Auction 2025

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1 £ 75 link Anguilla A commercial censored cover from Anguilla Valley to Stoke-on-Trent, posted in The Valley on 4 December and with 2s 6½d paid for the full transatlantic airmail rate. It went first to St Kitts (9 DE date stamp) and was censored there with a fine strike of the fancy lozenge CH4 mark with manuscript numeral ‘9’, it is back stamped Antigua DE 11 and in England was opened and resealed with Examined By/7554 tape. The only downside is the rough opening at top has badly damaged the ½d stamp
2 £ 20 link Anguilla Three covers with Anguilla Valley postmarks: the tercentenary set addressed locally to Roger Wells NO 10 50; 20c franking with QEII 3c, 5c, 12c sent registered to USA 4 AU 65: finally 10 Feb 68 long folded airmail envelope to Devon at 40c rate (2x3c, 4c and 2x 15c)
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3 £ 5 link Antigua Neat page size 1967 map of the island with parishes and roads
4 £ 30 link Antigua Packet letter from Antigua to London, rated 1/- and with good strike of the Antigua dbl-arc JA 10 1844 on reverse, London arrival 15 Feb.
5 £ 20 link Antigua 2 March 1845 interisland letter from Antigua to Grenada, only a fairly poor strike of the Antigua date stamp on the reverse – ex Booth, who was intrigued by the charge of 6d, the interisland packet rate of 4d, plus 2d. but why – the accounting 4 then 2 totalled to 6 is clear in the top rt
6 £ 60 link Antigua A neatly opened envelope to Revd Rigaud of Magdalen College. Oxford, franked with GB 6d, it is a pity the sender did not exercise the same care separating the stamp, scissor trimmed perfs at the base, a missing lower left corner and with a portion of the adjacent stamp at top
7 £ 90 link Antigua Presentable examples of the GB 4d and 6d cancelled A02, SG Z4, 5 cat. £780
8 £ 40 link Antigua Two imperf plate proofs of the 6d green. One on thin, hard wove paper, the other from the bottom of the sheet scored with a thick vertical line, see Jordan & Freeland p.42
Antigua The next 6 lots offer an opportunity to acquire some of the attractive reprints made by Perkins Bacon around 1902, see Jordan & Freeland p. 40
9 £ 60 link Antigua Four vignettes of the Queens Head in black on paper 78 x 63mm with impressions of the head used for Antigua, Ceylon, New South Wales and St Lucia
10 £ 30 link Antigua Three coloured head vignettes of the Antigua head in rose, vermilion and violet, all on wove paper each c50 x 22mm
11 £ 30 link Antigua Two head vignettes in black on squarish blue paper c50 x 50mm, with it comes a St Lucia head reprint in brown
12 £ 25 link Antigua Two squarish head vignettes in colour on cream paper, one vermilion, one green, most attractive
13 £ 15 link Antigua One head vignette in black on square piece (77 x 72 mm) of pink paper
14 £ 30 link Antigua Finally four head vignettes on different sized pieces, three in black and one blue
15 £ 95 link Antigua Page with 1863-71 small star wmk perf 14-16 showing the shades of the 1d and 6d – for the 1d you get three used and three ‘unused’ and there are four examples of the 6d, centring is above average and attractive examples SG5-10 cat. c£730
16 £ 60 link Antigua Three pages of used stamps featuring the 1872-79 issues on Crown CC paper. Two examples of the 1d and 6d perf 12½, five 1d and two 6d from the perf 14, two examples of the 4d and one 2½d (SG19) but with unattractive cancellation. Generally fine examples SG13-20 cat. c£350
17 £ 45 link Antigua Two pages of 19 stamps from the watermark CA issues of 1882-87 largely used, but with five unused examples.SG21-29 (no 1s). cat. c£280 condn generally fine
18 £ 35 link Antigua 1903 Arms set used to 2s 6d (but short of the key 2s) and mint to 6d (bar the 2½d) very good to fine examples cat. c£270
19 £ 40 link Antigua 1908-12 Arms set, fine mint with addnl shade for the ½d, 1d & 2½d SG41-50 cat. £208
20 £ 50 link Antigua The 1908-12 Arms set fine used, but short of the 2d SG41-50 cat. £240 but with extra 1917 shade of ½d & 1d
21 £ 50 link Antigua The KGV 5s fine used at St Johns in July, year not determinable, SG51 cat. £150
22 £ 12 link Antigua The three War Tax stamps SG52-54 mint and used with two covers to Port Washington, one with four examples of SG54, the other bearing five examples of SG53
23 £ 45 link Antigua Page with the 1921 set to 5s on MCA paper, both mint and used present and fine examples SG55-60
24 £ 35 link Antigua The Multiple Script CA set mint, is complete to 2/6, SG62-78, fine copies
25 £ 90 link Antigua However, the good to fine used set with Multiple Script CA wmk is complete, SG62-80, cat. £300
26 £ 35 link Antigua Tercentenary set to 1s mint and fine used, along with SJ set mint and fine used SG81-88 and 91-94, cat. £177
27 £ 40 link Antigua The George VI definitives, complete used set to £1, with it you get a short mint set with no 10s or £; SG98-109 cat, £200
28 £ 25 link Antigua The complete George VI commems, mint, used and on cover, bar the SW 5s, the UPU set on a cover in blocks of four and the SW 2½d on a cover with three blocks of four. The BWI University cover is an FDC to the Governor’s wife
29 £ 30 link Antigua The 1952 QEII set SG 120a to 134 mint, used to $1.20 and with six covers including a 1955 40c airmail rate to England with the ‘Give to the Princess Alice Appeal’ cachet, four other examples of this rate using different combinations of 4c, 8c, 12c and 24c stamps
30 £ 10 link Antigua The QEII definitives with the change of watermark to the St Edwards Crown Block CA are less often seen, here we can offer a mint set together with a used set that lacks the ½c and 1c SG149-158 cat £23. With it you get two slogan cancels ‘Post Early for Christmas’ on Air Mail cover to Bahamas Dec 1964 and ‘Where Land and Sea Make Beauty’ on April 1963 cover also to the Bahamas, and which must be the earlier watermark 3c (black and yellow-orange SG123a) and 12c
31 £ 50 link Antigua An attractively written up study of the 1966 definitive issue, for each stamp there is a mint example and a photograph of the main design element, the origins of which are unknown to us, but appear contemporary. The full set of sixteen treated this way seems to warrant near full catalogue valuation. Quite a challenge to improve the presentation
32 £ 20 link Antigua The QEII commemoratives from the Coronation to Unesco – 1953-66, generally one mint, one used and four issues with FDC, the BCF one with BOAC airmail etiquette
33 £ 50 link Antigua Springback binder of commemorative issues, seemingly complete mint and largely complete used from Associated Statehood to the end of 1972, including the miniature sheets, fine condition SG199-348
34 £ 18 link Antigua C Hinchcliffe of Yorkshire is one of those collectors for whom we should be grateful for arranging to collect examples of the village postmarks. Here we can offer strikes from 12 offices on covers franked with the 10c Blackbeard, all postmarked 1971 – All Saints, Bendals, Bolans, Cedar Grove, Freetown, Grays Farm, Johnsons Point, Liberta, Nelsons Dockyard, Old Road, Parham and Seatons
35 £ 7 link Antigua Tuck’s Oilette card of Loch Lochy sent from Scotland to Antigua, then redirected to Dominica. The KEVII ½d was insufficient and so taxed with ‘T’ in hexagon with ‘L’ underneath
36 £ 40 link Antigua SP 26 29 cover from St John’s to London’s Hyde Park was endorsed ‘sent by “Pan American Airways” via U.S.A.’ bearing Antigua 4d and 1s (SG56 and 76?) with Leewards ½d making up the 1s 4½d rate. This was the date of the first northbound flight from Antigua. In place of a first flight cachet you have some foxing spots, and what may be a commercial usage of the first flight
37 £ 6 link Antigua SJ 1½d with lower sht mgn on cover from Barclays Bank, Antigua to the Union Bank of Manchester, in Yorkshire, nice clean usage
38 £ 18 link Antigua The S1 large crown censor mark in purple adds interest to this commercial airmail cover to New York sent for 1s 1½d JU 5 4(0)
39 £ 20 link Antigua Long envelope to New York NO 23 41 fare paid with Leewards 3d orange has two features of added interest, firstly it is JOSE ANJO stationery – the pioneer of Leewards ppc and secondly the large ‘EXAMINED BY CENSOR/ANTIGUA’ on the back – Burrows type S2.1
40 £ 12 link Antigua L8 Opened by Examiner IB/493 censor label on airmail cover to Washington DC postage 1s 1½d (the 1½d stamp damaged)
41 £ 30 link Antigua On 21 May 1943 a young lady sent this ppc of St John’s Cathedral to her uncle in Trinidad where it arrived five days later after passing through the hands of the censor and with a faint, but discernible octagonal Crown/Passed/IB2 hand stamp – Burrows type S4 who gives it a scarcity rating of 8 and says ‘only known on a postcard’ and ‘20 August 1944’ so this is substantially earlier than his EKD
42 £ 15 link Antigua Three covers and a modern ppc: 1946 Peace issue on FDC from Barbuda; FDC of six KG6 definitives 1949; 2005 envelope and ppc with butterfly definitives sent to UK
43 £ 10 link Antigua Two 1960’s covers with maritime flavour – one posted on board Cunard’s RMS Franconia to Oldham has a strip of 6x GB ½d cancelled by Antigua Paquebot and St Johns date stamp of 17 FE 64. With it comes a cover with the 1966 GB World Cup 4d with Antigua Paquebot cancel and the Purser’s dated cachet for RMS Andes on 26 NOV 1966
44 £ 30 link Antigua One could easily ignore this roughly opened Leewards 1d rose PSE sent from Antigua to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich on AU 3 98, it is uprated with QV 1d and 2½d stamps, but under the 1d is the ‘Late fee’ handstamp. Proud’s I2 and eight months before the EKD given by him
45 £ 18 link Antigua Postal stationery collection on pages – 18 items mainly unused, but includes one Specimen and three used, one PSRE with stamp removed
46 £ 12 link Antigua Three b/w ppc’s produced by the Albertype Co, of Brooklyn New York. Photographer Jose Anjo. The three pictures are ‘Shipbuildng Quarters’, Dockyard; Creekside Bridge; Picking Coconuts, Cades Bay. The three unused but clearly of the same series and we would place between the wars, nice condition
47 £ 12 link Antigua Three pages featuring English Harbour and Nelsons Dockyard with postcard views and stamps cancelled there including a QV 6d with A18
48 £ 15 link Antigua Four PECO b/w ppc from the same series, three miscellaneous colour ppc and to our eyes the star an early undivided back card with a photographic view of the Governor’s Residence and sent to London 1 January 1902 with Leewards QV 1d – as early a ppc as we can recall from Antigua
Antigua
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49 £ 5 link Barbuda We suspect our vendor stopped collecting Barbuda in 1969, but here we have unused examples on three pages of SG12 to 37 ex the 20c, $2.50 and $5 from the definitive set
50 £ 25 link Barbuda The Leeward 6d optd BARBUDA (SG5) on regd printed envelope to Inniss & Son, Trinidad JY 24 22 – an early use
51 £ 30 link Barbuda Pairs of Barbuda 1d and 3d sandwich 2d slate-grey on philatelic cover to Colchester of NOV 22 23. Perhaps some of the original issue was still held on the island, after post office stocks had run out – we know not
52 £ 60 link Barbuda Two OHMS covers to Louis Hermes in New York each with the Post Office/Crown/Barbuda oval h/stamp. The first sent OC 20 2(6?) for 1½d (Leewards ½d and 1d), the other larger envelope seems more contrived as it bears blocks of four of Leewards ½d, 3d and 6d, sent MY 18 31 the rate is 3/2 but interestingly the printed registration label is ANTIGUA,/BARBUDA NO. 1 – the first of a new type – the 3d and 6d are both Die I -so SG51(b?), 53, 59
53 £ 30 link Barbuda Kiderlen cover sent registered to Wurttemberg OC 27 24 with four of the Leeward stamps overprinted BARBUDA – ½d, 2d, 2½d, 3d – SG1, 3, 4, 8
54 £ 25 link Barbuda Four registered covers to philatelic addresses, three at the 5d rate – 2½d bright blue pair sent OC 5 25; 5d FE 24 26; 5d FE 25 29; the final cover has 6d sent AP 22 27; two different regn hand stamps
55 £ 15 link Barbuda Five Georgian covers: four are FDC’s – SJ 2x 1d to Cheshire, no cachet; five low value Leeward definitives NO 25 38 with printed regn label; Victory pair and BWI University pair to Antigua; the final cover has a 2d grey pair on cover to Glasgow 1942
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56 £ 150 link Bahamas 1884 QV undated die proof with blank value tablet on glazed card 92 x 60mm
57 £ 60 link Bahamas KGV MCA £1 dull green and black mint single, SG89 cat. £200
58 £ 60 link Bahamas KGV £1 SG89, the dull green and black shade from the lower left corner of the sheet with plate no.1 with full o.g and seems unmtd m., cat. £200
59 £ 18 link Bahamas A difficult assembly of nine KGV mint singles (mostly script CA wmk) all with plate no in mgn - you get Plate 1 and 2 for the ½d, 4d orange-yellow and 6d bistre, then singles of 2d, 1s and 1d War Tax
60 £ 5 link Bahamas Silver Jubilee 1½d pair used from top two rows of rt column of the sheet with full mgns and ‘0819’ as sheet number in margin
61 £ 25 link Bahamas Fine used blocks of four of the QEII 1965 series all seemingly postmarked in Nassau 7 Jan 65 making them first day of use; all have some sheet margin often with added interest either the plate no. or the sheet no. - 11 blocks in all, 2 of the 1d, 1½d, 3d, 4d and 2/6 with a single block of 2s cat. c£100
62 £ 12 link Bahamas Long envelope from Nassau 26 Feb 1916 sent to Mangrove Cay on Andros for 1d with Mangrove Cay receiving d/stamp on front
63 £ 30 link Bahamas Two covers and two cards make up this lot: fine slogan cancel sent airmail to Panama Nov 3 39 for 10d; 3d on 2½d pair paying regd rate to Brookyln 1941; ppc cancelled 1932 and rather more modern and odd a postcard of Rhodes sent to Norfolk in 1996 with a Bahamas 40c seashell stamp – and it seems this was accepted
64 £ 10 link Bahamas Three QEII covers to ZNS Studios in the 1965-70 period with postmark interest – Green Turtle Cay; Knowles; Long Bay Cay – Knowles rated as ‘Scarce’ by Horry
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65 £ 30 link Barbados Late unpaid entire sent from Barbados to Aberdeen on 11 Sep 1857 (fair to good strike of the Barbadoes double arc) it arrived via RMSP vessels Conway and Parana on 2 October, 6d charged, the packet rate at the time – ex Booth
66 £ 50 link Barbados Four margin copy of ½d deep green on blued paper SG2 mtd m. cat. £150
67 £ 90 link Barbados Four margin used copies of the 1d blue and 4d brownish red (SG3 and 5) with it we offer a near four margin copy of SG4 in a deep blue shade cat. £465 for the first two
68 £ 50 link Barbados The same selection unused, all with four margins (SG3-5) and an example of the unissued slate blue SG5a – cat. £263
69 £ 60 link Barbados Unused pair of 1d pale blue on white paper (SG9), slightly uneven scissor trimming just touches NW corner, but mgns otherwise full, cat. £360
70 £ 90 link Barbados Eight used singles cover the shades from SG7-12a, both the ½d and 1s examples are four mgns, the rest have some faults cat. £880 but we base our valuation just on the four mgn stamps
71 £ 30 link Barbados Barred oval ‘7’ sits at 3 o’clock on imperf 1d deep blue on white, whose mgns move gently from clear of the design to full and generous in smooth expansion. Alongside is 1d deep blue SG48, 10 o’clock orientation with Bootheel ‘7’ – they blend together as siblings
72 £ 40 link Barbados The no wmk, rough perf 1s in brown-black and black shades, unused SG34-35, with three examples of the ½d green unused from the SG20-22 group cat. £230+
73 £ 75 link Barbados Three unused stamps with star wmk, ½d (SG43), 1d (SG48) 1s (SG61) cat. £530
74 £ 120 link Barbados Two pages with a used selection of 19 perforated Perkins Bacon stamps SG20-64 and including 2 examples of the 5s, condn mixed but all presentable and at least five have clear date stamps from the early 1870’s
75 £ 40 link Barbados 6d orange-vermilion imperf pair on wmk large star paper, full margins but toned gum – SG60b, cat. £100
76 £ 80 link Barbados The 3d brown-purple unused and used. The unused example centring to top left, the used example clearly dated June 75 SG63 cat. £505
77 £ 40 link Barbados 5s Britannia rather off centre but part o/g and hand stamped SPECIMEN SG64s, cat. £375
78 £ 50 link Barbados The 5s used centred up and little left but neat d/stamp of NO 9 81 SG64, cat. £300
79 £ 120 link Barbados Nine unused later Britannias which our vendor identifies as SG65, 66, 67, 67x, 72, 73, 74, 75 and 79, all visually appealing. The 3d a particularly lovely shade; cat. £1,000+
80 £ 50 link Barbados The 6d chrome-yellow hand stamped SPECIMEN SG79s, cat. £150
81 £ 20 link Barbados 16 later used Britannias SG65-79 range with some shade interest on half a page
82 £ 100 link Barbados Page featuring the QV keyplates: the set to 1s used, with shades; the mint set lacks the 2½d, but you get both shades of the 3d (incl SG95) the example of the 4d grey lacks gum; 1d bisect with St Peter’s date stamp adds interest and there are mint and used blocks of four of SG104, the used block includes the ‘no-hyphen’ variety SG104a cat. £400+ +
83 £ 60 link Barbados Imperforate, colour trial in olive grey of the 1892 issue on card 92mm x 60mm with 3d value tablet
84 £ 100 link Barbados Half page of small seals seems to represent the mint set of 11 (SG105-115), the MCA set mint (SG135-144) and the 1909 set of five (SG163-169) if so cat. £590
85 £ 120 link Barbados The used small seals offering, includes the first and last of the three sets (SG105-115) and SG163-169), the middle set has the five to 6d; cat. £520
86 £ 50 link Barbados The small seals opt SPECIMEN, five values (1d, 2d, 2½d, 5d and second 2s 6d) of the 1892 set and then three values of the 1909 set (¼d, 6d, 1s – of course this is the way you used to have to collect them
87 £ 90 link Barbados The Diamond Jubilee set of 9 mint and used on page, nice condition, all on white paper SG116-124, cat. £470
88 £ 40 link Barbados The Diamond Jubilee stamps optd SPECIMEN part set of six (½d, 1d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 2s 6d)
