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;) ;) ;) | CAY CAULKER, British Honduras postal hisory (SC-1a) C/1 JY 29, five poor/one fine cds tying block of four KGV 5c on J M’Michael reg. cover to Renfrewshire, affixed over right edge and mainly reverse "BRITISH HONDURAS POST OFFICE Received open or torn and officially sealed" label pmk’d REGISTRATION 6 JY 29, soiled with cover fault top right. £180 |
;) | MAIL TO CO-FOUNDER OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, Jamaica postal history 1891 cover with U.S. 5c with SWAMPSCOTT MAY 13 1891 to Capt. L.D. Baker, Port Antonio, Jamaica with Boston (MY 13), Kingston (MY 23) and Port Antonio (MY 24 91) b/stamps, reverse stained. The actual history of the UFCo does not start until its foundation in 1899 but the “legend” of the Company goes back to May 1870 when Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, a well-known Yankee sea captain and owner of the two-masted schooner “Telegraph” arrived in Jamaica from his home port of Wellfield, Massachusetts and filled spare deck cargo space for his return trip to New Jersey with 160 stems of bananas purchased at 14 cents each. On arrival in Jersey City he found they readily sold on the quayside at $2 per stem, and so began Captain Baker’s interest in the banana industry. Six years later in 1876 Captain Baker joined forces with Andrew W. Preston to found the Boston Fruit Company. Some 20 years later forces were joined with Minor C. Keith who had built a railroad in Costa Rica and was using it to transport bananas from the plantations. The three men, each giants in their own field, evolved plans to form a new Company, and on the 30th March 1899 co-founded a new firm, to be called the United Fruit Company, with assets of some 213,000 acres of land in the Central American Republics, some 110 miles of railway, a small fleet of ships and approximately $11,000,000 in capital. Captain Baker’s initial 160 stems of bananas turned into 17,000,000 stems being shipped annually for consumption in the USA by 1899. £140 |
;) ;) | RMSPCo “PARA” (Colombian War of a Thousand Days, Spanish La Guerra De Los Mil Dias 1899-1903) Colombia 10c rate cover pmk’d Cartagena FEB 20 1900 with purple handstruck "PARA" mailboat arriving Weymouth MR 15 1900. (Civil War between Liberals and mainly Conservative Government that resulted in between 60,000 and 130,000 deaths, extensive property damage and national economic ruin. The Liberal party represented the coffee plantation owners and import-export merchants, and due a drastic downturn in the international price of coffee many growers were operating at a loss by 1899. The Conservatives, suffering from reduced customs revenues, responded by issuing unbacked paper currency, causing the value of the peso to drop precipitously and war broke out, the first phase, lasting about seven months, ended with defeat of the Liberal forces at Palonegro on 25 May 25 1900. During the next two years guerrilla-style warfare raged in the rural areas being finally ended by the Conservatives offering amnesty and political reform on 12 June 1902). Michael Rego research shows that RMSP had no Atlantic main line packet link to South America and German vessels filled the gap from 1897 to 1914. The HAPAG monthly route during this period was Hamburg, St. Thomas, Trinidad, La Guaira, St. Thomas, La Havre, Hamburg. HAPAG ship Valdivia sailed from Colombia, Venezuela, Curacao for St. Thomas and landed there 1 March 1900. The mail from Venezuela for the UK was probably landed at Trinidad and transferred to Barbados for connection with RMS Para. The RMS Para left Southampton on a fortnightly service on JA 24 1900, landed Barbados FE 4 1900 for Jacmel, back to Barbados, Plymouth MR 15 1900. (In 1900 the RMSP no longer called at Colombia, Venezuela or St. Thomas, but stuck to a short time-table with main ports). £625 |
;) | 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 |
;) | BERMUDA to FINLAND postal history 1933 cover with ¼d Caravel block of ten to Hameenlinna, Finland pmk'd St. Georges 13 DEC 33, the enclosed Christmas card signed by Mrs A. Booker. £60 |
;) | R.A.F. ground crews WAR EFFORT MAIL, Jamaica postal history In 1943 a scheme for the recruitment of tradesmen and technicians for the ground staff of the Royal Air Force was started in the West Indies. The scheme was a success and in March 1944 some 2000 West Indians were brought to England for ground staff duties in the RAF. The majority were Jamaicans but recruits from all West Indies colonies including British Guiana and British Honduras were amongst them. A further contingent of 1,935 arrived in the December and some West Indians were accepted for aircrew. The illustrated cover from Mandeville pmk’d SP 15 1945 is addressed to 723156 a/c Gardner O.G., c/o West India Committee, London and forwarded 3 OCT 1945 to 72.MU. R.A.F. CAMP, Roade, Northamptonshire. £250 |
;) | BELIZE full cover with blue ink MISSENT TO BELIZE £14 |
;) ;) | SANTANA, Belize full cover pmk'd 30 AP 79. Found opened or damaged tape £14 |
;) | BELIZE full cover INCOME TAX OFFICE £8 |
;) | BELIZE full cover MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH £7 |
;) | BELIZE full cover SECRETARY WATER and SEWERAGE AUTHORITY £8 |
;) | BELIZE full window cover DIAL 114 FOR PANAMA £10 |
;) | BELIZE full window cover DIAL 114 FOR MEXICO £10 |
;) | BELIZE full window cover DIAL 121 FOR THE TIME £9 |
;) | BELIZE full cover National Port Authority £8 |
;) | BELIZE full cover National Port Authority £7 |
;) | BELMOPAN, Belize full cover Ministry of Finance and Economic Development £7 |
;) | DANGRIGA, Belize full cover Chief Clerk STANN CREEK TOWN BOARD dated SP 20 79 £7 |
;) | BELMOPAN, British Honduras full reg. cover from Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Co-op dated 24 SP 73 to Belize City. £15 |
;) | BELIZE full cover THE TREASURY £7 |