BWISC AUCTION 2009

Lot	Description	Estimate	Picture	Real	Offer	Note
	ANGUILLA
1	The Anguilla Valley c.d.s. on St Kitts 3d. purple/yellow SG45a was probably shared equally with a partner in 1931 to its left, but you may still need this value in building up your script set to 2/6, or however high you aspire, with St Kitts used in Anguilla	£5			£16 with Lots 2 & 3	No
2	St Kitts KGV 1d. rose-carmine and 2½d. blue, together with KGVI 2d. and 3d. (these will be SG71b, 73b) all are pretty familiar: 2½d. SG44 is not as common; pmk. on 2d. only just reaches the stamp, the rest are satisfactory	£5			see Lot 1
3	‘AN’ code, light but just visible on 6d. SG 30, the c.d.s. of NO 30 20 struck twice clearly, though its duplex, happily is fairly faint. AN is difficult at this period, especially on the higher values	£16			see Lot 1
4	Anguilla Valley c.d.s. 13 NO (probably ’28) on 1/- MCA SG31, considering the background, a fairly clear strike, and scarce on this value, pulled perf. top right corner	£10		£7.50
5	1937 St Kitts Coron. 1d. used in Anguilla and a colour photo of the Post Office there	£2		£4.50
6	A 1925 cover, opened out with the printed name of an Anguilla resident went via Basseterre to New York and you can just make out the St Kitts (large) A c.d.s. against the slate background of the 2d. stamp	£65			£50	Note 1
7	During the 1969 military occupation of Anguilla, Field Post Office 1046 handled the mail; this is a Coleman cover to Alicanté, GB 4d. machin	£10			£8	Note 1
	ANTIGUA
8	Receiver’s endorsement does much to obscure the two-line ANTIGUA/MAR 31 1848 that sent a 1/11 rated missive per The Duke of Kent Packet to John Young in Bath – usual filing folds, and relics of a seal	£60
9	Lightly-inked double-arc Antigua NO 11 1847 c.d.s. holds hands with red London transit c.d.s. DE 8, and nestles against Whitehaven receiver next day, on reverse of a clean EL which travelled per Steamer at 1/- rate	£36	online	£27.00
10	A super A02 at 5 o’clock on GB 4d. which some joker has keenly tried to turn into imperf. but still left about 7 perfs showing – cat. £600 (but that’s for a more normal example)	£48	front	£36.00
11	QV 6d. yellow-green vert. pr. of plate proofs on unwatermarked paper, undulating west mgn. stays clear of frame, the other sides large and even(ish), traces of a thin where it has presumably been hinged in the past, but a scarce appealing item	£90	online
12	1d. dull rose SG6 lge. pt. o.g. horiz. pr. and so off-centre it adds character, rather than detracts, cat. £220	£80	online
13	Remarkable piece from the reverse of 1875 cover, irregular in shape, as is the two-row block of nine 1d. scarlet CC SG14 (cat. £180) lightly but thoroughly killer cancelled and balancing on a Galashiels arrival c.d.s.	£80	online	£170.00
14	1d, scarlet SG14 fresh unused (well, a trace of gum remains), wrongly described to us as a re-entry, but the heavy inking of ONE PENNY makes it interesting, cat. £200	£30	centre
15	1d. lake CC SG16 scarce lightly used strip of four, the r.h. stamp with a few trimmed perfs. at NE	£30	online	£24.00
16	From lower rt. corner and fading away to nothing at rt., a vert. pr. from the defaced QV type I plate – a don’t want for most major collections	£20	online
17	The QV Queen’s head after Corbould, a cut down die proof in black, a must have for any major collection	£350R	online
18	QV 2½d. red-brown CC SG19 nicely centred, unused, cat. £600	£90	centre	£70.00
19	QV 2½d. with slanting ‘2’ var., v. fresh mint, cat. £160	£70		£54.00
20	Noting on l.h. stamp a trivial corner crease, and (what lesè majesté) a fly about to land on the Queen’s nose, we slightly reduce our aspirations for a mint horiz. pr. of 1/- pale mauve SG30, cat. £320+	£110	online
21	The stretch limousine QV fiscals CC, 2d. mint in strip of three, 4/- in pr. o.g., l.h. stamp with vert. crease, all the rest are fine	£14	online	£10.50
22	KGV 2d. defin. struck with the impossibly scarce 2nd. type ENGLISH HARBOUR c.d.s. but don’t expect it to be a good strike, we can’t read the date, if there was one, sits on tiny piece	£40	centre	£56.00
23	KGV 4d., one of the very few examples around of the ST JAMES c.d.s., a light, fully legible strike for JY 17 28 on 4d. defin. on piece	£70	centre	£54.00
24	On the SJ set respectively cancelled Liberta, Old Road, Cedar Grove, Johnsons Point and KGV script Die II 2½d. with a full Johnsons Point, only the 1d. acknowledges being used in the 1940’s, but we’ll wager that the rest were too!, nevertheless this assortment is scarce if not scarcer still	£70			£50	Note 1
25	Don’t say we didn’t warn you that the cost of KGVI defins would rise: this time we offer the 1938–48 set to 10/- fine o.g., cat. over £105, say 100	£32	online		£50 with Lot 26	No
