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| Lot | Description | Estimate | Pic | Real | Avail |
| ANGUILLA | |||||
| 1 | Anguilla Valley strikes (only one is fine) on St. Kitts KGV script ½d., 1d., (two red and one violet) and SJ 2½d. – this last is uncommon but the strike is partial | £7 | uns | £6 | |
| 2 | Some 90+ stamps, chiefly KGV & KGVI , a few later; from Leeward Islands and St. Kitts with ANGUILLA VALLEY strikes, these fair to fine. Priced to clear | £12 | £13 | ||
| 3 | A light but perceptible ‘A’ for Anguilla SP 21 26 caresses St Kitt’s 1½d. red on cover to New York, with St Kitt’s transit cancellation SP 24 on face; mild soiling can possibly be persuaded to disappear | £42 | £32 | ||
| 4 | Photo of a submitted design bearing printer’s annotations for The Crucifixion 1972 Easter Issue. Signed by Grainger-Barrett (SG127) | £10 | pic | uns | £8 |
| 5 | A b/w and one colour photo of the interior of a chapel used for SG355. B/w photo annotated “Go ahead”. | £10 | uns | £8 | |
| 6 | Getting postage stamps in Anguilla at the end of 1967 was a hit-and-miss affair; this cover travelled to England simply by courtesy of boxed “VALLEY POSTAGE/ W/I./ANGUILLA” and c.d.s. of 30 DEC 67 | £18 | £13.50 | ||
| 7 | You’d think MONIQUE TRAPL (SCEC 18 671) would know that 12c. didn’t pay the air fare to Bombay in 1957; so with a disapproving MMMM (recurring) typed across the air mail sticker this amusing cover took two months to get there | £12 | uns | £10 | |
| 8 | 1977 SJ Booklet $8.70 face value – if it doesn’t take off soon you can always explode it. | £2 | uns | £2 | |
| 9 | 1981 $3 Royal Wedding, mint uncut pair for a booklet pane showing black printed twice, SG469ab | £8 | uns | £7 | |
| ANTIGUA | |||||
| 10 | 1862 6d. blue-green, SG1 centred low right, quite a worthy used example whose perfs. at top and left show the ‘A’ machine having a good day, (which didn’t last as far as the other two sides!). Cat £500 | £85 | pic | £70 | |
| 11 | Small star 6d. green, this is a fanciable copy on its face, ever so lightly used, but it’s featured for its upright wmk. SG8a, cat. £130 | £24 | £18 | ||
| 12 | 1d. scarlet perf. 12½ CC unused w. wmk. rev; as SG14x is unpriced unused (now why?) and anyway the stamp has no gum, we’ll value as rather toothless | £20 | pic | £15 | |
| 13 | 1d. lake perf. 14 CC, its m/s village date of 2/11/83 overlaid with light part A02 killer | £8 | £21 | ||
| 14 | 1d. perf. 14 CA with bold village 19/3/88 SW to NE and the edge of a head-office c.d.s. at left | £16 | £25 | ||
| 15 | 1d. perf. 14 CA cancelled NW to SE with forceful 29.1.90/SP of St Philip’s – scarce and desirable | £36 | pic | £70 | |
| 16 | From the same office 1d. perf. 14 CA whose m/s cancellation reads “St Ph”/90, the rest of the date having graced adjoining stamp or cover. | £32 | £48 | ||
| 17 | A diseased ½d. SG21 shows 31/1/87 m/s/ date in village format, so that we cannot believe that initials below denote fiscal use, extremely scarce except on 1d. stamps | £12 | £11 | ||
| 18 | 2½d. CC SG19 unused, a very scarce stamp, cat. £600 | £105 | pic | £95 | |
| 19 | QV 2½d. red-brown CC f.u. cat. £170 – this stamp we have offered an example as a single only once since our auctions began | £60 | pic | £48 | |
| 20 | The Thompson (detached triangle) flaw on ½d. green SG21a, its postmark well clear of this envied variety, cat. £450 | £150 | pic | £170 | |
| 21 | 2½d. red-brown and 4d. blue, both CA wmk. SG22–23 unused, cat. £465 (or bid separately) | £95 | pic | £75 | |
| 22 | Amusing little known variant where first A of ANTIGUA on QV 2½d. SG27 shows a slightly extended left leg – comes from R5/1, fine o.g. example | £15 | £22 | ||
| 23 | SPECIMEN examples of QV 2½d. and 4d. SG27/28s, the 2½d. described to us (in salespeak) as ‘not pristine’, the 4d. sound; and looking at 2½d.’s P and 4d.’s M, we could have plated them for you, if we hadn’t mislaid our crib | £16 | uns | £13 | |
| 24 | QV 1/- SG30 an example of good colour cancelled with tall A02 killer, cat. £140 | £40 | uns | £32 | |
| 25 | QV 1/- a SPECIMEN example SG30s, cat. £50 or more | £22 | pic | £21 | |
| 26 | CC badge set SG31–40 complete fine o.g. cat. £250 | £95 | pic | uns | £75 |
| 27 | KGV £1 SG61 fine pt. o.g. cat. £225 | £95 | pic | uns | £75 |
| 28 | Tercentenary ½d., 1½d., 2d. in fine mint or o.g. blks of four, cat. £42 | £20 | pic | £15 | |
| 29 | The ½c. humming bird SG469A (no year imprint) in matching l.h. mgnl. blocks of four, one being the imperf. proofs sold in Format’s liquidation, the other mint as issued | £40 | uns | £32 | |
| 30 | 75c. Premier’s Office, an individual proof “by the Format Process”, as SG482B showing imprint date 1978, mounted on its display card | £12 | uns | £10 | |
| 31 | QV fiscals (the tall blue ones on CC wmk’d. paper) in horizontal pair or multiples (2) being 2d. (3), 4d. (4), each fine mint and 4/- blue and ginger pair, lge. pt. o.g. l.h. stamp with vertical crease, her twin is fine | £25 | uns | £20 | |
| 32 | Leeward Islands 1d. p/s env. to Ulm very gracefully struck with Antigua fleuron c.d.s. MR 29 94 – yes it’s Kiderlen, but you’ll see (from two clues which we shan’t elaborate!) wholly commercial, two small fox spots, otherwise clean and fine | £24 | sold | ||
| 33 | Leeward I. QV ½d. wrapper to Brussels JA 3 99 – on reverse the imprint of ‘Arthur Rouvry’ Bruxelles, which must have been applied before despatch | £12 | £9 | ||
| 34 | A roughly opened Myerscough cover sports the familiar row of ½d. stamps; eight of these to pay the way AP 9 02 quadruple weight, he must have been a regular because they no longer invited this extravaganza once they moved to Ludgate Hill | £40 | £30 | ||
| 35 | B/w dbl.-sized PPC view of St. John’s (which still looks much the same today) must have become a treasured possession of the Sussex schoolboy to whom a 1d. Badge delivered it in 1905 | £18 | £15.50 | ||
| 36 | In 1926 when Jose Anjo wasn’t out and about with camera, he was “Distributor Victor Goods”; his logo (on cover franked 1½d. yellow-orange to USA) also features HMV’s inquisitive hound and gramophone | £20 | £21 | ||
| 37 | We are unimpressed by LRD claim on an indifferently pmk’d. letter to Chrysler in Detroit from All Saints 1928; spice is added by a 1962 cover from Old Road to McFarlane urging him and us to see the West Indies on the Federal Shipping Service, but we’d have liked a Gunthorpes arrival mark too! | £26 | £28 | ||
| 38 | A rather glamorous 1930 combination cover to Austria, neatly arrayed 2d., 3d., and Leeward 1d., bold POST OFFICE/Crown/ANTIGUA dbl. oval front and rear in deep violet, and slogan reminder to visit Antigua THE IDEAL SUMMER RESORT | £35 | £27 | ||
| 39 | In softer magenta, the same slogan is found on both sides of a 3d. rated cover to Vienna and Post Office cachet nestles over flap – the same KGV period though we can’t find a year date | £24 | uns | £19 | |
| 40 | Would you know where Hawii Mill & Plantation Co Hawii was? This rather grubby 1930 OHMS cover has pale reflections of the slogan and Post Office cachet we describe elsewhere; keeping company are a 1962 cover by air from Old Road to New Jersey, a GPO printed pro forma acknowledgement of that period, a 1956 air letter still using Leeward KGVI sterling adhesives and a 1941 cover to her tax collector from Lady Russell. | £22 | £16.50 | ||
