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;) | K3a "4" used MANGROVE BAY, Bermuda postal history 1885 cover via New York to Larbert, Stirlingshire with pair QV 4d orange-red Crown CC wmk (SG.20) pmk'd full upr. duplex dated A/DE 3 85, reverse fine strikes Falkirk, Carron, Larbert for DE 18/19 85, central vertical crease. A DE 3 1885 cover to Hechler/Halifax, Nova Scotia carried S.S. Beta with QV 1d strip of three tied K3a "4" was estimated £4/500 in Ludington sale and realised £920 £275 |
;) | JUMBO MINES, Rhodesia postmark dated 18 NOV 1910 on KGV 1d DH, some light creasing. £48 |
;) | K3a "9", Bermuda postmark on 1880 QV 4d orange-red CC wmk (SG.20), some clipped perfs. £18 |
;) | LUNGI skeleton, Sierra Leone postmark (088.02) dated 18 JU 58 on QE2 1½d (Sg.212). £36 |
;) | SUNGEI PATANI, Kedah postmark dated 28 SE 1936 on 25c piece. £8 |
;) | TEYATEYANENG, Lesotho postmark dated 18 IV 74 on 3c piece. £7 |
;) | FORCES POST OFFICE, Gibraltar postal history PARCEL POST dated 2 JNE 82 tying ½d HMS Opossum on plain card. £20 |
;) | YAMANDU, Sierra Leone postmark (159.01) */FE 11 26 on KGV 1d (SG.132). £30 |
;) | K3a "11", Bermuda postmark on 1881 QV 3d yellow-buff P.14 x 12½c CC wmk (SG.10). £65 |
;) | EVRYKHOU, Cyprus postmark (T.2) A/DE 21 14 on KGV ½pi (SG.75b). £24 |
;) | V.R. EVRYKHOU, Cyprus postmark (T.21) on 1904 KE7 ½pi MCA wmk (SG.62). £95 |
;) | Christchurch code "2", Barbados postmark (M2, close to outer rim) on small star (1d) 2/MR 24 73 (inward tear, crease) plus 2/JA 27 88 on 1d reversed CC wmk. £40 |
;) | E.R. KOPHINOU (Turkish), Cyprus postmark (T.21) on 1904 KE7 ½pi MCA wmk (SG.62). £50 |
;) | GIBRALTAR postal history 1859 land route "via France" to London with GB QV 1d red strip of three, GB 6d lilac pmk'd "G" with greenish-blue A/JA 7 59 despatch, backstamped London JA 17 59 arrival. Flap with tape stain. £825 |
;) | K4a "11", Bermuda postmark on 1889 QV 1d aniline carmine CA wmk (SG.24a). £30 |
;) | C82 used PERNAMBUCA, Brazil postmark on 1866 10r vermilion P.12 (Scott 53), rare as such. £375 |
;) | POSTMEESTERS KANTOOR JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal postmark previously unrecorded dated 5 SEP 00 on cut-out piece £24 |
;) | KAYIMA, Sierra Leone postmark (071.01) */17 JU 55 on KG6 2d (SG.191a). £65 |
;) | NEWTON, Sierra Leone postmark (120.02) reversed C/AP 16 50 on KG6 2d (SG.191a), perf. faults. £10 |
;) | ST. KITTS PAID (used during shortage 1d stamps for the internal rate) to NEVIS. 1889 stampless cover to Miss. Richardson, opposite the church, Charlestown, Nevis with the (1d) rate covered by black undated ST. KITTS PAID with ST. KITTS C/DE 10 89 despatch and NEVIS A/DE 11 89 arrival backstamp. Minor blemishes but unique as such and the latest recorded use. Ex BROOKES. The 1889 shortage of ½d, 1d, 2½d, 4d stamps currently spans a 22 day period NO 21 1889 to DE 12 1889. New supplies were invoiced NO 29 1889 comprising ½d dull green (6,080 stamps), 1d carmine-rose, 2½d ultramarine, 4d grey (6,100 each) all Crown CA wmk, with expected arrival in time for the DE 19 89 sailing to UK. Only four covers and two cover fronts are recorded comprising NO 21 89 (at the over 300 miles rate) to Trinidad, NO 21 89 and DE 5 89 cover fronts (at the 4d UPU rate) to Edinburgh and London respectively, DE 5 89 and DE 12 89 (at the 2½d under 300 miles radius rate) to Barbados and Antigua respectively, and DE 10 89 (at the 1d local rate) to Nevis. £1350 |