89 £ 60 link Barbados The 1906 Nelson set mint and used (SG145-151) on page, along with the three MCA values of 1907 also mint and used (SG158-162); an additional 2½d has been placed on the page optimistically as a possible example of SG162a. If you share the optimism then this is a bargain, but we ignore in our cat. est. of £292
90 £ 12 link Barbados Page with Tercentenary mint and used and block of four mint, also includes a study of the Kingston Relief Fund issue, with inverted block of four and ‘thick’ printing
91 £ 60 link Barbados Die proof of 3d value tablet on card 92 x 60mm dated 4 Jun (19)12
92 £ 120 link Barbados The 1912 set used and unused on page with additional shades SG170-180) cat. £500+
93 £ 120 link Barbados The large seal (SG181-191) plus War Tax plus the two colour changes (SG199-200) unused and used on four pages with additional examples of many cat: £550+
94 £ 90 link Barbados The Peace set on page used and unused, the used set with addnl 3s cat. £500+
95 £ 80 link Barbados The 1921 set mint and used plus some shades and 1s and 2s optd SPECIMEN, cat. £400+
96 £ 40 link Barbados Two pages with the 1925 set mint and used with addnl blocks of four of 3d and 1s (SG229-239) cat. £150+
97 £ 20 link Barbados S/card with 1927 Tercentenary SG240 used, unused, corner block of four and optd SPECIMEN, cat. £65
98 £ 45 link Barbados The Silver Jubilee set unused, used and perforated SPECIMEN, cat £217
99 £ 30 link Barbados Similar page featuring the 1937 coronation issue used, unused and perf SPECIMEN, cat. £90+
100 £ 60 link Barbados The 1938 King George VI definitive set used, unused with shades and perf varieties incl 248b and 249a, also the 1947 ONE PENNY in imprint block of eight featuring broken ‘E’ with additional broken ‘E’ single; cat. £300+
101 £ 15 link Barbados KG6 ½d green mtd m. with the 1942 perf.14 SG248b, cat. £70
102 £ 30 link Barbados The 4d mint showing very clearly the scratched plate variety SG253de cat. £150
103 £ 40 link Barbados For the 1947 ONE PENNY surcharge we offer the ‘broken E’ variety with both perfs – SG264d & 264ed – cat. £210
104 £ 50 link Barbados Block of 18 (3 x 6) of the ONE PENNY surcharge showing the ‘broken E’ variety in column 4 in both rows 7 and 11 and with partial positional imprint, perf 14. SG264d x2 cat. £140+
105 £ 40 link Barbados Top left hand corner block of 9 (3 x 3) of the 2½d ultramarine, which means you get three examples of the ‘mark on ornament’ variety from column 3 – SG251a, cat £265+
106 £ 60 link Barbados Tercentenary of general assembly SG257-261, mint set all from btm left corner, used set and perforated SPECIMEN set, cat. £212
107 £ 45 link Barbados Four pages with the balance of the KG6 collection, seems complete with Victory, Silver Wedding, UPU, stamp centenary, BWI Uni and the 1950 definitives mint and used and the ‘two flags on tug’ variety on the Victory 1½d (SG262a) cat. c£180
108 £ 10 link Barbados Pleasing, clean envelope to Charlottenburg, Germany, sent “per RMS Tagus” on 5 June 1903 with 2½d seal (SG109) paying the way and showing the standard UPU foreign rate – ex Booth
109 £ 12 link Barbados Incoming cover from St Kitts sent by airmail 19 MR 43 for 1s 1½d, censored on arrival and resealed with L10 label on pale green paper of censor H25
110 £ 60 link Barbados 17 items of unused QV postal stationery, above average condition and including the formular card (H&G2), envelopes (H&G2), Postcards H&G6,7 (with PFNNY var), H&G9,10, Wrappers H&G1,2,3 and reg env H&G5, 7, 7d, 9
111 £ 30 link Barbados The size H PSRE with 2d seal indicum sent on 19 November 1912 to London’s Forest Hill with a 4d KGV adhesive (SG176) to pay the 4oz Imperial rate. This is ex-Booth and went via New York
112 £ 20 link Barbados The KGV size I 2d PSRE unused in good to very good condition is quite a scarce item, only 2,100 were ever printed HG11e
113 £ 20 link Barbados The 3d PSRE in size H2 with 1d postage added used commercially to New Jersey 15 October 1927, via New York, 24 Oct., one of the wax seals still intact, but at the expense of a tear through the indicum
114 £ 20 link Barbados Three unused QEII PSRE envelopes. Size H2 with 8c Schooner indicum and sizes F and H2 with 12c Flying fish indicia
115 £ 10 link Barbados RMSP Postcard of mail Steamers in Bridgetown Harbour, message in French on the picture side, the undivided back is addressed to Brussels and has a British KEVII 1d stamp paying the postage on board and cancelled with an RMSP cachet in purple, also Belgian postman’s numeral 450 – also ex Booth
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116 £ 50 link Bermuda Nicely matched wing mgn examples of the 1865 1d penny in two shades, rose-red? and pale rose SG1,2 fine mint cat. £200+
117 £ 100 link Bermuda By contrast four largely deeper shades of SG1 all mint one very well centred, all clean cat. £400
118 £ 40 link Bermuda Gazing a little wistfully at an exact central and upright half of type K3a ‘5’ duplex on 3d CC yellow-buff (SG5a), we suddenly realise this is not a half-a-loaf situation, but a cause for delight. How otherwise could a stamp of queen’s head size accommodate the characteristic both of the numeral and of the cds? So it must be right to offer to a discriminating fan of these numerals. The background is ideal to do justice to a lightish strike. Unrepeatable
119 £ 75 link Bermuda KG6 10/- perf 14 substantially o.g., the gum with characteristic WWII streakiness; perf 13 mint – these are SG119a, 119e, both cheerfully fresh, cat. £273
120 £ 30 link Bermuda The same wartime streakiness clothes our KG6 12/6 SG120b; again it’s fresh and substantially o.g. – the Bermudian enthusiasts, while spending lavishly on high values, preserved these carefully too – cat. £110
121 £ 60 link Bermuda Still showing wartime streaks, better absorbed by the red paper, is the large pt o.g. £1 value and nicely centred – SG121, cat. £275
122 £ 10 link Bermuda Neat 1½d SJ on cover to Pheonix Assurance in London, posted on the Lady Nelson and entered the mail in Boston JUL 7 1935. Fine large oval cachet in purple ‘RMS Lady Nelson/Mailed at Sea’
123 £ 12 link Bermuda Four b/w unused ppc of ships of the Elders & Fyffes line: ‘Bayano’; ‘Cavina’; ‘Changuinola’ and ‘Patuga’
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124 £ 15 link British Guiana Front date lined Demerary 19th April 1811 to Liverpool. Inscribed ‘per Antigua packet’ and with fair Liverpool/Crown/Ship Letter
125 £ 40 link British Guiana It seems Derek Nathan was able to obtain high quality photographs of proofs in the Royal Collection for the 1875 issue. Here we offer four on card one dated Nov. 12, 1875 of the ship vignette with uncleared surrounds, a similar undated proof of the vignette, though with discernible differences, then a similar pair of proofs of the complete design but with blank value tablet, one dated Dec. 10. 1875 the other undated – well written up – copyright reserved by the Palace
126 £ 150 link British Guiana Cover inscribed ‘pr RMS packet’ to France sent Christmas Day 1855, it reached London 16 January where the scarce Colonies & Art 18 hand stamp was faintly applied (only in use for the calendar year 1856) it also has the Calais TPO mark 17 January, Paris same day and the recipient in L’Orient on the 18 Jan. 15 Decimes charged on arrival
127 £ 130 link British Guiana Coded postmark E 6 C ties pair of 1c black, perf 10, to JA 29 75 cover to Mrs Pontifex in Georgetown
128 £ 150 link British Guiana 1853 1c Vermilion SG11 has a high cat. at £1,700 this example here has a light and blurry Demerara cancel in 1853, margins clear on two sides but no margins on the other two
129 £ 30 link British Guiana A clear Georgetown AUG 23 1862 identifies this 8c stamp as from the first printing and it is the brownish-rose shade, attractive used example centred a little right with the odd perf. nibbled. SG34 cat. £150
130 £ 30 link British Guiana 12c lilac pair on piece, cancelled A03 but tied by London arrival postmark of DE 1 60 - SG36 cat. £100. Excellent centring
131 £ 180 link British Guiana An attractive block of six of the 4c greyish blue ship type from the top right corner of the sheet showing a perforation error caused by a folding of the sheet SG60. Cat. £720+ gum appears largely intact
132 £ 250 link British Guiana A block of six and a block of four from the 1866 printing of 1c ship type in black. The block of six gives you two examples of type A, B and C and the block of four two examples of types C and D – see T & H p66, the flaw identifying type A is most prominent. Blocks centred right and perfs a little rough. SG66 x 10 cat. £950
133 £ 80 link British Guiana Block of eight with sheet margins from top rt corner with two each of types B-E of the fourth setting of the 1c black ship type, perf. 10 SG85 – cat £256+
134 £ 70 link British Guiana The ship type 1c black also from the fourth setting, this time perf 15, with two examples of types B and C SG106, cat. £280
135 £ 60 link British Guiana Attractive unused example of the 1c with OFFICIAL blanked out SG138, cat. £300, centring a little right
136 £ 35 link British Guiana A pair of George VI 24c booklets, one stitched at the left (where stitching has come undone) and one at the right, cat. c£150
British Guiana The remaining British Guiana lots have been selected from Simon Greenwood’s collections of British Guiana postmarks
137 £ 40 link British Guiana KWAKWANI PO BERBICE RIVER: On stamp (7) examples of Type 23a, Type 31 (1), and (2) examples of Type 36, also large piece with $8.74 usage, ($3, 2*$2, $1, 48c, 12c & 4c) see scan.
138 £ 30 link British Guiana CORNHILL STREET (G/Town) Type 13 (II) 12 Nov 1909, 6c registered letter to Manchester Registered Label (Blue) w + 2c postage, b/s GEORGETOWN 12 Nov / 9, w Oval Manchester registered Data stamp 25 NO 09. COVE & JOHN Registered Postal stationary (6c) to Sheffield dated 18 SE 1957, postage registration fee 12c total postage 42c.
139 £ 30 link British Guiana FIVE STAR North West District: short lived PO, closed Sept 1903, reopened at a later date, then closed again in 1914. (VR). DUNOON East Bank Demerara River Type 8 (70% strike) rated (R) both postmarks extremely hard to find and highly desirable.
140 £ 30 link British Guiana ISSANO ROAD Mazaruni District, on stamp Type 42 (95%), rated (R) dated 23 AU 61, KAMAKUSA: Mazaruni River District, on stamp 24 OC 52 Type 21a (65%), and cover to Oregon 1947, 5*2c + 6c (16c) Type 21a, PM rated scarce. KAMARANG: Upper Mazaruni River, 5 examples on stamp QEII period, Type 34, also rated (S)
141 £ 25 link British Guiana ITUNI: Upper Demerara. Cover dated 6 AP 59, Air Letter to Edmonton, England with registration label total postage fee 42c, (reg fee 12c) b/s GEORGETOWN 6 AP 59, Cover dated 15 Fe 1957 to Hampshire England (cover slightly reduced) both PM’s Type 31, latter nice clean strike, 4 stamps with Type21a, (1) Type 31.
142 £ 30 link British Guiana Five Mile Caburi Road On stamp 12c QEII (1) type 42 65% rated (S), Maria Henrietta on stamp (1) Type 36 (60%) rated (S), EVERSHAM Type 24b (2), Type 26 (3), Type 21a (3), Type 28 (1), ENACHU Type 36 (60%) rated (VS). De Kinderen Type 3a(2) Type 15 (1), Type 24c (1) Type 23 (3).
143 £ 20 link British Guiana Postal Agency No.11 (Upper Eping) 3 examples, examples from this PA are rated (R) ref Horry. All examples of the (* Month / *) example i.e. double asterix, the yr not showing.
144 £ 60 link British Guiana H.M.P.S Mazaruni River District. Type 12a, Full double c.d.s example on piece of postal stationery dated 1908, full strikes with 6 other partial examples, of note is the Type 24 b rated Very Rare, on embossed registered letter to Sheffield, England. 6 cent registered fee 4c postage, adhesives cancelled with H.M.P.S / B.GUIANA date stamped 30 DE 26. White registered label brick red lettering, HMPS in manuscript, also incoming cover to HMP settlement with full strike on reverse of type 12a dated 15 AUG 25.
145 £ 30 link British Guiana HILLFOOT. Mazaruni River District.
PA HILLFOOT MAZ RIVER Type 42, 4 examples of early usage, one with clear m/s date of 19 (52) rated Very Scarce, HILLFOOT MAZARUNI 2 examples one with clear date of 24 JUN 53, rated RARE, partial HILLFOOT MAZARUNI possibly used at MORABISI, very difficult postmarks group to find.
146 £ 35 link British Guiana FORT ISLAND ESSEQUIBO RIVER / HACKNEY- POMEROON RIVER DISTRICT. Fort Island, cut out featuring picture of the Old Fort, on stamp 5 examples of Type 21a, Letter with colony’s internal postage rate of 4c to P Davies, postmarked Fort Island to VREEDENHOOP with Transit mark of BARTICA STEAMER 4 OC 57, and arrival mark of VREEDENHOOP on reverse. HACKNEY featuring the elusive Type 8 rated rare, two examples on stamp July 3, 1884, first year of operation and APR 3? 1890, these examples are hard to find
147 £ 25 link British Guiana GROVE EAST BANK DEMERARA. On 10c QV Jubilee issue stamp O/P TWO CENTS strong almost complete strike of Type 3a, 7 examples of Type 24 on stamp, 2 pairs of 2c stamps with almost complete Type 21, 2 * 21a , 2* Type 23a, one stamp one cut out no stamp, 1 registered cover w label dated 18 August 1958 to Sheffield, 30 cent postage 12c registration fee, b/s GEORGETOWN 19 AUG 58
148 £ 20 link British Guiana FREDERICKSBURG / GOOD SUCCESS. ESSEQUIBO ESTUARY.
FREDERIKSBURG / Type 3, (3) examples on stamp, one full strike on 5c QV Jubilee, w TWO CENT overstrike. GOOD SUCCESS Type 3, 13 examples on stamps, strikes very
149 £ 50 link British Guiana FORT WELLINGTON WEST COAST BERBICE.
Good representation of this Post Office, postmarks on stamps include Type 5a (10), Type 12b (5), Type 15 (1) 50% strike, Type 21c (8), Type 21b (1)23a (8), Type 35 / 36b / Type 36, of note 2c Newspaper wrapper dated 25th July 1803, b/s GEORGETOWN code letter D, registered long letter 42c dated Jan 31, 1958 to BRADFORD, registration label (reg fee 6c postage 36c) with a rarely seen TOO-LATE mark applied at Fort Wellington
150 £ 40 link British Guiana FELLOWSHIP WEST COAST DEMERARA.
Wonderfully written up with postmarks on stamp consisting of 3 examples Type 5a, 2 Type 12a, 3 Type 15, 1 single 3*2c Type 20a, 5 Type 24b, 2*21b and 2 *21a, 1 Type 21a cover dated 17 June 1947 to P Davies 4c local use, transit mark on reverse TPO WC Railway, w arrival VREEDENHOOP on the same day. Cover 16 AUG 61 with FELLOWSHIP (II) asterisk over date, further cover to P DAVIES 12 OCT 1957 to VREEDENHOOP posted FORT ISLAND w receiving TPO BARTICA STEAMER cds 14 OC 1957 & GPO machine backstamp, almost complete set of postmarks for this PO.
151 £ 30 link British Guiana DANIELSTOWN: and DARTMOUTH ESSEQUIBO COAST.
Cut out Registered Label m/s dated 17 October 1929, Horry rates mail scarce from this period, stamps off cover Type 21b (D4) (5), 1 cover Type 21b to USA with boxed REMIT BY MONEY OR POSTAL ORDER … on reverse dated 2 Dec / 1941. Type 33 on cut out with complete Type 21b on three stamps 33c rate, and B.G Reg Label with Type 33 / D6 (50%) strike. Also fine near complete strike of DARTMOUTH Type 23a
152 £ 25 link British Guiana POTARO and NORTHERN HOGG ISLAND (Essequibo Estuary.)
QV BG Registered postal stationary 4c +2c adhesive with wax seal sent to Myerscough Co. Ltd, London cancelled Potaro / British Guiana Type 10, dated SP 22 1902, b/s GEORGETOWN / B. GUIANA arrived London 10 OC 02. Northern Hogg Island Type 40c full strike on piece 5 MY 67 (BG), should be Guyana, a rare strike.
153 £ 20 link British Guiana NIGG one of the early PO’s, and still open, examples on adhesive Type 3a (4) examples, Type 15 (1), Type 21b (5), Type 21a (11), Type 35 (7), Type 23a (5). Cover internal registered mail to Camp St. Georgetown postage 5c registered fee 15c. Postmark NIGG/BR.GUIANA, transit marks Mails N.A. (New Amsterdam) and VENDOR c.d.s applied G.P.O GEORGETOWN 28 MY 62
154 £ 40 link British Guiana MEETMEERZORG. Post Office served by the West Coast Railway, Type 6 on adhesives (2), Type 12b (1), Type 21a (8), Type 33 (4), Type 23a (1). Cover Nov 24, 1937, from MEETMEERZORG via GEORGETOWN machine b/s Boxed REMIT BY MONEY … 3pm/24 Nov 1937 to England, Cover to P Davis VREEDENHOOP, b/s TPO WC RAILWAY 3 JU 58. 6c Surface mail to F.G Howe, 3 additional covers Type 33 c.d.s MEETMEERZORG (see scan.)
155 £ 40 link British Guiana MARLBOROUGH/MATOPE/MARIABBA. 3 post offices with PM’s rated Scarce, all on adhesives, Mariabba (9) type 5a, Matope Type 12 (1), and Marlborough Type 15a (6)
156 £ 30 link British Guiana MALLALI / MANAKA/ MARA. All on adhesives Mallali Type 8 (1), Type 12b (3), Type 24a. (1). Manaka (PM hard to find) Type 33 (2), Mara Type 37a clean strike on QEII pair 4 JU 58
157 £ 50 link British Guiana MAHAICONY: On adhesives Type 2 (VR) single date 3 APR 1879, also Type 5a (7), Type 12b (2), Type 15 (2), Type 24b (8), Type 25 (8), Type 31 (2).
158 £ 20 link British Guiana MAHAICA: East Coast Demerara, good selection of adhesives, comprising of Type 4 (4), Type 12a (10), Type 12a (8) Type 15 (1), Type 21d (4), Type 21a (6),
159 £ 35 link British Guiana MACKENZIE: Demerara River, examples on adhesive Type 25 (8), Type 22 (3), Type 23a (3). On long cover Jan 1958, 30c Air Mail cover to Bradford, England, machine cancel MACKENZIE POST OFFICE with 7 wavy broken line obliterator cancelling the three adhesives. Also cover 22 August 1958 Airmail 30c rate to Sheffield, England, cover 3 Feb 1962,airmail 30c (registered 15c with oval REGISTERED / MACKENZIE. Finally cover 5c rate to Georgetown dated 29 DE 60. Type 22 MACKENZIE BR. GUIANA
160 £ 30 link British Guiana LEONORA: West Coast Demerara, on adhesives Type 3a (8), Type 23c (6), Type 21b (7) inc. registration label on piece, Type 21a (5), Type 36, “P” missing of PO. Long cover Nov 14 1929 registered letter w label 6c registered fee total postage 10c. b/s S.O.SUPT. 11.30 14 Nov 29 to London WC2. Local postcard from Georgetown with receiving LEONORA skeleton c.d.s. Post card incoming from Barbados with Receivers mark of both GEORGETOWN and LEONORA dated 30 May 1907 both Type 12b, nice clean complete strikes.