| 41 | A must-have 1953 cover for the combination enthusiast; it twins two reigns, two currencies, and two territories; from Antigua coron. 2c. 1953, and KGV 2/6; a Leeward 3d. to boot – travelled reg’d. from St John’s to Jesselton (North Borneo!) by air, and if the dog or junior got first to the flap, the face has survived pretty well | £25 | uns | £20 | |
| 42 | Unsold residue of Leeward and Antigua issues, KGV to early 50’s, 67 stamps, a few mint, the rest used at St John’s, a few better values. To clear | £10 | £12.50 | ||
| BAHAMAS | |||||
| 43 | 1d. SG1, an unexceptional example, in company with perf. 12½ 1d. rose-red, part Indian-style ‘stamped’ in pen across its face; we can’t otherwise tell if it’s seen service, and there’s no gum, but it does have inverted wmk., SG23w | £26 | uns | £20 | |
| 44 | 4d. dull rose perf. 13, SG18, high class for colour and delicate cancellation, and if one actually took the trouble to unclog its perfs. where pins have failed to penetrate, you’d have a lovely example, but that would be sacrilege wouldn’t it!, cat. £375 | £38 | £42 | ||
| 45 | Perf 12½ 4d. bright rose CC sensibly used, its prominent wmk. inverted, perfs a tad uneven, which is normal with this stamp, SG26w, cat. £190 | £30 | pic | £36 | |
| 46 | KE 2½d. CA SG63 fine mint block of four, presumed to be from left of r.h. pane in which small’2’ in ½ has its heel-bone broken wide open – it almost stands for the question mark to ask why this happened – cat. £26 as normal | £20 | £25 | ||
| 47 | KE values (4). to 6d., KGV script (8). to 6d. all different, m and mainly fine, cat. over £50 | £9 | uns | £8 | |
| 48 | Strongly inked almost complete type 2 NICOLLS-TOWN ANDROS ISLAND 18 DE (09?) on KE ½d. green, quite a difficult pmk. | £7 | £9.50 | ||
| 49 | Classy THE BIGHT 10 JUN 30 complete on 1d. staircase would win you over even if it wasn’t with 8 KE 1d. from seven other out-island offices | £16 | £21 | ||
| 50 | Type 7 OLD PL(A)C(E) 15 SEP 16 on 1d aniline carmine. We haven’t had one before (though we did find you a Whale Cay) – this is uprt. and readable, but it’s a low alcohol strike | £18 | £21 | ||
| 51 | Type 7 WATL(INGS) isn’t all that common either, here on MCA 1d. rose – less complete than our Old Place, but much more visible | £16 | £12 | ||
| 52 | 1924 5/- script v. lightly used and fine; with it MCA 5/- with neat strong ERP (fiscal) cancel 21 OCT 1916 | £22 | pic | uns | £18 |
| 53 | MCA staircase 3d. black and brown, and 2/-, both almost full o.g.; in both the staircase is centred high – the 3d. an exceptional example of this – while the 2/- shows double tree-trunk | £36 | pic | £28 | |
| 54 | MCA 5d. SG78 fine lower mgnl. mint block of six incorporating double tree-trunk and its next door neighbour, a woodpecker attacking the solitary trunk | £24 | £18 | ||
| 55 | Red Cross and War Charity 1d. (2 of each pt. o.g. or mint) with staircase in grey-black, black or jet-black escort a cover (franked only Red Cross 1d.) which travelled in 1917 to Manchester from an unknown island – it’s slightly psychedelic as the ink of the address has tried to run – we like it. | £22 | pic | £17 | |
| 56 | July 1919 3d. WAR TAX with wmk. rev. , fine mint block of four from the NE sheet corner, with full mgns., thus showing sheet no. and secondary tree trunk (but not the rifleman, who is taking cover behind a large A). Cat. £260++ | £210 | Pic | £210 | |
| 57 | Whenever you meet the RRR type 5 “ROSES” (and how often have you met it?) the c.d.s. has been enhanced with ink; this must have been done at the office itself, because of a dry ink-pad. As this example comes on Tercentenary 5d. (cat. £45) 30 MAY 30, it doesn’t come cheap | £56 | pic | uns | £45 |
| 58 | We think the responsible person at THE CURRENT only refreshed the ink-pad in alternate leap years, and 1935 wasn’t one of them. Anyway you can read “THE” and this ghost of a strike is complete on SJ 2½d., fine on piece | £7 | £5.50 | ||
| 59 | We seldom say much about Green Turtle Cay; but here is type 7 of 10 JUN 35 sitting proud as a peacock on SJ 6d. on piece – that made us sit up too | £12 | £15 | ||
| 60 | OK you reckon it’s philatelic: so do we. How many times have you met type 7 LIGNUM VITAE CAY on SJ 1/-? This one is 17 OCT 35, fine and complete | £25 | £30 | ||
| 61 | 1948 Tercentenary ½d. to 1/- in blocks of four, except 3d. and singles of 2/-, 3/-, 5/-, all fine mint though we suspect the top two formed a passing attachment to a black s/card, cat. £70 | £15 | £11.50 | ||
| 62 | Scarce usage of the staircase 1d. red p/s/ envelope from Inagua to Haiti MY 8 1905. as the Port au Prince transit mark comes partly under the flap, we wonder whether the contents, if any, were still there when it reached Jacmal | £30 | £30 | ||
| 63 | KGV 2d. PSRE (1d. added) 1923 to Montgomery Ward; with it 1934 cover by air to London with appropriate PAQUEBOT h/stamp and Air Mail Field Miami duplex | £35 | £27 | ||
| 64 | A KGVI 2d. p/s card genuinely used in 1960 from MOUNT THOMPSON is exciting enough, but there’s a bonus; it tells you that an earlier postmark was “condemned” | £20 | £15 | ||
| 65 | When SS Oranje Nassau reached Inagua in 19(00) Dr. Cruyt sent a 2d. PSRE with 2½d. added to Belgium; a small area of foxing, otherwise attractively pmk’d and labelled | £38 | pic | £46 | |
| 66 | A rare cover 15 JUN 12 from SPENCER’S POINT to Nassau, where ADVERTISED but UNCLAIMED, KE 1d. franking | £28 | £37 | ||
| 67 | Unusual incoming cover 1884 to Inagua (crease across 5c. adhesive and damage to printed address at top left) shares this lot with outgoing QV PSRE, KE 2½d. added, leaving Inagua 16 SEP 06 for Budapest by way of N.Y. | £48 | pic | £37 | |
| 68 | THE FERRY 14 NOV 53 twice beautifully struck on a quartet of KGVI 1½d. on cover to Miami | £10 | £11.50 | ||
| 69 | Horizontal strip of four 1½d. SG151a received two finely balanced strikes of the first temporary cancel for UPPER BOGUE to waft a pencil addressed commercial cover by air to Miami in JAN 26 1953 (Proud’s ERD) | £32 | £35 | ||
| 70 | Two 1½d. red-brown share a complete double oval SIMMS TRD NOV 11 1944 on cover to Florida; a Miss Butler writing to a relative, well actually Florence to Lawrence, quite poetic really | £16 | £26 | ||
| 71 | 3d. franked uncensored 1944 cover to Florida from SIMMS sporting the dbl. oval TRD in black, the rotating date numeral leaving you guessing whether posted NOV 24 or 25 | £12 | £14 | ||
| 72 | It’s far from obvious that a cover 1939 by air from GRANT’S TOWN to N.Y. and re-addressed (lots of back-stamps) was reg’d.: 2d. and 8d. flamingo franking, and the boxed AIR MAIL h/stamp that matches the ink of the c.d.s. | £18 | £13.50 | ||
| 73 | Cuban FDC of 11 May 1936, boasting the Freeport Zone in MATANZAS got “MISSENT TO BAHAMAS” instead of Honolulu – so perhaps it helped kickstart Freeport in the Bahamas | £15 | £11.50 | ||
