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;) ;) | ANTIGUA (bogus) postal history Newly discovered home-made wrapper with printed and perforated QV 1d in greyish-black (Keyplate style, no shading behind both lighthouse and sailing ship) tied "A02" to a Mr Frederick Young, last heard of in Canterbury Settlement, care of Messrs. John White Villet & Sons, Parliament Street, Liverpool, England, peripheral faults. £175 |
;) | ST. VINCENT postal history 1864 small cover to James Cropper, Liverpool with pair QV 6d deep green (SG.4) pmk'd "A10", light red SAINT VINCENT A/AP 8 84 on address panel with London ER/AP 27 84 transit, reverse Liverpool AP 28 64 arrival, some perf. toning. Ex DE COSTA 4/1935, BURRUS, and JAFFE. A very early provenance £375 |
;) | MAURITIUS with chisel slits to REUNION 1862 wrapper marked p. Str. "Ottawa" to Reunion with QV 4d pmk'd A/AU 20 63 "B53" duplex with top flap displaying St. Denis 22 Aout 1862 arrival, two diagonal chisel slits struck into address panel. £425 |
;) | MALTA postal history one of those wonderfully distressed fragile cover fronts with adhesive missing which would have been a fine exhibition item with creased GB QV 4d despatched B/MALTA/JA 20 73 to Henry Bevan, 95th Regiment, Aldershot, Farnham, England with FARNBORO STATION D/JA 29 73 forwarded Athlone, Ireland showing C/WICKLOW/FE 3 73 and DUBLIN FE 4 73 with manuscript "Not Known" added prior return to FARNBORO STATION D/FE 5 73 collecting handstruck "1d" due. £125 |
;) ;) | BAHAMAS postal history 1871 cover and newsy 8-page letter headed "St. Mary's Parsonage, Nassau October 14th 1871" to The Reverend Herbert Todd, Derry Downs, St. Mary Cray with QV 1/- green P.12½ (SG.38) tied "A05" with red PAID LIVERPOOL U.S. PACKET 1 NO 71/3A alongside, reverse BAHAMAS OC 16 1871 dbl-arc, Chislehurst and St. Mary's Cray NO 1 71 arrivals. Adhesive with pulled base perf. Contents include "In August we had the edge of a hurricane, the full force of which was experienced in Andros, Biminis and Grand Bahama. Whole settlements are utterly ruined and many ships are lost. We had terrible weather here at the time, but people battened up early and so not much damage was done. Altogether we have had a terribly hot and tempestuous summer, with thunder storms sent as have never been known for 15 years". £725 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS complete outer wrapper with blue/white CURTIS'S & HARVEY buckled label affixed lower flap (as seal) with damaged GB QV 1/- Plate 4 pmk'd London MY 16 67 with Belize JY 6 67 (51 days transit) showing red crayon "1(d)" due to the Colony on the 1/- per half ounce rate, unusually with black handstruck "2" applied London, assumed to be 1d Late Fee plus 1d Fine to be collected from recipient. £125 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS cover front with GB QV 1/- Plate 5 (reduced wing margin at left) pmk'd London JA 17 73 showing FE 10 73 arrival. £40 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS outer wrapper with GB QV 1/- Plate 4 pmk'd Liverpool 1 MR 66, reverse London MR 2 and Belize AP 2 66. RMSP contract expired AP 9 1866. £80 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS postal history (Ex ADDISS) 1869 outer wrapper with GB QV 1/- green Plate 4 tied London Z/AP 30 69 "76" duplex to Wm. Guild & Co, Belize, red boxed Liverpool "L1" late fee and Belize MY 21 68 arrival on address panel. Ex ADDISS Illustrated BWI Bulletin 145. £160 |
;) | VICTORIA to QUEENSLAND postal history 1872 mourning cover to Rockhampton, Queensland with Victoria QV 6d tied Melbourne 5 Y/MY 4 72 duplex, reverse Brisbane (MY 9), Marlborough (MY 21), Rockhampton (MY 15) transit and arrival. £125 |
;) ;) | SHAHJAHANPUR, India postal history 1876 reg. cover to Shazipoor with QV 1a, 2a, 4a tied SHAHJAHANPUR A-19 duplex dated JAN 16 (76), various backstamps and wax seal. £90 |
;) | MALTA with chisel slits to Genoa, ITALY postal history 1865 part contents wrapper to Genoa, Italy with GB QV 4d tied MALTA "A25" duplex dated A/JY 26 65 with boxed PIROSCAFI/POSTALI/ITALIANI and disinfected by two chisel slits. Other 1865 entires with chisel slits are recorded for OC 17 65 to Catania, OC 31 65 to Corfu, NO 14 65 to Tunis, NO 21 65 to Genoa, Italy, NO 23 65 to Messina, Sicily. £185 |
