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;) ;) | Rarely seen 2d RATE TO USA, GIBRALTAR postal history Ex METLISS, OSBORN, STIRRUPS 1874 printed headed entire by private ship "Pleiades" to New York with GB QV 2d blue pmk'd light "A25" duplex dated A/OC 9 74 landed with NEW YORK SHIP LETTER cds dated OCT 26 showing 4c to be collected. Ex METLISS, OSBORN, STIRRUPS. 'Direct' ship letters to New York were quicker and cheaper than mails via Liverpool. £350 |
;) | BELGIUM to VIRGINS ISLANDS postal history 1933 cover with "114, Place La Fayette, Paris" printed on flaps diagonal edge stampless to Tortola with partial ROAD-TOWN OC 19 (33) backstamp, manuscript "unknown - return to sender" with matching ink asterisk alongside printed "LIGUE CONTRE LE POURBOIRE" (League Against Tipping), handstruck RETURN/VOIRauDO5, boxed RETOUR/A L'ENVOYEUR", and handstruck "T" with Bruxelles 28 XI 1933 arrival and 1fr Postage Due (closed tear) added and cancelled, partial ROAD-TOWN backstamp. £65 |
;) | KASSE, Sierra Leone postmark (069.01) */FE 13 08 on KE7 1d (SG.100). £75 |
;) | DARU, Sierra Leone postmark (030.02) */JU 13 13 on horiz. pair KE7 ½d (SG.99) on fragment. £28 |
;) | MOPALMA, Sierra Leone postmark (115.01) sideways down C/NO 12 without year on KE7 1d (SG.87). Illustrated Page 72 of "The Postmarks of Sierra Leone 1854-1961 Second Edition" by Walton, Quirk, Hamilton, Horry. £175 |
;) | HASTINGS, Sierra Leone postmark (051.03) C/31 JY 09 on KE7 1d (SG.100a). £60 |
;) | JAMAICA postal history 1939 cover with Jamaica Fruit & Shipping Co. Ltd, Kingston senders address marked "via St. Thomas, V.I." to Chicago, Illinois with Jamaica KG6 ½d, pair 1d carried on the first leg by m/s "ERRIA" and red crayon cancelled by the purser with second leg using U.S. Virgin Islands 3c pmk'd Charlotte Amalie "1" duplex dated JAN 14 1939. A rare two countries combination to destination. £65 |
;) | BABANANGO, Natal skeleton postmark dated SP 30 07 on KE7 ½d (SG.146). £40 |
;) | 11 used GREYTOWN, Natal postmark (T.G) on QV 1/- (SG.59), perf. fault. £16 |
;) | FRENCH MAIL for FRANCE, BRITISH GUIANA postal history 1906 with printed sender "FRED J. BANKART, SUCCESSOR TO A. PEROT & Co. DEMERARA" marked "p. French Mail" to Beaune, France with 5c pmk'd Georgetown 4 JUL 1906, alongside octagonal d/ring CAYENNE A FORT-DE-FRANCE LC dated 6 JUL 06. There are strong links between the Perot's of British Guiana and Bermuda. Covers from Demerara (1859) and Berbice (1872) are known to William H. Perot, Baltimore, son of the famous William Bennett Perot of Bermuda. Two 1833 entires from Demerara to Philadelphia have manuscript endorsement “Hamilton, Bermuda. Forwarded by Your Most Ob Servant Wm. B. Perot” whilst working as a forwarding agent during the period before he was appointed Postmaster of Bermuda by warrant dated SP 6 1836. £120 |
;) ;) | EIGHT MILE ROCK, Bahamas postal history 1931 reg. A.C. Sheldrake cover to Lanarkshire with 3d Staircase pmk'd purplish-black EIGHT MILE ROCK (T.5) cds dated */30 MR 31, pencil marked "Found in ordinary mail", overall tone-spotting. £30 |
;) ;) | BERMUDA postal history 1908 1d red Dock design with simulated perforations printed on paper to resemble a newswrapper with purposeful indecipherable cancellation addressed St. Etienne, French postage dues from another cover added pmk’d St. Etienne 6-3 07. £135 |
;) | V.R. ORA, CYPRUS postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £100 |
;) | V.R. ORA, CYPRUS postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £95 |
;) | V.R. ORA, CYPRUS postmark (T.21) on QV 1pi (SG.42). £48 |
;) | V.R. ORA, CYPRUS postmark (T.21) on QV 2pi (SG.43), some toning and soiling. £75 |
;) | DICKOYA, Ceylon postmark on forged ST. VINCENT stamp 1899 QV 5/- green & blue (SG.75, Cat.£170 used), a forgery believed to have been cleverly executed by the Belgian forger Dr Julian 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 portion of a DICKOYA (Ceylon) cds which could not be removed. £95 |
;) | V.R. KARPAS, CYPRUS postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £12 |
;) | V.R. KARPAS, CYPRUS postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £12 |
;) | V.R. KARPAS, CYPRUS postmark (T.21) on QV ½pi (SG.40). £12 |