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;) | BRITISH HONDURAS QV 5c pmk'd "K65" with Belize A/JU 7 95 to a Captain Frank Hutchins, Waldoboro, Maine, some toning. £12 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS QV 5c UPU pmk'd "O" with Belize FE 14 89 to Amsterdam, Holland, some toning. £24 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS New currency (introduced JA 1 1888) use of "5 CENTS" on QV 1½d UPU Post Card pmk'd "O" with BELIZE FE 18 88 to New York. £100 |
;) | MAHALAPYE SIDING, Bechuanaland postal history 1901 reduced cover front with pair GB ovp'd QV 2d pmk'd MAHALAPYE SIDING 6 AU 01 to Hinckley, Leicestershire. £80 |
;) ;) | KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent postal history red KINGSTOWN C/MY 13 88 arrival on incoming Trinidad QV 2d PSRE with added QV 2½d (faults) to William Thomas, Georgetown, St. Vincent pmk'd ST. JOSEPH A/MY 12 88. £90 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS full cover with Krug & Oswald, Belize printed flap with QV 6c pmk'd "O" with A/SP 30 92 cds to Berlin, Germany. £30 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS to CEYLON 1893 use of QV 3c UPU Post Card to Grand Pass, Colombo pmk'd Belize A/AP 27 93 with London MY 23 93 and Colombo JU 3 93, three very damaged corners. £12 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS 1881 use of QV 1½d UPU Post Card pmk'd Belize AU 17 81 with Longton, Staffs C/SP 5 81 arrival, full text. £60 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS 1892 local cover p. "Freddiette" to Corozal with QV 3c pmk'd "O" and Belize A/SP 5 92, b/stamped weak COROZAL SP 6 92. £80 |
;) | NEW SOUTH WALES postal history cover marked "per German Line" with QV 6d (fault) pmk'd Sydney OC 18 86 to Lancashire, b/stamped Carnforth G/NO 29 86 and Dalton-in-Furness A/NO 29 86. £75 |
;) | INAGUA, Bahamas full illustrated Seeman Brothers, Wholesale Grocers, New York return cover pmk'd OC 18 98. £125 |
;) | GRENADA to SURINAME postal history 1891 cover with QV 4d pmk'd MR 12 91 to Paramaribo b/stamped 20 3 1891 arrival, irregularly opened missing large part of side flap. Suriname joined the UPU MY 1 1877 and Grenada joined FE 1 1881 £75 |
;) | UNDERPAID WITH PRE-CANCELLED POSTAGE DUES ADDED, Jamaica postal history 1886 underpaid printed return cover with Jamaica QV 4d tied Kingston MR 23 86 sqc to New York collecting tax and “16 Cents” charge handstamps, on arrival pre-cancelled in blue ink U.S. 2 x 3c, 10c Postage Dues added. £165 |
;) | F87 used SMYRNA, British Levant postal history 1883 cover to Thomas Stephenson, Glen Caladh by Greenock with GB QV 2½d tied "F87" with Smyrna B/DE 15 83 cds alongside, b/stamped Greenock DE 25 83. Glen Caladh Castle had a number of owners including George Stephenson (1781-1848), nephew of the famous engineer and designer of the steam locomotive Rocket. During World War II the castle, situated on the western shores of Loch Riddon north of the Isle of Bute, was requestioned as a training establishment by Combined Operations becoming the Beach Pilotage School 1942-45, and designated H.M.S James Cook, a reference to the advancing navigation skills that the founder of Australia introduced into the Royal Navy, and reflected the task of operators of troop landing craft and their cargoes, and tank landing operations. The property was demolished in 1960, having been rendered unsafe by dry rot. £225 |
