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;) ;) | BOGUS BISECTED REVENUE, BARBADOS to ST.CHRISTOPHER postal history the bogus "Revenue" and "HALF PENNY" overprints on diagonally perforated genuine QV 1d carmine (SG.92) tied faked Barbados duplex A/JA 4 87 on cover to St. Christopher showing both red and black faked arrival cancels. Opened-out for display, a little fragile with small faults, only entire seen as such. BPA cert as faked cover. £275 |
;) | POA 2 used 1902 (JY --) BOER WAR, Natal postal history tying GB KE7 1d on cover to Cradock (B/JY 22 02 arrival) with Newcastle A/JY 19 1902 transit. Minor soiling. £48 |
;) | POA 94 used 1902 (JA --) BOER WAR, Natal postal history on QV 1d rate cover to Diyatalawa Camp, Ceylon, b/stamped FE 15 02 arrival. £140 |
;) | FORWARDED BY/GEORGE A. LLOYD & Co/SYDNEY, N.S.W. blue in oval cachet on lower flap of 1861 cover from San Francisco p. Electra to Parametta, N.S.W. The agent affixed the 2d and 2 x 1d adhesives for the onward 4d inland rate between ½oz and 1oz. Cover a little aged etc but believed to be the only example of this rare cachet. £525 |
;) | ST. LUCIA to NEW SOUTH WALES 1898 cover to E. Wallwork, "Carrington", Newcastle, New South Wales with enclosed letter bearing QV ½d and 1d pmk'd C/NO 25 98, b/stamped Sydney and Newcastle (JA 10) and Carrington (JA 11). £60 |
;) | MAURITIUS postal history: (T.3) scarce CALEBASSES B/MY 24 9 (9 for 99) tying 1899 15c on 36c (SG.135, earlier date than MY 28 99 as listed by SG) on local tone-speckled cover to Vallombreuse, Calebasses. £120 |
;) ;) | 1885 incoming cover with USA 5c brown tied Brooklyn OCT 30 duplex. £48 |
;) | ABA, Southern Nigeria (T.6a) OC 11 19 on KGV 2d rate cover to Chicago. £45 |
;) | 1943 censored cover to India pmkd Hamilton 6 FEB 43 showing m/script reg. label, damaged at left plus part back removed. £20 |
;) | 1938 FFC Liverpool to POS pmkd JA 31 38 showing new 1/- rated (FDC for GB KG6 3d) arriving POS 11 FE 38. £28 |
;) | 26 used RIVERSDALE, Cape of Good Hope postal history OC 11 1874 on 4d (badly defective) wrapper to Cape Town. £48 |
;) | JAMAICA postal history 1907 OHMS foolscap cover to Thorngumbald, near Hull with QV 6d yellow MCA pmk'd REGISTERED d/ring oval dated JU 25 07 with Bristol reg. label added in transit. £65 |
;) | KG6 definitives FDC 1c to $2.40 complete set pmkd 1 MAY 50. £65 |
;) ;) | The EMPIRE BURE troop transporter 1945 arrival of smoke-stained British Empire Bure (West Africa-Liverpool-Bermuda-Cuba-Trinidad) troop transporter. Story assembled by skipper with 4 newspaper clippings (stowaway, soldier overboard rescue, terrific storm, arrival) with ppc of vessel arriving Cuba, 11 small b/w photographs (skipper, ships cat, local Trinidad views of Empire cinema, Navy House etc) all mailed to Essex, England under KG6 36c rate cover pmkd POS 8 DE 47. £150 |
;) | Vertical A10 (used Kingstown), St. Vincent postal history 1884 use of QV 1½d Post Card pmk'd vertical "A10" (PML.7) written Kingstown 20/2/84 with early use red KINGSTOWN A/FE 28 84 (PML.36) despatch, minor edge soiling and creasing. Only two other 1½d UPU Post Card currently recorded with red Kingstown "A" code cds (PML.36) for MY 28 84 and JY 31 84. £85 |
;) | LEEWARD ISLANDS postal history Letter Card (fancy black typeset on eggshell stock) from proprietor of the Observer with QV 2½d DE 7 98 to London, thought privately produced. £85 |
;) ;) | Poisoned-pen mail to a licentiously got nasty bastard!! A rare example of anonymous poison-pen mail addressed Henry Smythe, 10 West Queen Street, (Kingston) on reverse QV ½d red-brown Post Card mailed at Kingston ID/ MY 18 91. Best full transcript reads Henry Smith mother is Eliza Doby the leader in Wesley Chapel, and George Smythe the parson. Why you don’t go back to St. Anns or christen after your father Smythe? Why you was shipped off to sea? and now you rob money in Colon you can’t go back? Pay Col. Morrice & Co for the goods you trust so long you damn thief. Show this to your friends. I can prove it, bring me up, you are a nasty bastard licentiously got, I know you well in St. Anns as a ragged boy. Face with Advertised and Unclaimed handstamps plus four Returned Letter Branch dated 17 JU 91. Reverse also shows m/script postal endorsements of “Not known” (twice with dates) and “No name”. A most interesting item for research, and why had Henry Smythe also known as Henry Smith disappeared? £75 |
;) | 120 used CERES ROAD, Cape of Good Hope postal history D/NO 11 86 (ERD) on 1d pair (SG.49) cover to Cape Town. Smaller faults. £48 |
;) | 184 used MIDDELBURG, Cape of Good Hope postal history C/AP 10 93 on QV 1d Post Card to London. £24 |
;) | 965 used MOWBRAY, Cape of Good Hope postal history C/NO 27 95 on QV 1d Post Card to London. Some minor tone spots. £45 |