;) | By LAND ROUTE inter-colonial rate to Melbourne, Victoria, Queensland postal history 1878 cover to Germain Nicholson, Melbourne with QV 2d Chalon tied "QL" with BRISBANE 4/JU 12 78 despatch alongside, reverse Melbourne JN 17 78 arrival. £150 |
;) | JAMAICA postal history 1863 cover marked per "Str. Saladin" to Detroit, Michigan with pale colour QV 4d brown-orange Pine wmk (SG.4) pmk'd Kingston "A01" and STEAMPSHIP 10 applied at New York, backstamped C/DE 1 63. Reverse pencil marked "Ex Turner 2/19/49 DR". £75 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1875 covers, both with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown marked "per R.M.S. via Plymouth NOV 25 1875" and "DE 5 1875" each with GB QV 1/- Plate 12 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated NO 25 1875 and DE 5 75 and both showing CAPE TOWN N/JA 1 76 transit, reverse of each with Grahams Town JA 5 76 arrival. The former was posted too late for the sailing specified and has small red handstruck circled cross on the address panel. £75 |
;) | Great Britain to CAPE OF GOOD HOPE postal history: 1876 cover, with enclosed letter, to Miss Helen Ayliffe, Grahamstown with pair GB QV 6d Plate 15 tied Manchester "498" duplex dated JU 24 1876 showing CAPE TOWN B/JY 22 76 transit, reverse with Grahams Town JY xx 76 arrival. £40 |
;) | MALTA postal history 1874 entire with printed G. SEGOND E FRATELLO letterhead to New York with GB QV 4d Plate 13, 6d Plate 13 (10d rate via Italy) pmk'd A/MALTA DE 23 74 showing London 29 DE 74 transit and red crayon "2", reverse New York JAN 12 arrival. £175 |
;) | VICTORIA to SOUTH AUSTRALIA postal history 1860 cover front and top flap marked per "Oscar Steamer" to Adelaide with 6d Queen on Throne pmk'd "1" paying the intercolonial rate to Adelaide, South Australia showing OC 13 1860 arrival and Melbourne C/OC 10 60 on top flap. £75 |
;) ;) | C38 used CALLAO, PERU to JAMAICA postal history: A UNIQUE FRANKING TO JAMAICA combination cover with Peru 1868-72 1d green, GB QV 6d pale buff (assumed Plate 11), GB QV 1/- green Plate 6 (SG.Z43, Z53) tied Callao "C38" cancels addressed John Small, Port Maria, Jamaica with 3-line PANAMA/3 AP 1873/TRANSIT plus pencilled "2" on face, b/stamped A/CALLAO/MR 26 73, Kingston IIIA/AP 8 73 and Port Maria C/AP 9 73 cds. Cover soiled with peripheral base tear and GB QV 6d with pale colour. This Peru 1 dinero was cancelled "C38" from stocks held at the British Packet Agencies to comply with the tax on all outgoing mail. £1400 |
;) ;) ;) | Mail to St. George's DETAINED AT AMERICAN CONSUL FOR 13 YEARS, Bermuda postal history 1879 cover from P.D. Slocum & Co., Clothiers, New Bedford, Massachusetts to Mr. Holder B. Slocum, 1st Mate Brig V.H. Hill, Capt. Sylvia, Bermuda (showing "Care Am Consul" at lower left) with U.S. 5c blue Zachary Taylor tied New Bedford cork dated MAY 10 with Boston MAY 10 transit and ST. GEORGES MAY 20 1879 oval receiving backstamps (LRD on incoming mail), after 13 years marked in red manuscript "Remained at American Consulate until 23rd April 1892/Not called for" with presumed Consulate Dead Letter Office purple pointing hand "RETURN TO THE WRITER. D.L.O." handstamp and placed in the mail with ST. GEORGES B/AP 23 92 cds (H1, usually applied at a transit or arrival datestamp, Ludington Page 141) with DEAD LETTER OFFICE/S A triangle dated MAY 11-92 on reverse. A fascinating item. Previous history: The whaling schooner Varnum H. Hill of and from Provincetown, was captured by the rebel steamer "Florida" on 27 June 1863 and released on bond of $10,000 on condition that she would take prisoners belonging to the destroyed ships "Southern Cross" (June 6, burnt same day), "Red Gauntlet" (June 14, kept in company as carrying coal and burnt on the 26th), "Benjamin Hoxie" (June 16 carrying silver bars valued at £500,000, sunk June 27) into Bermuda. Some 54 seamen were landed at Hamilton on 4 July and were taken in charge by the American Consul, and on 7 July Captain Doe of the British brig "Henrietta" agreed to take the seamen brought in by the V.H. Hill to New York. (Research shows no further mention of the V.H. Hill allowing no explanation for this incoming letter of 1879, and it being detained at the American Consul for 13 years until released in 1892). The "Florida" was a highly successful commerce raider in the Confederate States Navy capturing 37 prize ships. £525 |