26	Along with KGVI ½d. (2), 1½d. (2), 2½d., 3d. (2), 6d. (4), 1/- (2), 2/6 (2), 5/- all presumed to be mint or o.g., vendor has supplied year and sometimes month of issue from 1938 to Jan. 1952; if we stick with SG, you’ll find 105, 106, 106a there, the rest to be viewed as basic, so cat around £140, but richer meat for the real specialist	£38			see Lot 25
27	Before you get excited about finding BOLANS on Leewards SJ 1½d. we are advised by seller that this is a Hootstein faked cancel – hoots mon!	£5
28	The uncommon 1d. Arms p/s envelope was sent from St John’s ‘SP 21 04’ arrived at Brookley where re-addressed with an uplift of GB ½d. ans 1d. adhesives c/o some kindly doctor in Germany	£36R
29	Leewards 5d. pays the fare to Chicago on a private stationery reg’d. cover, clean and only minor imperfections associated with going through the post	£22	online
30	Rare and interesting long cover 1941 to Barrenquilla, Colombia, large blue printed cachet of Inter American Squadron’s CIVIC AIR MISSION TO LATIN AMERICA, posted from PARHAM, 1/1½ was paid in ½d. and 2d. defins. PASSED BY CENSOR ANTIGUA	£35
31	Leaving Fort du France 15.2.42 for its air journey to New Orleans (with 5Fr and 1.50Fr pictorials to pay its way) this C.G. Transatlantique Agence cover collected Martinique’s mauve CONTROLE POSTAL’ h/stamp, and, at Antigua ‘P.C.90 OPENED BY EXAMINER 1044 label itself embellished by violet B h/stamp, which Miller doubted, seller considers authentic, and we are emphatically in the seller’s camp	£75R
	(see also lot --- of Saint Christopher)
	MARTINIQUE (Part 1)
	The island was in British hands over three periods in the 18th and 19th centuries. The third occupation was from 24 Feb 1809 to Aug 1816, interrupted between 1 Dec 1814 and May 1815, an interval of phoney peace before Napoleon’s final campaign in Europe.
	Note: information is quoted from the following book: 150 Ans D’Histoire Postale des Anciennes Colonies Francaises (1700 to 1860) By Maurice Jamet Pub 1980.
	For English only readers mention is made of the Robson Lowe Encyclopaedia Leeward Is Vol 6, p277 of which, also lists Martinique straight line handstamps.
32	A cover of extreme rarity and importance from an English merchant to a London address where re-addressed to Nottingham, despatched by Surinam packet 29 Oct 1815 (first visit to the island of this packet) its 26mm straight-line MARTINIQUE b/stamp is illustrated in the classic work by Jamet under the description Interpreté d’après mauvais frappe incl. FR strike No3, in fact the strike is easily legible and not all that bad	£1,200	back		£850	No
33	Closely written outer letter sheet from a French naval officer to a colleague in Toulon bearing on its face a straight-line strike of cancel No. 10, strongly struck in black. Apparently written 24 IX 1815 and rated we think 21 decimes, it only reached its destination 13 April 1816 having possibly waited for a suitable vessel for Marseilles, the route by which it was addressed. Also on face two line “Colonies par/Marseilles”, another rare and significant item	£400	back		£270	No
34	The very elusive “Colonie etc. Art.12 (Salle 3003) seen here on 1845 EL from a St Pierre address destined for Marseilles through London where this mark was applied in red. All other appropriate markings incl. St Pierre c.d.s. of origin	£380	back		£260	No
35	The much more familiar “Colonie &c.Art.13”, a lovely framed strike on face of Mar 1852 cover to Bordeaux with transit marks for London , “(AM.2) ANGL. 2 CALAIS” French arrival c.d.s., re-rated from 15 to 30 decimes (double rate)	£95	online		£70	No
36	Attractive EL of DE 28 1858 handled by the British Postal Agency in Martinique, addressed to St Malo and showing on face and reverse a handsome variety of postal and other markings incl. framed GB/1F60c. It even bears the Merchant’s cachet of origin in St Pierre, rated 21 and well worth it, even in those days!	£300	back		£210	No
	BAHAMAS
37	Given the quality of the A05 at 2 o’clock on fresh GB 6d., it’s almost masochistic to say it’s centred SE, and there’s the odd short perf., let alone to mention (as the vendor does), wrinkling at bottom – which you have to get up very close and personal to see. SG Z4 cat. £350	£90		£70.00
38	No wmk. perf. 13 6d. lavender-grey firmly cancelled, a reasonable example of SG19, cat. £475	£70	centre	£75.00
39	The Bahamas double-arc c.d.s. figures here in 1864, cancelling Chalon 4d. rose (DE 19, at 2 o’clock) and 1d. brown-lake (JY 25 at 4 o’clock) the latter full enough to show code B which subtends the date, SG20 & 27, cat. £125	£44		£33.00