161 £ 20 link British Guiana LEGUAN (Island) Essequibo Estuary, On adhesives Type 6a (7), Type 12b (2), Type 21a (2), Type 23 (6). Type 31 (3). Registered 14 1957 cover to UK, showing both types of Leguan 21a, b/s Georgetown 15 FE 57, 14 Jul 1902 commercial registered letter to Myerscough Co. Ltd 4c QV postal stationery registered envelope with 2c adhesive cancelled LEGUAN/B.GUIANA JY 14 2 affixed registered label BRITISH GUIANA 2506. (see scan)
162 £ 20 link British Guiana LETHEM: Rupununi District. On adhesives Type 33 (1), Type 42 (2), on cover incoming GEORGETOWN with continuous 7 wavy line machine cancel 30 Jun 1948, by Dakota weekly flight, cover Feb 21 registered cover with reg label from LETHEM RUP / British GUIANA c.d.s. also from Waica Mission station, local 7c postage with Bookers stores receiving mark on front 8 FEB 1960 b/s GPO GEORGETOWN, (see scan)
163 £ 20 link British Guiana MABARUMA, 21 AUG 1958 4c embossed envelope cancelled with Mabaruma c.d.s to England b/s GPO GEORGETOWN, also registered airmail to London S.E.1, registered fee 15c. MABARUMA/ BRITISH GUIANA (see scan.), on adhesive partial Type 21b, and almost complete Type 40a (MAB PO) see scan.
164 £ 40 link British Guiana Kitty Post Office with PM’s on stamp, Type 12a (2), Type 21B (10), Type 21 includes block of 4 postage due 1c clear & centred strike (6), Type 33, 2 pairs of 4c and 5c with 75% of PM, Type 21 (4), Type 35 (2), Type 30(4), includes cover w Reg Label 78c rate to London 18 Nov 1946, also with Reg Labels 5c Type 21 (Large KITTY) 20 Dec 1954, FDC small KITTY Peace Commemoratives 3c & 6c 21 October 1946
165 £ 50 link British Guiana Cover, 2 September 1937, 4c Letter from Georgetown to Horwich England with the oblong boxed in blue “EAT DEMERARA RICE” not mentioned in Townsend and Howe or Proud (possibly unique)
166 £ 25 link British Guiana Cover dated 12 October 1928, 4c surface letter, from Georgetown to London England with the Circular Slogan “BUY BRITISH GOODS/AND BUILD UP THE EMPIRE/ on Black (Rare), also Circular BUY DEMERARA RICE/GOVERNMENT GRADED/GPO/B. G in black.
167 £ 35 link British Guiana BG & GUY Slogans, 16+ pages of British Guyana boxed slogans written up on pages this collection represents tremendous value and a starter for anyone looking to develop a collection of these slogans, has the rare boxed PREVENT TB WITH BCG as well as a number of other elusive boxed slogan types. Well worth checking out, also a number of early Guyana FDC’s
168 £ 30 link British Guiana Trio of handstamps on covers celebrating the CENTENARY Celebrations of the unification of the three colonies of Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice, 2 dated 16 October 1931 and the third 14 October 1931, 2c local mail addressed to W.A. Husbands. Fourth cover dated 18 July 1931 with a nice clean in blue circular Company Private Handstamp of the Hand-in-Hand Mutual Guarantee Fire Ins. Co.
169 £ 25 link British Guiana TPA POMEROON & TPO BARTICA STEAMER, both to the USA used 1c rate, the former dated A /12 AP / 49 and the latter * / 4 AP/ 49, both examples showing clear strikes of the c.d.s
170 £ 25 link British Guiana ESSEQUIBO STEAMER & TPO Mazaruni, both to the USA used 1c rate, the former dated * /9 MR/ 50 and the latter * / 9/AP/ 49, both examples showing clear strikes of the c.d.s
171 £ 75 link British Guiana A pair of 12c Postage Due British Guiana adhesives on cover from Bognor Regis to Georgetown with receiving mark of 19 JY 1946, addressed to a Mrs Butler in Camp Street, one of the few genuine usage Postage Due covers one normally sees going into B.G.
172 £ 20 link British Guiana A group of three pieces of mail from the American Post Office at Atkinson Field, manned solely by US Military personnel 1- nice circular SEEBEES h/samp on reverse with PASSED BY NAVAL CENSOR DATED AUG 21 1994, 2nd Striking QSL card for Ted Rast (also based Atkinson Field date could be 1948, circular. APO857, 3 APO 857 1946
173 £ 20 link British Guiana HOWE Cover to Newton Abbot dated 21 AU 63, 6c rate (1+2+3 QEII), with clear strike of BLAIRMONT (not easy to find.), b/s GEORGETOWN 22 AUG 1963 with boxed YOU PURCHASE PROGRESS WHEN YOU BUY GUIANESE (GEM 22)
174 £ 30 link British Guiana AURORA PM dated * /20 MR / 41 to USA, with US Postage Due pair 3c, b/s stamped RENT A PHONE AND SAVE TIME & MONEY (GEM8) one of the more elusive machine cancellations of the period dated 7 MR 41.
175 £ 80 link British Guiana On piece AO3 PA4ID 6 OC1875 (check scan) an elusive handstamp to track down, partial address suggests sent to Toronto. (PROUD A7) (see page 120)
176 £ 25 link British Guiana 3 Covers, 2 from GEORGETOWN, 1st (GEM 10) RENEW YOUR RADIO LICENCE BEFORE JAN 31, 1957, 2nd (GEM1) DATED MY 1941, VISIT KAIETEUR WATERFALL BRITISH GUIANA A WORLD’S WONDER, and finally from BELFIELD to QUEENSTOWN, GEORGETOWN (GEM1) dated MAR 51.
177 £ 20 link British Guiana TPA Mazaruni Proud D5 possible EKD 13 Jun 49 (SL)/ * 1c rate to USA, clean strike no b/s
178 £ 25 link British Guiana Registered PS, 10c postage from MAHAICONY dated 24 JU / 54 to GEORGETOWN, Too LATE in m/s, registered label with m/s MO in blue pencil.
179 £ 30 link British Guiana Meter mail 2 on piece from T GEDDES GRANT Ltd (6.4.39) early usage, and ESSO Standard Standard oil (25.11.63), Cover 1 from BOOKERS (5.11.42) and BOOKERS (11.7.42) all four with advertising slogans
180 £ 40 link British Guiana Meter mail in-coming from London to J.A.Alexander (stamp dealer), with 12c British Guiana Postage due, b/s GEM 2, 7 Wavy lines dated 4 FEB 1948
181 £ 25 link British Guiana Machine Proof’s meter mail, from GEDDES GRANT Ltd. (11.9.52) 1c, and GPO GEORGETOWN (5.11.58) 73c
182 £ 30 link British Guiana POSTAL AGENCY UITVLUGT REGISTERED DATED 18 MY 55 (T36A, TYPE III), also PM on reverse, with clear boxed TOO LATE handstamp, on front see scan, an elusive combination.
183 £ 40 link British Guiana 12c POSTAGE DUE British Guiana to Georgetown from Rhodesia and Nyasaland ½d rate, dated Georgetown 12 Jan 55.
184 £ 50 link British Guiana 1957 6c registered envelope (G), franked with pair of 6c and 24c tied oval REGISTERED SUDDIE BRITISH GUIANA d/s black TOO-LATE addressed to London; a difficult combination to find.
185 £ 30 link British Guiana Two Clear postmarks on Officially Sealed in the Post Office British Guiana 1st WIRELESS GARRAWAY STREAM dated 31 MR / 45, 2nd 110 MILES POTARO 26 JY 52
186 £ 50 link British Guiana GB Forces Mail in British Guiana, 7 covers, 1st FPO 955* / 17 DE /53, 2nd FPO 955 * / 31 AP / 55, 3rd FPO 966 MY 18 / 54, 4th FPO 616* 3 DE 53, 5th FPO 616 4AU 1955 (Black Watch) on B.G PC, 6th FPO 966 MY 25/ 54 posted from New Amsterdam to Georgetown, and finally FPO 955 * / 16 FE 55, 6 covers destination UK
187 £ 30 link British Guiana Trio from CARMICHAEL STREET, 2c Postal Wrap per 12 AP / 45 T21e to NY, USA, Registered letter to London with Registered Label, 10c rate to Fleet Street London 20 JU 45 T21e , b/s CARMICHAEL STREET and GEORGTOWN GPO 20 JUN 45, 6c Air Letter CARMICHAEL ST Type 33 (I) 4.11.49 w Airmail to NY only, then by surface mail, destination Leicester, England.
188 £ 60 link British Guiana REGISTRATION Type (Oval R) 9c Rate (4c +5c) to USA from F LARRONY, see illustration on cover (a company with a sense of humour) – see scan.
189 £ 40 link British Guiana Incoming from Bermuda to BG with 2*4c POSTAGE DUE British GUIANA to G.A. Dumas, Buxton, with PD cancelled with a nice clear BUXTON Type 21a, nice CRAWL 6 MAY52A arriving 27 MY 52
190 £ 40 link British Guiana Mr Dumas again (Buxton) this time from Nyasaland 2d rate BUXTON T21a on 2 * 4c Blue BG Postage Due adhesives
191 £ 20 link British Guiana Postcard, part of a country wide campaign calling on his EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR to help alleviate the challenges of the rice Farmers in B.G, Rice framers from across the country mailed in these cards, this one postmarked TUSCHEN T26 dated 24 NO 24
192 £ 60 link British Guiana Boxed BRITISH GUIANA REGISTERED handstamp (Proud R3) and registered label from GEORGETOWN dated 28 DE 1907 to NY, USA 9c rate (pair 2c + 4c), from SPROSTONS, DEMERARA, GEORGETOWN
193 £ 40 link British Guiana KWAKWANI * DE 20 1948 T23a with m/s Too-Late and 1923-1948 $3 adhesive to USA, highly desirable.
194 £ 20 link British Guiana BOXED LATE FEE on Airmail to Liverpool Nov 15, 1948 (Proud I8), 44 cent rate (36+4+4)
195 £ 60 link British Guiana Incoming registered letter from Netherlands to BG, on front boxed RETOUR and boxed UNCLAIMED on reverse is a large OVAL in Violet of the RETURNED LETTER OFFICE OC 19 1949 BRITISH GUIANA (Proud D7) – Rare.
196 £ 20 link British Guiana 4c KGVI Map (2) and 12c Stabroek Market (3) 1954 Registration B.G. Airmail to Kansas, USA with unboxed LATE FEE (Proud I9)
197 £ 20 link British Guiana ROSIGNOL */ 10 MY 47 T22 with TOO LATE (non dash Type).
198 £ 10 link British Guiana 1949 Cover addressed to G/Town bearing 1c adhesive tied by LODGE / British Guiana cds T21a, early usage possibly. 5 AP 1957
199 £ 20 link British Guiana BENAB (village No 63 Corentyne) with Insufficient Postage Fee for transmission by Air Mail, and NOT IN THE AIR MAIL
200 £ 40 link British Guiana CANJE LAUNCH, T.18a * / 3 JU / 52 EKD addressed to Percy Hoskins Worcester Park, Surrey. Verso NEW AMSTERDAM 6 / 3 JU /52. Mail charge 7c (3c+4c) – see scan
201 £ 30 link British Guiana QV registered Jubilee Cover with Registration Type 3 and Reg Label Type 1 on reverse (2*2 2c+5c) to Boston USA
202 £ 30 link British Guiana OHMS envelope from (G/Town) Post Office with Parcel Post * / AU 13 / 21 to Humprey’s the Jewellers in Main Street rarely seen, T. (Type PP p358)
203 £ 30 link British Guiana CANJE LAUNCH * / 20 JY/ 65 T18a on 5c to AWB Long c/o The Park Hotel
204 £ 25 link British Guiana Grouping of 3 OHMS envelopes to Treasury Building Georgetown, BETERVERWAGTING 2 SP 60, , MEETENMERZORG 60 SP 14
205 £ 25 link British Guiana Grouping of 3 OHMS envelopes to Treasury Building Georgetown, ALBOUYSTOWN 2 / 5 SP / 60, LEGUAN 14 JYSP 60, MAHAICA 7 SP 60
206 £ 60 link British Guiana Hand Struck Slogans Townsend (T) Type HHS1 BUY BRITISH GOODS AND BUILD UP THE EMPIRE (rare) dated 7 Jan 24 to British West Africa.
207 £ 45 link British Guiana Boxed BRITISH GUIANA / 1924 EMPIRE / EXHIBITION dated 2 AP / 24 4c rate (2*2c) to England, another elusive piece
208 £ 35 link British Guiana 1c QV Postal Stationery with 1c QV Daimond Jubilee 2c to London, arrived Jan 18 00 (Posted G/Town Type 38 4 Jan 00)
209 £ 30 link British Guiana 12 c Rate to Jamaica from the PARK Hotel, showing PA VIGILANCE postal agency, 4 DE 67, LKD Proud suggests LRD was 13.5.67, so Agency must have been opened after Guyana’s Independence (26 My 66) also see BUXTON GUYANA PM of 5 DE 67 (main PO for the area.)
210 £ 30 link British Guiana SUDDIE * / 11 SP 22 (T.21a), MAHAICONY (T15) 14 Jun 23 and MAHAICA (T.15) 04 / JUN 23
211 £ 40 link British Guiana QV period on 2c PS card, MAHAICA (T.4) DE 7 1897, TUSHEN (T.21d) Feb 18, 1912 (EKD), FORT WELLINGTON (T5a) and NEW AMSTERDAM Type 8 Jan 11 /1896 on 1c PS Wrapper
212 £ 30 link British Guiana Two covers 10 years apart both with handstamp from the GOVERNOR BR.GUIANA, dated GEORGETOWN DEC 1942 to Scotland, and GEORGETOWN (GEM 1) seven wavy lines to Carmichael Street, Georgetown.
213 £ 30 link British Guiana Covers, CANE GROVE 24 APR 23 T.16a to UK, TUSCHEN 4 MAY 25 (P.D6) b/s GEORGETOWN to USA, WHIM T.20 9 OC 24 to USA, b/s NEW AMSTERDAM and GEORGETOWN
214 £ 20 link British Guiana NAAMRYCK T.16 rated SCARCE to Portsmouth 16 APR/ 24, late use, partial b/s GEORGETOWN.
215 £ 20 link British Guiana 1901 (MAR.28) cover addressed to Ireland bearing 2c (SG 234) tied by fine GEORGETOWN P.B cds.
216 £ 25 link British Guiana COOMACKA to P Hoskins, difficult mark to find particularly in the early period of opening this T.33 (Proud sub-type D2) Dec 4 1951 envelope aged but nevertheless a scarce piece.
217 £ 30 link British Guiana From UK to LEONORA village, British Guiana to M. Raffan with 12 Postage Due adhesive, * / 20 JUN / 52. T.21b
218 £ 40 link British Guiana Instructional markings (Air Mail) (P)roud AM 19, Airmail to New York only, thence by Surface Mail (19 SEP 49), P AM18, BRITISH GUIANA To NEW YORK ONLY BY AIR MAIL ( KITTY CDS) to SWITZERLAND 24 APR 46, and TO MIAMI ONLY BY AIRMAIL P AM20, cds of NEW AMSTERDAM and GEORGETOWN to NY, USA. Dated 5 JY 52
219 £ 25 link British Guiana SKELDON * / 29 AU /54 T.23a, clear strike of TOO-LATE to Yorkshire, England.
220 £ 35 link British Guiana QE postmarks on cover, BENAB (No.63 Village.) * /2 JU / 53, BUXTON (Registered Letter) T.21a, * / 11 AP /56, NIGG ( RL) T.21a, * / 9 JU /54, and GROVE T.21a (to G/Town) * / 4 FE 61
221 £ 150 link British Guiana Binder NEW AMSTERDAM Collection across 13 pages must be viewed, of note 12 AO4 Adhesives, cover New Amsterdam SP 14 86, with TOO-LATE handstamp, Cover front only with 5 clear Type 8’s dated Dec 18, 1883 (also oval R, Registered mark), selection of QV Diamond Jubilee w New Amsterdam strikes, various PM’s on adhesive, multiple covers must be viewed difficult to scan.
222 £ 25 link British Guiana 2 cent orange with MAY 17 1880 type 2 pmk but which office? The end letters seem to be ABY which we can’t match to T & H
223 £ 50 link British Guiana A dozen pmks largely from the KGV era and include Nigg, Plaisance, Skeldon, Evesham, Carmichael St also Benab (on 48c) and Leguan on KG6 – superior strikes
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224 £ 35 link British Honduras Fitzherbert letter date lined Belize 21 March 1832 to Ashbourne, fine Liverpool receiving date stamp on reverse MY 11 1832. Rated 8d and carried by ‘The Lord Stanley’
225 £ 60 link British Honduras Two examples of the Belize double-arc date stamp to take these envelopes to Leicester in 1854. These show the change in packet rate that year. The first sent FE 17 1854 was charged 1s, whilst the second sent OC 17 1854 just 6d. All the postmarks are on the backs
226 £ 125 link British Honduras Incoming letter from London to Belize with plate 1 2s blue sent FE 15 1873 arrival mark MR 11 73 on front along with boxed L1 late fee. Scarce destination and stamp catalogues £700 on cover
227 £ 35 link British Honduras A decade later and the UPU rate has fallen to 4d as shown by this incoming cover to Belize from Lombard St. The 4d grey-brown plate 18 SG161,
228 £ 40 link British Honduras 1885 6d yellow SG21 m. full of sparkle, not much gum visible on reverse, cat. £275
229 £ 150 link British Honduras Double rate envelope to London sent with 2x 4d mauve on NO 23 1887 via New Orleans – ex Foxley 2014 where it realised £380 hammer price
230 £ 95 link British Honduras This single rate cover to Mrs Woodward in Bath, 4d mauve, sent MR 16 1887 is ex Matheson and had a hammer price of £320
231 £ 80 link British Honduras OHMS envelope to Birmingham sent registered 9 Jun 1888 with passage paid with local surcharge 20c on 6d
232 £ 250 link British Honduras Aikman/Blackie envelope to Glasgow with 6 in black on 10 cents on 4d and also 6 in red on 10 cents on 4d, the latter inverted, a scarce and popular, if philatelic franking
233 £ 60 link British Honduras 2 examples of each of the 2c on 1d and 3c on 3d London surcharges (SG37, 38) make up the 10c rate to send this envelope to Mainz. Considerable interest is added by the ‘Lainfiesta’s Union Hotel’ logo on the front and a picture of the hotel on the back. The picture on the back may have been from the hotel’s stationery enclosed in the envelope as it is stuck over the arrival date stamp, scarce and seemingly commercial
234 £ 35 link British Honduras London print 10c on 6d SG40 on AU 30 1889 envelope to Montreal, clean commercial usage
235 £ 25 link British Honduras The same 10c rate on a cover to Darmstadt sent OC 24 90 also appears commercial and is a nice clean example from a General Merchant
236 £ 40 link British Honduras Monogrammed envelope to Liverpool cost 20c to send via New Orleans. The one 2c and 6 3c stamps (SG52, 53) did not receive a date stamp in Belize and are all cancelled on Dec 18 1894 in New Orleans, New York transit date stamp two days later and to add interest a nice strike of the ‘Paid/Liverpool/US Packet’ mark in red on 29 Dec 1894
237 £ 75 link British Honduras A pair of the FIVE cents on 3c on 3d (SG49) took this registered cover all the way to BUENOS AIRES via New Orleans and New York on MY 8 1896 we can safely say unusual destination
238 £ 20 link British Honduras A pair of straightforward 1898 keyplate covers to the UK, just prior to the introduction of the Imperial Penny Post: 5c to Lewisham 23 NOV 98 shows the letter rate; the second envelope franked with just a 2c stamp and inscribed ‘Card only’ went at the printed matter rate to Jersey on DE 9 98
239 £ 25 link British Honduras A pair of the keyplate 3c with sheet mgn to Winch Bros, Colchester sent May 14 1892
240 £ 75 link British Honduras A keyplate 2c cover used within the colony is well worth a second look, turn it over and there is faint but discernible strike of Orange Walk from where this cover was sent to Belize MY 4 1898 - distinctly scarce
241 £ 30 link British Honduras Keyplate 5c on two envelopes to Guatemala, firstly a pair MY 4 1896 and then a single AP 20 1898
242 £ 50 link British Honduras Naples is another unusual destination here on Aikman’s own stationery sent registered AU 29 1902 via Liverpool with 1901 10c (SG58)
243 £ 35 link British Honduras Coloured ppc ‘Unloading Bananas – Belize Market’ sent to New York in 1909. Considerable further interest is added by the pair of KEVII 1c stamps on the picture side cancelled with the NEW RIVER SERVICE date stamp
244 £ 50 link British Honduras The Temporary Rubber Ovals introduced in 1949 are a popular collecting area. Here we offer five, all with KG6 frankings, to different addressees and we think not just to philatelic addresses: BOMBA; DOUBLE HEAD CABBAGE; GALES POINT; MONKEY RIVER; PLACENCIA – all rated at least Scarce by Horry
245 £ 35 link British Honduras We lot singly the larger TRO of SAND HILL in use for just four months in 1961, here on an airmail letter to Houston sent on 5 October. Horry rates as Rare (that is only 3-5 copies exist)
246 £ 30 link British Honduras A used block of 20 of the $2 stamped at the Registration Branch 25 Jan 1962 – is this the largest used multiple? It must be a contender SG189 - cat. £90
247 £ 50 link British Honduras Pre-printed First Flight cover of 15 March 1939 from Punta Gorda to Belize, locally addressed with 3c (SG152); we think a scarce item
248 £ 75 link British Honduras The ‘WAR’ overprint on this 1c green SG114 has been inverted and split – ex Harper (lot 1135) and Sir Henry Tucker
249 £ 15 link British Honduras On the later 1c green War overprint a less conspicuous flaw appears in the ‘A’ at the top left corner of the r.h. pane – here shown in a pair with margins to contrast – a neat variety
250 £ 25 link British Honduras QV 1½d postal stationery cards an unused pack of ten with wrapper inscribed ‘10 Three Halfpenny International Post Cards British Honduras 1s 3d’
251 £ 20 link British Honduras QEII 2c postal stationery cards - an unused pack of ten with wrapper inscribed ‘10 International Post Cards’
252 £ 60 link British Honduras The scarce ‘MISSENT TO BELIZE’ on 1939 envelope from Brazil, addressed to Grenada, Belize b/stamp of 23 Dec 39, reached Grenada on 27 Dec.