| 74 | A showy Miami hotel cover sees 3/- SG132 apparently fulfilling its proper function in taking the letter across the Atlantic to London Nov. 1941: the stamp sited too close to the top, has nevertheless survived eager opening, though the censor did his work at the other end leaving white label printed OPENED BY CENSOR in green; cat. from £260 would you believe! | £60 | £46 | ||
| 75 | For those who favour the ‘Elongated E’ variety, how can you improve on a 1942 censored cover to Montreal (examined by 4370, 2d. scarlet plus ½d. (2)) where the difference in alignment between top and bottom strokes of E is micro-measured by the most considerate of postmark lettering? SG149a unpriced used | £75 | £60 | ||
| 76 | Bay St. PPC whose black 1965 SHIP MAIL NASSAU nestles beside Norwegian defin; 1975 cover from BIMINI (blue TRD); 1977 from HOPETOWN to USA (violet dbl. oval TRD) – the good thing is these are all commercial | £12 | £11 | ||
| 77 | SHIP MAIL NASSAU (1964 in the commoner violet) keeps company here with US 4c. on a BAHAMAS STAR PPC (with appropriate h/stamps) a decorative non-philatelic item | £4 | £3 | ||
| 78 | 1964 PSRE from FAIRFIELD to Australia with 5d. added was “insufficiently prepaid for transmission by air”; it was next “Found in Ordinary Mail” at Nassau – where also “Found Open and officially Secured”, (a splendiferous label) – and made its leisurely registered way via London and Melbourne to Colac after 70 days. Would it have beaten the Clipper? | £30 | £24 | ||
| 79 | On Chub Cay Club stationery and on commercial duty to Xerox Bahamas in Nassau went this clean 12c. franked foolscap cover capturing on 5 MAR 82 the very scarce and very short-lived CHUBB CAY c.d.s. – even if you don’t appreciate it, your grandchildren will | £30 | £24 | ||
| BARBADOS | |||||
| 80 | Vermilion PAID AT EDINB/A/SEP 27 1838 adorns front of cross-written outer letter sheet (2/3 paid) addressed to James H Guyau (?) 69th Regiment Barbados; only top half of flap remains, yet it is still a rare and attractive relic | £24 | £44 | ||
| 81 | There’s nothing all that special about 1d. blue SG3 – this is just a very nice example with smooth almost even margins, and the barred oval 1 so sensitively struck | £40 | Pic | £36 | |
| 82 | Unissued slate-blue block of four mint but for one stamp, large mgn. at top SG5a. cat. £100 | £18 | uns | £15 | |
| 83 | SG5 and 11a, the first cut close to almost cleanly shaven, the second with 4 thin mgns. – each used with barred ‘1’ cancel, chiefly fine | £38 | uns | £28 | |
| 84 | An interesting mix of Britannias to 1/- (15) and a few key-types with Bootheel ‘5’ and ‘6’ noted on 1d. blue (2) and 6d. orange-vermilion, and we also note Unissued 1d. blue with forged cancellation as recently certified; 1d. blue horiz. used strip of three, and the undoubted plum 1d. pin-perf. 14 (cat. £150), whose perfs are clearly visible all round. Several stamps have cancellation interest. | £30 | £52 | ||
| 85 | SG7 and 9, two of each, fresh colour and delicately cancelled with barred ‘1’ cancel, the first each with 3 mgns., but close to touching left and right respectively, SG9 one with 4 mgns. (one of these is slim) the last (2 good, 1 close, and the 4th closely shaved at lower left, cat. £360 | £44 | £33 | ||
| 86 | SG11, 11a, 12, all used, the first two with barred ‘1’ cancel, the 1/- displays Bootheel ‘1’ at 1430hrs; mgns. are SG11, 4 with one close; 11a, 4 with the top being scalped; 12, 4 weight-watched mgns., cat. £410, mainly fine | £38 | pic | £29 | |
| 87 | Imperf. 1/- SG12 a lovely copy, neatly separated. Large top mgn. and Britannia wreathed by the “Bootheel” frequently found on this stamp. Cat £110 | £36 | uns | £29 | |
| 88 | No wmk. Britannias, the unused are ½d. (2 incl. clean-cut perf.) and 1d., the used 1d. (2, incl. bootheel ‘5’), 1/- (6), cat. about £220, fair to fine | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 89 | Lge. Star ½d., 1d., 1/- (3 of each) 4d. and 6d. all used, mixed cond. cat. abt. £250 | £25 | £20 | ||
| 90 | Lge. Star wmk. ½d. SG43, 43b, 58, 65, all v.g. to v.f.u. cat. over £75 | £17 | £18 | ||
| 91 | Bootheel ‘8’ on large star 1/-, a powerful central strike in no way subdued by stamp colour, and hardly ever seen on this value | £15 | £38 | ||
| 92 | Britannias all said to be small star, we note among them SG56, 3d. SG63, with 1d. 1/- (3 of each) good to f.u. cat abt. £200 | £20 | £17.50 | ||
| 93 | ½d., 1d. SG65, 66 fresh unused, cat. £122 | £16 | £12 | ||
| 94 | Comfortably seated, Britannia glows all golden on large pt. o.g. perf. 14 DLR 6d. SG79. Fine. Cat. £140 | £44 | pic | £33 | |
| 95 | QV 1d. SG91/2 with different Parish cancels; amongst them are CH.CH, bootheel ‘10’, and a sturdy cork affair, for which we have toyed with Canada or St Helena, but opt for somewhere in the US | £12 | £9 | ||
| 96 | 4d. SG97 whose bootheel ‘10’ at 4o’clock hugely enhances a stamp which you might otherwise pass by | £8 | £8.50 | ||
| 97 | HALF-PENNY on 4d. SG104 mint (toned gum) with definite aspirations starting with NNY HALF-PE, the PE being several millimetres higher in its efforts to arrive at the summit – a desirable example of misalignment | £10 | £14.50 | ||
| 98 | Small assembly comprising DLR Britannias perf. 12½, ½d. (4), 4d. (2), perf. 14 to 6d. good to f.u. (Cat £60 or more), ½d. green m. whose perf. we do not trust, SG104 with misplaced surcharge, surcharged QV wrapper unused, and some odds | £14 | uns | £11 | |
| 99 | A small selection of Parcel Post cancels from the 1890’s: as you’d expect, it includes Jubilee 8d., 6d. seal mauve and carmine (2), but also on 1d. and 2½d. values; and on 1882 key-type, you get the 4d. brown, ½d./4d. and an appealing 2½d. blue | £20 | £22 | ||
| 100 | Nelson ½d. wmk. Rev. f.u. SG146x – some Barbados wmk. varieties are prevalent – not this one, cat. £75 | £35 | pic | £28 | |
| 101 | 6d. dull and bright purple, SG168, horiz. and vert. prs. inelegantly arranged on small piece on which Southampton Ship Letter c.d.s. of 1804!! has rained down with occasional indifference, cat. £72+ | £34 | uns | £30 | |
| 102 | 1919–21 Victory set on album page, all lightly c.d.s. used, (some strikes are partial) 2½d. with St. Thomas c.d.s. 19 JAN 21, the 2/- centred south. Three additional 1d script CA. Cat. £190 | £25 | uns | £18 | |
| 103 | 1938–47 defins. 12 different m. to 1/-, 12 values used to 5/-, cat. abt. £35 | £8 | £6 | ||
| 104 | KGVI 2d. carmine, a used SE corner plate block of six, therefore showing extra frame line on upper centre stamp SG250d/250da, and a pretty good 1/- worth when first bought – cat. £45.50 | £28 | £31 | ||
| 105 | For the Barbados collector who has (almost) everything-here is a virtually complete boxed ‘Posted on Board’ on SG349 of Columbia, a large, rather handsome purple stamp of 1910. cat £3 | £5 | uns | ||
| 106 | If this were the Falkland Islands we’d be talking thousands – perhaps the key modern error of the B.W.I. when the portrait of E. Lawson Bartlett briefly trumped the face of Herman C. Griffith – SG856a. This in SE traffic light block of four, likely to be unique among the 101 reputedly sold, and spotless mint | £500 | pic | £780 | |