40	1d. scarlet-vermilion SG42 fresh unused with a glow that most of its siblings miss. cat. £450	£90	front	£70.00
41	QV 1/- blue-green CA SG44a top mgnl. plate no. 1 mint, minor gum crease top rt., but otherwise fresh and fine, cat. £35+	£28	online	£27.00
42	QV 6d. with splayed “E” variety, a rather untidy c.d.s. on it which happily steers clear of the E – this is a difficult stamp, SG54a, cat.£350	£95	centre	£75.00
43	1884–90 defins, a small collection, with valuable 1d. (blocks of 6 and 4, 2 singles), 2½d. (3 singles, 2 blocks, 1897 cover to US), 4d. (3 singles, 2 more on cover to diplomat in NY; and a remarkable size H2 PSRE to NY additionally franked with 1d. (2), 6d. and 1/-, casually arrayed	£200		£190.00
44	Assembled for the quality of their strikes are QV 6d. lilac-mauve (Bahamas/C/JU – no date plug – 92, really hard to find in this condition); 1d. carmine (2 with almost complete Nassau New Providence c.d.s.), another with M.O.D. c.d.s. (Proud got this wrong) a weaker strike, but the D is clear, type 7 Steventon on KEVII 1d.; Inagua on KEVII 2½d., and a further 2½d. with a good part of the GOVERNOR’S ISLAND seal	£48		£48.00
45	KEVII defins, the CA values to 1/-, with additional 1d., 2½d. (2 plus block of four); MCA, ½d. block and 2 singles, 1d. block and pr., 2½d. (2), all used, all mostly fine, and just a smidgen of postmark interest on 3 singles, cat. over £220	£56	online		£45	Note 1
46	KEVII 6d. CA, a rare vert. strip of three, v.f.u., cat. £69+	£30	online	£23.00
47	KEVII 6d. o.g. SG74a with splayed “E”, it’s MCA of course, which is a lot more common than the CA, despite the cat. of £275	£70	centre	£54.00
48	King’s Head KGV used collection on leaves with singles to 5/-, blocks of 1d. (3), 2½d., 6d. (3), a few duplicate values, and three covers being Wilson reg’d. 1d.(4), 1932 air mail 6d. 1935 reg’d. to Lawrence, Chicago untidily franked with 1d. (2) 4d. (4)	£50			£120 with Lots 50 & 51	No
49	KGV King’s Head script issue, 86m., the lower values (to 1/-) all represented by at least 2 singles and a block, often mgnl. with plate no., singles only of 5/- and £1 all seem fine less light toning of £1, for which lower mgnl. plate no. 2 compensates, cat. about £370	£75		£38.00
50	4 leaves housing f.u. King’s Head MCA to 5/- (no 4d.), plus blocks of 1d. (2 shades) and 1/-, 5/- shade (discreet ERP cancel), Red Cross (2), War Charity, Spec. Del. S3, a Wilson cover with 2d. pair, and a nice comm. cover Jul 18 to Boston franked with Red Cross pair, which leaves us wondering whether the penn’orth that went to the Red Cross was paid by the sender or the post office	£70			See Lot 48
51	Peace issue f.u. on album pages, singles of ½d., 1d. (2), 3d., 1/-, blocks of 1d. and 2d.; also 3d. registering cover to Cincinnati in 1929, and the full set on reg’d. cover to N.Dakota	£60			See Lot 48
52	Script 1d. Staircase, 34m., 10u., (incl. Rum Cay) mounted to show the range of printings, with line and comb perf. in singles and multiples, and both tree trunk varieties represented; the higher values in singles and blocks: 5d. (10m.) incl. secondary tree-trunk/ rifleman; 2/- (6m.), 3/- (5m.), all fine, cat. £470 plus	£80		£90.00
53	Ludington & Raymond gave their top rarity rating to the Parcel Post dbl-arc TD type PP1, here you have it faintly struck twice across a scarce rt. mgnl. block of six of 3d. SG77 – need we say more	£40	online	£42.00
54	Staircase 2/- fine o.g., an interesting example on greyish paper in a paler shade showing prominent criss-cross plate scratches	£20	online	£15.00
55	Staircase 2/- MCA corner block of four from top rt., of course showing sheet no. and secondary tree trunk/rifleman var. SG79 f.u. cat. £220, and if you decide it’s philatelic we shan’t argue	£80	online	£80.00
56	Staircase 2/- with wmk. reversed SG60x, fine o.g. cat. £300	£95		£80.00
57	Staircase 3/- SG80 f.u., used in the same way as a preceding lot, and no doubt from the same stable	£60	online	£46.00
58	Staircase 2/- script, f.u. and the early printings of the 1931 high values 2/- (4), 3/- (2) and both together on 1936 reg’d. express cover to North Dakota	£50		£38.00
59	Carefully mounted Staircase assembly with 1d., (3m., 11u. and on cover); 3d. purple/yellow (5m.); 3d. lemon and black, 12m., 2u., and pair on cover; 5d. 6m.; 2/- m. & u.; 3/- m – and 2u., various shades and papers, four blocks included, generally fine, cat. about £420 plus covers	£90		£70.00
60	SPECIAL DELIVERY SG S1, remarkable left mgnl. block of four from rows 3 and 4, light central Parcel Post Nassau c.d.s. – you’d read its date as 4 APR 18, if you didn’t realise it has to be 48! – still worth its cat. £152	£80	online	£70.00
