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;) | CHATEAUBELAIR, St. Vincent postmark dated C/OC 24 90 on 1889 QV 1d carmine-red (SG.48c) showing "cut-throat" plate variety. This village cds seldom found on this printing. £30 |
;) | St. Andrew's "D", Grenada postmark in the REVERSED position dated 1 SP 88 on QV 2½d (SG.32). £14 |
;) | GRENADA stamps: 1891 "2½d" on QV 8d grey-brown (SG.47), used with raised quad variety, blunt corner perf. £18 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1893 QV 2½d on 1d (SG.55a), fine used with "scratch on Queen's cheek" plate variety. £8 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1880 mourning wrapper from Larios Hermanos to Genoa, Italy with GB QV 2½d Plate 17 tied "A26" duplex dated A/MY 5 08 (year error), backstamped top flap for display with Estafeta De Cambio, Madrid (MY 7) and Genova (10 5-80). £75 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1880 mourning cover to Sir. Thomas Hare, Stow Hall (2nd Baronet 1807-1880), Downham Market, Norfolk with GB QV 2½d blue Plate 17 tied Gibraltar duplex dated A/MR 21 08 (year error), backstamped superb Downham A/MR 26 60 cds, small faults. Early use of the "08" year error and early use GB QV 2½d blue Plate 17 as issued in Great Britain FE 5 1880. £60 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | 74 used Hobart, TASMANIA postal history 1860 cover to The Right Reverend Bishop Goold in Melbourne, Victoria with Chalon 2d green showing some DOUBLING OF VALUE TABLET and engine turning and Chalon 4d (pencil marked "cobalt blue, fluorescent ink" on reverse) pmk'd Hobart "74" with part red Hobart Town alongside, reverse with ornate seal impressed black wax and Melbourne A/FE 4 60 arrival. James Alipius Goold, Roman Catholic Archbishop, was born NO 4 1812 into a prosperous family in Cork, Ireland. Ordained in Rome, returned Ireland where he gained permission to volunteer for missionary work in New South Wales arriving Sydney FE 24 1838. Visited Ballarat gold fields 1854 and 1855 and pacified Catholic miners particularly after the Eureka affair. £925 |
;) | ST. VINCENT stamps: 1885 1d on 2½d on 1d (SG.46), fine mounted mint with prominent "scratch on Queen's cheek" plate variety (12,060 stamps overprinted on sheets of 60 making only 201 varieties originally available). £36 |
;) | 27 out island numeral, Bahamas postmark on 1863 QV 1d vermilion INVERTED & REVERSED Crown CC wmk (SG.25y, Cat.£100), thin at top and some short base perfs. £20 |
;) ;) | K1 "3", Bermuda postmark on 1873 "One Penny." on QV 3d (SG.16, Cat.£350), the "One" with dropped "O". £200 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) ;) | GRENADA postal history 1897 poorly opened three sides with tear across address panel reg. cover to Myerscough in London with QV ½d (SG.30) strips of six and three, top left stamp showing distinctive short left leg to "H" of HALFPENNY, pmk'd St. David's "E" for NO xx 97 (without day slug). £75 |
;) ;) | K1 "14" (inverted watermark), Bermuda postmark on 1865 QV 1d pale rose CROWN CC INVERTED wmk (SG.2w), some trimmed perfs but an extraordinary and extremely rare combination. £400 |
;) | ST. GEORGES (inverted watermark), Bermuda postmark (H1) B/JU 11 89 on Crown CC INVERTED wmk QV ½d stone (SG.19w, Cat.£225), part extra cds rim at left. Ludington Page 141 states "the St. Georges Type H1 appears to have been used mainly as a transit or arrival datestamp, for unlike the Hamilton Type H1 few have been recorded cancelling adhesives". Geoff Osborn also considered examples as very rare, however in view of the frequency of this date with INVERTED WATERMARK plus traces of further datestamps at edges one must consider that these came from a large multiple perhaps cancelled-to-order. This date also exists with NORMAL WATERMARK (scarcer) £125 |
;) | ST. GEORGES (inverted watermark), Bermuda postmark (H1) B/JU 11 89 on Crown CC INVERTED wmk QV ½d stone (SG.19w, Cat.£225), trace of extra rim cancel at left. Ludington Page 141 states "the St. Georges Type H1 appears to have been used mainly as a transit or arrival datestamp, for unlike the Hamilton Type H1 few have been recorded cancelling adhesives". Geoff Osborn also considered examples as very rare, however in view of the frequency of this date with INVERTED WATERMARK plus traces of further datestamps at edges one must consider that these came from a large multiple perhaps cancelled-to-order. This date also exists with NORMAL WATERMARK (scarcer) £130 |
;) | ST. GEORGES (inverted watermark), Bermuda postmark (H1) B/JU 11 89 on Crown CC INVERTED wmk QV ½d stone (SG.19w, Cat.£225), part extra cds at left and trace rim of further strike at base. Ludington Page 141 states "the St. Georges Type H1 appears to have been used mainly as a transit or arrival datestamp, for unlike the Hamilton Type H1 few have been recorded cancelling adhesives". Geoff Osborn also considered examples as very rare, however in view of the frequency of this date with INVERTED WATERMARK plus traces of further datestamps at edges one must consider that these came from a large multiple perhaps cancelled-to-order. This date also exists with NORMAL WATERMARK (scarcer) £125 |
;) | ST. PHILIP, Barbados postmark (M3) inverted code 3/SP 26 03 on 1d Seal (SG.107), currently the only recorded date with this variety. £12 |
;) | ANTIGUA postmark with YEAR ERROR dated A/AP 28 28 on QV 1d (difficult to determine whether CC or CA wmk). £12 |
;) | BIDA, Northern Nigeria postmark (T.2B, 2½mm letters) 13 OC 22 (LRD) on MCA INVERTED wmk Die I KGV 6d (SG.25aw), minor faults. £100 |
;) ;) | Parish "B" (INVERTED) used St. Marks, Grenada postal history 1898 use of QV 2d grey PSRE with added QV 2½d Keyplate (SG.51) to Egerton Burnett Ltd, Wellington, Somerset pmk'd "B" dated 17 FE 98, the removable "B" being inverted. Only two covers with 2nd Parish Type INVERTED "B" are currently recorded, the other dated DE 12 95 £525 |