;) | PRIVATE SHIP LETTER "AYR" 1d RATE cover to BARBADOS 1906 cover endorsed "Per Private Ship "Ayr" from DARTMOUTH" to Highgate House, St. Michael's, Barbados with GB KE7 1d pmk'd WALWORTH G.O. dated NO 15 06, partial arrival b/stamp. Use of 1d by longer journey time private ship most unusual at this time as mail carried by contract vessels at the 1d Empire Rate. £75 |
;) ;) | SOUTHAMPTON SHIP-LETTER arrival, Barbados postal history 1909 Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (embossed flap) cover to Southampton with 1d Seal pmk'd 28 OC 09 landed with SOUTHAMPTON SHIP-LETTER cds dated 15 10 09 (error 10 for NO). £75 |
;) | BARBADOS SHIP LETTER postmark/cancel (Benwell D3) dated 2 FE 82 on 1876 4d red (SG.76), extremely rare as an adhesive "killer". In the post-UPU period (Barbados joined SP 1 1881) adhesives on cover were cancelled by this oval BARBADOS SHIP LETTER datestamp, a fact not previously known. No examples yet found on "loose" 1882 Queen's head issues. £240 |
;) | SOUTHAMPTON SHIP-LETTER and R.M.S.P. cachet postmark/cancels on Barbados stamp arrival dated 29 AP 07 on 1d Nelson (SG.147) with part purple d/ring PACKET COMPANY/Posted on the High Seas cachet, some clipped perfs. £10 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1882 use QV 1½d red-brown Post Card "per Zoe" to London with design pmk'd open bootheel duplex dated A/FE 1 82, landed with red SHIP-LETTER/A/PAID/FE 20 82/LONDON cds. Soiling and with pieces paper obscuring parts of reverse text. Mail landed by private ship from Barbados to UK ports is rarely met for the later period. During period 1865 to 1886 only six entires are recorded as such, one landing Dover, five landing London. £185 |
;) | TRINIDAD stamps: BARBADOS SHIP-LETTER postmark part oval arrival strike dated -- NO 0 on Trinidad 1d (SG.115). Rare on adhesive. £18 |