover to Cumnock, Ayrshire with Peru 1d green (creased) and w/marginal pair GB QV 9d pale straw Plate 4 (SG.Z50, Cat.£400) pmk'd Callao "C38" with blue COLVILLE & Co, CALLAO sender's cachet dated OCT 14 1876 alongside address panel, reverse with A/CALLAO/OC 14 76 and CUMNOCK A/NO 13 76 arrival, some peripheral faults and damaged flap. Ex DALE LICHTENSTEIN
This Peru 1 dinero was cancelled "C38" from stocks held at the British Packet Agencies to comply with the tax on all outgoing mail.
£650

MALTA postal history
1860 wrapper to Marseilles with GB QV 4d strip of three (fault) pmk'd A/MALTA/AU 11 60 "A25" duplex paying the scarce 1/- rate with oval "P-D." in black.
£240
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