61	SPECIAL DELIVERY SG S2, the upper four rows in a mint block (sheet No 105, no l.h. mgn.) – we find the plate scratches at left rather interesting, and the criss-cross scratches at Row 3/2; It comes with a similar block of SG S3 (sheet No 0147, again no l.h. mgn.) from which most of the scratches have been eliminated; both items are fine and, of course, show secondary tree trunk/rifleman	£30	online	£65.00
62	Part of a Staircase study written up on 8 album pages, all 3d. defins. or WAR TAX values, exc. CC5d. and 3/- showing a re-entry at row 4/4 – all items fine mint or o.g., 69 stamps with blocks of 30, six (4), four, pair and singles, illustrating double and secondary tree trunk, and plate scratches	£80		£60.00
63	f.u. WAR TAX collection leaves; all of the lower values are present in at least a single and a block, ½d. SG96 in block of four and six; the only 1/- SG104, comes in two blocks of four. Of course there’s a Wilson cover (3d. SG98 pair), a reg’d. OHMS cover to Milwaukee plastered with 1d SG97, while War Charity 1d., and Staircase 5d. share a 1919 reg’d. cover to Wisconsin with 3d. SG100, we’ve given up reckoning cat. say £700	£110		£85.00
64	P/s card 24.6.89 Nassau to London, its 1½d. carmine-pink die (DLR Antigua type) finely killed by US “12” in barred oval (not a duplex) met regularly on mail from Cuba etc. neat NY Foreign Transit c.d.s. of 28 Jun also decks the front. Creased in two places, yet a neat wholly commercial item and rare enough for most tastes	£48	online	£36.00
65	KEVII 1d. red on a rare mourning/paquebot cover from the Ward Line Liguranca at Havana, a busy cover, and clearly commercial	£60R		£60.00
66	Neat and important 1d. cover 25 APR 12 from Nassau to an Abacco address where UNCLAIMED (in blue) type X3, and a super SPENCER’S POINT receiver 28 APR: probably returned to Nassau when the office closed and received a further UNCLAIMED in black there	£105	online	£130.00
67	Dr Hess reg’d. a cover to Philadelphia on 2 Jul 17 with Red Cross block of four, some 10 days later a reg’d. cover went commercially to Mississippi using an extra 2 Red Cross singles. So which got it right? The Hess cover has SG90a (not noticed by former owner	£65		£65.00
68	A rare Montgomery Ward cover franked KGV 1d. from COLONEL HILL, the not terribly clear postmark with date inverted – ?? JU 27	£90	online	£70.00
69	1920 Peace issue plays April Fool! We offer commercial covers of 1920 (1d. Peace) and 1921 (2d. Peace) each to Florida, and each failing to reach its addressee – despatch date in each case was 1 APR – but various instructional markings suggest receiving office didn’t see the joke	£50	online		£60 with Lot 70	No
70	Although this Montgomery Ward cover shows a Nassau c.d.s. on the 3d. SG77 which franks it, the sender gave a Nicolls Town (sic) address, and we believe the R in oval and the m/s no. 1 beside it do belong to Nicoles Town, in which case a proving cover of JA 25	£40	online		see Lot 69
71	Ranging between a typical 1d. franked First Air Mail Jan 2 1929, and a controller of customs OHMS Dec 1959, here are six covers machine cancelled at Nassau, with other air frankings of 6d., 8d., 10d., and 1/6; four show the Ideal Tourist Resort slogan, one the short-lived 1940 Bahamas Fair box; various airmail h/stamps include Proud’s illustrated AM 17 (same date – was it once his?) but we suspect that the distorted shape may reflect deterioration of h/stamp; One cover stands out (the customs job) its cancel shows the year sitting above the date and time, not so far spotted by the pundits	£46		£35.00
72	Tercentenary 1d. and 5d. shared air mail cover to New Jersey (some corner discolouration) due to thoughtless earlier mounting, keeping company are 1d, single and block, 3d., 5d. (2), 2/- all nicely used, one 5d. with US maritime duplex, cat. over £150	£48		£38.00
73	On single stamps, slogans, type HS2 on 1d. landscape, HS3 on 1d. MCA; pmks. Bimini (type 7II) 1938 on 2½d., Great Guano Cay on Tercent 1½d., Great Turtle Cay (type 7II) on 1½d. 1935 and Tercent. 1½d., Industrious Hill (7I, 1950) on ½d.; West End, type 7, 1944, shared by ½d. and 1d., type 6, 1951 on 1½d., each of these on piece; b/w ppc of, and sent from Bimini to LA, the 1½d. cancelled killer type K5; Deep Creek type 7, 1952 on cover to Tom Foster which explains (excuses?) the 6d. stamp, all strikes noted here are of select quality	£42		£48.00
74	1935 SJ, a used assembly with the set in singles and on cover, and blocks of 1½d., 2½d., 1/-. Along with these come 1d. franked Staten dam cover to Tacoma, later piece showing ½d. landing, 1933 in Hawaii with decorative SS Corinthia and Paquebot markings, and lastly a bumble 1d. with lovely NY Paquebot c.d.s. There is also an extra 2½d. on cover to Connecticut which travelled to America on the Hamburg–Amerika line on SS Reliance	£65		£50.00
