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;) | A67 used PORT ROYAL, Jamaica postal history 1883 commercial reg. cover (opened top and right side) with SUNBEAM crested crown printed flap to Fraser, Manager of The La Guayra and Caracas Railway, Caracas, Venezuela with horiz. strip pf six QV 2d deep rose CC wmk (SG.9a) neatly pmk'd "A67" obliterators with PORT-ROYAL A/NO 12 83 backstamp, alongside address panel both Jamaica and St. Thomas registration handstamps and French Messageries Maritime line paquebot d/ring. The Venezuelan capital, Caracas, is situated seven miles from the Caribbean sea, but lies at an altitude of 3,000 feet. Surveys for a rail line from La Guaira began in 1867 and British and U.S. engineers disputed the route and financing for 14 years. An English group finally secured a contract in 1881, registered La Guaira and Caracas Railway Company in London, and began construction of a 23 mile line that involved neither cables, switchbacks nor rack, It ordered eight locomotives from Nasmyth, Wilson & Co. in Manchester and an assortment of passenger and freight cars, The line began carrying passengers in July 1883. £1650 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | BRITISH HONDURAS and UNITED STATES combination postal history (Ex Ralph HART) c1868 exceptional and exquisite combination piece with vertical strip of four plus horizontal pair British Honduras 1865 QV 1d pale blue No wmk P.14 (SG.1, Cat.£65) tied "A06", and pair 1861-62 U.S. 3c rose Washington tied partial cds and pmk'd segmented cork cancels at New Orleans where framed "STEAMSHIP" also applied. The U.S. 6c, by adhesives, show the double rate and the manuscript crayon "due 14" completes the 20c rate, the double rate franking with BRH adhesives should have totalled 8d. Some adhesive faults but a unique franking (Ex Ralph HART 1978, Lot 264 as pencilled). Letters from British Honduras 1866 to 1869 could prepay the U.S. internal postage and supplies of the U.S. 3c rose Postal Stationery Envelope were evidently available in Belize for partial pre-payment as witnessed by covers (as per scans) of JA 12 1868 to Natchez, Mississippi (ex Edward S. Knapp, Maurice Burrus), and FE 27 1868 to Shreveport, Louisiana (Ex Ralph Hart). As the normal U.S. internal rate was 10c single rate, it is not understood why partial franking of 3c were the chosen partial prepayments, but this may have been the fee payable to the private contract steamboat carrier that made the trip between New Orleans and Belize City once a month starting in May 1867. £1725 |
;) | THE BERG, Transvaal postmark/cancel (D/R) 26 FEB 37 on South Africa ½d booklet strip with advertising tabs. £10 |
;) | PARCELS PORT ELIZABETH, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel (CDS) OC 1 10 on block of four KE7 1/- yellow-ochre (SG.77), some toning. £8 |
;) | KUALA PILAH, Malaya (Negri Sembilan) postmark/cancel (D2) 28 AUG 94 on two horiz. pairs re-joined to form a block of four on 1c green (SG.2), lower right stamp creased. £28 |
;) | BULATSINGHALA, Ceylon postmark/cancel (D2) 23 AU 23 on block of four KGV 5c (SG.341). £12 |
;) | KLANG, Malaya (Selangor) postmark/cancel (D4) B/MY 17 96 on block of six 1c (SG.49). £12 |
;) | SUSSEX, Sierra Leone postmark/cancel (148.01) dated */5 AP 58 ("5" inverted) on block of eight QE2 ½d (SG.210). £180 |
;) | HAMILTON, Sierra Leone postmark/cancel (049.03) */5 AP 58 on block of four QE2 1d (SG.211). £48 |
;) | GREAT BRITAIN and CAPE OF GOOD HOPE "both ways" postal history 1902 mourning cover to De Beers, Somerset West, Cape Colony with Great Britain QV 3d Jubilee tied PADDINGTON AP 3 02, no arrival date but returned to the London Hospital, Whitechapel with strip of three, two singles ½d Hope pmk'd GPO Cape Town AP 23 02, no backstamps. 3d outgoing (presumed overpaid ½d) and 2½d return. £140 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1882 DLR QV 1d drab ovp'd "Revenue" (PML.9), an exceptionally lightly mounted mint positional horizontal strip of three showing printer's guide-line at lower right with Crown CA REVERSED wmk, a very rare multiple. £240 |
;) | RATLAM, India postal history QV ½anna PSE with added QV ½anna strip of four, pair, two singles tied 13/A-20 numerals with framed REGISTERED RATLAM handstamp and RUTLAM 12 JAN and BOMBAY JAN 14 cds, opened for display, edge faults. £60 |
;) | ST. VINCENT postmark/cancel (PML.17, 19.5mm) dated A/AU 29 02 on block of four QV ½d Keyplate (SG.67). £18 |
;) | BARBADOS stamps: 1935 ½d green Postage Due (SG.D1, Cat.£114), a fine used block of 12 stamps pmk'd GPO 15 NO 43, selvedge at left with 85% split downward perfs. £75 |
;) | PARCELS POST NASSAU, Bahamas postmark/cancel (PP7) dated 8 DEC 51 on block of four KG6 3/- (SG.132b). £20 |
;) | A01 duplex used KINGSTON, Jamaica postmark/cancel dated OC 24 66 on horiz. strip of three 1860-70 QV 4d red-orange Pine wmk (SG.4a, Cat.£150). £55 |
;) | DOMINICA stamps: 1882 "½"(d) in red on bisected QV 1d lilac CC wmk (SG.11, Cat.£152+), a fine used block of eight pmk'd "A07". £120 |
;) | 234, Cape of Good Hope postmark/cancel on block of four ½d (SG.61a), toning. £6 |
;) | GLOUCESTER, Sierra Leone postmark/cancel (047.04) */3 AP 58 on corner marginal Plate 1 block of four QE2 3d (SG.214). £120 |
;) | ADELPHI, Jamaica postmark (D/R) 9 OC 03 on block of four 1d Falls (SG.32). £20 |