253 £ 30 link British Honduras The 4c franking is on the back of this cover to Manchester, on the front you find a fair strike of the Stann Creek TRC which Horry rates as rare, date of use 13 Feb 1941
254 £ 80 link British Honduras The 2 cents local overprint on 6d, perf 14 and with inverted CC wmk and has a cat. £650 SG25w – a scarce stamp
255 £ 75 link British Honduras Slogan Cancel ‘Prevent Pine Forest/ Fires --- It Pays’ Proud type HS3 in use for just over a year in 1927-28, here on Montgomery Ward return envelope 27 Jul 27
256 £ 25 link British Honduras Montgomery Ward return envelope sent registered from COROZAL FE 16 27 with Corozal printed regd label (No. 3737) for 9 cents
257 £ 15 link British Honduras Forces Air Letter sent to Kent 15 OC 56 for 5c on the back a hand stamp ‘Certified Forces Airmail/ Adjt. Det’
258 £ 15 link British Honduras Forces ‘thank you note’ to Kent by signalman Jack Bosfield who was clearly a smoker as the card was printed by the Overseas League Tobacco Fund. The postmark is ‘Received from H M Ships 4 MY 42’ but Jack has added HMI British Honduras under his signature – a fun item for a display
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259 £ 20 link Cayman Islands KG6 1938-47 pictorials set of 14, and the 8 commems to 1949 that followed all mounted on small leaves, fine m. together with 4 more defins which show a second 6d, so that you have SG122 (cat. £15) as a plus here
260 £ 30 link Cayman Islands Similarly mounted you have the QEII 1953/9 and 1962 sets of 15 each, all fine m. cat. £200
261 £ 40 link Cayman Islands Three covers and a card: ¼d pair on 1927 cover to Cayman Brac; 1997 ppc sent to Norwich with 25c seashell; Holland America Line stationery envelope also sent to Norwich in 2000 10c and 40c of Santa visiting the Cayman Islands make up the rate; perhaps of most interest a 1956 airmail envelope sent from St Kitts and addressed to the Cayman Islands which got ‘Missent to British Guiana’ (a fine strike) and when it finally got to the Cayman Islands had to be forwarded to Canada for 1s 2d made up with four Cayman stamps (1d, 1½d, 2½d, 9d)
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262 £ 30 link Danish West Indies Variously rated 23 in red, 17 in blue, 1/4 in black we are uncertain whether this 1854 EL on business from St Croix to Copenhagen is written in Danish or a tongue of which we know even less. It shows St Thomas dbl. arc transit of MR 3 54 overstruck with red London cds of AP 17 – these across the flap, balanced at left by oval cancel and dbl-ring cds beneath both dated 19 AP, latter looks like Hamburg-Copenhagen TPO, arrived endorsed 21 Apr. All marks are clear to intelligible, and were they in English, we’d value upwards
263 £ 30 link Danish West Indies Unused and used examples of the late 19th cy 2c grey-blue p/s env, the used one commercially despatched in 1886 from St Thomas to Vera Cruz, Mexico, (well worth our estimate on its own), together with the usual prolific and assumedly philatelic diagonal bisect on 4c sent locally from Christianstad to Frederikstad in St Croix, 1903
264 £ 25 link Danish West Indies 1903 local cover with 4 cents bisected SG18a, cat. £190
265 £ 10 link Danish West Indies 1c stamp for use on the St Thomas to La Guiara packet, small thin
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266 £ 75 link Dominica SG20s/25s Queen Victoria Specimen set of five, cat. £225
267 £ 125 link Dominica GB 2s blue plate 1 on incoming double rate letter to Henry Hamilton, sent from London, cat. £700 on cover
268 £ 35 link Dominica 11 Dec 02 is a late date to find the QV ½d green and 2x 1d carmine on cover to Brooklyn – were the authorities turning a blind eye now that stamps had been commissioned once again for the individual Presidencies?
269 £ 90 link Dominica 4d grey used with clear malformed ‘CE’ SG 24a, cat. £275, markedly scarcer used than in the mint format
270 £ 75 link Dominica GB 6d cancelled with bold ‘A07’ on piece with Dominica 12 SP 1859 gothic date stamp and London Paid OC 12 1859 in red SG Z4, cat, £325 off cover
271 £ 110 link Dominica SG1-3 used with attractive mtd mint examples of the 1d and 1s, 6d used has some small faults, cat £550+
272 £ 150 link Dominica The perf 14 set SG4-9 does not have a set price listed by SG, the mint and used offering here are good to fine and with cat. £900+
273 £ 100 link Dominica SG10-12 the halfpenny surcharges in mint and used pairs, for the used HALFPENNY pair you get two one reading up, the other down cat. £517
274 £ 50 link Dominica Mint and used examples of SG13-15, 17 and 19, cat. £300+
275 £ 90 link Dominica SG20-25 set of six unused, 1s possibly unmtd (only 1,200 of these were ever printed) and fine plus set to 6d used, cat. £300+
276 £ 100 link Dominica The 1903 set of ten, good to fine cond. mint and used on page SG27-36 with 6d optd specimen extra, cat. £550
277 £ 100 link Dominica The 1907-08 Roseau set with MCA wmk, SG37-46 also on page, generally good to fine cat. £550
278 £ 90 link Dominica 1908-20 set with addnl wartime shades unused and used on pages, also good to fine with 5s optd Specimen in addition SG 47-54 cat. £500+
279 £ 60 link Dominica The five WAR TAX issues, unused, used and with some blocks, incl block of nine of SG59 showing short fraction bar. Perhaps greatest interest on these two pages will be the set of six opted SPECIMEN SG55s-60s, which has a cat. of £200 on its own
280 £ 60 link Dominica The 1921-22 Roseau set with Multiple Script wmk, is very difficult and our vendor’s offering is only complete to the 6d, unused set is fine, cat. £180
281 £ 120 link Dominica The offering on pages of the twin medallion set unused and used is complete bar a used £1, SG71-91 cat. £625
282 £ 45 link Dominica The 1935 Silver Jubilee set, mint used and perf SPECIMEN, cat. £150
283 £ 30 link Dominica A similar offering of the 1937 Coronation – unused, used and perf SPECIMEN, cat. £100+
284 £ 30 link Dominica The King George VI defins set unused and used on page, cat. £140
285 £ 30 link Dominica The Victory page we lot on its own as you get the SPECIMEN pair, used blocks of four and mint blocks of four with plate no.1
286 £ 45 link Dominica The balance of the KG6 reign on pages unused and used SG112-138 cat. £230+
287 £ 35 link Dominica The five postal fiscals SGR1-5 used and 1-4 unused with block of four of SGR2 in addition, cat. £180
288 £ 25 link Dominica KGVI 2s 6d in unmounted block of four SG107, cat. £96
289 £ 25 link Dominica KGVI 10s in unmounted block of four SG108a, cat. £100
290 £ 75 link Dominica The scarce and under catalogued local Revenue overprint on 1d mint, scissor separation has trimmed a couple of the bottom perfs SGR6 cat. £250
291 £ 35 link Dominica Late use of 6d postal fiscal on 3 April 1912 registered cover to New Jersey
292 £ 50 link Dominica The wartime Postal Surcharge order of 1940 added ¼d to the printed matter rate sent overseas. Very few examples have been reported and those mostly from the Surbrook missionary correspondence. This example to Miss Mollie Norton in Chicago was sent 15 September 1950 paid with a vertical strip of three ¼d stamps by J L Davey in Roseau. The only question mark is why the envelope is now stuck down – did it contravene the ‘unsealed’ requirement to use the printed matter rate or has it subsequently got stuck?
293 £ 80 link Dominica The wartime Postal Surcharge lasted until 1952 and the decimal currency era making ¼d become ½c. The discovery copy of this rate in the decimal era was a Christmas card sent in 1951 to the Elvin family in Brooklyn. Now a second envelope, sent unsealed, from the same correspondence can be offered, sent 8 Dec 1951 paid with a vertical strip of three ½c stamps.
294 £ 15 link Dominica Six postal stationery wrappers – Roseau style ½d, 1d unused and Specimen. KGV Specimen and used QV wrapper to Birmingham (JY 22 96)
295 £ 40 link Dominica QV Revenues (SGR1 to 4, plus damaged R6) on Hagner pages 76 in all, mostly fiscally used but some mint examples, condition generally good
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296 £ 20 link Grenada The 2006 RPSL certificate shows that this stamp was once owned by Joseph Hackmey – a fine unused example of SG2 the 1d green rough perf 14-16. There is no gum and the certificate says ‘soiled on the reverse’ but pleasing appearance
297 £ 75 link Grenada We offer SG2 and 3 together as both show first period use of the alphabet pmks. The D, at 6 o’clock, is not a challenging mark in the context, but a worthy example. The 6d, centred NW, but a lovely soft shade, showing only the right half of the cds has the cleanest postmark we’ve ever seen of its class. Only the bottom tip of the letter is visible but it is plainly the tip of the letter A, and the 61 of the year is plain as plain. Believe us, cancels in that year are a real rarity
298 £ 60 link Grenada Gently cancelled 6d dull rose-red (SG8) cat. £225 centred SE
299 £ 28 link Grenada 1d on 2s orange (SG44) hinged but with lge pt. o.g uneven perfs at rt. cat. £85
300 £ 30 link Grenada Twelve De La Rue keyplates to 8d with postmark interest including ‘B’; two ‘C’ and two ‘D’
301 £ 12 link Grenada QV 1/- keyplate (SG55) attractively cancelled with a neat Grenada cds of SP 96 in black placed next to the red London regd hooded cds, if anything the slightly washed shade of the green enhances the effect. Cat. £65 with pluses and minuses
302 £ 80 link Grenada 25 September 1868 entire to Edinburgh sent for 1/- and with 2x 6d orange-red(?) affixed, opened out for display, no tie of the stamps to the cover. London receiving d/stamp 15 OC 68, Edinburgh same day
303 £ 40 link Grenada 6 items here with Grenada connections: a cover to Lennards of Bristol bearing KG6 1½d posted on board Harrison Line’s S.S.INANDA; a 1931 philatelic cover, 5 stamps rising from ¼d to 2d h/stamped VISIT GRENADA, beneath this, in violet “via A.O.LINE”, we guess that A.O. is not meant to stand for Any Other; convenience cover franked 5 ore from the Swedish Paquebot m/s Kungsholm, landed at Grenada 18 MR 35; a William Butler airmail cover landed Grenada in the 1960’s, presumably on its way to Toronto, and endorsed RMS Carmania/Paquebot/Mail; a United Fruit Co, cover, the Grenada SJ 1d cancelled by a first day violet cachet from SS Veragua and a special boxed, dated, Purser’s cachet reading “Honored/for Passage/SS VERAGUA!; lastly a b/w ppc of the Exchange, Manchester sent from Swindon to Torquay in 1903 is to prove – as it does - that the Swindon Station cds SP3 12 resting on 2d orange, Grenada’s SG79, is authentic, with the trouble taken to cross-match – a rarity
304 £ 20 link Grenada We give no detailed description for four covers of ’58 and ’60 from S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam or for RMS ANDES ’63 and QEII ’69; there’s more animation in a ’64 cover Posted on Board M.V. FEDERAL PALM out of Trinidad on its way to New Jersey. All five were landed in Grenada
305 £ 20 link Grenada PSRE size G with sender’s box sent from SAUTEURS to London with only 1d added
306 £ 30 link Grenada Incomplete KGVI 1c green wrapper sent from Grenville to Gouyave where it arrived 31 OC 52. There it was unclaimed and returned to the Dead Letter Office on DE 5 52, from whence it came on to the philatelic market
307 £ 20 link Grenada Peco style ppc ‘Cracking Nutmegs, Grenada’ sent to Sheffield for 3¾d on 15 Feb 1944 (though d/lned 25 Jan) censored with the octagonal I.S.S.14 h/stamp, Burrows H6 and very scarce
308 £ 30 link Grenada Stockcard featuring Revenues: ten Perkins Bacon; 19 De La Rue and three more recent; quite a lot of duplication
309 £ 40 link Grenada More fiscals on Hagner sheet and with less duplication. 19 orange Chalon heads eight De La Rue, couple are later Barefoot 1875 series to 1s and 1879 series to 5s
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310 £ 15 link Guadeloupe Doubly censored cover of 13 Sept 44 using commercial stationery from Pointe a Pitre to a probably linked company in NY, by air the 3 stamps paying 9Fr50 in all. Military censor from Commission B had the first go, followed by Examiner 1894. Your understanding (but not our own) may be enhanced by ‘B1’ in circle, added on the face
Guadeloupe
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311 £ 100 link Jamaica Decent strike of the Jamaica Large Fleuron clearly dated 24 APR 1807 on pkt letter to London inscribed ‘Duke of Marlborough Packet’. Close inspection of the reverse reveals a strike of LUCEA/JA
312 £ 50 link Jamaica T3 MONTEGO-BAY/JA sits alongside large JAMAICA fleuron datelined 15 January 1812; a son writes to his father in Somerset from ‘Virgin Valley’ – good contents
313 £ 50 link Jamaica Very good strike of T3 SPANISH-TOWN/JA on back of 6 February 1819 entire to Ayr, rated 2s 6d and insc. ‘p. packet’
314 £ 20 link Jamaica A packet letter sent 21 Nov 1827 has its main interest in a boxed ‘MISSENT TO CHICHESTER’, the fleuron on the back is nothing to get excited about. Graham Booth also collected Sussex Postal History – do you?
315 £ 30 link Jamaica Faint T3 SAVANNA-LA-MAR/JA on reverse of 1828 letter to Dundee, rated 5s
316 £ 125 link Jamaica Entire slightly opened out to show good HOPE BAY T3 strike and very good small fleuron (F6) of FE 4 183(0), this is ex Dubois 2020 (lot 65) where it was noted that this was the only strike so far recorded from Hope Bay and the fleuron was the latest known date – an important cover that had a hammer price of £250
317 £ 80 link Jamaica ex Dubois 2020 (lot 63) T4 LACOVIA on back with rather smudged small fleuron sent to Glos. 4 Feb 1830 inld post 7½d paid, 2s pkt
318 £ 60 link Jamaica We pair a very good strike of T4 MONTEGO BAY with fine strike of Kingston date stamp MY 3 183(4) on packet entire to London, with a poor strike of T3 MONTEGO BAY J3 with fair medium fleuron of 3 May 1812 on entire to Somerset
319 £ 40 link Jamaica Fine strike of T4 FALMOUTH st line on back of entire to London, rated 8s 8d, boxed red PACKET LETTER on front and Kingston d. stamp OC ?? 1834, London arr. 4 DEC
320 £ 60 link Jamaica Fair strike of T3 DRY-HARBOUR/JA on back of 20 Oct 1836 entire to London rated 2s 2d, 10 Jan 1837 arr.