| 107 | As the only cheap P.D. is the 1d., a s/card which also contains ½d., 1c. (2), 2c., 6c. (5 of each and 6c. pr.) has to be good news – all used, two with pulled corners, but mainly fine, cat. around £70 or more | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 108 | The two Britannia 1d. plus ½d. formula cards (BARBADE in round brackets) with and without stops, one fresh, other a little less so. Why oh why are they always unused? As if we didn’t know | £36 | £28 | ||
| 109 | One and a half survivors of church business, each with 1d. grey; the intact cover (central filing fold) went JY 3 76 to the Rectory St Michael; the moth-eaten front to the Rectory, St Thomas MY 17 79 so its b/stamps have moved to their home in the clouds | £30 | £105 | ||
| 110 | Much to regret and much to explore in this rare front generously donated to the Circle; the 1d. grey took it from St George, whose bootheel numeral lightly cancels, to one of the Leacock family in Sandy Lane, St James and you have alluring Barbados 4 and 7 of FE 16 80 to enjoy. The sadness is the absence of most contents and the rest of the wrapper which would have explained intriguing references to St Kilda, Howrah, Syria, Robilla and so on, on the fragment that survives. Central filing fold | £35 | £70 | ||
| 111 | Government House b/w PPC 1903 to London, together with 1893 1d/ p/s card to Belgium (some address details discreetly erased) and the ½d./1d. p/s envelope whose bootheel cancel tries to turn the violet surcharge into black | £10 | £7.50 | ||
| 112 | But here is the proper black ½d./1d. p/s env., along with the violet ½d./1d/ and FE 21 and JA 26 93 | £7 | £5.50 | ||
| 113 | As neat an example of the black ½d./1d. p/s env. as we remember seeing, with its seductive BARBADOS/A/JA 21/93 c.d.s., on its way to 2 Duke of Wellington Rd. | £10 | uns | £8 | |
| 114 | The familiar violet ½d./1d. p/s env. is hugely improved when you add four ¼d. stamps in horiz. strip (1896 vintage); size F PSRE rides tandem on this lot, 1903 to Toronto – so you have Britannia and chariot on 2d. die stamp as well as 1d. adhesive, clean and appealing | £40 | pic | £31 | |
| 115 | P/s cards (type PC8) both with duplex cancels, the earlier (SP 4 89) showing c.d.s. details at 9o’clock to bootheel, and nice neat same day arrival c.d.s. of St Thomas, the 1893 example clear St James’ c.d.s. | £19 | £25 | ||
| 116 | Still almost mint fresh after 117 years PSRE (size G) early Jan 1891 reg’d. to Fetter Lane London, with two gleaming Queen 2½d. ultramarine, and all postal markings etc. on its decorative face | £22 | £18 | ||
| 117 | 1d. SG91 a single on partial front MY 18 92; 1d, Jubilee also from St George (both have St George 4 c.d.s.) this to St Michael: both in need of a wash and the front has horizontal crease | £30 | £23 | ||
| 118 | There’s neat balance between FE 17 93 c.d.s. and Crown Circle Paid strike at NE and NW of cover to Ince & Co, High St, but the second strike is weak | £20 | sold | ||
| 119 | 1d. SG91 horiz. strip of three on cover to St John’s MR 24 93, over the top or was it?: and 2½d. on small cover St Philip 3 AP 30 90 to Grenada, flap band-aided at its extremities and portion of rear absent, the corners blunted. Commercial? Definitely | £50 | £38 | ||
| 120 | JA 25 1896 use of CC1 on wrapper to F Gregory, PO Box 142, the Crown Circle and c.d.s. both moderate | £18 | £30 | ||
| 121 | On Dec 13 1900 The Cunard SS Co Ltd in Boston sent a 2c. p/s cover to Sir Frank Bedford, Vice Admiral Commanding North American Station Halifax NS.; redirected it chased him to Bermuda (on Xmas Eve) and from there to some unascertained location in the West Indies collecting BARBADOS SHIP LETTER 2 JA 01 in the process | £40 | £48 | ||
| 122 | Bothering to hand-colour vegetation in a PPC? That’s bananas! Yes, but bananas was what this 1905 sending to London was; we’ve paired it with an 1896 2½d. franked cover to New Brunswick (p. SS Fontabelle) just to bring out a contrast in style between the two centuries | £14 | uns | £11 | |
| 123 | The 1d. and 1½d. stamps aligned on the back of this 1906 cover to Pedro Miguel, Panama are there because an untidy address left no room for them on the front – an item of character whose reverse is altogether cleaner and more appealing than its face | £24 | uns | £19 | |
| 124 | Nelson 1d. on cover being Leacock 1906 to Nova Scotia; 1907 reg’d. to NY (vert. pr. and ordinary 2½d., corner of cover cut away); 1907 PPC Belleville. Pine Road – the nostalgic horsetram plodding its way to Newcastle on Tyne | £16 | £12 | ||
| 125 | While we can’t explain the use of Nelson 2d. and 1/- with Seal defins. 5d. and 10d. on 1907 cover to Switzerland you will have to agree that its imposing front and colourful marks and endorsements on reverse contribute to a handsome, and probably unrepeatable item | £80 | uns | £66 | |
| 126 | The Basket Seller, Barbados (b/w, undivided back) teams up admirably with the Nelson 1d. and ornate writing that sent this card to Staffordshire in 1907 – apparently written on SS SOBO at sea from Demerara to Canada – this vessel is new to us | £16 | sold | ||
| 127 | Three attractive covers: the foolscap size one from the Postmaster went reg’d. 1909 to England with QV ½d. and 4d. brown; the 1935 one to New York (via Trinidad) paid 1/3½ for air travel with defins and SJ values; the 1925 one went to Barton Arcade Manchester flaunting ¼d. block of four, but even this was commercial, as destined for E Marshall junior | £40 | £46 | ||
| 128 | 1d. p/s env. uprated with Kingston Relief Fund 1d. (ovpt. inv.) to Meister, Montserrat 15 DE10. Receipt b/stamp of Montserrat DE 21 10. Clean and tidy | £14 | £25 | ||
| 129 | 1912 PPC from St James to Buenos Aires, franked ½d. pr., a home-made view it would seem, not inspired, but we suppose one-off | £12 | £9 | ||
| 130 | 1918 from one Postmaster to another (in Denmark) and 3 months on the way – a neat undramatic and distinctly scarce cover whose OFFICIAL paid c.d.s. is half covered by OPENED BY CENSOR 1387 label | £50 | £56 | ||
| 131 | 1935 SJ FDC to a local address, the set cat. off cover £30 | £18 | uns | £15 | |
| 132 | 1936 cover reg’d. to Cairo by courtesy of 3d. and 1½d. defins. One sees lots of mail coming out of Egypt, but how much does one see going in? | £10 | £7.50 | ||
| 133 | You have the benefit of a 1995 Peter Holcombe certificate to assure you that this cover with SJ set 5 Feb 36 to Mombasa includes the ‘kite’ mark on 1/- value SG244l. Kind as the postmarking is, this is not easily discerned, but horizontal log stands out clear as clear. Priced only unused (at £375!), but how often visible used – and on cover…? | £240 | £190 | ||
| 134 | 1939 Tercentenary set (Cat. £12.50) on reg’d. front to England | £6 | uns | £5 | |
| 135 | Let’s ignore 7 FDC’s 1937 to 58 and your usual BM/HTON; disregard 3 cards and 7 foolscap (1978 and after) that leaves 8 other covers 1940–55 of which two are censored, one is mixed reigns and of two wartime uncensored, one cost 3/1 to fly the Atlantic in 1942 | £36 | £32 | ||