75	KGVI specialised collection on leaves; the Coronation, Victory, Silver Wedding, 1½d., Tercent to 1/-, UPU, all in used singles, blocks and on cover; also 2/- and 3/- defins. (10 of each incl. 2 mgnl. blocks o.g. with imprint, and sheet no. showing), also used examples. 24m., 112 u., generally fine, also 8 covers (most are commercial) and Victory on piece with postmark interest – cat. at least £350	£120		£160.00
76	8 covers, probably all commercial, with 1952 Clarence Town and 1963 San Salvador (each with type 7 c.d.s., the second also sporting a huge boxed Registered h/stamp) and TRD’s 1960 to 1977 of Harbour Island, Hatchet Bay, (one blue, one black), Hope Town Seymours, Snug Corner, all appropriately franked; lastly there’s a 1995 ppc of Flamingoes from Elizabeth Estates, this has to be philatelic	£50		£54.00
77	More selected strikes, all are complete TRD’s of EII period: on piece, Fairfield Mar 6 1954 (the year date entered in m/s) on 1/-; Stella Maris, 1971 on 3d., Walkers Cay, 1955 on 3d.: on cover Governor’s Harbour, 1964 on 1½d., San Andros 1966, Royal Visit 1/-, The Bight 1970 on 8c., – two or perhaps three of these are commercial	£44		£40.00
78	SPECIMEN example of the KGVI 7d. red-orange air letter: when folded to shape as here the ovpt. lands on reverse and interior – fresh and of course much scarcer than earlier SPECIMEN postal stationery	£56		£42.00
	BARBADOS
79	Ample to large or very large even margins on our o.g. blue/blued pr., used 1d., white paper 1d. (pmk. “10”), and 1/-; v. close all round on unused 4d.; white paper used ½d. (2) margins in places, nice contrasting shade – and a 6d. we ignore, cat. over £700	£80	online		£105 with Lot 80	No
80	So seldom do we see 6d. imperf. other than used, that we’ve singled out this example even though it has no gum, and the line of its close irregular margins is broken by a tiny indent under the C, which may or may not touch the design – SG21/a, cat. £750	£70			see Lot 79
81	1870 Small Star wmk. v.g. to f.u. ½d. (3), 1d. (7 incl. bootheel “6”), 1/- (3); one 1d. used 1872, shows blued paper – this can happen	£15		£12.00
82	Imperf 1/- SG10 whose forceful bootheel cancel reminds us how seldom any but the 1/- value received a bootheel – a tiny dent, well clear of design interrupts what are otherwise evenly cut margins – this is an attractive example	£16	online	£12.00
83	Large Star 1873 1/- used SP 29 74 of lovely imperf. appearance (and no sign of trimming): if you can persuade yourself and other pundits of authenticity, the sky’s the limit – offered as is	£10	online	£8.00
84	Between SG20 and 35, rough perf., no wmk., ½d. (3), 1d. (5), 4d. (2), 6d. (3), 1/- (2) all sound to f.u., est. cat. £280	£32	online	£33.00
85	No wmk. ½d., clean-cut perf. deep green, rough perf. green and grass green, all unused, cat £192	£20	online	£15.50
86	DLR Britannia, the six values all unused, the ½d. being perf. 12½ the others perf. 14. The 6d. has some faults and the 1/- has a tiny thin at top, otherwise fresh and attractive. Cat. £700	£80	online		£105 with Lots 88 & 89	No
87	Yes the strike on this QV 1d. rose, used OC 11 83 is the elusive Barbados 8, though we are tempted to class the numeral as deformed	£35	centre	£28.00
88	1882–6 4d pale brown, 6d., 1/- pt.o.g., plus a 1/- used, condition variable but adequate, cat. £142	£18			see Lot 86
89	1882–6 3d., 1/-; 1892 5d. to 2/6; 1898 Jubilee set to 10d. plus ¼d. on blued, all fine pt. o.g. cat. £280	£60	online		see Lot 86
90	Bootheel ‘2’ on DLR 1d. Britannia, Barbados 2 and CH.CH each on Queen’s head 1d., and two different Christchurch c.d.s. each on 1½d. defin., good to fine strikes	£24			£19	Note 1
91	St Philip (3) different c.d.s. to 1919 incl. two on QV 4d.; St George (2) on QV 1d. (one apparently blued paper); St John with barred oval 5 on 1d., bootheel ‘5’ on 4d. grey, and St John c.d.s. 1901	£34
92	Along with bootheel ‘7’ on 1882 1d. are nice quality c.d.s. (all different) from St Joseph (4) St James (3), St Thomas (2), issues to about 1920	£24		£30.00
93	Along with bootheel ‘10’ and ‘11’ each on DLR 6d. Britannia come a Southampton Ship Letter on 1d. Nelson, and St Peter on Jubilee ½d. with four more decent examples from St Peter or St Lucy (1888–1923), and 1937 Posted at Sea aboard KNSM Colombia on 1½d.	£28		£21.00
94	Used ½d. pr. with pin-perfs much of the way round; no wmk. 4d., 6d. used; LATE FEE cancel; L & Co perfin; Official Paid on ½d. lge. seal; 3/- SG200 used, short corner; Victory 3d. with inverted wmk. (thin); War Tax 1d. with plate no.; Small seal SPECIMEN ½d. and 4d.; how much more can we offer for	£60	online	£46.00