;) | MAIL TO CO-FOUNDER OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, Jamaica postal history 1891 cover with U.S. 5c with SWAMPSCOTT MAY 13 1891 to Capt. L.D. Baker, Port Antonio, Jamaica with Boston (MY 13), Kingston (MY 23) and Port Antonio (MY 24 91) b/stamps, reverse stained. The actual history of the UFCo does not start until its foundation in 1899 but the “legend” of the Company goes back to May 1870 when Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, a well-known Yankee sea captain and owner of the two-masted schooner “Telegraph” arrived in Jamaica from his home port of Wellfield, Massachusetts and filled spare deck cargo space for his return trip to New Jersey with 160 stems of bananas purchased at 14 cents each. On arrival in Jersey City he found they readily sold on the quayside at $2 per stem, and so began Captain Baker’s interest in the banana industry. Six years later in 1876 Captain Baker joined forces with Andrew W. Preston to found the Boston Fruit Company. Some 20 years later forces were joined with Minor C. Keith who had built a railroad in Costa Rica and was using it to transport bananas from the plantations. The three men, each giants in their own field, evolved plans to form a new Company, and on the 30th March 1899 co-founded a new firm, to be called the United Fruit Company, with assets of some 213,000 acres of land in the Central American Republics, some 110 miles of railway, a small fleet of ships and approximately $11,000,000 in capital. Captain Baker’s initial 160 stems of bananas turned into 17,000,000 stems being shipped annually for consumption in the USA by 1899. £140 |
;) ;) | RMSPCo “PARA” (Colombian War of a Thousand Days, Spanish La Guerra De Los Mil Dias 1899-1903) Colombia 10c rate cover pmk’d Cartagena FEB 20 1900 with purple handstruck "PARA" mailboat arriving Weymouth MR 15 1900. (Civil War between Liberals and mainly Conservative Government that resulted in between 60,000 and 130,000 deaths, extensive property damage and national economic ruin. The Liberal party represented the coffee plantation owners and import-export merchants, and due a drastic downturn in the international price of coffee many growers were operating at a loss by 1899. The Conservatives, suffering from reduced customs revenues, responded by issuing unbacked paper currency, causing the value of the peso to drop precipitously and war broke out, the first phase, lasting about seven months, ended with defeat of the Liberal forces at Palonegro on 25 May 25 1900. During the next two years guerrilla-style warfare raged in the rural areas being finally ended by the Conservatives offering amnesty and political reform on 12 June 1902). Michael Rego research shows that RMSP had no Atlantic main line packet link to South America and German vessels filled the gap from 1897 to 1914. The HAPAG monthly route during this period was Hamburg, St. Thomas, Trinidad, La Guaira, St. Thomas, La Havre, Hamburg. HAPAG ship Valdivia sailed from Colombia, Venezuela, Curacao for St. Thomas and landed there 1 March 1900. The mail from Venezuela for the UK was probably landed at Trinidad and transferred to Barbados for connection with RMS Para. The RMS Para left Southampton on a fortnightly service on JA 24 1900, landed Barbados FE 4 1900 for Jacmel, back to Barbados, Plymouth MR 15 1900. (In 1900 the RMSP no longer called at Colombia, Venezuela or St. Thomas, but stuck to a short time-table with main ports). £625 |
;) | ST. LUCIA to MEXICO postal history 1898 commercial use of QV 1d pale red UPU Post Card pmk'd C/NO 26 98 routed through New York DE 10 98 with very fine MEXICO DIC 16 98 arrival. £90 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS postal history 1894 cover to New York with QV 6c tied "K.65" with Belize A/AP 26 94 cds, very fine Per S.S. "GAMBETTA" handstamp. £90 |
;) | BELIZE, British Honduras postal history 1896 printed address reg. cover with portrait of the recipient Wilhelm Breimeier in Stadthagen, Germany with 20 CENTS on QV 6d pmk'd Belize A/JA 16 96 with London transit and 4.2.96 arrival b/stamp. £140 |
;) | BRITISH HONDURAS full cover with two pairs GB QV 1d lilac pmk'd Etchingham NO 30 87, b/stamped Burwash same day (both East Sussex villages) showing partial Belize DE 19 87 arrival. £100 |