| 136 | 1942 uncensored air cover to an RC Bishop in Br. Guiana, 1/- franking; 1946 air cover (1/1 paid, with the better 1/-) to Massachusetts; 1949 air cover to England from St. John’s parish – this cost ½ to send, and we round off with PECO’s PPC No. 32 unused of Seacoasts at Bathsheba, and view of railway line of course | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 137 | Five window covers 1942 to 64 meter-franked in red at rates of 1d., 2c., 4c. and a 1984 cover meter-franked 0.20c. addressed to the Prime Minister, Tom Adams | £7 | £6 | ||
| 138 | Pleasant 1949 cover by air from ST JOHN to Switzerland 2/3 rate | £12 | pic | uns | £10 |
| 139 | If you are short of barred oval ‘8’ we offer on each of two covers – please forgive that these bear contemporary stamps of 1970 and 1974: trawls round the island in this period also generated 19 further covers showing an intriguing variety of Parish and instructional markings – and even if we doubt the usefulness of AIR PARCEL POST on internal mail we commend the enterprise of the addressee and his wholesale use of the 4c. on 5c. surcharges (and the odd P.D’s) | £36 | £27 | ||
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| 140 | 5/- v. fine lower mint mgnl. with plate no. 10 (SG11 cat. £65+++); as only some 33 sheets were issued, there were 66 stamps with plate no. – about half of these are thought to have gone to the trade, with a reasonable prospect of survival intact | £110 | pic | sold | |
| 141 | FDC’s of 1937 Coron. and 1946 Victory, sent to Antigua and taking their time to get there | £4 | uns | £4 | |
| 142 | The poorly executed designs of 1974 world cup players could almost be kids playing football in Barbuda – anyway these are rt. mgnl. proofs of SG168–70 sold off by Format’s liquidator | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 143 | Prepared for the Montreal Olympic Games 1976, but never issued, here is a 15c. imperf. proof stamp showing sprinters, mounted on its Format display card, imprint of designer, Vasarkely | £15 | £12 | ||
| 144 | The Codrington Correspondence Antigua and Barbuda 1746–1851. A sale held by “Postal History Auctions” at RL’s premises 21 November 1951 with PR | £15 | £11.50 | ||
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| 145 | All on QV 1d., K3/a, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, K4a 12, 13, 15, won’t animate much. “…AMO” combined with (we suppose) light Barbados bootheel has to be a ship – “ALAMO”? “BERGAMO”? or whatever, we don’t know it, a fresh name to research | £14 | £22 | ||
| 146 | Supplied to us as a modest example of type K1 ‘5’ (struck at 9o’clock on 3d. yellow -buff SG5) we have to re-classify as K1 ‘15’: as both are of equal rarity this may not matter, except you now only see half of the numeral, cat £65 as normal, and the stamp is fine | £40 | £31 | ||
| 147 | Type K3a 9 at 1o’clock on 4d. CC, not all that common | £4 | £5.50 | ||
| 148 | On 2d. dull blue CC the central part of a duplex which cross-compares to K3a ‘13’; though this numeral is not scarce, building up the c.d.s. to correspond with any K3a or K4a strike is challenging | £10 | uns | £8 | |
| 149 | Type K4 ‘10’ centred on QV 2½d. – the strike fades away eastwards | £6 | uns | £5 | |
| 150 | ½d. docks in alliance with type K4a ‘15’ at 4o’clock (the ‘5’ is sheepish); ship-type script 2d. cancelled (presumably at Christmas season) with type K4 Hamilton duplex, the business part of which landed outside the stamp | £12 | £9 | ||
| 151 | Your auction team does not believe there’s no market for fine SPECIMEN copies of QV 2d., 1/- SG26s, 29s, now offered again at a reserve of £36, which higher bids can clearly trump | £36 (R) | £36 | ||
| 152 | 1d. CC (clipped perfs.), 6d. dull mauve CC (with imperf. l.h. side) each with PAID cancellation. On the 1d. you can discern bottom sliver of Hamilton type H2, sitting on most of rural cancel where, frustratingly, PAID fell outside the stamp, and only a vestige of a numeral below ‘M’; 6d. has rt. half of another undated cancellation inverted, showing blotchy ‘A1b’ and ‘7’ at foot – though this might represent ‘187’ we have seen ‘7’ thus in isolation | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 153 | It’s easy (except on the pocket) to get mint blocks of high values, but what about lower and earlier values? QV 2½d. and 3d. SG27b and 28 on offer here, both fine. Cat. £122. | £50 | pic | £39 | |
| 154 | Or else you can opt for a block of Docks ½d. green SG36, equally fine mint. Cat. £60 | £30 | uns | £24 | |
| 155 | ST GEORGE’S WEST – complete examples of the H5 c.d.s. and H9B types I and II each on ship-type 1d., each on piece | £32 | £28 | ||
| 156 | Type H5, ST GEORGE’S WEST on a larger piece from a once reg’d. cover, with separate strikes on pr. and single (you could divide), and with it H9B type I on 1d. ship-type on small piece | £36 | £28 | ||
| 157 | KGV script 2/6 SG89j very fine o.g. and it’s autumn in Bermuda, ‘cos here’s another damaged leaf, a bit higher up than those illustrated from row 5/6 and 5/12, but just as prominent. Pos’n. 57 says vendor. We note SG quotes in the high hundreds, but merely suggest cat. £90 plus | £70 | £75 | ||
| 158 | Remarkable piece reg’d from DEVONSHIRE NORTH bears two KGV 10/- values , caressed and not disfigured by 6 JUL 27 multiple strikes of the office; one stamp is SG92, no question; the other, with thicker paper, in a different shade is perhaps 54c – we can’t read the wmk.; this had minor health faults before application, but shows a minor flaw in the right pos’n. for damaged leaf. So cat. is high or huge, and an item that you’ll not duplicate | £180 | Pic | £220 | |
| 159 | ½d. blue p/s card on local duty showing complete St Georges 2 duplex /B/OC 3/88 on face, same day Hamilton transit, and at last you can see what the INLAND ISLAND c.d.s. looks like on arrival – but lightly inked and with the whole card to aim at, the numeral all but missed, travel-stained but intact | £35 | pic | £54 | |
| 160 | 2½d. franked cover 1897 to New York; we can only barely confirm that what follows WARWICK is WEST (as annotated) – so we limit our info to saying that the P.O.N.Y. c.d.s. on reverse has no connection with the PONY EXPRESS | £15 | uns | £12 | |
| 161 | Ship-type 2½d. blue on cover to Brooklyn POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS, New York Paquebot arrival duplex; and 2½d. ultramarine on cover also to Brooklyn; we can’t read a year date on either cover, but what contrast between the two stamps – the first was opened out to show Belmont Manor and Golf Club crest, but you can stick it shut if you prefer | £21 | uns | £16 | |
| 162 | A clutch of FFC’s; the familiar “Cavalier” 15 JUN 1937 (Coron. 1d., 2½d. (2), 3d. defin.) – at least it came from Ireland Island; FAM 17 Baltimore to Bermuda 16.3.38, with 10c, US air stamp; attorneys cover Hamilton to NY (thence to Pennsylvania), the 9d. rate neatly made up with SJ values | £21 | uns | £16 | |
| 163 | No excuse is offered for three reg’d. local covers of 21 OCT 36 respectively parading SJ blocks of 1d., 1½d., and 2½d. values; we give the lot commercial flavour by including 1942 air mail cover from shipping agents to Royal Mail Lines, London (1/9 fare) opened by Examiner C/8131 | £20 | £15.50 | ||