95	St James parish c.d.s. for every year from 1887 to 1906, just 20 stamps, that’s all there is room for on the s/card, all 1d. save a solitary 2½d.	£12
96	2/6 black and orange SG114, v. fresh o.g., cat. £48	£16			£13	Note 1
97	Nelson 1d. black and red CC, lightly used, centred very SE, but we don’t think that matters to you as it has watermark reversed SG147x, cat. £85	£30	online	£30.00
98	1906 Nelson set of 7, also 1d. Olive Blossom, all pt. o.g., cat. £82	£20		£15.00
99	1920 Victory ½d. with its C of (C)A missing centrally. It’s unused, but if it had its gum you probably wouldn’t see the error at all! SG202a, cat. £375, fine on reverse and not badly centred should you wish to view the front	£80		£60.00
100	Album holding study collection (ex Benwell) of 1925–35 issue, all values present in depth e.g. 1/- 31m. (incl. good perf. 9) 13u.; 2/- 3m. 1u.; 2/6 8m. 2u.; 3/- 4m. 1u., and a wealth of marginals, multiples, annotated minor varieties, and so on 488 stamps, 2 covers, heavy item	£250		£280.00
101	Group of 12 b/w ppc’s of Barbados, unused or with messages, circa 1900–20	£27		£20.00
102	ONE PENNY/ 1½d. lilac-mauve p/s card unused, and used AP 11 1892 to St Thomas DWI on each the E present as a truncated F	£15	online	£33.00
103	1½d. lilac-mauve p/s cards (unsurcharged) with two unused singles in very different shades 2 unused reply cards, different perfs., and a single SP 24 94 to Trinidad (rec’d. SP 26) which somehow also acquired a PoS code H FE 7 1900 c.d.s. on reverse. Delayed delivery perhaps?	£27			£20	Note 1
104	1½d. lilac-mauve p/s card surcharged ONE PENNY, single, 3 reply cards, one reply half unused, and used reply outgoing to Pearce, St Kitts, much variation in surcharge intensity	£22		£15.50
105	KEVII 1d. p/s card, Posted on Board violet str. line h/stamp, sent from an as yet unidentified RMSP steamer (Britnor may provide a clue) to Blindley Heath, pleasantly illustrated by hand, the text in mirror image. Unusual and attractive	£60R
106	AN OHMS from Barbados 13.JUL.27 has been furnished with 3 x 1d. Tercent. SG240 and (presumably provided by intended recipient with a US 10c. airmail to pay its way across the States to California) hence the disparity in the cancellation of Commonwealth and US stamp, this being presumably cancelled on arrival. We imagine that special steps had to be taken to transfer from surface to air mode. Said by vendor to be a rare mixed franking	£60R
107	½d. newswrapper (Bayley N1) uprated with 1d. adhesive for its AP 1 81 journey to West London; large seal 1d. shares with 1d. WAR TAX their 1918 mission on cover to Amersham, Bucks; and on OC 12 36 Colonial Postmaster registers an unstamped OHMS cover to Wallace Bros., London EC4; this is a pleasant commercial trio, so we’ll forgive a bit of jet-lag (well pre jet-lag) here and there	£40	online	£30.00
108	1918 cover from St James to Boston in Lincolnshire, and re-addressed to Grantham, good value for the large seal ½d. deep green that paid the fare	£15		£11.50
109	1921 Captain Joliffe reg’d. cover to Brighton on which the 4d. black and red large seal decorates the face, and the BARBADOS/CROWN/GPO seal in mud-brown wax ornaments the reverse – we reckon you won’t see many of these around today	£40	online	£30.00
110	Though it’s not obvious why an ordinary looking brown letter-sized cover reg’d. to Boston in 1936 needed 2/6 and 1d. (2) the item attracted the attentions of US Customs, and doesn’t look philatelic – in which case cat. from £120	£50	online	£38.00
111	Uncensored cover SP 8 41 to McFarlan from a Cable & Wireless staff member (½d. (2), and 1d. (2) pay postage); 1958 cover to Tom Foster paying 12c., both started at St Thomas	£9		£7.00
112	Group of ten covers incl. 6 air mails (1) 3d., (3) 4d. and an 8d. single franking to Grenada (3) or USA from various senders; other rates are 1½d., 1/1, 1/6 (2), 1/8, all with seal issues Condition mostly fine	£44	online		£35	Note 1
113	Group of four covers all with seal frankings; being airmail to Venezuela with 1/-, 3d. and ½d. adhesives; Air letter 1950 to Denmark with 6d. and 2d.; supporting are 1d. franking to London (1936 wavy line machine cancel); and bringing up the rear 2½d. on Christmas duty with timely 1933 slogan cancel POST EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS, all fine	£16			£18	Note 1
114	Barbados Britannia – two choice R.L. sale offerings, being the Private Treaty sale for Leonard Snowdon in Oct! ’41 (Priced at £5,050), and an outstanding unnamed collection sold 7 May ’47, especially strong in 1d./5/- surcharges, with PR, some wear and tear	£44