321 £ 60 link Jamaica Very fine strike of the T4 st line MANCHIONEAL on front of outer to London, rated 2s 2d with fine Kingston date stamp AU 12 1837 on back along with London arr. 21 Sep
322 £ 80 link Jamaica Good strike of T4 PEAR TREE GROVE on back of missionary outer to London 10 AP 1839
323 £ 40 link Jamaica The fine P2a date stamp of Clarendon applied in red on FE 7 1840 is slightly obscured by the London arrival date stamp – the rate has dropped to 1s following the reform of rates at the beginning of the year
324 £ 50 link Jamaica A pair of covers each with fine strikes of the P4 FALMOUTH JAMAICA date stamp; the first was applied on the reverse on NO 9 1848 on entire to Morant Bay where the front shows a fine P2a MORANT-BAY/JAMAICA; the second cover was sent from Kingston JU 8 1851 to Falmouth where a fine strike of the date stamp was applied on the front
325 £ 25 link Jamaica Neat envelope with contents sent from Moneague to Edinburgh OC 22 1852, Kingston transit and Edinburgh arrival all on reverse, rated 1s 2d and inscribed ‘per Second October Packet’
326 £ 160 link Jamaica Fine QV 6d De La Rue die proof on card in the eighth (and final), state, stamped Sept. 14 -60 and ‘BEFORE HARDENING’, one of two known and ex Jarvis
327 £ 75 link Jamaica Cut down stamp size QV 2d De La Rue die proof in the final, eighth, state
328 £ 150 link Jamaica We pair two QV 4d stamp size die proofs which show states 4a and b, the former has weak lower forehead shading whilst in the second that shading has been developed
329 £ 300 link Jamaica For the 1s value we can offer four cut down stamp size, or slightly larger die proofs showing progressive stages of the Die as described by Robson Lowe back in 1957, some minor staining on two, seemingly ex Mahfood and Surtees
330 £ 250 link Jamaica Essay dated 25-9-19 of the Arms of Jamaica vignette on glazed card 36 x 47mm mounted on a slightly larger card ex Mahfood
Jamaica The next seven lots are from the Paul Hancock collection of GB used in Jamaica with numeral cancels and are offered in numerical order
331 £ 75 link Jamaica Unusual example of the 6d lilac cancelled A01, a fine pair is attached by hinge to a third example, and was apparently once connected on piece, cat. £275 – you could prefer to have a fine pair and single
332 £ 120 link Jamaica Wing marginal GB 6d lilac cancelled with A31 Browns Town SG Z31, cat. £450, one of the wing margin corners nibbled
333 £ 60 link Jamaica Very fine strike of A39 (Falmouth) on GB 4d, SG Z55 cat. £180 unfortunately one corner is nibbled
334 £ 150 link Jamaica A40 a superb strike on 6d on piece, though with part of top rt corner missing. The piece shows the manuscript day (25) and year (60) along with the ‘River’ part of Flint River – ex Glassco and illustrated in the Jamaica Encyclopaedia, SG Z59, cat. £375
335 £ 90 link Jamaica 1 March 1859 was the first day of use of the numerals in this village, making this large piece a significant item, 6d clear A44 with Goshen MR1 postmark and Kingston next day receiving mark
336 £ 50 link Jamaica GB 6d cancelled with very fine strike of A57 at Montego Bay SG Z111 cat. £150, scissor trim at left side, trimming off the wing margin (?)
337 £ 125 link Jamaica GB 6d tied to piece with very fine SAVANNAH-LA-MAR date stamp of NO 22 1858, which is before the numerals were issued to the villages, the stamp is cancelled with an indistinct A01 in Kingston. All such uses are described as ‘very rare’ by Foster – is this the piece he lists?
338 £ 200 link Jamaica An OHMS wrapper to the Provost Marshal in Spanish Town with diagonally bisected 1d blue tied by very clear A49 and with receiving date stamp of MR 4 68, well written up on page explaining the use and how many were used on returns to the Provost Marshal
339 £ 50 link Jamaica 30 Dec 1878 envelope to Kingston. The 1d blue pair are neatly tied to the cover by an A62 cancel with the P. G. River date stamp prominent, apparently ex Hooton Mitchell from a sale in 1972
340 £ 80 link Jamaica The outer part of 1½d PS reply card cancelled F96 with Shooter’s Hill d/ stamp of 10 (NO) 85 was sent with a very full message, in English to Holstein in Prussia
341 £ 75 link Jamaica 1½d PSC cancelled ‘193’ and with just about legible Cold Spring date stamp, to Germany with full message and Kingston transit date stamp of DE 2 90
342 £ 80 link Jamaica A Half penny postal stationery card addressed to Myersville has its indicum cancelled with a full ‘647’, and bears no fewer than three single circle cancels as well as the arrival double circle of Myersville. On the message side there is a faint Southfield MY 13 98, then you get Spur-Tree, same date and on the front Santa Cruz 16 May. Quite a tour
Jamaica The Paul Hancock collection of Numeral postmarks we are privileged to present the second instalment of this outstanding collection of numeral postmarks which contains many very rare items. Paul was always looking to upgrade the quality of his strikes and the result is evident in the quality on offer. As last year we will be offering something from most of the offices.
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343 £ 90 link Jamaica A27 Alexandria, a page with 16 stamps showing fine to superb strikes. 9 are wmk crown CC, ½d to 6d with shades incl. very fine and rare 3d; then 7 wmk crown CA to 4d (no 3d) but including the rare 2d rose and the rarer still 4d red-brown
344 £ 15 link Jamaica A28 four fine strikes on a strip of 4 of the ½d claret, attractive
345 £ 60 link Jamaica A full set of six pines with A29 Bath
346 £ 75 link Jamaica Two pages featuring A30 Black River with full set of pines, plus additional 3d, and full set wmk crown CC with addl ½d and 2d. So complete as not seen on Crown CA stamps
347 £ 45 link Jamaica Our set of pines featuring A32 sadly lacks the very rare 4d, and an additional 1d is only partial compensation
348 £ 35 link Jamaica Two pages with 23 stamps cancelled A33, the full set of seven on wmk CC; the CA set to 4d (bar extremely rare 3d) two keyplates and 1d fiscal
349 £ 75 link Jamaica A35 on full set of pines, watermark CC set to 6d and watermark CA set to 4d, fine to very fine strikes 22 stamps in all
350 £ 70 link Jamaica At Dry Harbour the A36 type H obliterator was lost early on - the type L obliterator that replaced it did not arrive until 1862 – in the meanwhile stamps were cancelled with ‘36’ in manuscript, here we offer the very rare 1d pine so cancelled, before being additionally cancelled A01 in Kingston
351 £ 10 link Jamaica A superb strike of A36 on the 2d keyplate is seemingly ex Foster
352 £ 60 link Jamaica A38 Falmouth, full set of 6 pines plus additional 1s shade and 3d pair, slightly marred by scissor trim to the top or we would have lotted individually
353 £ 30 link Jamaica The type ‘N’ A38 obliterator was re-allocated to Up Park Camp and a very fine strike on this 4d wmk CA (SG22) is most attractive
354 £ 30 link Jamaica Superb strike of A39 on 1s pine, ex Winand
355 £ 50 link Jamaica A39 on Official stamps are all very rare, this lot offers the ½d SGO3
356 £ 60 link Jamaica The 1d keyplate official SGO4 with A39 is ex Hemmings
357 £ 50 link Jamaica Of the three strikes of A39 this on the 2d keyplate SGO5 is probably the finest
358 £ 60 link Jamaica A40 on 4d pineapple watermark seems not to have been seen and this is a fine strike
359 £ 42 link Jamaica Finding A41 on the 4d pine is not much easier and this is a very fine strike
360 £ 100 link Jamaica Stony Hill used violet blue ink for a short period and here is a very fine and very rare strike of A41 on the 2½d provisional
361 £ 60 link Jamaica A43 on five of the six pines, no 2d, the strike on the 6d is superb and ex-Hemmings, 1d and 3d are wing marginals
362 £ 30 link Jamaica The 2½d provisional (SG30) cancelled with A43, rated very rare
363 £ 40 link Jamaica A44 on watermark crown CC, six of the seven values (no 3d) the 1s has a fine strike but is damaged at right
364 £ 80 link Jamaica The ½d Official with inverted overprint (SGO1e) is scarce anyway, here with clear strike of A44 makes for a distinctly scarce item, we pair with the same stamp also cancelled A44 with the normal overprint
365 £ 120 link Jamaica A46 features on two pages, the watermark CC set is complete to 6d, with extra 2d; the watermark CC set to 4d, with addnl ½d and 4d and finally the three keyplate stamps – 19 stamps in all
366 £ 35 link Jamaica The 1d Official with superb A47 of Hope Bay is extremely rare, this example ex Winand
367 £ 60 link Jamaica A50 on pines, five of the six values, no 4d, and with two additional 3d stamps showing shade variety
368 £ 30 link Jamaica The 1d postal fiscal SG F3 is a fine strike of A51 rated very rare and ex Hugh Wood
369 £ 50 link Jamaica The 3d fiscal SG F6 also shows a fine strike of A51 though the stamp is slightly faded as might be expected from the ink, also ex Hugh Wood and rated extremely rare
370 £ 25 link Jamaica A mixed group of unusual usages of A53, the ½d green wmk CA, the 1d keyplate, both rated very scarce, and a seemingly unrecorded use on a cut out indicum from a ½d postal stationery wrapper
371 £ 75 link Jamaica A54 type H is very rare indeed on 3d watermark CC, this example has the top of the ‘A’ the top half of the ‘5’ and most of the ‘4’ – so clear but not full – a pencil annotation on the reverse says ‘3 known’
372 £ 75 link Jamaica You can contrast with the A54 type J allocated to Mile Gully in 1862 where we can offer full strikes on four pines – 1d, 2d, 3d and 1s
373 £ 60 link Jamaica An attractive page featuring A55 on stamps with the Crown CC wmk; two shades of the ½d on pairs, 3 shades of the 1d and then the set to 1s, the 2d apparently ex Hugh Wood
374 £ 55 link Jamaica Two Official stamps cancelled with A55 the rare ½d and very rare 2d – SG O2 and O5
375 £ 25 link Jamaica Very clear A58 type J (issued to Bluefields) on 3d pine, stamp scissor trimmed to the left, and rated very rare
376 £ 12 link Jamaica Numerals on the Falls are quite unusual, here we can offer A58 on the Falls pair – SG31 and 32
377 £ 80 link Jamaica A59 on full set of pines with additional shades of 6d and 1s; attractively presented on page
378 £ 50 link Jamaica Type M obliterators were only issued to four offices, A28, A82, A83 and here A60 Ocho Rios issued in 1876. Here we offer the ½d, 1d, 2d, 4d and 1s on watermark CC paper
379 £ 50 link Jamaica We separate out the very rare 3d on watermark CC paper with type M strike of A60, which shows a double strike
380 £ 40 link Jamaica A61 on seven stamps on watermark crown CC paper, all values to 1s, bar 4d which is not recorded so cancelled and with extra ½d
381 £ 45 link Jamaica The London Official opt on ½d pair shows a very fine A62 strike, is very rare and ex Hugh Wood
382 £ 30 link Jamaica A63 is hard to find on any pines, here we can offer 1d and 3d both rated very scarce
383 £ 60 link Jamaica Outstanding strike of A63 on 6d pine and very rare
384 £ 75 link Jamaica On 2½d provisional SG30 A63 is rated extremely rare
385 £ 20 link Jamaica Splendid strike of A63 on Falls (SG31), ex Hugh Wood too
386 £ 75 link Jamaica We offer intact the set of six pines cancelled A64 that Paul acquired from the Winand sale
387 £ 40 link Jamaica A64 on the 2½d provisional is very rare anyway, but this one also shows the ‘PFNNY’ variety so SG30c – cat. £70 + pmk premium
388 £ 240 link Jamaica In 1878 blue ink was used at Port Antonio to apply the A64 cancel. This set of six to 6d represents quite an achievement and three are ex Hugh Wood the ½d, 1d and 3d
389 £ 10 link Jamaica A65 on strip of three 1d carmine SG18 not common sounds about right
390 £ 35 link Jamaica Whereas A65 on 3d fiscal is extremely rare, fine strike but only the left hand part of the ‘5’ is present, enough to convince but not complete
391 £ 35 link Jamaica Sticking with the 3d fiscal SG F6, this is a fine stamp with very fine strike of A66 Port Maria and extremely rare and ex Hugh Wood
392 £ 80 link Jamaica A page for Port Royal – A67 the set of six pines with additional 4d and 1s – the particularly fine 2d is ex Hugh Wood
393 £ 45 link Jamaica Of the three keyplates with A67 the 2½d is the very rare one, this ex Hugh Wood
394 £ 70 link Jamaica Also ex Hugh Wood is the very rare 3d fiscal cancelled A67
395 £ 80 link Jamaica Our first offering of A68 Porus from Paul’s collection is a page with the five pines to 6d (no 1s) and the full CC set of seven
396 £ 20 link Jamaica A69 on ½d and 2d keyplate and a superb strike on the 2½d provisional
397 £ 30 link Jamaica The A69 on this London Official ½d is not very distinct, which reflects its scarcity
398 £ 30 link Jamaica Superb strike of A70 on 3d pine, very rare, straight edge to right may reflect scissor trim or sheet mgn
399 £ 65 link Jamaica A70 on 2d Official SG O5, superb strike, extremely rare
400 £ 80 link Jamaica Page of pines cancelled A71 with additional 6d and 1s, four are noted as ex Potter by Paul
401 £ 35 link Jamaica A72 on 1d postal fiscal SG F3
402 £ 45 link Jamaica The fiscal offerings with village numerals continues with both SG F3 and F6, the 1d and 3d cancelled A73 at St Ann’s Bay
403 £ 30 link Jamaica 1d and 6d pine cancelled at Salt Gut (A74), the 6d strike is particularly fine and ex Hugh Wood, so you can forgive the two scissor cut edges rt and btm
404 £ 200 link Jamaica A75 type H was very short lived as it was lost in early 1861, this strike on 4d pine is ex Hugh Wood
405 £ 40 link Jamaica On discovering his loss the Sav-la-Mar postmaster used the date stamp to cancel the stamps until a new type L was issued in late 1862. Here the date on this 2d pale rose pine is AU 14 62
406 £ 20 link Jamaica Paul postulates that the Sav-la-Mar date on this 6d pine may be the last known date – do you agree? It is OC 6 62
407 £ 10 link Jamaica A block of four of the 2d wmk CC SG9 – top pair cancelled A76 bottom paid A01 – most unusual
408 £ 10 link Jamaica A76 on halfpenny pairs – wmk CC claret vertical, wmk CA green horizontal
409 £ 40 link Jamaica Continuing our offering of fiscals here we have A77 on 1s, a fine strike on a larger stamp SG F7 which has a cat. £100 without pmk premium
410 £ 60 link Jamaica A78, full set of six pines, fine strikes and the 4d attributed to Hugh Wood
411 £ 180 link Jamaica A79 Richmond opened in 1863 and the numeral instrument became damaged early on and was then used with the ‘7’ missing. Thus a 1d pine with a superb and full strike is an item to treasure, this example is ex Hugh Wood
412 £ 180 link Jamaica The ‘A 9’ on 1d pine is even rarer and would make a neat companion for the previous lot, though the strike is not so bold
413 £ 45 link Jamaica Richmond was then issued with a type J killer with A79 complete your 1d pines with this bold strike ex Hugh Wood and very rare
414 £ 20 link Jamaica The type J A79 is rare on keyplates too, here on 2½d and also ex Hugh Wood
415 £ 60 link Jamaica A type K obliterator with A79 was sent out in 1876 and here is used on the local ½d fiscal, rated extremely rare
416 £ 300 link Jamaica Paul’s final acquisition was this 6d pine cancelled with the large type K A80 it is extremely rare and ex Hugh Wood
417 £ 250 link Jamaica The large type K A80 is rare on any stamp and here we offer a very bold example on wmk CC 3d
418 £ 70 link Jamaica Moving to A81 type K we offer another ex Hugh Wood stamp a 6d mauve on wmk CC paper
419 £ 20 link Jamaica A strip of four on piece of the ½d green wmk CA cancelled A81
420 £ 105 link Jamaica A page featuring A82 the wmk. CC set to 6d, with addl 1d pair and the wmk CA set to 4d but no 3d (see next lot) 16 stamps
421 £ 80 link Jamaica The watermark CA 3d cancelled A82 and extremely rare
422 £ 35 link Jamaica On the 2½d provisional A82 is just very rare, ex Nethersole
423 £ 25 link Jamaica A83 on watermark CC 1d and 2d
424 £ 80 link Jamaica The three keyplates cancelled A83, fine strikes
425 £ 75 link Jamaica A superb strike of A83 on 1d Official, ex Hugh Wood
426 £ 35 link Jamaica E06 on 1s pine, very rare bold strike
427 £ 30 link Jamaica The three keyplates cancelled E06, you get an additional copy of the 1d, the 2½d on small piece, the 2d ex Hugh Wood
428 £ 75 link Jamaica E30 Lacovia on eight stamps with wmk. CA, include the ½d green, both 1d, both 2d and the 4d plus 1d keyplate and 1d postal fiscal
429 £ 75 link Jamaica Large piece inscribed ‘packet’ with Little River DE 23 69 date stamps proves that the two 1d blues must have the pineapple wmk. A full strike of E58 appears on the pair and it is a pity that in keeping the strike in full someone has reduced the right stamp by 10%, an extremely rare item
430 £ 100 link Jamaica 1d wmk CC with half E58 in blue ink, very rare and we pair with a similar strike on the same stamp cancelled in black ink to contrast
431 £ 60 link Jamaica Three stamps from the wmk CA set cancelled F80 – the 1d carmine, 2d slate and 4d red-orange, clear strikes each
432 £ 50 link Jamaica 1d London Official SG O4 with well struck F81 is very rare
433 £ 35 link Jamaica F95 on wmk CC 1d pale blue, 6d lilac and, the star, the very rare 1s in dull brown
434 £ 10 link Jamaica Very fine single strike of F95 on 2d keyplate pair on small piece
435 £ 25 link Jamaica F96 on 4d brown-orange, wmk CC is rated rare
436 £ 25 link Jamaica Fine strike of F96 on 1s purple-brown, wmk CC
437 £ 75 link Jamaica F97 on 1d, 2d, 6d and 1s wmk CA the last two rated very scarce
438 £ 75 link Jamaica We single out this very fine strike of F97 on 4d wmk CA SG11, very rare
439 £ 75 link Jamaica The F98 office at Chester Castle only opened in February 1872 so to find it used on a 1d pine is extremely rare
440 £ 80 link Jamaica Five of the wmk CC set - ½d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 6d clearly cancelled with G13 of Half Way Tree
441 £ 50 link Jamaica Very fine strike of G13 on 2½d provisional SG30, very rare
442 £ 20 link Jamaica The Falls stamps SG31 and 32 with superb strikes of G14 Hampden
443 £ 30 link Jamaica G15 on ½d claret a most powerful strike
444 £ 30 link Jamaica The wmk CC 1d, 2d and 6d all clearly cancelled G15
445 £ 20 link Jamaica Most attractive pair of 1d carmine, SG18 with single full G15 cancel, ex Hugh Wood
446 £ 60 link Jamaica Four stamps from the 1890’s superbly cancelled G16, keyplate 1d, 2d, then the 2½d provisional and finally 1d postal fiscal
447 £ 60 link Jamaica The 6d orange yellow SG23 is seldom encountered cancelled with a numeral and cancelled ‘193’ is extremely rare
448 £ 20 link Jamaica Even the 1d keyplate is very scarce when cancelled ‘196’ Ewarton
449 £ 40 link Jamaica The ½d, 1d and 2d with crown CC wmk. Boldly cancelled with ‘199’
450 £ 40 link Jamaica ‘201’ on Falls, black and carmine SG32, ex Hugh Wood and very rare
451 £ 30 link Jamaica Fine ‘598’ on 2d deep rose SG9
452 £ 40 link Jamaica Full strike of ‘615’ on 1d SG8
453 £ 90 link Jamaica The larger size of the Falls design can show off a full numeral strike perfectly, as here with the very rare ‘615’ on SG30
454 £ 35 link Jamaica ‘617’ very clear on this 1s dull brown SG13
455 £ 60 link Jamaica The three keyplate stamps cancelled ‘622’ the 1d ex Nethersole, the 2½d ex Hemmings and has a nibbled top rt corner
456 £ 110 link Jamaica The 4d red-orange SG11 is very rare indeed when cancelled with ‘631’ - as here, perfs scissor cut at top
457 £ 50 link Jamaica You can’t offer the five Official stamps SG O1-5 from many offices, but ‘640’ May Pen is an exception, the local 16mm opt is rated very rare
458 £ 40 link Jamaica 6d mauve SG12 lightly but clearly cancelled ‘642’ at Petersfield
459 £ 40 link Jamaica On the 2½d provisional SG30 you get a clearer strike of ‘642’ but only ‘64’ and the top ‘curl’ of the ‘2’ fitted on to the stamp
460 £ 40 link Jamaica The three keyplates with full strikes of ‘647’
461 £ 250 link Jamaica ‘A’ on 1d pine! Scissor trimmed wing margin at left but extremely rare usage
462 £ 30 link Jamaica ‘B’ on six stamps wmk CA – ½d, both 1d, both 2d and 4d
463 £ 40 link Jamaica The wmk CA stamps cancelled with ‘C’ at Laughlands merit offering individually, here a superb strike on 1d carmine SG18
464 £ 40 link Jamaica Whilst the ‘C’ on the 4d brown-orange SG 22 is almost as fine
465 £ 30 link Jamaica 1d and 4d SG 8 and 11 cancelled with ‘E’
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466 £ 10 link Leeward Islands Pair of 1s (SG54b) used in Antigua from btm rt of sheet with full mgns and plate no.1
467 £ 25 link Leeward Islands The reversion to die I 1s, SG87, unmounted mint from the top rt. corner of sheet numbered 030 with full sheet margins, cat. £55+
468 £ 40 link Leeward Islands Complete r.h pane of 60 of the KG6 2½d light blue plate no.2, apparently ex Spavin and allocated provisionally to 1944 printing
469 £ 180 link Leeward Islands The broken ‘E’ variety on 5s, we will assume SG 112ba but even this lower priced rarity has a cat. £1,200
470 £ 90 link Leeward Islands Two pages with the full KG6 definitive set with additional shades and including two additional 10s stamps, all fine mint, cat. £400+
471 £ 75 link Leeward Islands The 1945 and 1952 printings of the £1 (SG114 b and c) in mint corner blocks of four plus two additional mint singles of each – cat. £300
472 £ 40 link Leeward Islands If you’d rather have the 1952 £1 in used block of four on cover then this is for you SG114c
473 £ 30 link Leeward Islands On 1 July 1949 the colours of six of the lower values of the KGVI definitives were changed, On this page we have a cover to Barbados from St John’s with the six values, dated AU 24 49. More interesting though are the set of six mint corner pairs with plate no. 3 and in the case of the 2d 2 and 3 – these are worth a distinct premium
474 £ 12 link Leeward Islands Page with the short-lived QEII definitive set, fine mint SG126-140 cat. £60
475 £ 16 link Leeward Islands Leewards used in St Kitts 1890 1d and 4d, Sexagenary 1d, 2½d and 1d on 7d pair – the Sexagenary pmks are less clear than the others
476 £ 6 link Leeward Islands The three 1d surcharges SG17-19 are not difficult, but these are pleasing mint singles with full o.g. cat. £27
477 £ 30 link Leeward Islands A collection of largely KG6 Leeward Island commemoratives arranged to show them used in each island. One page for each. This includes the Coronation set used in Anguilla, Barbuda and Nevis. For the Silver Wedding 5/- you get six examples, two used in Antigua, two in Montserrat and one each used in St Kitts and Virgin Islands. An interesting way to try and collect these issues and with room for expansion
478 £ 250 link Leeward Islands A cover to Manchester posted on board the RMS Eden and put into the post on MR 18 98. The 2½d postage paid with 2x 1d and a ½d QV Leeward definitives, but these have been inscribed ‘Eden’ in red. The only cover inscribed Eden that we recall was in Graham Booth’s collection where it realised £800
479 £ 12 link Leeward Islands Somewhat battered envelope from Antigua to Madeira postage 2½d (KE½d, 2x 1d) sent OC 19 04, Funchal arrival 9 NOV 04 on reverse, unusual
480 £ 15 link Leeward Islands OHMS envelope, unusually with the official post office letter still inside, sent registered to Boston DE 9 04, postage 6d paid by SG25
481 £ 8 link Leeward Islands A locally used ppc sent to Mrs Spooner, Bendals MR 13 12 with KE 1d paying fee – the ppc shows an inside view of the Anglican Cathedral, St John
482 £ 40 link Leeward Islands Five covers with Leeward stamps used in St Kitts: three Royal Bank of Canada envelopes to Georgetown, BG sent 1925-26 two for 1½d, one for 2d; two regd back to England, 1929 3x 1½d, one 1926 2x 3d (we think deep ultramarine) (2x £60 off cover)
483 £ 25 link Leeward Islands Lower mgnl die II 3d, vert. pair took OHMS cover regd to London in 1926. Flap is partly missing, so we add in another OHMS regd same year to Barbados (b/stamp Barbados RLO). Both were sent from Antigua GPO, and second would be classy, had not its die II 6d been mangled to Kingdom come
484 £ 10 link Leeward Islands On seeing a strip of three farthing stamps on the front of a registered cover to Bath sent 26 FE 29, one’s first thought is how did it get there for that. Turn it over and there is a block of 15 farthing stamps from the bottom three rows of the sheet with plate no. 10 so the 4½d rate is there.