| 164 | Passed by Censor Bermuda Cachets of 8 (in ultramarine) and 23 (turquoise) embellish 1939 Mutual Life logo cover 1½d. to Ontario, and 1940 (Canon Tucker) 2½d. to Cincinnati, the latter earning a red Bermuda 10c. tax duplex and a further 2c. addition from NY | £15 | uns | £12 | |
| 165 | This b/w PPC of Paget Shore, sent with 1½d. stamp from Paget to Geneva early Jan. 1940 is written in French so poor that Censor No. 4, who passed it, really ought to have smelled a rat | £12 | £9 | ||
| 166 | FDC (of 16.7.41) for 3d. SG114a (Aquarium slogan cancel) sent to Trinidad, uncensored, but opened out to show Bermuda poster stamp across flap – at this stage of the war FDC’s were a very low priority | £6 | £10.50 | ||
| 167 | Three unused PPC’s with railway views, we’d guess 1930’s to ‘50’s vintage: you’d say it was a one-coach affair from the two Hamilton scenes, but a view from the sea shows a 3-coach train in motion | £15 | £17 | ||
| 168 | Censored covers (6) of assorted size and markings 1941–44 to Canada or US, with 2½d., 3d., or 7½d. stamps incl. one from Warwick, and we note “Lady Nelson” cachet (Oliver type CN23) on one, which landed at Boston | £32 | £24 | ||
| 169 | “BERMUDA GREETINGS 1946” figured on a US Xmas Seal of that year – and here is a remarkable set of progress proofs with the finished result – was there a tentative plan to incorporate the islands as the 49th state as part of post-war lease-lend reparations? | £40 | sold | ||
| 170 | 1952 12c. KGVI Air letter from Basseterre to Bolton got MISSENT TO BERMUDA well they all begin with ‘B’ | £8 | uns | £7 | |
| 171 | Map of the Bermudas (Yankee Store PPC No. 13) fine unused and used in two differing versions, the used with slogan cancelled 1½d. Hamilton to England, but an offset of someone else’s slogan-cancel subdues the prominence of the inset tiny Atlantic Ocean map | £18 | uns | £15 | |
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| 172 | 1812 EL from Demerara, (Ex Ariadne), contents worth reading (for a change?) on careful examination of the rather careworn outer letter sheet you’ll see the footprint of GREENOCK SHIP LETTER which will help to explain why a 1/3 rate took it to Elgin | £25 | pic | £19 | |
| 173 | The first, an EL Jan 20 1818 from Berbice to Hatton Garden – the postage of 4/4 makes DHL and Fedex look cheap today, doesn’t it! A timid, even withdrawn two-line dated b/stamp is less than flattered by the London arrival c.d.s. that sits above it – for all that it’s clean and healthy: the other from, an outer wrapper of 1825 landed as a GREENOCK SHIP LETTER, it was charged the extra ½d. (boxed ½) on its way to Hatton Garden | £48 | £60 | ||
| 174 | Cross-written EL 1st Oct 1840 from Demerara to Yorkshire arriving as HASTINGS SHIP LETTER rated 8d. for the mid November onward journey – addressed to Rev’d Wm. Somebody, but written to “My dearest sister”, there is more to this than has so far met our eye | £34 | £26 | ||
| 175 | 1/- paid EL 19 June 1846 to Dublin, the payment acknowledged by faint red Demerara dbl. arc c.d.s. on reverse and 21 JUL London tombstone in red on face, reaching Ireland JY 26; the less than coherent content transcribed for you on album page, but we regard 1850 as the watershed for intelligible English | £24 | uns | £19 | |
| 176 | EL written and sent Christmas Day 1853 from Demerara was all about business and cost 4/- to send to Liverpool; the contents are helpfully typed out for you, and despatch and transit markings are clear; a heavy central filing fold somewhat reduces the appeal | £20 | £15 | ||
| 177 | 1876 EL to Demerara per “Don” via Southampton, the GB plate 12 wing mgn. 1/- largely obscured by heavy London “104” duplex – 18 days in transit | £40 | £31 | ||
| 178 | Wing mgn. (again) GB 1/- plate 7 (subdued to be fair by its 87 in diamond London duplex) took this MY 6 73 outer letter sheet to Demerara – a filing fold runs horizontally just clear of the stamp – clean incoming example | £40 | pic | £33 | |
| 179 | Full but indifferent A2C uprt. on 12c. SG47 (perfs. played about with on r.h.s) and sideways on 24c. SG79 | £9 | uns | £7 | |
| 180 | 2c. perf. 10 SG87 beautifully used with light, clean, strike of rt. half of dbl. arc BERBICE (18)70, remarkably scarce as a cancel | £20 | uns | £15 | |
| 181 | 4c. pale blue SG20, two considerately used examples; one has a thin, the other is repaired, yet each maintains its classic dignity, cat. £850 | £70 | pic | £54 | |
| 182 | When it comes to the 1862 provisional 1c. rose, some of us are content, or constrained to make do with forgeries – in this lot two of the three types are simulated, used | £4 | uns | £4 | |
| 183 | 1862 provisional 2c. yellow SG121, a no roulette example with northward thin lightish killer cancellation (these scarce stamps often have faults, it affects the cost only) – from row 4/3, so not listed as variety, but faulty lettering at foot give you “IWO CENTS”, and other kinks, cat. £650 | £28 | £40 | ||
| 184 | 1863 48c. pale red, an imperf. example diagonally overstamped SPECIMEN in neat small serifed caps, a scarce plate proof | £60 | Pic | £52 | |
| 185 | A04 killer is not as plentiful as you’d think, so we’re quite pleased to have it on Waterlow 2c., 4c., 8c. (spaced value), 24c., 48c., 2c. OFFICIAL, and DLR 1c., 2c., 8c., the stamps though in rather mixed condition | £18 | uns | £14 | |
| 186 | DLR 1c., 2c. ovpt’d. OFFICIAL at foot, another 2c. with central OFFICIAL from the other printing, all used (two, as often, cork-cancelled) – 1c. has shallow thin, not apparent on face, another has clipped perfs., cat. £80 | £8 | £6 | ||
| 187 | 1878 provisionals, being SG138, 141, 144–5, each quite, or very lightly cancelled with cork, minor faults on each, though well up to standard when compared with siblings, cat. £360 | £40 | £31 | ||
| 188 | 1882 Provisionals, a group of 15 comprising 1c. (7m., 4u.); 2c. (2m., 2u.), condition fair to fine, except about two, a very useful batch to revive or awaken interest in these unusual issues | £160 | £120 | ||
| 189 | The scarce type 2 strikes on CC 1c., 2c., and two each of 4c., 12c. – 5 different offices are represented, these include Fellowship and Plaisance; Belfield, virtually complete on 12c., a quite high standard, the rest a rung or so below | £32 | £37 | ||
| 190 | Few of us will salivate for type 1 Mahaica – here on DLR 1c., 2c., two each, but what about WAKENAAM 2 (at 6o’clock, light, but pretty clear, the date swings every which way)? Ah, Bisto! | £10 | £8 | ||
| 191 | Type 2 ANNA REGINA JL 14 1879 superbly crisp r.h. half of this difficult pmk. on fresh, but damaged 2c. | £15 | uns | £12 | |
| 192 | Woebegone 2c. perf. 10 cushions sprightly code R JU 19 1875 at 30’clock; and recumbent GB/40c oval sleeps in the bosom of SG171 (see T & H pp222–3, or St Vincent) | £18 | £13.50 | ||
| 193 | Group of 8 lowish values circa 1890–1910 assembled for their railway pmks. | £6 | £8.50 | ||
| 194 | You won’t need to sweat to see the inverted wmk. on this f.u. 1899 8c. SG199w – it’s crisp and clear, cat. £85 | £29 | £36 | ||