	BARBUDA
115	1922 short set of five to 3d., SG1–4, 9, f.u. cat. £46.50, well we have to be pedestrian sometimes, pity they’re not Madame Joseph	£14	online	£11.00
116	Gratifying that the war didn’t interrupt the supply of FDC’s to Mrs H D C Moore at St John’s – here are the 1937 Coron. set, and the 1946 Victory pr. (these latter from Leeward I.)	£4	online	£3.00
	BERMUDA
117	3d. yellow-buff SG5 (3) wing margin cancelled K3 1 and 2, K3a 4, an attractive trio, cat. £195	£54	online	£42.00
118	A light uprt. 11 reveals the origins of CC 3d. yellow-buff, an imperfection at lower left, (shallow thin? grease stain?) makes little difference to a pleasant appearance	£20	online	£15.00
119	K3a ‘5’ on 3d. yellow-buff, the c.d.s. so eager to be seen that it has pushed half the number off the stamp. Still very visible, still uprt. so not too much harm done, cat. £65	£40	centre		£39 with Lot 121	No
120	QV 6d. dull purple (3) and perf. 14 CC 1/-, each presumed to have begun duty at sea, as lightly struck with Liverpool’s 466, mail boat A92 (weak), small blue Canadian cork (stamp with straight edge at foot), and arrival 697, the others have some minor per. Imperfections cat. £280	£60	online	£46.00
121	Used compound perf. 6d. bright mauve SG10a, a fresh and attractive horiz. pr.	£16	online		see Lot 119
122	One Penny/ 1/- SG17 centred NE, light killer cancel (when did they ever refresh their inkpads on the island?) some short perfs at right and once priced 1/- in indelible pencil on the reverse, a stamp of strong sprightly colour, cat. £150	£65	centre		£52	Note 1
123	Gumless not toothless, a fresh example of SPECIMEN ¼ on 1/- SG30as, cat. £80	£22	online		£17	Note 1
124	8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 mixed numerals, and mixed visibility, but largely fine on QV 1d. and 2d. values	£28	online	£28.00
125	A few modest QV used to 6d. greatly animated by Paget West on ½d. pr., and Somerset Bridge on 1d., and Bailey’s Bay on 1d.	£9
126	“STERED” not shaken, with apologies to Mr Bond, a rather fanciable strike on MCA 3d. ship-type	£2			£2	Note 1
127	KGV 5/-, 10/- (2 each) all fine fiscally used, we make these SG53, 53d, 92, 92g, the first two with attractive date Furness Bermuda like dbl. ring c.d.s., the next with Harnett & Richardson, ditto, the last has just a part str. line date stamp, a pity as otherwise it would be lge. pt.o.g.	£50	online	£39.00
128	WAR TAX 1d. SG56, a fine lower mgnl. block of four, the lower two stamps showing doubling of design, especially prominent of value and its frame	£60
129	Second Peace issue 6d. SG72 on piece of 3MAR 24 most attractively showing Hamilton’s machine slogan cancel for British Empire Exhibition 1924, the stamp cat. £50	£24
130	Script 2½d. ultramarine SG82b, SE corner block of four mint showing plate no. 2 , this is a scarce item, so you shouldn’t be bothered by a few split perfs and horizontal crease across the upper stamps	£16
131	They have lost their gum, but have saved their imprints, KGVI 1d., 2d., 2½d., SG110, 112, 113 in lower mgnl. blocks of four fine unused, cat. £248	£50	online		£40	Note 1
132	KGVI £1 SG121 pt.o.g., centred a bit SW, but a very fresh purple and jet-black/vibrant red Cat. £275	£75			£60	Note 1
133	Collection of 80 postcards c. 1900 to 1935 unused or with messages, or stamps removed after posting, housed in plastic holders, each accommodating four cards	£90		£70.00
134	last year’s lots, 115, 118, 123, 127, 128, 131 offered together at a reduced valuation – a very useful and interesting assembly of QV and other postmarks	£80
135	QV ½d. blue p/s card (Hamilton duplex NO 29 87) asks Major Evans for his Nov. sub. to Garrison Cricket Club: sound ordinary until we tell you there’s an INLAND ISLAND receiving c.d.s. and we’ve never had one to offer before! This is because the gent in charge took great care – the meany – to see that only the numeral of his duplex caught the stamp; and characteristically he made sure this time that his numeral didn’t grace our card	£95	online
136	St George’s “2” duplex cancels Queens head on OC 2 90 1½d. p/s card to a Methodist minister in Nova Scotia, with it comes the much scarcer One Penny/1½d. card used OC 4 93 – as it went to Kiderlen, we shall mention the inverted “4” in date – doubtless the clerk at Hamilton was having a bad hair day	£38	online
137	With all deference to our vendor, we cannot ascribe to what is said to be a home-made newspaper wrapper (from Hamilton to Utica, NY, 189?, K4 duplex) the same cachet as might be attached to a real p/s wrapper of the period; granted that few of the latter are thought to have survived, (yet we tell ourselves there were a lot of papers posted and not everyone who still holds its wrapping might think it worth recording) there is still, in our view, a credibility gap. The original research, as yet uncorroborated, gathering evidence for this is offered with this item at a reserve estimate for those who disagree with us	£165R