485 £ 25 link Leeward Islands Three covers to Lennards Ltd in Bristol; two sent by airmail from Antigua, via New York was sent OC 31 29 registered for 1s 7½d (Leewards 1½d, 6d, 1s Die I but not plate 23); then mixed franking with Antigua 3d and 4d combining with Leewards 5d to make up a 1s rate AU 15 31 and finally an item from St Kitts postmarked 16 MR 29 which the sender tried to post surface for 1d, the under payment was noted and a 2d postage due added in the UK
486 £ 25 link Leeward Islands On the reverse inscribed ‘trip to Porto Rico postponed, so am posting this in Antigua’. This being an envelope to Farnham, Surrey inscribed on the front ‘P.A.A. via Miami & New York’, an early airmail with Leewards 2s (SG74a) sent FE 7 38 – the stamp has cat. £50 off cover
487 £ 35 link Leeward Islands Two covers from St Kitts, one censored there and one in Antigua. The first sent by airmail 21 AU 1942 for 1s ½d has the St Kitts CH4 fancy lozenge applied in red with the manuscript ‘3’ and has Antigua AU 27 on reverse; the second cover was also sent by air mail, the fare a penny more, to Washington AP 27 43 and was opened in Antigua and resealed with the L7 label of censor 235. Both commercial
488 £ 75 link Leeward Islands Leewards KEVII 2d PSRE uprated 5½d postage to New York 25 Feb 1913. An observant owner notes carried by a Quebec SS vessel and that the pair of 1d stamps includes the small ‘s’ variety. No less than four receiving marks but sadly it is beyond our eyesight to detect the office of despatch. Our records suggest only 500 of this 1910 envelope which folds to the front were printed and of these just four mint and four used survive, we cannot say if this makes five, but clearly scarce
489 £ 90 link Leeward Islands In the KGV period there were three reply PSC, ½ green, 1d violet, and 1½d carmine – all are addressed from Antigua to Beckhaus and without messages, but this was thought to be the only way to get the third of these (but see the next lot) and we add in the 1d carmine card addressed the same way. A bit grubby and battered at the edges but only 1,002 of each of the reply card were ever printed.
490 £ 100 link Leeward Islands However, it appears that there was also Mr Adolphe Schoeller, as a philatelic addressee and here we can offer the 1d violet and 1½d carmine reply PSCs addressed to him in France and sent from Antigua AU 17 28. The condition of these two significantly better than the previous lot
491 £ 30 link Leeward Islands 1½d PSE sent from St John’s Antigua to Dolcis Shoe Co, London on JA 28 33, London arrival 16 FE on reverse
492 £ 75 link Leeward Islands We offered one of the scarce 1d carmine PSE’s from Antigua and it realised £120. This year’s envelope is the only one we can recall that was sent registered. The envelope to Glasgow’s School of Accountancy is uprated by 3½d and was sent FE 2 1932, part of the Tercentenary Year slogan cancel also on the envelope. Slightly grubby
493 £ 18 link Leeward Islands Universal key plate size G 3d PSRE sent from St Kitts to Montgomery Ward 19 MR 34 uprated by 2½d, nice straightforward use
494 £ 15 link Leeward Islands Group of eight Leeward postal stationery items, seven used. Mixed condition. Best maybe a ½d KE wrapper sent from Antigua to Barbados. A couple sent from Montserrat
495 £ 12 link Leeward Islands Eight different Leewards postal stationery wrappers optd Specimen, incl Keyplate ¼d. along with six unused wrappers condn a little variable
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496 £ 105 link Montserrat Interesting 1848 cover from Montserrat to Madeira, with an, in places, albino impression of the Montserrat double arc date stamp. On arrival in London it attracted the boxed ‘detained for postage’ hand stamp and did not reach Madeira until December, 160 Reis due. An early use of the new date stamp sent late 1847
497 £ 150 link Montserrat In 1861 a new date stamp was sent out and this envelope to London may show the EKD reported in Proud p.279 26 JY 1863, the ‘A’ control is inverted and it is hard to read, London arrival AU 14 63 is clear on front with 11/1 accountancy marks. Only 4 strikes recorded, ex Freeland and sold to our vendor in our 2022 sale
498 £ 40 link Montserrat Small piece with 2x 1d and a 1d bisect to make up a 2½d rate, cancelled A08 and we take to be from March 1883, SG1a on cover cat. £1,400 - on piece?
499 £ 60 link Montserrat Even harder to value are three bisects on three pieces, one diagonal and one vertical on SG1 and one perf 12.
500 £ 50 link Montserrat 2½d red-brown wmk Crown CC, SG4 fine mounted mint copy, cat. £250
501 £ 200 link Montserrat What better way to show off the inverted ‘S’ than in a used pair with the normal ‘S’; our vendor advises that only two used pairs are known of SG8 and with a cat. £1,000 this is a true rarity, very kindly cancelled
502 £ 15 link Montserrat 2s 6d green and black MCA wmk mint SG32 cat. £65
503 £ 30 link Montserrat 5s black and red MCA wmk, mint, some gum staining SG33 cat. £160
504 £ 15 link Montserrat 5s red and green on yellow mint SG47 cat. £65
505 £ 25 link Montserrat KGV first 5s mint SG48 cat. £95
506 £ 25 link Montserrat Four pages setting out the 21 stamps of the 1922-29 series by the order in which they were issued, mint in mounts SG63-83, cat. £95
507 £ 35 link Montserrat Tercentenary of the Colony set SG84-93 mint, seven of the ten stamps show part of the sheet margin, two include part of the imprint. Cat. £160
508 £ 75 link Montserrat Perhaps fortunately, Montserrat was the only British Caribbean territory to fall for the De Landre Red Cross scam. De Landre, pseudonym of Gaston Fontanille, was arrested in June 1917 but not before he had produced these 1d + 1d French Red Cross labels, trading off the desire to raise funds for the Red Cross worldwide. Here we offer an attractive block of four with register marks in the right hand margin
509 £ 60 link Montserrat 1876 1d on part front to London inscribed ‘per book post’, the stamp is fine but the cover has two pieces removed and a large nick at the top, sympathetic restoration could help. Montserrat Paid date stamp on front A(U) 26 no year
510 £ 90 link Montserrat Fragile envelope addressed to Dominica with Montserrat 1d bisect and with the small ‘½’ surcharge, probably applied in Dominica. AP 18 84 date stamp, used to be a popular item but condn a negative here
511 £ 35 link Montserrat A note with the cover expresses the opinion that the Tercentenary 6d (SG90) is extremely scarce on cover. This single franking is to McFarlan and was sent registered to him in Pennsylvania JU 6 1933
512 £ 75 link Montserrat Scarce incoming envelope sent from London on FE 5 1890, flap missing, 4d UPU rate paid with 1d lilac and 2x 1½d
513 £ 35 link Montserrat Censored cover sent by air mail for 1s ½d to the Bronx October 1941 via Antigua, transit date stamp 9 OCT 41 was opened and resealed with the CL2a paper and is amongst the earliest uses recorded by Freeland
514 £ 35 link Montserrat Air mail envelope sent to Grenada for 2½d NO 27 43 was opened and resealed with a PC90 label type CL5 and examiner AA78 in manuscript
515 £ 25 link Montserrat This airmail envelope to Aruba was sent for 1s 5d (one of the 2½d stamps badly damaged) where it arrived 31 7 45 and received an incoming censor mark, though seemingly not censored in Montserrat
516 £ 30 link Montserrat Three philatelic covers to Openshaw in British Columbia were sent in April 1942, each has a block of four of the KG6 definitives, one 2d, one 2½d, one 3d. Each was opened and examined on arrival
517 £ 10 link Montserrat 9 QE2 covers six are FDC’s (WI Federation, Shakespeare, Churchill, 2x ICY, ITU – then three 1971 to Hinchcliffe with 15c stamp, one sent from Salem, one from Harris
518 £ 30 link Montserrat Leewards QV PSRE size G to New York with Leewards 2½d added sent OC 5 97, the Wall St address suggests a scarce commercial use
519 £ 25 link Montserrat The colonial device size G PSRE, also commercially used and sent to Minneapolis on DE 3 03 with 2½d (SG17) added. The date sent is one day after the EKD given by Freeland, c20 recorded – two stain spots on the ‘R’
520 £ 25 link Montserrat Whereas this unopened Leewards KEVII env to Germany is not, an early registration label is attached and it was sent FE 20 09 with a ½d and 2d dull purple and ochre Leeward definitive added – we take to be SG31 which is not an easy stamp to find cancelled in Montserrat
521 £ 75 link Montserrat The three Leewards 1d overprints on QV 4d, 6d and 7d (SG17-19) on a cover SP16 1903 from Montserrat to Dominica (arr. b/stamp next day)
522 £ 20 link Montserrat Eight postal stationery items from Montserrat: six Edwardian period newspaper wrappers, ½d and 1d Specimen, ½d unused and 2x ½d used – one to Antigua, one to Holland, 1d used to Austria may be less commercial; then a 1d PSE also to Austria and finally a 1960 Apsley air letter from the postmaster to Kensington, no stamps, presumably on the grounds of official business
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523 £ 120 link Nevis 6d grey, perf 13 with hand written diagonal m/s Specimen, listed by Borromeo on page 59 of his Nevis book, scarce
524 £ 120 link Nevis ‘Reprints from the original plates’ a set of four with explanatory original document stating that these were made in July 1931 just before the plates were presented to the RPSL and showing that this is set 45 of the series of 50 - see Borromeo pp 77-80
525 £ 60 link Nevis An old-time plate reconstruction of the 4d orange-yellow used, it appears to have been checked by someone who gave it ten ‘ticks’ and two ? (pos. 4 and 6) – the stamps appear in rather better condition than the paper they are mounted on
526 £ 300 link Nevis Old printed album page with mounted mint stamps incl SG1-4, then SG10,11 and then SG16-18, 20, SG24 (2½d) and from the CA keyplates SG25-29, 33, 34. Fine stamps, v. high cat. £1,956
527 £ 10 link Nevis Two pages of St Kitts Nevis stamps used in Nevis with a variety of cancels, 18 stamps and one cover
528 £ 40 link Nevis Two pages of Leewards used in Nevis, the one cover has the QV 1d on a local cover, most unusual, on stamps include QV 1d and 2½d, KE 1d, KGV ½d, 1d, 1½d, SJ 1½d, KG6 to 6d and QE 5c – 26 stamps in all
529 £ 20 link Nevis 20 plus covers on pages, largely philatelic but including a block of four of the $5 SG144 used in Charlestown, covers span 1937 Coronation to c. 1980
530 £ 10 link Nevis Nevis 1½d brown PSC to London MY 23 89 commercial message
531 £ 20 link Nevis 12 items of Nevis QV unused or Specimen postal stationery cards on pages in fine condition
532 £ 20 link Nevis Simple 1d local envelope AP 26 96 paid with Leewards 1d. neatly opened
533 £ 130 link Nevis The bottom four rows of the sheet of the Four pence keyplate overprinted REVENUE, with the three sheet margins intact and two examples of plate number 1. SG F7 24 stamps with cat. of £55 each makes - £1,320 – an impressive multiple
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534 £ 150 link Saint Christopher GB 4d and 6d neatly and clearly cancelled A12 – seemingly untouched by our vendor since a Warwick & Warwick sale in February 1996! Cat. £750 6d with weak top left corner, 4d with some short perfs at top
535 £ 150 link Saint Christopher The 1870-82 QV wmk CC issue fine mint on page. For the perf 12½ you get 2x 1d rose (SG1), 3x 1d magenta and 6d. For the perf 14 you get one each of the 1d, 4d blue (SG8) and 6d, cat. £890
536 £ 60 link Saint Christopher Attractive used page of the QV Crown CC issue. Perf 12½ 1d rose x2, one with sideways wmk SG1a, SG2 and 3x 6d. Perf 14 there are 3x SG6, 3x SG8 and 4 x SG9 cat. c£350
537 £ 60 link Saint Christopher The ½d dull green wmk sideways SG11a seemingly unused with gd centring and clean perfs but no gum on the back, Cat. £300
538 £ 150 link Saint Christopher Three pages of fine mint stamps to represent the 1882-90 Crown CA issue, including a complete pane of 20 with full margins of both the ½d green and 1d carmine. Mint examples of both shades of the 2½d red-brown (SG14 and 15) a strip of 3 with plate no for the 2½d ultramarine, 6d olive brown (SG19) and 1s mauve (SG20). Cat. £800+
539 £ 150 link Saint Christopher The used page of the same 1882-90 issue does include the 6d olive brown and both shades of the 1s, one a wing marginal, plus two copies of the 1d magenta and 3 of the 2½d red brown cat. c£950
540 £ 180 link Saint Christopher Two pages covering the various 1883-88 overprints includes SG23 unsevered mint pair and single used on piece; SG24 two used copies; SG25 mint and used; SG26 two copies mint two used; SG26 and 28 in mint blocks of four; also a mint set of the revenue stamps R3 to R6 with the 6d and 1s on unconvincing piece cat. £1,100+
541 £ 15 link Saint Christopher Page showing the ‘S’ numbers as listed by Oliver (p. 144-7) on QV stamps, S3 on piece, S7 on 6d pair, S19a including 6d vertical pair amongst those noted
542 £ 60 link Saint Christopher Pair of covers from the Bernardy correspondence neatly showing the change in the 4d stamp from blue to grey. The late use 4d blue is on a SP 23 84 cover to London, whilst the early use 4d grey is on one of JA 25 85, which must be close to the earliest recorded
543 £ 15 link Saint Christopher 1½d Postal Stationery card sent from Basseterre to Curacao SP 28 89 is a most unusual destination for the time
544 £ 25 link Saint Christopher Collection on eight pages of St Christopher QV unused or Specimen postal stationery cards in fine condition, the two shades of the 1d rose red card particularly striking - 14 items
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545 £ 45 link Saint Kitts The 1921-29 set of 16 (SG37-47c) used with additional mint and used examples, cat. £170+
546 £ 45 link Saint Kitts 1923 Tercentenary set to 5s mounted mint (SG48-57 & 59) cat. c£200
547 £ 60 link Saint Kitts Two pages featuring the larger type stamps of the KG6 definitive series with varieties, generally represented mint and used, including a convincing mint example of SG71a and 2s 6d and 5s on chalk surface paper, this is a fair attempt at completeness of the shades and papers, cat. £200+
548 £ 25 link Saint Kitts The rest of the King George VI issues on pages mint and used SG78-105 plus the 1937 Coronation set, cat. £105+ cond. generally fine
549 £ 40 link Saint Kitts Fine strike of Sandy Point AU 18 31 on 2s 6d (SG33)
550 £ 18 link Saint Kitts 5 covers (2 regd) and a pc from St Kitts, two posted from ‘Old Road’ one Dieppe Road and one FDC from Nevis, mostly philatelic
551 £ 40 link Saint Kitts The Education Dept in Hong Kong is a scarce destination from St Kitts here on a Universal size H2 PSRE sent with 2½d postage 10 JU 1932, sadly this is the front of the envelope only and so no back stamps
552 £ 5 link Saint Kitts Miscellaneous lot of three postcards and two 1930’s photographs of St Kitts. One is a 1907 incoming postcard with a view of Arundel Castle; a 1930’s photocard of a plantation with no stamp and most intriguingly a postcard of a print of the battle between Admirals Hood and De Grasse in 1782; this was sent to London in 1934 with 1d rose-carmine
553 £ 18 link Saint Kitts Two used ½d postal stationery wrappers. One Leeward Islands QV used locally to Cayon OC 23 93 and one with Columbus to a Rev Meister at a local Presbytery Ap 10 1910. We pair with Medicinal Spring 1d PSC and Specimen reply PSC
554 £ 25 link Saint Kitts Five covers from the KG5 reign: 7 x ½d optd WAR TAX on regd cover to New York 27 JA 17; 1d Medicinal Spring to Tortola FE 4 19; strip of three ½d stamp on RBC cover to New York MY 3 19; 1937 1½d SG40 to London and Leewards 1½d on 1938 cover to Edinburgh. All seem commercial
555 £ 12 link Saint Kitts Early commercial airmail to Stratford, London, with airmail etiquette sent 13 NO 36 via Antigua for 1s 2d, made up of Leewards 1½d red-brown Die I (SG84) and St Kitts Nevis ½d and 1s SG24 and 31
556 £ 20 link Saint Kitts Page with good selection of Leewards used in St Kitts for the QV keyplates there are 4x ½d, 2x 1d, 2x 2½d and 4d; 6 KGV keyplates including the 5d, 1d SJ and for KG6 keyplate 2½d and 1s – 17 in all
557 £ 10 link Saint Kitts Miscellany here with a map of St Christopher surrounded by a dozen stamps with a variety of cancels from QV to QE2, with it you get a 26 MR 41 OHMS envelope to USA and two Eastern Caribbean coins which were only introduced in the mid 1950’s some years after decimalisation – here the 2c and $1 coins
558 £ 20 link Saint Kitts JU 12 95 envelope sent to Horsham, Sussex with Leeward keyplates – 3x ½d and 1d
559 £ 45 link Saint Kitts Leeward stamps used in the St Kitts villages are quite scarce, our vendor quotes Horry as stating probably no more than 35 from SANDY POINT exist; here we have four examples – QV 1d, KE 1d, KG5 2d and KG6 2d so across the four reigns. With it comes a KG5 ¼d from OLD ROAD and a KG6 1d from ANGUILLA
560 £ 15 link Saint Kitts Before the Paquebot markings came in, cancels to maritime mail were applied at the next port – here 1d stamps cancelled in Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica and Trinidad are combined with Paquebot uses from Barbados, St John (NB) and Southampton
561 £ 12 link Saint Kitts OHMS envelope sent 31 AU 37 by the Post Office St Kitts-Nevis to California with a block of four of the 1½d Coronation but with considerable interest added by an orange-red Cinderella for British Industries Fair in Birmingham, UK in 1938 – did the colony participate?