| 195 | There is still no price against SG205y 1899 96c. with rev. wmk. so here is an unused example on which you can exercise your own judgement or ours | £50 | pic | £50 | |
| 196 | If you are a broadband enthusiast we commend the 4½mm horiz. bar of 1c. provisional SG138, but it is scissor-trimmed at top, and pmk is so light as merely to frustrate – cat. £75 (but not this one) | £5 | uns | £4 | |
| 197 | 1898 5c. SG219w fine pt. o.g. – wmk. Crown to left of CC, but actually it is the cheaper version, by a whisker (cat. £45, not £48) | £16 | £12 | ||
| 198 | Diamond Jubilee TWO CENTS on 10c. SG223, toned mint and used, each showing surcharge skewed slightly out of horizontal; we speculate this comes from the second setting which, though corrected, seems to us to have been less controlled than the original | £5 | £3.75 | ||
| 199 | Mint, though with part of its backing paper still adhering, 1898 TWO CENTS on 10c. in a block of six, the GENTS variety sitting in the middle of the bottom row, like the head prefect in a school photo, SG223/b, cat. £61.25 | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 200 | Here is a strip of three with the GENTS variety at right, no stop at left. NB this also has the thin C in CENTS, which is no longer found when the setting was corrected, mint but with a little paper adhesion on the back, SG223/a/b, cat. £72 | £23 | uns | £18 | |
| 201 | The lucky buyer will enjoy this 1899 o.g. surcharge SG224, especially if secured at estimate, it shows a colon between TWO and CENTS, perhaps from row 5/2 with its “now you see it, now you don’t” lead mark | £3 | £5.50 | ||
| 202 | 48c. used at G.P.O., 60c. CA a SPECIMEN copy, SG237 and 238s, cat £50 or so | £19 | uns | £14 | |
| 203 | We rate MARA type 21C as genuinely scarce, and it’s seen here SP 16 19 on 6c. grey and black, with two part strikes at 11o’clock giving you virtual completeness | £20 | £31 | ||
| 204 | 1913 MCA 12c., 1921–3 2c. violet, 4c., 6c., 12c., 24c. all ovpt’d. SPECIMEN – need we say more! | £15 | £11.50 | ||
| 205 | KGV MCA defins., the 60c., 72c., 96c. values (issued 1915) each a SPECIMEN SG267 – 9s, the 72c. pt. o.g., the other with little if any gum | £20 | £15 | ||
| 206 | KGV 48c. to 96c. the four 1923–7 top values, SG279–82 healthily used, the 48c. with Parcel Post c.d.s., cat, say, £150, as these are all that matter in the set | £50 | uns | £40 | |
| 207 | The 1927 script 96c. ovpt’d. SPECIMEN, SG282s | £10 | uns | £8 | |
| 208 | A remarkable set of 1934 pictorials, each stamp a top marginal showing 002 (02 in one instance) as the sheet no. and each with diagonal SPECIMEN in red SW to NE: this set, plucked from the second sheets to be printed, was unknown to T & H, it is possibly a Waterlow sample, or from archives, and likely to be unique | £300 | pic | £420 | |
| 209 | The 19th century Summary Jurisdiction series represented by 96c. grn. (3), 72c. orange, 48c. pink, 24c., fine fiscally used except 72c., whose pin perfs. are trimmed on two sides, but to compensate, is pt. o.g. The others are line perf. | £12 | £9 | ||
| 210 | Transports of delight in Guyana? Well, ancient engines and carriages (2 of each) in cancelled blocks of 18; – these $2 values befriending three rather attractive min. sheets of railway character. The more complete pane meriting a $10 face value in its scenic setting. | £4 | uns | £4 | |
| 211 | The SG cat. would be equally disapproving of a small Zeppelin series ($2 suitably cancelled) which incorporates a man on the moon, a French pioneer in a balloon, and an ancient warship in min. sheet | £2 | uns | £2 | |
| 212 | 8c. franked cover of NO 25 81 to London with two letters enclosed; from the transcribed contents we learn that the writer was restive and his friends had been dropping dead from yellow fever | £20 | pic | uns | £15 |
| 213 | TWO CENTS on 3c. p/s env. to London 1899 and re-addressed (or re-re-addressed?) to Switzerland – you’d probably have to go to India to find a messier item – loads of bedraggled character | £10 | uns | £8 | |
| 214 | Want something else, possibly unique? How’s about a 2c. p/s env. that journeyed from Morawhanna to Nairobi in 1907? Nairobi was still a village in those days, and this cover travelled steerage or had a rough time on arrival | £20 | £50 | ||
| 215 | 1931 covers, air to Canada, 72c., sea to S. Africa, 4c.; 2c. local; and a Husbands cover plastered with commems. Showing between them 5 different cachets connected with the centenary (and you’ll have to wait 23 years for the next lot) Ex Nathan | £35 | uns | £25 | |
| 216 | 1931 centenary FDC, on its reverse the special centenary sticker, but this cover celebrated too hard and has a permanent hangover – ex Nathan | £7 | £6.50 | ||
| 217 | This 1934 cover carried by two 2c. stamps to Ontario tells you that the Daily Chronicle first came out in 1881 – now isn’t that rewarding information | £10 | uns | £8 | |
| 218 | A dog-eared ONE CENT on 2c. p/s card which goes back to the 19th century went to Ireland hence underpaid – we’re not certain if this was deliberate or careless from a sender interested in stamps; but the ‘T’ in circle mark is local to Georgetown, unlisted by T & H, to make this a desirable item despite the attention of the Irish Terrier on receipt | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 219 | An example of BG’s WWII Red Cross label used with Luchtpost stamps from Surinam to Georgetown on 1943 cover censored at each end; also a 1932 letter by air to Miami, 56c. franking on attractive Trinidad hotel stationery – ex Nathan | £17 | £13 | ||
| 220 | What is one to make of 3c. scarlet block of four on a cover whose typed legend reads “1st Day Cover, Tumereng, Maz. River-G/town, B.G./6-6-44? We cant read the pmks; there is a Georgetown b/stamp for 7 June. A hoax? A major rarity? Try your luck! | £18 | £16 | ||
| 221 | Give it a second look: this is a 3c. p/s env. (the 3c. defin. die) used 1947 from MacKenzie to London with 1c. adhesive added. Have you got one? Have you seen one, come to that? | £16 | £34 | ||
| 222 | OHMS covers (2) of 1959 and 62 to London help to explain the official nature of a large fragment of a parcel of wood samples whose frankings deserve research. Health warning: This relic could start you collecting crash covers | £8 | £6 | ||
| 223 | UPU 6c., 12c. mixing air and surface on commercial duty from Bagotville to London; covers of 1963 and 1964 to Britain each with GB 3d. and FPO 243 c.d.s. (from B.G.); 1959 letter, franked 30c. for Switzerland and “Returned for Six (6) cents Additional Postage”, which it got – note the added 6c. is a slightly different shade | £18 | £24 | ||
| 224 | BRITISH GUIANA’S NEW PICTORIALS ISSUED 1st OCTOBER , 1934 TO ADVERTISE THE COLONY. Would you have known without this FDC? With it comes a range 1893 to 1955, being 2c./3c./ p/s card via Demerara Railway to NZ; 1915 PPC Gold Place Minehaha (it doesn’t look all that amusing) per RMS; 1934 cover to Durham; and an interesting air letter | £18 | £22 | ||
| Please note with the following three lots the estimate is the reserve. | |||||
