;) | SPRING HILL, Jamaica postmark/cancel (D/R) AU 16 01 on QV ½d (SG.16a). £12 |
;) | JAMAICA to CAYMAN ISLANDS showing both FORWARDING AGENT and NAMED MAIL BOAT 1890 cover to James S. Webster, Bodden Town, Grand Caymans c/o W.H.B. Hitchins, 2 Lower George Lane, Kingston endorsed Schr Electra with Jamaica QV 1d Keyplate pmk'd SHOOTERS HILL A/NO 14 90 and backstamped Kingston 3 D/NO 15 90 squared circle. Peripheral faults but exceptional for showing both forwarding agent for Cayman Islands mail and named mail boat. £1200 |
;) | DARLEY, Jamaica postmark/cancel purple TRD dated JUL 9 1946 on KG6 1d piece, reverse ST. MARGARETS BAY same dated d/ring. £5 |
;) | DENBEIGH (error of spelling), Jamaica postmark/cancel Newly discovered 11 JUL 1967 temporary rubber datestamp tying perfs. pair QE2 1d Lignum Vitae (SG.217) to piece. The David Horry Encyclopaedia of British West Indies Postmarks Queen Elizabeth II illustrates the first DENBIGH with 20mm spacing base of "D" to "H" and the wider spacing DENBIGH with 27mm spacing base of "D" to "H". This error of spelling has 25mm spacing base of "D" to "H". £48 |
;) | A01 used KINGSTON, Jamaica postmark/cancel on vertical pair 1860 QV 1d blue (SG.1a) with DOUBLE PERFORATIONS, small imperfections but extremely rare as such. £100 |
;) | BARTONS, Jamaica postmark/cancel (D/R) AP 22 01 on QV ½d (SG.16a), rare office. £24 |
;) | 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 |
;) | JAMAICA "A01" postmark transferred to G.P.O. London Foreign Section on GREAT BRITAIN stamp (Type E) cancelling uncancelled Great Britain GB QV 1d lilac 16 dots (SG.172). £60 |
;) | PEDRO, Jamaica postmark/cancel (CDS) JY 30 00 on QV 2d Keyplate (SG.28), rarely found as such. This cds seemingly very rare on any issues bearing the QV head design. £12 |
;) | CANTERBURY MONTEGO BAY skeleton postmark, Jamaica postal history (D1) dated */28 JA 58 tying QE2 1d on local cover to Mandeville. £80 |
;) | RETREAT, Jamaica postmark/cancel (D/R) in blue ink dated JA 2 04 on 1d Falls (SG.32). £20 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) | KELLY, KINGSTON 14, Jamaica postmark/cancel purple TRD dated 24 APR 1954 on QE2 2d (SG.154) piece, some toning. £4 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | TITCHFIELD (two differing dates showing flexibility of handstamp), Jamaica postal history 1903 cover from The University of Chicago with 5c franking pmk'd Chicago APR 5 1903 to Prof. D.S. Johnson PhD, Chester Vale, Gordon Town, Jamaica variously forwarded with twelve differing backstamps including purple boxed TITCHFIELD (TRD 11) for both 16.4.03 and 17.4.03 (showing movement of "J" under "TC"), cover with corner fault. William Fawcett was the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908, and having returned to Britain was the co-author of the first volumes of Flora of Jamaica. £180 |
;) | LUCKY HILL, Jamaica postmark/cancel (TRD 21, D1) undated in purple ink on ½d Exhibition (SG.94) showing partial d/ring with clear "21" year slugs. £15 |
;) | ANNATTO BAY, Jamaica railway postmark/cancel (S1b-I, D2) NOV 23 1904 on 1d Falls (SG.32). £24 |
;) | RACE COURSE, Jamaica postmark/cancel (TRD 13) in purple ink possibly dated 9.8.05 on 1905 QV 3d MCA wmk (SG.46). £18 |
;) | WALKERS WOOD, Jamaica postmark/cancel (D/R) FE 6 12 on 1d Arms (SG.40). £7 |
;) ;) | The GHOSTS of POINT ELLICE HOUSE, the most haunted house on VANCOUVER ISLAND 1898 cover to Mrs (Caroline Agnes) O'Reilly (1831-1899, thought to appear as an apparition in the grounds of her house) at Point Ellice, Victoria, Vancouver Island pmk'd KINGSTON AU 10 98 and then mysteriously spirited some 4,432 miles to DUBLIN (AU 24 98, husband Peter originated from Ballybeg, Co. Meath, only 45 miles from Dublin) before travelling a further 4,502 miles to VICTORIA, B.C. PM/SP 6 98 per b/stamp) with I/SP 7 98 and "10" cents tax due handstamp added the next day, some soiling. Husband Peter, former Indian Reserve Commissioner, is the subject of supernatural investigations at the house which went live on a YouTube video October 31 2020. Visitors and volunteers have had spooky encounters with lights switching on and off, a piano playing on its own, and apparitions chasing them away. In later years "a nice young lady in a blue dress" had shown visitors around the house giving many previously unknown facts, when questioned they went back inside the house and pointed to a blue gown lying across a bed, "that's the one she was wearing" in daughter Kathleen O'Reilly's bedroom. Kathleen had returned! For many years the whereabouts of the grave of Caroline Agnes was a mystery, but in her final year, being so ill, she made a last visit to her family in England, dying only a few days after arrival. Her remains lie in the cemetery at Cheriton, Folkestone (only 2.1 miles down the road, a 39 minute walk, from me!). £475 |
;) | EAST END, CAYMAN ISLANDS postal history 1911 large part cover to Headly Dalton (or Patton), Kingston, Jamaica with ¼d brown strip of four (one stamp facially damaged) tied two strikes purple boxed "EAST END/Grand Cayman./RURAL/Post Gollection." temporary rubber handstamp with BODDENTOWN JU 28 11 d/ring backstamp. On arrival eventually "ADVERTISED" and "UNCLAIMED." with red RETURNED LETTER OFFICE, JAMAICA d/ring dated 25 SE 11. Full of character, Ex MARSTON, PODGER. £575 |