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| Country: Ceylon Clear Subject: All | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | DEHIOWITA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D2) DE 21 02 on QV 5c (SG.195). £3 |
;) | KOTMALE, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D3) AU 3 97 on QV 5c (SG.195). £2 |
;) | KANDY PAID, Ceylon postmark/cancel (PD12) D/AU 2 91 on "Two" on QV 4c (SG.205), creased. £3 |
;) | HENARATGODA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D2) NO 2 99 on QV 3c (SG.245), small fault. £3 |
;) | GAMPOLA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D3) DE 24 96 on QV 2c (SG.147), creased. £1 |
;) | DEMODERA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D2) AU 1 02 on QV 5c (SG.195). £4 |
;) | COLPETTY, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D2) MY 8 19(00) on QV 2c (SG.256). £2 |
;) | KOTAGALA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D2) FE 7 01 on QV 5c (SG.195), thinned corner. £2 |
;) | KALUTARA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D2) SP 28 93 on QV 5c (SG.195). £5 |
;) | HATTON, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D3) AU 8 01 on QV 2c ovp'd "On Service" (SG.08). £2 |
;) | GALLE, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D3) D/MY 18 96 on QV 5c (SG.195), minor toning. £2 |
;) | DELTOTA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D3) JA 15 03 on QV 2c (SG.256). £1 |
;) | CINNAMON GARDENS, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D1) AP 23 92 on "Two" on QV 4c (SG.205), minor faults. £4 |
;) | GALBODDA R.O., Ceylon postmark/cancel Railway Office dated AU 12 95 on QV 5c (SG.195), corner perf. fault. £5 |
;) ;) | Kegalla, CEYLON to London forwarded Zurich and Bernina-Hospiz, SWITZERLAND postal history 1909 cover to London with KE7 6c pmk'd KEGALLA B/JY 15 08 forwarded with GB KE7 1½d pmk'd London AU 4 99 to ZURICH arriving 5 VIII 09 and re-directed Bernina Hospiz arriving 7 VIII 09. £140 |
;) | 24 used HAMBANTOTA, Ceylon postmark/cancel on 1867 QV 2d ochre (SG.64). £24 |
;) | 28, Ceylon postmark/cancel on horiz. pair REVERSED CC wmk 6d blackish brown (SG.55cx, Cat.£150), rounded corner perf. £60 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | Proofed/unrecorded ERRONEOUSLY APPLIED unique TRINCOMALEE/RETURNED FOR POSTAGE,CEYLON postal history 1845 wrapper from C. Brun fils, Port Louis pmk'd red MAURITIUS POST OFFICE d/ring dated NO 05 1845 marked "via Ceylon" to Veillon Freres, Bordeaux, France with "Paid 1/8" in dark black ink most unusually landed on Ceylon's north east coast (instead of the southern port of Galle) showing prepared for application TRINCOMALEE/RETURNED FOR POSTAGE datestamp for NO 22 1845 erroneously applied, crossed through, and TRINCOMALEE/STEAMER LETTER added for the next day in the same coloured ink. Carried via ALEXANDRIA (JA 7 1846) with 25mm chisels slits and large part PURIFIE AU LAZERET/MALTE handstamp added showing red PAQ. ANG. MARSEILLES (16 JANV 46) on address panel and Bordeaux (10 JANV 46) arrival backstamp with 96 decimes to be collected. Exhibition item collecting cancellations from five different countries. Similar RETURNED FOR POSTAGE datestamps were proofed for other Ceylon towns but none are known used. This remarkable example only exists due being wrongly applied. £7250 |
;) | DICKOYA, Ceylon postmark on forged ST. VINCENT stamp 1899 QV 5/- green & blue (SG.75, Cat.£170 used), a forgery believed to have been cleverly executed by the Belgian forger Dr Julian Smeets by bleaching out the design of used copies of the 1886 Ceylon QV 5c dull purple (SG.195) to a give a "blank" CA wmk P.14 stamp; only immediately given away by the indelible ink portion of a DICKOYA (Ceylon) cds which could not be removed. £95 |
;) | RARE LATE RE-INTRODUCTION MARSEILLES ROUTE, Ceylon postal history 1871 cover marked "per French Steamer Via Marseilles" to London with DLR 1d blue, 1/- reddish violet pmk'd A/COLOMBO/DE 19 71 duplex with clear red London Paid 15 JA 72 arrival, reverse red Galle Paid DE 20 71 transit cds. The Franco-Prussian War saw the closure of the overland Marseilles 1/1d route to the UK with mail being switched to the Brindisi route (initially 1/4d, reduced 1/- early 1870). The surface route via Southampton stayed at 9d. After the German victory in 1871 two covers are recorded with 1/1d rate by French steamer (other OC 23 71 with 5d, 8d to Aberdeen). These short-lived late uses come just before the introduction of new currency JA 1 1872. The last Pence issue sailing via Brindisi was DE 26 71 £1000 |