| 225 | With instructions to dispose, we offer (but our estimate is the reserve) ten pre-stamp items from 1805 onwards; together with GB 6d. used in Demerara and the scarce framed corners 4c. (3 mgns., lightly used, thinned, but still presentable) | £80 (R) | £140 | ||
| 226 | With the same disposal instructions we assemble the unsold Waterlow ship-types, 85 stamps, incl. 32 mint and a plate proof in black – mixed condition, but you’ll find high cat. items, and code marks at a fraction of their worth | £120 (R) | £140 | ||
| 227 | Our final disposal lot contains 70 items QV to KGV incl. Officials, provisionals, codes, and values mint to 96c. and 72c. (badge), as well as some high cat E.II (18 stamps) – previously offered at nearly £300 (plus two covers that we shan’t describe) now | £85 (R) | £110 | ||
| 228 | The “AP” Collection of British Guiana, cover split on fold and staples rusty. RL Dec 44 Private Treaty Sale | £5 | £5 | ||
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| 229 | 20 CENTS on 6d. yellow, the local ovpt. SG29 fresh and f.u. cat. £35 | £12 | £9 | ||
| 230 | 5c./3c./3d. the spaced FIVE variety f.u. SG49a cat. £75 – haven’t we sold another of these recently? Well we like this variety anyway. | £28 | pic | uns | £23 |
| 231 | 1899 5c. SG66 fine lge. pt. o.g., the minor variety with tall narrow ‘U’, cat. £16 | £6 | £4.50 | ||
| 232 | Tall narrow ‘U’ on 5c. SG66, this example f.u. | £3 | £5.25 | ||
| 233 | QV 5c. postal fiscal, the BEVENUE variety, fine o.g., SG66a, cat. £120 | £40 | uns | £32 | |
| 234 | 1899 REVENUE ovpt’s. 5c., 10c., 25c. fine lge. pt. o.g. an example of the 12mm and 11mm ovpt. on each value, and the usual minor aberrations of lettering, cat. £72 | £23 | £17.50 | ||
| 235 | 50 CENTS on 1/- grey, the REVENUE ovpt. SG69, fine lge. pt. o.g., cat. £180 | £60 | pic | £46 | |
| 236 | 1900 5c., 1898 50c. each with SPECIMEN ovpt., both fresh, 50c. with light diagonal crease | £9 | uns | £8 | |
| 237 | 1904–07 $2 SG92s with SPECIMEN ovpt. cat say £45, fine | £10 | pic | uns | £8 |
| 238 | 1913 2c., 5c., 10c. each with SPECIMEN ovpt. also $1 (but this has a badly scraped forehead) | £15 | uns | £12 | |
| 239 | KGVI 1938 defins., the intermediate values (10, 15, 25, 50c.) all perf SPECIMEN, fine, SG155–8s | £18 | £16.50 | ||
| 240 | 1938 defins., the 1, 2, 5 Dollar values perf. SPECIMEN, SG159–61s, fine | £18 | £13.50 | ||
| 241 | The seven violet lines cancelling this MCA KE 1c. belong to ORANGE WALK, OLD RIVER however there is no confirmatory trace of the letters | £5 | £3.75 | ||
| 242 | $1 black and scarlet SG136 and we assume crayon markings denote fiscal use, what excites us is the part CAYO perfin | £8 | £6 | ||
| 243 | 4 days to New Orleans and another 12 to Minneapolis is not fast for an OHMS cover reg’d from Belize in 1904; it went (franked QV 10c.) to a street quaintly named Masonic Temple, a squarish env. with a nice printed post Office seal on reverse, small grease or other stains at top | £30 | £23 | ||
| 244 | Regent Street, Belize is not our favourite b/w PPC, but this one was sent 1904 from Punta Gorda to England, and picture side is festooned with a message by a lady too correct to inscribe it on the address side | £15 | £11.50 | ||
| 245 | Market Square, Belize, however, is one of our b/w favourites – the Va-et-Vient depicted reminds us of a Breughel painting – it’s 2c. franked to Hertfordshire | £12 | £12.50 | ||
| 246 | “No.54 Moore & Gibson Co., New York. Germany” (if you see what they mean) produced this rare Mengel advertising PPC, a hand-coloured scene with cattle “snaking a mahogany log from the Bush at Mengel’s Honduras Works” – sent 1907 Belize to England, (and your conscience can rest easy, it didn’t have a large carbon footprint in those days) | £20 | £24 | ||
| 247 | Beautiful it aint, but this folded reg’d PSRE (size H1) to Montgomery Ward from J H Carroll, Punta Gorda has to be remarkable for the dbl. oval DISTRICT COMMISS / IONER TOLEDO 22 JAN 1915 h/stamp which obliterates the 5c. adhesive | £60 | pic | £95 | |
| 248 | 4c. grey added to KGV 2c. postage 3c. reg’d PSRE sent this cover in June 1930 to San Diego – full markings on back and front | £20 | uns | £16 | |
| 249 | An 1878 mourning letter to Colonial Office, Downing Street must have reached The Private Secretary to the Lt Governor British Honduras by diplomatic bag; no doubt recipient was too distressed by the black edges to fuss over handling of stamp and flap on opening – but unusual and scarce | £42 | uns | £31 | |
| 250 | 5c. defin. on cover 1932 to Fort Worth – happily it starts from MONKEY RIVER | £15 | £13 | ||
| 251 | PAA Office cover (type TDO 25 in black) with 10c. pair to France (reverse has brown chemical streaks); Roger Wells POMONA cover (type TDO1 Jan 14 1947); 1958 local cover from Stann Creek, MANGO CREEK arrival c.d.s. | £27 | £21 | ||
| 252 | A truly Vegan cover from BANANA BANK to DOUBLE HEAD CABBAGE at a speed of 1 mile per day – adorned with damaged 1c. and 3c. stamps, plastered with TRD’s of both offices, RRRR example of inter-village mail, with a Gale Raymond travelogue written upon its folded album page | £40 | £60 | ||
| 253 | SAN PEDRO FEB 27 1951,Type TDO 1a, on 2c., 3c.; SAND HILL 5 OCT 1961, type TTO 3 on 10C. pair and 2c., both covers to Gale Raymond | £24 | uns | £19 | |
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| 254 | Everybody’s got it? – except those who haven’t, because it’s an elusive stamp, KE 1/- CA SG33, fine well-centred o.g., cat. £60 | £20 | £20 | ||
| 255 | In dull and bright purple, a KE Imperium Proof (he’s a bit tired, indeed, creased, after a night on the tiles) – the shade will go with your 6d. SG47 – or let’s bring in the Leeward collector for SG42 – neat, ample margins, scarce | £60 | pic | £180 | |
| 256 | 1921 10/- MCA SPECIMEN example, manifestly line perf., SG67s. Cat. £40, 50, 60, 70? take your pick | £18 | uns | £14 | |
| 257 | ¼d., ½d., 1d., 1½d., 2d., 2½d., 6d. – all issued 1.4.22 – each ovpt’d. SPECIMEN the 2d. (with pulled corner perf.) and the 6d. are both line perf.; the remainder we believe are comb perf. SG69 – 74s, 77s, cat. £140 or so | £32 | £36 | ||
| 258 | You don’t buy ordinary used E.II – or do you? Let’s try: S/card of 28 f.u. (some of the utmost delicacy) with 1974 1c. to 5c., 15c. to $2, and SG694 and 720 included – cat. £50 or more | £12 | £9.50 | ||
| 259 | Wouldn’t you think that four 4d. SG46 would get a 1924 reg’d. cover from Georgetown to Birmingham in under 28 days? No chance! (Perhaps address was excised before and not after receipt) | £26 | uns | £20 | |
| 260 | Saunders and Aguilar thought that post-war was early use of the dbl. ring OFFICIAL PAID c.d.s.; here is the postmaster using it (in red) in June 1935 on a PPC to Los Angeles – far more attractive be it said, than the view of Red Bay mangroves on the other side | £40 | pic | £210 | |
| 261 | It’s commercial, it’s decorative (with 6d. and two 3d.) and it’s reg’d. from Cayman Brac to Long Island, so this DE 10 46 air cover gains admission as a single lot, but only just | £6 | £10 | ||
| 262 | Celebrate the first Cayman Islands Airways flight NO 3 47 Cayman Brac to Kingston with a cover f |