Lot 164
Two pre-stamp covers to Lanman & Kemp in NY: first sent June 1860 and marked “Honduras” with 6 in circle for US postage; then 1865 cover inscribed per Pallas with circular New York Ship Letter 4 date stamp

Lot 165
GB 6d with wing margin, boldly cancelled A06 attractive copy cat. £300

Lot 166
6d yellow SG21 fine used cat. £275

Lot 167
6d yellow SG21 fine used cat. £275

Lot 168
1888 50c local overprint on 1s, SG30 cat. £700 ex Goldblatt

Lot 169
For the 1947 UPU Congress in Paris presentation sets of the current definitives were given to delegates. As with British Guiana, we offer the sets in both the blue and the red folder as a pair

Lot 170
Extraordinary large piece of a registered envelope sent to Winch Bros in Colchester 16 January 1888. It holds no less than 22 examples of the bisected local 2c on 6c rose (SG25 – cat. £200 each) with a single 10c on 4d (SG28) and two examples of 20c on 6d (SG29) which seems to make for a 72c rate. It seems our vendor paid £95 back in 2009 which seems fair

Lot 171
Rather more philatelic is this colourful 1894 cover to Leipzig, also registered and each stamp cancelled K65 2 x 1c (SG36), 2c (SG27), 6 on 10c on 4d (SG43), 15 on 6c on 3d (SG50) and 20c on 6d, SG29

Lot 172
Continuing the colourful theme on to the keyplates, 1c, 2c, 3c, 6c, 12c and 24c on registered cover to Germany, also cancelled K65

Lot 173
The Stann Creek datestamp of 11 Jun 1903 adds interest to this 5c (SG82) cover to Chicago, clean commercial use

Lot 174
QV 24c (SG60) on small cover to Chicago sent 21 Jun 1900, we can’t account for the rate, but a scarce item on cover

Lot 175
2x Revenue on 5c (SG66) make up the registered fare on this cover to New Orleans sent registered 27 Jul 1900, slight staining

Lot 176
Cape of Good Hope is the origin of this penny pink Cape PSE sent to the Diocesan High School in Belize from Port Elizabeth 15 FE 01

Lot 177
Simple QV 2c cover sent to Canada DE 24 02, but the backstamp shows it came from Corozal and then via Belize, New Orleans ending up in Berlin (Ontario); ex Ted Proud’s collection

Lot 178
The QV 1c and 24c paired up to pay the 25c rate to Gro. Pack in New Jersey in 1903, sent registered – SG60 not an easy stamp on cover

Lot 179a
Three OHMS stampless covers: first with orange embossed Post Office crest on reverse to Ben Rhydding in 1907; Ministry of Finance & Development to Crown Agents in London 1965; also 1965 to the Crown Agents, this from Min L G S W & C – you work it out!

Lot 179c
Three OHMS stampless covers: first with orange embossed Post Office crest on reverse to Ben Rhydding in 1907; Ministry of Finance & Development to Crown Agents in London 1965; also 1965 to the Crown Agents, this from Min L G S W & C – you work it out!

Lot 179e
Three OHMS stampless covers: first with orange embossed Post Office crest on reverse to Ben Rhydding in 1907; Ministry of Finance & Development to Crown Agents in London 1965; also 1965 to the Crown Agents, this from Min L G S W & C – you work it out!

Lot 180
14 May 1910 sent registered to Manchester with early Belize registration etiquette, 2x2c and 5c (SG97/97) make up the 9c rate

Lot 181
In our 1987 auction this pmk was sold for £50 – this was Simon G’s description ‘take your Ed Addiss monograph No.10 and enter under “Height of Letter” for Banque Viejo, 3½mm: the present example, on 2c SG81 at 3 o’clock, shows only IEJO and the parallel cancelling lines that follow, which to be fair is four letters more than most of our members have ever seen’ – demand still at those levels?

Lot 182
Long OHMS envelope to Boston franked with KE VII 25c sent from Belize AP 16 14 with Belize regn label and Miami transit. The back adds interest as there is the orange Colonial Seal of the British Honduras Post Office, and these are scarcer than you might suppose

Lot 183
Government House, Belize stationery cover bearing neat purple cachet of Belize/First Flight/Miami-Panama sent to a naval lieutenant in British Columbia for 27 cents 22 MY 29

Lot 184
BARRACKS TRD of 6 DEC 1930 on airmail envelope to Bath, fare 34c - the office only open for nine months and with a very high rating in Proud p.193

Lot 185
Neat cover at 20c to Camden, New Jersey with fine strike of ‘EAT BRITISH HONDURAS/GRAPEFRUIT

Lot 186
TRD in red of ‘P.A.A.OFFICE/BELIZE B.H.’ on airmail cover to New York sent 17 Apr 1932 for 20c Addiss TDC-25 and Proud p.193

Lot 187
An unobtrusive cover of AU 1936 which will startle most of us. It travelled from CAYO to CAITHNESS franked with 4c grey. Thurso is a long way north for a commercial cover

Lot 188
This is the ERD for the SAN PEDRO TRC in black on a stampless cover, rated Rare by Horry (so up to five known) the May 7 1936 date is clear, the outer ring could be clearer, cover went to Surrey

Lot 189
AIRPORT/BELIZE BH with time is rated ‘very rare’ by Horry, this cover to Gibson Electric Refrigerator Corp of Chicago went airmail for 20c on JA 14 38, one day after the type example illustrated by Horry. The 20c made up by 7 stamps so you get five strikes of the pmk

Lot 190
The TRD of PLACENCIA on Roger Wells BWI University cover sent registered 14 OCT 1951, rated scarce by Horry

Lot 191
Ppc depicting El Glorieta in Mexico City sent to Malta from Belize AP 22 04, a scarce destination paid for by 2 x 1c (SG51), backstamped Valletta 12 MY 04

Lot 192
Six Victorian PSC: 1½d to Hamburg 1887; 2 x 3c carmine; 2 x 5c brown (one to NY 1887), 1 x 2c on 3 cents