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;) | A38, Jamaica postmark (Type H) on QV 4d CC wmk (SG.11). £6 |
;) ;) | BERMUDA postal history 1883 cover p. S.S. "Orinoco" to Troy, Ohio with QV ½d stone, pair QV 1d rose-red (SG.19,23) tied HAMILTON K3 "1" duplex dated A/DE 6 83 during the first blue ink period March 1882 to January 1884. This is a very rare combination as the few covers known in this band of use are normally made up with QV ½d, 2d franking. The OC 1 1876 USA-Bermuda postal convention set a 2d rate effective OC 3 1876 between the two countries but allowed Bermuda to charge 2½d per half ounce. Bermuda had no ½d adhesive until the ½d stone was issued MR 25 1880 and accepted the loss during the interim years. £375 |
;) | K3 "3", Bermuda postmark on QV 2d blue CA wmk (SG.25). £7 |
;) | K3 "3", Bermuda postmark on QV 4d orange CC wmk (SG.20) showing positioning of duplex cds. £6 |
;) | K3 "3", Bermuda postmark on QV 2d dull blue CC wmk (SG.3) showing positioning of duplex cds. £5 |
;) | K4 "3", Bermuda postmark on QV 4d orange CC wmk (SG.20). £6 |
;) | PARCEL POST G.P.O., BERMUDA postmark (H12) two earlier than recorded dates of 2 JUN 47 on KG6 2½d pair, and 9 JAN 48 magnificently struck on envelope cut-out piece. £20 |
;) | PAQUEBOT BERMUDA, Bermuda postmark 9 MAY 53 on GB QEII 1½d piece. £5 |
;) | UMSINDUSI, Natal postmark (M.2) A/FE 13 92 on QV 2d (SG.107). £30 |
;) | 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 |
;) | PRIVATE SHIP "NUBIAN" (second voyage), BERMUDA postal history 1884 cover marked per "Nubian" with 1880 QV 4d orange-red (SG.20) pmk'd ST. GEORGES K3 "2" duplex dated A/FE 21 1884 to London locally directed with crowned "R" handstamp to denote no additional charge, reverse with (early) black HAMILTON (H1, first period blue ink ended January 1883) dated B/FE 21 84 and red London MR 13 84. A rare cover from the second voyage of the "Nubian". The first voyage of the "Nubian", in transit from Virginia on an experimental new service for the Union Line, was announced to call at Hamilton on JA 10 1884. The ship was five days late and single covers are known from St. Georges pmk'd JA 10 1884 and JA 15 1884 and both landed with red LIVERPOOL SHIP cds. £450 |
;) ;) ;) | REGISTERED BOOK POST, New Zealand postal history 1871 opened-each-end foolscap wrapper (232 x 103mm) marked "Per Book Post to be Registered" and "via San Francisco" to Edinburgh, Scotland with QV 4d, 6d tied WELLINGTON duplex dated JA 3 71 with London 27 FE 71 transit and Edinburgh FE 28 71 arrival backstamp, some peripheral edge faults and filing crease but exceptionally rare and probably unique as such. With the termination of the route via Marseilles, the postage rate via Brindisi was reduced to 9d per half ounce letter on THIS SAME DATE of 3 January 1871 £1250 |
;) | K3 "3", Bermuda postmark on 1883 QV 1d dull rose CA wmk (SG.22). £15 |
;) | K3a "9", Bermuda postmark on 1865 QV 1 pale rose Crown CC INVERTED wmk (SG.2w, Cat.£250), rare combination. The finest of two examples recorded by me £165 |
;) | K4a "6", Bermuda postmark on 1883 QV 1d rose-red CA wmk (SG.23), some toning. £28 |
;) | K3a "6", Bermuda postmark on 1880 QV 4d orange-red (SG.20). £35 |
;) | K4a "8", Bermuda postmark on 1880 QV ½d stone (SG.19). £16 |
;) | K4a "8", Bermuda postmark on 1880 QV 4d (SG.20), thinned at top. £32 |
;) | A04 (tall) used BERBICE, British Guiana postmark on 1876 2c orange CC wmk (SG.127). £6 |
;) ;) | 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 |