562 £ 75 link Saint Kitts This year’s sale is an opportunity to acquire a range of the St Kitts censor marks. We start with CH1 (as described by Burrows) the ‘PASSED THE CENSOR’ hand stamp. Here we can offer an early example well struck in red on SP 25 39 cover to New York, with three penny stamps for surface postage. The second example is less boldly struck in purple on an airmail cover to the Quaker Oats Co also in New York. Postage 1s 4d (1d, 3d, 1s stamps); sent on 6 NO 40 and with Antigua transit of NO 13
563 £ 45 link Saint Kitts The CH2a large circle is the St Kitts censor mark we most commonly feature. Here we offer three surface rate examples with numerals 2, 3 and 4 on outgoing mail from St Kitts. Fine strike of ‘2’ in red on 1941 surface rate cover to New York; ‘3’ in purple well struck to California 22 OC 41; ‘4’ in red, slightly smudged to New Jersey 11 AP 40. This later marked per SS Nerissa – a passenger ship of the Bermuda & West Indies line that was torpedoed and sunk on 1 May 1941
564 £ 50 link Saint Kitts The same three CH2a marks on five incoming covers. Three clear examples of ‘2’ in red on 1940/41 covers from the USA; ‘3’ in violet incoming from California 1941 and what we make out to be ‘4’ in red on incoming item from Sweden April 1941
565 £ 45 link Saint Kitts The scarce CH3a octagonal Crown/PASSED/IBB with pencil 435 censor number. Very clear strike on PECO ppc of St John’s Cathedral, Antigua but sent from St Kitts 16 OC 44, 2d postage
566 £ 35 link Saint Kitts We single out a printed envelope headed ‘ON HIS MAJESTY’s SERVICE’ then MONEY ORDER ADVICE and finally ‘THE POSTMASTER’; this example initialled by the postmaster and sent to New York 25 FE 43 by Air Mail for 10½d. The initialling did not deter the censor as on the back is a fine strike in violet of the CH4 fancy censor lozenge with pen numeral ‘1’ tying a small piece of resealing tape to the envelope.
567 £ 30 link Saint Kitts A fine pair of covers with CH4 one in violet with numeral ‘1’ to Detroit and sent airmail via Antigua for 1s 1½d on 21 MY 42; the second in red with numeral ‘3’ sent surface to Boston, also via Antigua on JU 11 42
568 £ 90 link Saint Kitts The currency control marks are really quite difficult to find. A fine strike of CFH1 on 1942 cover sent, scruffily addressed to Halifax
569 £ 100 link Saint Kitts The currency control label CFL1 is even scarcer, here in very fine condition on surface rate cover to Montreal of 15 August 1941
570 £ 25 link Saint Kitts Moving on to the resealing labels we offer CL1 with the pre-printed BB/1 and the unrecorded ‘17’ in manuscript on 31 MY 43 cover sent airmail to Curacao for 1s 1½d
571 £ 20 link Saint Kitts The CL3 style PC90 labels were used by a myriad of censors, we take this one to be used by BB 114 used on a neat cover to Brooklyn sent 4 SP 44 for 2d 6d
572 £ 20 link Saint Kitts The pre-printed CL4 label of examiner BB 198 resealed this three colour 3d franking to California sent 30 AP 45
573 £ 35 link Saint Kitts 22 covers on pages, largely KG6 but including the 1935 SJ set on cover. To our eyes the most interesting are the commercial airmail items which include a 1947 letter to Stamford, CT at 8d with ‘AIRMAIL FROM ST KITTS’ cachet; a 1949 air letter sent to Shoreham at the 8d air letter rate; air mail letters at 42c, 44c, 48c (single use and with KLM airmail etiquette) and registered 50c (48c plus 2c) to track the changes in rates in the early 1950’s
574 £ 18 link Saint Kitts We can’t recall offering a parcel tag before, this one is addressed to Barclays Bank in Bridgetown Barbados and has a clear arrival date stamp of 18 MY 67. The St Kitts device used to cancel the three samps making up the $1.40 rate is far less clear – the stamps 15c, 25c, $1 SG137, 139 and 142 – we think a scarce survivor
575 £ 25 link Saint Kitts A further 22 covers on pages from the QE2 period up to associated statehood, again interest in the air mail rates but also includes a 1956 printed matter rate on card to France
576 £ 25 link Saint Kitts 16 rather more modern items on pages here including what looks to be a commercial $5 rate for a cover to Jersey sent in 2006 with a note that the previous year the rate was only $1.20. There is also a 1974 example of a slogan cancel – ‘MINI ISLE(S)/MAXI POTENTIAL’ reported in BWISC Bulletin 228, much of the rest shows the 1981 bird definitives on commercial cover.
577 £ 25 link Saint Kitts Columbus 2d PSRE size H2 sent to New York 6 Mar 1926 with KGV ½d and 4d uprating
578 £ 12 link Saint Kitts PPC of ‘Mountains Back of Basseterre’ with ½d Columbus on front to take to Seychelles 30 May 1905
579 £ 25 link Saint Kitts Six b/w ppc of St Kitts all unused produced by A Moure Losada and bearing numbers 54a (Brimstone Hill); 55a (Mount Misery); 72a (the Bridge of Cayon); 122a (St Thomas Church); 123a (Palm Avenue); 136a (A Village Scene). The Palm Avenue card a has a ¼d stamp and an inscription 2 January 1917, which helps date them.
Saint Kitts
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580 £ 30 link Saint Lucia QV keyplate CA wmk ½d, 2½d and 3d in blocks of four with a pair of the ½d with plate no. 3
581 £ 25 link Saint Lucia You used to have to collect your SPECIMEN opts in singles, so if you are still trying here we offer the KE 2½d (SG60) and KGV 3d (SG100)
582 £ 20 link Saint Lucia Three KE marginal blocks of four 1907 ½d green (SG65), 1d carmine (SG67) and 2½d blue, the last two show guide dots and the 2½d has the interpanneau mgn at left cat. c£40
583 £ 30 link Saint Lucia KGV in blocks of four – 1d deep brown SG93, 2d slate grey SG95, for the 2½d you get a block of four and six we would say brt blue for the four and dull blue for the six – cat. £110
584 £ 10 link Saint Lucia 1936 series mint pairs of ½d, 1d and 3d plus block of four of the ½d
585 £ 15 link Saint Lucia KG6 2d block of six with full Waterlow imprint, 3d in strip of three with full imprint and 8d in block of four from lower left corner of the sheet
586 £ 25 link Saint Lucia Three mint coil strips of four – ½d green, 1c green and 2c magenta – the last two perf.14
587 £ 10 link Saint Lucia The 1949 perf 14 1c and 2c in coil join pairs mint and used – an attractive way to show this off
588 £ 10 link Saint Lucia 1949 postage due set of four in mint blocks of four
589 £ 30 link Saint Lucia Neat envelope sent OC 12 98 to Nova Scotia a few months before the introduction of the Empire penny post, so still 2½d made up with 2x 1d dull mauve and ½d green
Saint Lucia
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590 £ 60 link Saint Vincent Incoming 1838 letter from Brechin to the Richmond Estate on St Vincent
591 £ 15 link Saint Vincent You have the 3 different 1d blacks here in attractive used condn, and one has a full GB//40c cancellation, we tack on a 6d SG29 that gets halfway there
Saint Vincent The next eight lots are Edwardian Specimen stamps
592 £ 25 link Saint Vincent The broken ‘M’ variety on 1d dull purple and carmine SG77s var
593 £ 25 link Saint Vincent The same variety on the 1s green and carmine SG82s var
594 £ 50 link Saint Vincent The 5s SG84s, with hand stamped SPECIMEN, a value missing from the set of six offered in the Freeland sale
595 £ 100 link Saint Vincent The 1907-08 Arms set hand stamped SPECIMEN on all five values ex Strachan SG94s-98s
596 £ 75 link Saint Vincent We can offer four of the five values of the same set in vertical pairs, but only a single of the 2d, slightly compensated by an additional 3d single, all overprinted Specimen SG94s-98s cat. c£260
597 £ 65 link Saint Vincent The 1909-11 keyplate set of three higher values overprinted Specimen SG91s-93s, cat. £190
598 £ 25 link Saint Vincent Back to the broken ‘M’ variety on 1d carmine SG95s var
599 £ 25 link Saint Vincent Finally the same broken ‘M’ variety on 2d orange SG96s var
600 £ 30 link Saint Vincent The WW1 ONE PENNY on 1/- is on parade here in NE corner block of 12 and top mgnl single mint (or substantially so) and a single f.u. A previous owner suggested the block contains an example of ONE double, which we reject and you can please yourselves. So it’s cat. £170 for this group (all fine)
601 £ 12 link Saint Vincent Two KG5 £1 mauve and black used: the script example lightly u., has short NE corner perf: cancel on MCA version leaves 90% of stamp clear, but we rate as a fiscal and has a scuff within
602 £ 25 link Saint Vincent These 21 stamps are the SG listed denominations that were issued as defins between 1955 and 1961. They are ex-Jaffe, mint or o.g. (hinge lightly attached in the odd instance), SG189-200a, cat. £189, all fine. It’s the extra shades that add the value
603 £ 120 link Saint Vincent 28 August 1882 large part cover to London with packet rate of 4d paid with SG38, stamp centred right and some cover faults but scarce
604 £ 50 link Saint Vincent Advertising envelope for the Philatelic Journal of Great Britain sent registered from St Vincent to Port Royal, Jamaica sent JA 6 99 with registration label, block of four ½ d green and ‘FIVE PENCE’ on 6d
605 £ 12 link Saint Vincent 25 ppc and 5 covers from the QEII era and going up to at least 2013, most appear to be proper usages and a number of Grenadine island and other village postmarks – not that easy to find this material
Saint Vincent
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606 £ 50 link Tobago 4d green, wmk CA attractive ltly mtd m. example SG18 cat. £225
607 £ 75 link Tobago 22 stamps on old printed album page, all appear used, though condn mixed, pick seem to be SG1 and 2
Tobago
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608 £ 30 link Trinidad Three stampless covers with US ‘SHIP’ hand stamp. One from James Witham 31 July 1844 from Trinidad to Portland, Boston entry d/stamp and manuscript 14; secondly, also 1844 to Baltimore marked ‘per Crescent’ and ‘12’; finally an 1809 cover to Baltimore inscribed ‘per Sussannah’ with 14 in red and a Philadelphia d/stamp – the mystery here is the origin, the island of Trinidad or the Cuban city of the same name
609 £ 40 link Trinidad A pair of stampless covers with fair strikes of the Trinidad dbl-arc. The first a dbl rate pkt letter to Carlisle sent JA 20 1846 for 2s; second single rate to Glasgow sent JU 6 1847
610 £ 40 link Trinidad Three pre-stamp items, the most interesting of which is to Paris, via London where the Col & Art 13 hstamp was applied and 90 decimes was charged in France – the date is an early one DE 24 1852 for the new date stamp without serifs – we would rate more highly if the strikes were better; with it you get an 1848 letter to New York that seems to have been carried by favour and a rather tatty envelope of 1855 coming in to Trinidad in 1855
611 £ 90 link Trinidad An attractive block of twelve of the (1d) blue SG3 with gum intact if a little age stained – cat. £276, but these are remainders
612 £ 90 link Trinidad We pair three blocks of four of the undenominated 1d, the purple brown of SG2, a deeper shade of blue of SG3 and a grey SG5, both have been mounted and have minor gum faults and toning. Attractive though
613 £ 200 link Trinidad A good four-margin example of the second lithograph issue (SG15) cat. £1,200, with it you get an altogether tattier copy which is damaged and to which we ascribe no extra value
614 £ 30 link Trinidad A fine block of six of the (1d) red lithograph SG20 unused, cat. £96 with a ‘used’ example which we treat as having a forged pmk
615 £ 90 link Trinidad Three pages of imperf Britannias, the first shows the design and includes Trinidad SG2, Barbados SG4 and Mauritius SG28 all unused and a colourful contrast, with these you get 11 imperf Trinidad Britannias in very mixed condn, mint and used. Possibly the best is an almost 4 mgn unused example of the 4d grey, SG25, the 1s indigo SG29 is also worth noting
616 £ 75 link Trinidad Somewhat tatty envelope to Nova Scotia, sent 26 May 1873 the fare paid with 1d carmine (SG69) and 4d grey (SG71), St Thomas transit on back
617 £ 50 link Trinidad Sadly only a front sent FE 27 1878 to East Florida for 6d (SG77), the routing clearly marked as via St Thomas, Bermuda and Halifax but without the proving date stamps that would have been on the back
618 £ 60 link Trinidad 4d grey (SG76) envelope from the Cochrane correspondence sent AP 27 1880 to London
619 £ 35 link Trinidad 1d on 6d (SG105) and with the T9 duplex to Port of Spain OC 29 83, philatelic to Legge
620 £ 60 link Trinidad Four pages with perforated Britannias, 27 stamps, all seem to be used: two 1860 1d rose red (SG46), good to fine SG52 (this with fine Cedros type o.2 ‘21’ cancel), then a good range of the wmk CC stamps cat. £300+
621 £ 20 link Trinidad Four more pages with some 20 stamps featuring dated copies of the 1d, the ½d and 1d opts of 1879-82, including the 1d opt bisected on cover plus a selection of the manuscript 1d on 6d
622 £ 20 link Trinidad Our vendor has studied the Britannias carefully and if you want to take your knowledge forward these pages will assist. Firstly two examples of each of the 6d green and 1s yellow with thick and thin paper; then five stamps selected to show small printing varieties, all written up; thirdly watermark oddities on eleven stamps caused by printing from the Perkins Bacon plates on Crown CC paper
623 £ 75 link Trinidad Seven pages studying the cancels: ‘2’ 0.1a; ‘1’ 0.1b; ‘1’ and ‘3’ 0.3; ‘1’ 0.5; ‘1’, ‘10’, ‘15’, ‘18’, ‘21’, ‘22’ all type 0.4 then ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘7’, ‘11’, ‘16’, ‘17’,‘18’, ‘21’, ‘23’ all type 0.7; then ‘6’, ‘23’ type 0.6 and also the type 0.9 duplex for ‘T2’ ‘T5’, ‘T7’, ‘T11’, ‘T17’, T21’ and ‘T31’. In all 43 stamps, a few scarce and a good basis for expansion
624 £ 50 link Trinidad The 1901-06 Britannia set optd SPECIMEN, SG127s/132s cat. £160
625 £ 130 link Trinidad Colour trial in brown for the 1898 400th Anniversary of Discovery issue
626 £ 130 link Trinidad Similar Colour trial in black for the 1898 400th Anniversary of Discovery issue
627 £ 95 link Trinidad 25 Feb 1852 entire to Greenock per pkt, dbl-rated at 2s (1d) brownish-grey (SG6) full mgns and tied with octagonal ‘1’, note inside says ex-Brooks
628 £ 100 link Trinidad 25 Feb 1858 outer to Martinique rated 4d (1d) rose red SG12, 2½ mgns
629 £ 150 link Trinidad 12 Feb 1859 env. to Baltimore with 1d rose red (SG12) affixed and rated 8d with Steamship 20 tying the adhesive to the cover, St Thomas transit 14 Feb on reverse
630 £ 200 link Trinidad Rather worn looking cover sent to Dumfriesshire on 7 November 1859 by the packet with 6d green imperf (SG28) so a scarce item. Crowned Circle paid and a good strike of L C R in circle (of the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway) adhesive has almost complete margins
631 £ 90 link Trinidad AP 17 1866 env. to London packet rate 1s with 1s lilac rose (SG73a)
632 £ 250 link Trinidad Busy cover of 24 October 1867 to Corsica with fine forwarding agents hand stamp, the 1s 4d rate paid with a pair of 6d (SG72) and 4d violet (SG70). We leave to you to determine just which shade, but it graced Sir John Marriott’s collection and, as Lot 396, achieved a hammer price of £500 back in 2001
633 £ 90 link Trinidad Also from the Marriott collection (lot 398) and perhaps one of the bargains is this 7 Dec 1868 cover to Bordeaux franked with 2 four pence bright violet (SG70); London transit Dec 28
634 £ 150 link Trinidad Pretty envelope to Gand in Belgium sent OC 26 1872, the rate of 1s 1½d was paid with 1s chrome-yellow SG74 and two (1d) rose (SG69) PD on front and 13 Nov Gand arrival on back, London transit
635 £ 150 link Trinidad Another pretty envelope to Bordeaux with almost all the markings on the front sent SP 9 1873 6d paid with emerald green adhesive (SG72) and local rate with (1d) rose (SG69a)
636 £ 60 link Trinidad Late Feb 1875 envelope, top flap missing to London (MR 15 75) arr. Paid at the packet rate by 1s chrome-yellow (SG74)
637 £ 100 link Trinidad The envelope a little tired perhaps but we think a proper commercial packet rate usage of vertical strip of four of the manuscript 1d on 6d (SG105) sent to a Mrs Taylor near Glasgow pm SP 7 (18)84
Trinidad To go with the fine outbound covers we can also offer some scarce incoming mail by British packet, largely from France
638 £ 120 link Trinidad Forwarded by an agent in Le Havre and carried on the RMSP La Plata this outer with 2x 80c Louis Napoleon imperf (SG71) took this double rate cover to Trinidad where it arrived FE 7 1860
639 £ 150 link Trinidad Three covers from Le Havre by RMSP to Trinidad, single 80c Louis Napoleon, this time perforated (SG98). Those of 4 Sep 1865 and 1 Dec 1865 inscribed per ‘Tasmanian’; the third of 16 Oct 1865 per Shannon
640 £ 75 link Trinidad 1s packet cover from Birmingham to Trinidad sent FE 1 1868, 1s plate 4 with corner letters J E, cat. £450 on cover
641 £ 150 link Trinidad 22 Dec 1871 from Nantes to Trinidad sent via London the 1Fr pkt rate made up with a pair of 30c brown (SG116) and 40c orange (SG119) with forwarding agent cachets front & back (Gerald & Urich, Trinidad). A scarce cover
642 £ 75 link Trinidad 9 Dec 1874 letter from Paris via Nantes and London to Trinidad with the 1Fr postage made up with 4x 25c blue Ceres head stamps, fine forwarding agent marks front and back (J N Harriman, Trinidad), ex Ramkissoon lot 2494
643 £ 75 link Trinidad The 1Fr rate on this cover made up of 2x 30c brown and 40c orange Ceres head perforated sent from Nantes to Trinidad 11 Aug 1875, forwarding agent marks front and back (J N Harriman, Trinidad
644 £ 20 link Trinidad 25 Sep 1929 airmail cover to Boston, Mass sent for 1s 6d (2x 3d SG223, 1s SG227) and two strikes of Buy British Empire Goods slogan cancel
Trinidad
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645 £ 50 link Turks Islands 4d grey (SG57) on Frith & Murphy stationery envelope to Nova Scotia sent JY 29 89, Halifax transit 5 August. Simple, but scarce
646 £ 60 link Turks Islands Colonial stationery envelope to Nova Scotia sent SP 29 92, the 2½d rate paid with the red-brown stamp (SG56)
647 £ 50 link Turks Islands ‘Throat flaw’ prominent on one of the 1d lake stamps (SG63b) making up the 2½d rate to Halifax Nova Scotia; 7 Feb arrival
648 £ 75 link Turks Islands Two covers to W Mussen in Leicester, the first sent registered MR 3 97 for 7½d where the 2½d ultramarine is accompanied by the 5d (SG72), not an easy stamp to find on cover. The second cover was sent 6 weeks later on 27 April with a pair of 2½d ultramarine making up the franking
649 £ 40 link Turks Islands Pair of registered covers on the stationery of W. Arthur Darrell to the USA. The first JU 4 1900 is to Baltimore and the 7d fare is paid with 1d lake and 6d yellow-brown (SG59). A few months later the ‘badge’ stamps bearing the ‘Turks & Caicos’ name were in issue and the new ½d and 4d stamps took this cover to Ohio on 17 Jan 1901.
