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;) | MATTRU, Sierra Leone postmark (112.02) */FE 27 30 on KGV 2d (SG.134). £24 |
;) | MOYAMBA, Sierra Leone postmark (117.02) sideways down C/FE 10 13 on KGV 1½d (SG.114). £24 |
;) | BO, Sierra Leone postmark (016.02) C/MY 31 16 on KGV 1d (SG.113a). £8 |
;) | DARU, Sierra Leone postmark (030.02) */MR 11 13 on KGV 1d (SG.113). Illustrated Page 17 of "The Postmarks of Sierra Leone 1854-1961 Second Edition" by Walton, Quirk, Hamilton, Horry. £16 |
;) | DARU, Sierra Leone postmark (030.03) C/10 AP 31 on KGV 1d (SG.132a). £10 |
;) | RUM CAY, Bahamas postmark (T.1) B/SP -- 11 (day omitted) on QV 1d (SG.48). This cancel with "B" code only found only on re-issued QV 1d stamps. £75 |
;) | BLACK ROCK, Barbados postmark (M.10) FE 18 57 on QE2 2c (SG.290). £7 |
;) | OFFICIAL PAID, Grenada postmark (OF 1) 14 MY 08 on 2½d Badge (SG.80), rarely seen as an adhesive killer. £85 |
;) | MALLALI, British Guiana postmark (T.12b) FEB 11 1902 on 2c (SG.234). £32 |
;) | MEKADING, Basutoland skeleton postmark (Proud D1, Putzel unrecorded) SP 10 1918 (ERD and LRD) on South Africa KGV 1d. Only recorded date of use £275 |
;) | MATSAILE, Basutoland postmark (D2) 4 JUL 36 on KGV 1d (SG.2) piece. £125 |
;) | BATKANU, Sierra Leone postmark (010.02) C/23 AU 19 on KGV 1d (SG.113b). £16 |
;) | APPAM, Gold Coast postmark (T.2, 19mm cds with large letters wide M, D5) dated C/OC 16 8 (8 for 89?) on QV ½d (SG.11), some toning/soiling, very rare. £60 |
;) ;) | JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal postmark newly discovered brass seal on ½d (SG.205), some clipped perfs, currently unique. Putzel unrecorded £225 |
;) | AXIM, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) red ink A/JA 8 90 on QV 4d (SG.16), harsher toning. This currently earliest date for A/JA 8 90, the last known "C" code being C/DE 31 89 £12 |
;) | 556 used CAPE COAST CASTLE, Gold Coast postmark on QV 6d orange CC wmk P.14 (SG.8). £20 |
;) | AXIM, Gold Coast postmark (T.2) in red dated C/MY 31 89 on QV 4d (SG.16). £20 |
;) | ST. LUCIA (Smeets forgery) stamps: 1885 QV 1/- orange-brown (SG.36), a forgery believed to have been cleverly executed by the Belgian forger 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 KOTAGALA (Ceylon) OC 19 97 cds which could not be removed. £140 |
;) ;) | BRITISH GUIANA stamps: 1931 KGV 2c County Union (SG.284var), pmk'd Georgetown 8 AP 32 showing dramatic and extensive over-inking, possibly unique. £225 |
;) | 36 in manuscript used DRY HARBOUR, Jamaica postmark on QV 1d Pine wmk (SG.1b) overstruck clear Kingston A01 (Type A, found only on GB and Pine wmk issues). £160 |