;) | SULYMAH, Sierra Leone postmark (146.02) in red on QV 2d grey CA wmk (SG.30), some trimmed top perf. tips. £16 |
;) | A10 used KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postmark (PML.4) in red ink on 1873 QV 1/- lilac-rose (SG.20, Cat.£350) with tear at base from the mysterious band of use somewhere within the life of the later QV 1/- claret (SG.21) pmk'd red ink PML.4 period NO 28 1875 to DE 28 1876. The 1875 QV 1/- claret (SG.21, in use for approx. 17 months) is pmk’d at Kingstown firstly by black horiz. “A10” (PML.4), secondly by red ST. VINCENT cds, and thirdly by red horiz. “A10” (PML.4). The black PML.4 band stretches from JU 27 1872 (cover) to JU 24 1875 (red village “CH” overstruck black “A10”), the red ST. VINCENT band being JY 10 1875 to NO 9 1875 (covers), and the red PML.4 band being NO 28 1875 to DE 28 1876 (covers) giving way to the first 1/- vermilion (SG.24) cover of FE 28 1877 with continued cancelling by red PML.4. The last two bands might have been extended by loose village pmk’d stamps but when Kingstown switched to the red ink pad the overstriking was abandoned as the GPO did not want red overstruck red. (During the red PML.4 band covers to other BWI islands and the USA are found cancelled by red ST. VINCENT cds). £60 |
;) | A10 used KINGSTOWN plus A10 used GEORGETOWN combination, St. Vincent postmarks (PML.4) horiz. "A10" in black applied Kingstown overstriking red vertical "A10" (PML.5) used Georgetown on QV 1d black (SG.18). £18 |
;) | A10 used at Kingstown, St. Vincent postmark (PML.4) in red on 1875 QV 6d deep blue-green (SG.19b, Cat.£50). £20 |
;) ;) ;) | RECEIVED/GPO FREETOWN/SCHED No....., Sierra Leone postal history New Walton handbook unlisted (Type 711 group, see Page 120) dated II MR 49 on stampless OHMS GPO Freetown Reply portion to Ernest B. Blango, Dillet Street (named after former postmaster Joseph Dillet), Freetown with pencilled "Try Government Medical Store" with red OFFICIAL PAID (035.99) dated both */7 MR 49 and */10 MR 49 alongside address panel. This instrument has continuous solid line after SCHED No and two examples of the same instrument can be viewed on the West Africa Study Circle website on Page 7 of the Frank Walton 1949 audit book. £250 |
;) ;) | DELAYED THROUGH POSTING IN A LONDON LETTER BOX, BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1952 cover with KG6 1c, 2 x 2c pmk'd Georgetown */7 JA 52 to the Philaletic (sic) Traders Society, London with 24 John Adams Street address added, re-directed Tottenham Court Road, and finally directed to The Strand, rare use of red handstamp "DELAYED THROUGH BEING/POSTED IN A LETTER BOX/FOR 'LONDON' LETTERS./PLEASE ADVISE SENDER" added in London, backstamped London FE 18, and FE 19 (twice) cancels. £75 |
;) | BERMUDA postal history 1951 Masters Limited underpaid stampless window envelope pmk'd Hamilton 8 OCT 1951 with ARMY AIR FORCE POSTAL SERVICE 9 OC transit backstamp plus New York 2c Due, various RETURN TO SENDER handstamps with red Bermuda CENTIMES duplex appended "6" and KG6 1½d added for postage due tied ST. GEORGES 12 OCT 51, various backstamps. £60 |
;) ;) | AUTHORISED CONCESSIONAL RATE AIR MAIL, Rhodesia postal history 1960 opened-out printed AIR MAIL envelope with both oval Royal Coat-of-Arms on flap and "CODE No. 23-31." alongside to Foyles Book Shop, London with QE2 3d pmk'd Salisbury 28 DEC 60, red 5-line "Authorised for Transmission/by Air Mail at Concessional/Rate./U.K.S.L.S. (Army Element), Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia" handstamp. £75 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | ANTIGUA stamps: 1872 QV 6d blue-green INVERTED and REVERSED Crown CC watermark (SG.15y, Cat.£140), used showing green coloured dot in "N" of PENCE additionally cancelled red LONDON PAID thought for 12 JA 77 arrival, some slightly clipped perfs top right. £48 |
;) | IRELAND ISLAND, Bermuda postmark dated 31 MAR 42 on KG6 3d, 1/6d piece with magenta tax duplex for 420 CENTIMES. £15 |
;) | 4 used FAURESMITH, Orange Free State postmark (16 bar) in brownish-red on 1d (SG.1). £14 |
;) | 24 used HEILBRON, Orange Free State postmark (11 bar) in red on 2d (SG.49), light vertical crease. £6 |
;) | "CA" (Calliaqua), St. Vincent postmark in red dated JU 8 75 overstruck black horiz. "A10" at Kingstown on 1875 QV 1/- claret (SG.21, Cat.£250). £120 |
;) | Post Office Jebba, Northern Nigeria postmark in red manuscript dated 19.7.1900 on QV ½d (SG.1). £45 |
;) | MALTA postal history 1969 stampless OHMS cover to RAF Hospital Wroughton, Wiltshire pmk'd FIELD POST OFFICE/22 AP 69/158 with red CENTRAL REGISTRY/R.A.F. LUQA cachet. £24 |
;) | BERMUDA postal history 1852 wrapper, no side flaps, to George Clerk, Ireland Island with red HAMILTON+BERMUDA (PM4) dated JA 1 1852 (day slug inverted) struck on face due being a locally addressed letter. Ex TUCKER, ULRICH, "LONGTAIL". The Forand/Freeland handbook only records two red PM4 entires to Ireland Island (other dated OC 4 1854). £375 |
;) ;) | HAMILTON P.O., Bermuda postmark (H5a) in magenta dated AUG 21 1902 on QV 2½d (SG.27b), creases, most elusive. Strikes for 1896-97 are known in violet ink £36 |
;) ;) | PRIVATE SHIP "NUBIAN" (first voyage), BERMUDA postal history 1884 cover with strip of four QV 1d dull rose (SG.22) tied ST. GEORGES "2" numeral duplex dated A/JA 15 84 to St. John's Wood, London showing red LIVERPOOL/A/JA 29 84/SHIP arrival cds, reverse blue HAMILTON B/JA 15 84 and London JA 30 84 cds. The "Nubian", in transit from Virginia, on an experimental new service for the Union Line, was announced in the local newspaper as calling at Hamilton on 10th January 1884. The ship arrived five days late and sender added this cover to the mailbag (having already written to same addressee with St. Georges B/JA 10 84 on 4 x QV 1d franking cover marked per "Nubian"). Only two covers are known - one dated JA 10 84 (expected arrival) and JA 15 84 (actual arrival) £725 |
;) | JAMAICA postmark Type PD14 in red dated 8 FE (1)884 on stampless piece. Showing circular background to handstamp which would have clearly led to rounded corners of oblong with progressive use, Proud records FE 2 1889 to AP 7 1897 £14 |