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;) | BANANA BANK, British Honduras full cover pmk'd purple ink JY 18 27, b/stamped Belize £200 |
;) | BANANA BANK, British Honduras full reg. cover dated purple ink 1 MR 28, b/stamped Belize and New York £160 |
;) | FRESH CREEK, Bahamas full reg. cover pmk'd 25 NOV 34 £75 |
;) | INAGUA, Bahamas full illustrated Seeman Brothers, Wholesale Grocers, New York return cover pmk'd OC 18 98. £125 |
;) | INAGUA, Bahamas to PANAMA full cover dated 20 JUN 11, b/stamped 7 JUL 1911 in black and blue ink £40 |
;) | LOCAL INAGUA REGISTERED MAIL WITH TRACKING 02790, Bahamas full cover dated 22 JAN 65, b/stamped Nassau 25 JAN 65 £36 |
;) | GREAT GUANO CAY, Bahamas full cover pmk'd 4 MAR 29, no b/stamps. £85 |
;) | COMPLETED JOURNEY WITHOUT ADHESIVES, Bahamas postal history cover with red ink LOVELY BAY temporary rubber datestamp MAY 16 1958 to Houston, missent to Dallas, Texas MAY 23 1958, endorsed “Received without stamps at Bellaire” (a suburb of Houston). £55 |
;) | ABRAHAM'S BAY MAYAGUANA, Bahamas postal history temporary rubber datestamp for MAR 15 1957 tying KG6 1d, both KG6 2d on Frederick Schmidt cover to New York. £75 |
;) | CALEDONIA, British Honduras postal history temporary rubber datestamp for JUL 13 1927 tying KGV 2c brown and 2d red on cover to William McFarlan, East Donnington, Penn., USA. £250 |
;) | GRENADA to SURINAME postal history 1891 cover with QV 4d pmk'd MR 12 91 to Paramaribo b/stamped 20 3 1891 arrival, irregularly opened missing large part of side flap. Suriname joined the UPU MY 1 1877 and Grenada joined FE 1 1881 £75 |
;) | UNDERPAID WITH PRE-CANCELLED POSTAGE DUES ADDED, Jamaica postal history 1886 underpaid printed return cover with Jamaica QV 4d tied Kingston MR 23 86 sqc to New York collecting tax and “16 Cents” charge handstamps, on arrival pre-cancelled in blue ink U.S. 2 x 3c, 10c Postage Dues added. £165 |
;) | ST. LUCIA Attractive undated hand-drawn in black and gold drawing on card similar to the design accepted for the central Device of the Colony on the issued 1946 KG6 £1.00 definitive (SG.141). £125 |
;) | BANANA BANK, British Honduras postal history Roger Wells reg. cover to Grimsby with Plate 1 positional strip of three KG6 3c Coronation tied BANANA BANK temporary rubber datestamps lightly dated DEC 6, reverse Registration 7 DE 39 cds, lightly tone speckled. £225 |
;) | Manuscript "Lo Deadmans Cay/18/12/53/Bahamas", Bahamas postal history Manuscript across KG6 ½d, 1d on Voice of Prophecy cover to Nassau, crumpled along base. £125 |
;) | GUINEA GRASS, British Honduras postal history (TDC-1) temporary rubber datestamp in mauve MAY 3 1919 tying KGV 1c WAR, KGV 2c on large part cover (sender address portion cut away) to Montgomery Ward, Chicago. £75 |
;) ;) ;) | CAY CAULKER, British Honduras postal hisory (SC-1a) C/1 JY 29, five poor/one fine cds tying block of four KGV 5c on J M’Michael reg. cover to Renfrewshire, affixed over right edge and mainly reverse "BRITISH HONDURAS POST OFFICE Received open or torn and officially sealed" label pmk’d REGISTRATION 6 JY 29, soiled with cover fault top right. £180 |
;) | F87 used SMYRNA, British Levant postal history 1883 cover to Thomas Stephenson, Glen Caladh by Greenock with GB QV 2½d tied "F87" with Smyrna B/DE 15 83 cds alongside, b/stamped Greenock DE 25 83. Glen Caladh Castle had a number of owners including George Stephenson (1781-1848), nephew of the famous engineer and designer of the steam locomotive Rocket. During World War II the castle, situated on the western shores of Loch Riddon north of the Isle of Bute, was requestioned as a training establishment by Combined Operations becoming the Beach Pilotage School 1942-45, and designated H.M.S James Cook, a reference to the advancing navigation skills that the founder of Australia introduced into the Royal Navy, and reflected the task of operators of troop landing craft and their cargoes, and tank landing operations. The property was demolished in 1960, having been rendered unsafe by dry rot. £225 |
;) | QUEENSLAND to NEW SOUTH WALES re-directed on arrival 1875 mourning cover with Queensland QV Chalon 2d tied "102" sunburst with Rockhampton JA 4 75 to Rees R. Jones, Yass, New South Wales, on arrival NSW Side Face QV 2d added and tied for re-direction to the Royal Hotel, Sydney. Large part missing flap but an unusual and rare combination of two different QV portrait adhesives. Ex Von UEXKULL. £725 |
;) | MAIL TO CO-FOUNDER OF THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY, Jamaica postal history 1891 cover with U.S. 5c with SWAMPSCOTT MAY 13 1891 to Capt. L.D. Baker, Port Antonio, Jamaica with Boston (MY 13), Kingston (MY 23) and Port Antonio (MY 24 91) b/stamps, reverse stained. The actual history of the UFCo does not start until its foundation in 1899 but the “legend” of the Company goes back to May 1870 when Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, a well-known Yankee sea captain and owner of the two-masted schooner “Telegraph” arrived in Jamaica from his home port of Wellfield, Massachusetts and filled spare deck cargo space for his return trip to New Jersey with 160 stems of bananas purchased at 14 cents each. On arrival in Jersey City he found they readily sold on the quayside at $2 per stem, and so began Captain Baker’s interest in the banana industry. Six years later in 1876 Captain Baker joined forces with Andrew W. Preston to found the Boston Fruit Company. Some 20 years later forces were joined with Minor C. Keith who had built a railroad in Costa Rica and was using it to transport bananas from the plantations. The three men, each giants in their own field, evolved plans to form a new Company, and on the 30th March 1899 co-founded a new firm, to be called the United Fruit Company, with assets of some 213,000 acres of land in the Central American Republics, some 110 miles of railway, a small fleet of ships and approximately $11,000,000 in capital. Captain Baker’s initial 160 stems of bananas turned into 17,000,000 stems being shipped annually for consumption in the USA by 1899. £140 |