KHARAGPUR, India postmark/cancel 9 APR 31 on KGV 2a. £5
BOWRINGPET, India postmark/cancel 14 JU 12 on KE7 2a 6p. £5
SIBI, India postmark/cancel (SQC) 23 JA 94 on QV 3a. £7
GUDIVADA, India postmark/cancel NO 30 98 on QV 1r. £8
QUETTA CANT., India postmark/cancel (SQC) 30 DE 03 on QV 1a. £5
RATLAM, India postal history QV ½anna PSE with added QV ½anna strip of four, pair, two singles tied 13/A-20 numerals with framed REGISTERED RATLAM handstamp and RUTLAM 12 JAN and BOMBAY JAN 14 cds, opened for display, edge faults. £60
SHIKOHABAD and LASHKAR, GWALIOR STATE, India postal history 1894 use of East India QV ¼ anna REPLY CARD portion pmk'd SHIKOHABAD JL 15 (94) sqc with LASHKAR, GWALIOR STATE 16 JL 94 cds alongside address panel. £16
INDIA postal history: 1858 mourning cover front and top flap marked via Marseilles to c/o General Ian James Douglas K.C.B. at Clifton, Bristol with QV ½ anna pale blue pair and two singles plus QV 4 anna black/blue paper tied "94" obliterators with red BOMBAY JY 3 1856 transit displaying on flap, cover edge faults. £180
BOOK-POST rate INDIA to JAMAICA postal history 1955 cover pmk'd Calcutta 9 III 55 with previously unrecorded boxed purple RETURN TO SENDER/FROM KINGSTON, JAMAICA handstamp (with "NAMES" instead of "NO POST OFFICE NAMED). Filing punch holes at base, reverse return backstamps of R.L.O. 31 MA 55 and Bare Bazar 16 JNE 1955. £48
P & O and BRITISH INDIA LINES, Greece postal history 1953 cover to Flixton, Manchester with GB KG6 2½d tied Greek machine cancel, reverse with purple boxed "TRAVEL & SHIP/BY P & O/AND/BRITISH INDIA LINES" and 2-line "VISIT GREECE/SUNSHINE - BLUE SKY" advertising handstamps. £45
THIS COVER STOLEN FROM MY STAND AT THE BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL 27/11/2023 - DO NOT ORDER PONDICHERRY, FRENCH INDIAN SETTLEMENTS to MAURITIUS
1867 REYNAUD SOUPRAYA & Co, PONDICHERY sender cachet entire with strip of four QV 2a orange pmk'd PONDICHERRY "111" duplex dated FE 11 67 to Piper Adam & Co, Mauritius backstamped Madras transit and 2/MR 2 67 arrival, address panel with handstruck "6d TO PAY" in black. Exhibition item. £1250
Bus drivers on strike!, BERMUDA to India postal history 1955 (AU 15) use of KG6 6d Air Letter up-rated with mixed reign QE2 3d for Kurla, Bombay, India, newsy full letter mentioning bus drivers on strike for second time in two months for 7/- and hour. £75
BOMBAY, India postmark on PERSIA stamp F/JUN 26 91 on 1889 1c pale rose (Scott 73). £14
BOMBAY, India postmark on POTUGUESE INDIA stamp (SQC) dated U/20 AP 88 on 1886 King Luiz 1t bright rose (Scott 177). £14
BOMBAY, India postmark on Persia stamp (CDS) arrival dated JA 8 90 on Persia 1889 7c brown (Sc 76). £15
India QUARANTINE DEPOSIT for deck passenger to Batticoloa, Ceylon British India Steam Navigation Co., Ltd contract document with The Ceylon Steampship Co. Ltd. headed Paumben 3/5/1911 with combination India KE7 One Anna COURT FEE stamp and CEYLON KE7 5c variously signed etc. Reverse further 15 India KE7 One Anna Court Fee stamps, centrally folded (and will be mailed along fold). Text reads: Received Rs 20/- from A.V. Moosa Nayena being quarantine deposit for deck passenger for Batticoloa for due submission to the inspection of the Medical officer at that port for the Require Number of days. £225
S.A.R. & H. GERDAU. 566, Transvaal incoming from India stampless cover b/stamped MAROLI BAZAR 21 MAR 33 with One Anna Due h/stamp added PONSRA, further tax h/stamps confirming 1d, pair 2d Postage Dues required tied 12 APR 33 arrival, some toned perfs and ragged opening at left. £250
India QV 4a HAND-DRAWN Facsimile – one of 250 plus individually unique items discovered in a cream-coloured vellum stockbook belonging to a Walter D. Young in an old desk by a Cabinet making in Woking, Surrey about July 1951. The artist evidently spent a great deal of time on his work. £24