650 £ 500 link Turks Islands A rare 1d Perkins Bacon 1867 Die Proof on thick white card 42 x 50mm, with it you get some background pages to the Turks Islands, a map and a piece with the signature of Queen Victoria
651 £ 400 link Turks Islands The 1881 ½ on 1/- Blue, SG11 the Type 4 surcharge, mint with pt o.g a fine and scarce stamp, well centred with cat. £2,500
652 £ 200 link Turks Islands Less well centred is the ½ on 1/- blue Type 5 (but with straight top to ‘1’ as in Type 4) mint, with tiny thin SG11b, cat. £1,800
653 £ 300 link Turks Islands An exhibition page featuring the 1881 Crown CC issue, SG49-53 mint and used with an additional example of the 4d and 1s mint and 1d, 4d and 1s used. Condn generally fine cat. £1500+
654 £ 180 link Turks Islands Two exhibition pages featuring mint stamps from the 1882-86 issue (SG53-57). For the ½d there are five blue-green examples and three green and a block of 9 from the bottom left corner with plate no.2, three examples of the 1d orange-brown and 2½d red-brown and six of the 4d grey. In addition to these generally fine stamps you get a used example of each – cat. £900+
655 £ 45 link Turks Islands The 1887-89 wmk CA mint features on this page SG58-60 with four examples of the 1d crimson-lake (one with throat flaw and sheet mgn) three of the 6d yellow brown and four of the sepia, some shade variation
656 £ 35 link Turks Islands Two examples of the 1889 6d yellow-brown overprinted SPECIMEN (SG59s) plus two postally used copies of SG58-60, cat. £145
657 £ 90 link Turks Islands Exhibition page featuring the One Penny on 2½d surcharge SG61, with no less than 18 mint examples including an irregular block of 9 from the bottom two rows of the sheet with both plate no.1s. The single examples show variety in the posn of the opt. You also get two postally used examples in fine condn. Cat. £490+
658 £ 60 link Turks Islands Attractive pages showing firstly the range of shades of the 1d SG62-65 along with a block of twelve from the left side of the sheet showing the position of the neck flaw and throat flaw (some perf flaws and you decide the shade), 19 mint stamps. The second page has a 1d in used block of four, seven mint examples of the 2½d and four used in all cat.c£250
659 £ 250 link Turks Islands A study of the ½d on 4d grey surcharge featuring settings 2-4, sadly none from the first setting, SG67-69. You get SG67 fine mint, SG68 in mint pair and used and SG69 two mint one used. Condn generally fine and cat. £1,380
660 £ 60 link Turks Islands The 1893-95 keyplates feature on this exhibition page, SG70-72 and includes the SPECIMEN pair (SG71s/72s), three or four mint examples of each plus one used 5d, two of the 4d and eight of the ½d including a block of four and strip of three. Cat. £330+
661 £ 450 link Turks Islands Moving on to Turks and Caicos Islands we offer a very fine Master Die Proof of the smaller size of the badge of the islands issue. Printed in black on white glazed card (48 x 53mm) dated 22 FEB 1900 and with value tablet painted in Chinese White, ex Ludington we believe
662 £ 450 link Turks Islands A similar die proof in black for the larger size badge stamps, twice dated 27 FEB 1900 and on card 51 x 54mm, also believed to be ex-Ludington
663 £ 75 link Turks Islands The SPECIMEN set SG101s-109s in fine mint condn with addnl examples of the ½d, 2½d, 2s and 3s. Set cat. £250
664 £ 75 link Turks Islands The mint set SG101-109 with some addnl shades, the used set to 3/- and the 1905-08 set of three mint and used SG110-112, cat c.£400
665 £ 45 link Turks Islands A complete pane of 60 of the 1d SG103 with ‘CROWN AGENTS FOR/THE COLONIES’ element of the sheet wmk on the stamps of the fourth column rather than the sheet mgns – an interesting variety
666 £ 50 link Turks Islands Two mint examples of the 1d one with inverted wmk, one with reversed wmk in pair with a stamp with no wmk SG102w,x cat. £290
667 £ 50 link Turks Islands The 2d with inverted wmk and another inverted and reversed, the latter shows not the Crown CA inverted but the ‘F’ from ‘FOR’ – an unlisted refinement, we treat as SG103w and x (and with 2019 RPSL cert) cat. say £260
668 £ 25 link Turks Islands The 2½d with inverted wmk, SG104aw cat. £120
669 £ 40 link Turks Islands Display pages featuring nine watermark varieties including the Crown Agents lettering in place of the Crown CA. Also two blocks of four of the 6d, one corner block showing the ‘NTS’ of AGENTS clearly in the margin, the other showing letters and the Crown CA. Finally a block of twelve of the 1s from the bottom two rows, the sheet margin with the full ‘CROWN’
670 £ 75 link Turks Islands The 1909-11 SPECIMEN set of twelve SG115-126, cat. £275
671 £ 75 link Turks Islands The 1909 set mint and used SG115-126 with an additional block of four of the 3d and additional singles of the 2/- and 3/-, some shade varieties included, cat. £300+
672 £ 30 link Turks Islands Complete pane of 60 of both the ¼d and ½d SG116 and 117
673 £ 50 link Turks Islands ½d green fine mint with inverted wmk and rh sheet mgn, SG117w cat. £200
674 £ 75 link Turks Islands 1s black on green also fine mint with inverted wmk, SG124w cat. £275
675 £ 45 link Turks Islands Interesting variety on the 2/- mint ‘spot on temple’ and it is quite a spot; ‘wound on temple’ might be more accurate, unlisted but very clear – is it constant?
676 £ 80 link Turks Islands Imperf 3/- colour trial in red on thick unwatermarked paper for the 1913 issue, the issued colour for the 1d stamp
677 £ 50 link Turks Islands Similar colour trial or proof of the 3/- but optd SPECIMEN in small letters (Samuel DS1?) probably produced by DLR for Sample purposes, with it come normal SPECIMEN opts on the 2½d, 6d and 2/- of the 1913 issue
678 £ 60 link Turks Islands A very useful reference study of the 1913-21 issue, SG 129-139, the set may only catalogue at £55 but what makes this stand out are the shades and the different coloured papers – as reference material this is useful to many of our territories. This study includes the three shades of paper for the 2/- and total cat. easily £200
679 £ 100 link Turks Islands Watermark reversed on fine mint examples of the 3d and 2/- SG133cx and 138bx, cat. £410
680 £ 20 link Turks Islands The upper half of the 2½d sheet SG132 with full sheet mgns, 30 examples
681 £ 60 link Turks Islands The 1913-21 set fine used with additional examples of many, including two addl 2/- stamps one on blue green and one on white paper, cat. £270+
682 £ 75 link Turks Islands The local WAR TAX opt (SG140) produced some varieties, here we offer a block of four alongside a single showing the double opt (SG140a), two examples inverted at top (SG140d) and a constant but unlisted curiosity where the ‘X’ in ‘TAX’ is deformed to look like a reversed ‘K’ cat. £310+
683 £ 300 link Turks Islands Singled out is a corner block of four showing two of the vertical pairs where the top stamp has the opt and the bottom stamp doesn’t. Cat. £1,400 and comes with venerable 1948 BPA certificate, usual gum toning
684 £ 30 link Turks Islands Two pages featuring the local WAR TAX on 3d with some varieties in the lettering – short ‘A’, elongated ‘T’ etc and also a clear example of the double opt SG141a with sheet mgn, cat. £100+
685 £ 180 link Turks Islands For the second local printing the WAR TAX is at the top or middle of the stamp, this mint pair with bottom sheet mgn shows one inverted one normal, SG143g cat. £950
686 £ 200 link Turks Islands A mint strip of four of SG143 with top sheet mgn and where the two left stamps normal and the two right stamps with inverted surcharge, also with 1949 BPA certificate, (includes Robson Lowe’s signature) and is a little fragile, lightly toned gun and some mgnl staining, but scarce
687 £ 20 link Turks Islands Three pages featuring more normal mint examples of SG143/144 including a block of twelve, three of six and several smaller blocks with variation in the positioning of the opt and in shade – 60 odd stamps
688 £ 90 link Turks Islands The 3d was also opt locally in red with WAR TAX, six mint examples here show variation in the placement of the opt and include the double print (SG145a), we combine with four mint examples of the black opt from the previous issue which also show misplacement and lettering variety – cat. c£450
689 £ 50 link Turks Islands The first London printings show a little more consistency, three pages here featuring SG146-148, including the three optd SPECIMEN with addl SG148s. Also SG146w (inverted wmk) cat. £250+
690 £ 60 link Turks Islands A complete pane of 60 of the 3d London surcharge in black SG147, cat, £480
691 £ 25 link Turks Islands The 1919 local WAR TAX surcharge was in violet (SG149), the 18 mint examples here include two blocks of four, one with inverted wmk (SG149w) and one double opt (SG149b), interesting shade variation
692 £ 25 link Turks Islands Three pages featuring the August 1919 surcharge (some debate as to whether this was done locally or by DLR), the 3d page includes an inverted wmk example SG151w, the penny page a block of 20 (SG150) and highlighted on a third page an oddity that is not listed with ‘TAX’ at the top and ‘WAR’ on the bottom – would it get a certificate?
693 £ 50 link Turks Islands The pages for SG152/153 include the four right hand columns of a pane of 60 of SG152, two blocks of six of the 3d and block of four of both SG152x and SG152y with inverted and reversed wmks cat. £200+
694 £ 100 link Turks Islands In 1921 the watermark changed to Multiple Crown CA, the set of eight mint are not difficult, but the set used is another story, due to the very limited life of the issue – fine used SG154-161 are scarce cat. £265
695 £ 75 link Turks Islands A fine mint block of four of the 2d with inverted and reversed wmk SG157, cat. £380 – on page with normal ½d block of four
696 £ 25 link Turks Islands The 1921 6d fine mint with wmk reversed SG160x cat. £100
697 £ 300 link Turks Islands In 1922 the design changed to incorporate the crown, here we offer a 1/- die proof in black on white glazed card 52 x 66mm, fine and rare
698 £ 300 link Turks Islands A similar die proof in black on glazed card for the 2/- also 52 x 66mm also fine and rare
699 £ 75 link Turks Islands Our SPECIMEN set contains only the 11 values initially issued (so no SG162s, 165s or 174s) however the buyer will be more than compensated by the 6d imperforate plate proof pair optd SPECIMEN and ex Ludington
700 £ 75 link Turks Islands Mint collection with a page for each value of SG162-175, up to 6d all values are represented by a block of at least four as well as singles, shade and perforation varieties are included as is the 4d with reversed wmk (SG169ax), 5d with wmk inverted and reversed (SG170y). cat. £300+
701 £ 100 link Turks Islands Used, SG162-175 is another hard to attain set, one or two extra stamps with the used set, cat. £250
702 £ 80 link Turks Islands In 1928 the design was modified to include ‘postage and revenue’, this page explains something of the background and offers two undenomiated proofs, one printed normally and one in reverse
703 £ 400 link Turks Islands De La Rue seemed to change their method of proofing about this time and produced monocolour imperf sets of proofs of each value; produced on unwatermarked paper and with no gum. Known for other islands in our Philatelic Group. This offering has 8 of the 11 values, missing the 6d, 1/- and 10/-, we consider scarce and underrated
704 £ 60 link Turks Islands The P & R Specimen set of 11 SG176s-186s, fine mint cat. £200
705 £ 50 link Turks Islands Three pages looking at the mint stamps SG176-186 and our vendor has been unable to find much shade variation, but there are at least three examples of each value, cat. £240
706 £ 75 link Turks Islands Fine used is another matter once again, this set has the 5s on piece, cat. £200
707 £ 30 link Turks Islands The Silver Jubilee set perf SPECIMEN SG187s-190s cat. £100
708 £ 30 link Turks Islands The 1935 Silver Jubilee issue, two mint sets, a used set and a used set in blocks of four
709 £ 100 link Turks Islands Two examples of each value picked out to show the kite and vertical log flaw, cat. £360 per set, but examples show some variation in definition
710 £ 30 link Turks Islands 1937 Coronation set, mint, used and perforated SPECIMEN cat. £90
711 £ 100 link Turks Islands Undenominated photographic proofs on white glazed paper of the vertical and horizontal designs used for the KG6 definitives – scarce
712 £ 105 link Turks Islands King George VI definitive set of 14 perforated SPECIMEN, SG194s-205s, cat. £375
713 £ 50 link Turks Islands The KG6 definitives mint in an attempt to allocate to printings based on gum type, generally two examples of each value, so cat. £260
714 £ 10 link Turks Islands Block of 30, so half a sheet of the 1/- grey-olive SG202a
715 £ 20 link Turks Islands The KG6 set fine used, cat £65
716 £ 35 link Turks Islands Three pages of the Victory Issue, the SPECIMEN pair, mint blocks of six with plate no.1, blocks of six from the other lower corner with the control number 57 or 58
717 £ 40 link Turks Islands Blue UPU delegates congress folder with KG6 set and Victory pair
718 £ 25 link Turks Islands 1948 Royal Silver Wedding on two pages, including used block of four of the 10/- plus additional 10/- mint and used
719 £ 40 link Turks Islands Unadopted artists watercolour essay for the Centenary of Independence from the Bahamas issue, research into this could prove rewarding
720 £ 20 link Turks Islands The Independence set SG210-216, mint, used and in mint blocks of four, plus UPU set mint and used cat. £100
721 £ 60 link Turks Islands The 1950 definitive set (SG221-233) in lower corner blocks of four with full sheet mgn, the six from the right corner show the plate no. cat. £340
722 £ 40 link Turks Islands The same set in used blocks of four, but no sheet mgns, cat. £200
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723 £ 50 link Virgin Islands Each of the boldly cancelled 1866 1d, 6d, perf 15 1d has a minor fault that brings cat. down to ¼. Paper is debateable as usual – we’ll accept as white for 6d deep rose, thus SG4, 6, 12 cat, £340
724 £ 5 link Virgin Islands 1½d Venetian red in block of four from lower left of sheet with plate no.1 – gum toned but attractive SG91 cat. £10
725 £ 90 link Virgin Islands The 1887 Specimen set of four, SG34s-40s, cat. £300 in fine condition
726 £ 75 link Virgin Islands The 6d value in a strip of three in mint condition and optd SPECIMEN, watermark slightly displaced to show an edge line adds to interest and scarcity SG38s
727 £ 40 link Virgin Islands SJ 2½d showing the kite and vertical log flaw, a catalogued flaw, if faint from the Waterlow printings position 10/6 cat. SG105k £190
728 £ 12 link Virgin Islands KG6 5/- to £1 v.f.u on ordinary paper SG119-121 cat. £41
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729 £ 500 link Miscellaneous An unusual offering from our member of an almost complete Omnibus set of the KGV Silver Jubilee issues in generally good to fine condn mint and used. SG list the full set at £1,600 mint and £2,250 used. Our vendor’s note suggests that mint sets are missing for Dominica, Egypt, St Vincent and SW Africa – so that is just 4 out of 63 (we think); for the used it lacks Newfoundland, Egypt, Montserrat, Cook Islands, Niue and S Africa – just 6 out of 63. Should not be too difficult to complete. With total cat. £3,850 we offer at
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