138	Casually franked with ship type 2½d. sage-green and first Tercentenary 3d. SG62, this 1924 reg’d. Montgomery Ward cover racks up an SG quote from £181 – it sounds a bit heavy for us – so we’ll say	£56	online	£42.00
139	Commercial covers of 1923, ’32, ’35, ’50, appropriately franked 2½d., 1d., 1½d. (this a slogan cancel), 2½d. (Mangrove Bay) to USA and England (3) accompany a 1939 cover from New York to Paget East, the franking including World’s Fair 3c. x 3 plus 10c. Special Delivery. Noteworthy is also a GPO label when the one from 1950 was opened by Customs & Excise and resealed	£30
140	Belmont Manor and Golf Club logo is the most decorative feature of an opened out cover Posted on the High Seas with ship type 2½d. receiving light undetectabley dated New York Paquebot duplex; A clean Queen of Bermuda cover of the 1950’s shares this lot franked E.II 1d. and 3d. Die I	£8
	BRITISH GUIANA
141	A bit of a curate’s egg is the serifed BERBICE dbl.-arc c.d.s. of MR 18 1847 on reverse of 1/2 rated EL to London. The paleness of the London receiver makes us suspect that it has been washed – at least it has come out clean	£40	online	£80.00
142	The red 6d. and 10d. ratings on EL’s of June and December 1860 to London and Liverpool will cause you no problems; but you’ll have to work to explain ratings of 6/1 and 9 on SP 26 58 EL from Demerara via London to Boxmeer in the Netherlands	£70	online
143	EL to London AU 9 1859 (3 weeks en route) the filing folds are just clear of GB 6d. (str.-edge at left, light A03 cancel) – all the right postal markings, an almost contemporary (SP 9 59) blue EL keeps it company, no stamp used, pre-paid 6d. clean and nicely marked via London to Liverpool	£146	online	£105.00
144	A similar pairing of GB 6d. on entire (25 Feb 54, the A03 not tied, stamp damaged) with unstamped 6d pre-paid blue EL (DE 10 59), the lot supplemented by 6d. rated unpaid EL “par Voie Anglaise” from Cayenne 16 JUL 58 through Paris to Bordeaux, and pre-paid Oct. 8 1862 EL to London, Middlesex, 5d. credited, good markings on each of these	£130	online	£100.00
145	Yet a further similar pairing (the damaged GB 6d. of Nov 25 59 is tied to badly oxidised filing crease), the unstamped EL 9 MAR 61; here the extra items are 1854 EL from Paramaribo via Demerara and London to Edinburgh 1/- rated, and 1858 Bill of Exchange for £100 drawn by British Guiana Bank or Smith, Payne & Smith in London	£110	online	£90.00
146	An album page of GB stamps on which the 4d. and 6d. stamps are healthy, each with pleasant A03 killer, the 1d. horiz pr. has a nasty crease, and several light, but genuine A03 strikes; finally there’s another 1d. cancelled A04, v. scarce if it’s right, but candidly we’d much prefer to see a cert. in support	£140	online	£150.00
147	A03 on GB 1/- you can get: A04 you almost can’t, yet this is a vibrant A04 at 8 o’clock on 1856 1/-, at the foot a scissor separation beyond the perfs. , so why have scissors nipped off a bit at top left? There’s also a small tear above the O of POSTAGE, though the rest of of this rarity is perky, SG Z9, cat. £2200	£200	front	£380.00
148	Remarkable irregular piece on which wing mgn. 4d. and vert. pr. 1d. overlay blue Paramaribo date stamp 5.6.1859, the light A03 killers on stamps supplemented by B code, Demerara thimble c.d.s. JU 7 (said to be otherwise not seen with GB issues, but we don’t much care), neat London and Liverpool c.d.s. – stamps cat. £880	£200	online	£290.00
149	6c. OFFICIAL SG O9, with part gum, cat. £5500, and there should be an all stations call for the hinge that ran off with some of the original paper and a large slice of the value	£550	front
150	96c. SG134 g.u., cat. £250	£70	centre	£80.00
151	1876 4c. CC perf 12½ pt. o.g. centred a bit NW, and shortish perf. at foot, but this rare item seldom comes in mouth-watering condition, SG135. cat. £1200	£240	front	£190.00
152	1882 Inland Revenue 4c. a fine mint block of four, the two l.h. stamps showing the larger 4, SG178/a, cat. £6	£24	online
153	1882 2c. orange lightly used at Leguan, clearly showing CA wmk. reversed, diagonal crease lower rt. SG171x, cat. £190	£42	centre
154	RICHMOND HILL on 2c. SG234, one of the postmarks to be prized, the upright strike as full as the stamp will permit, even if 1904 has to be guessed at beneath MY 10	£40	centre	£90.00
155	A remarkable group of scarce to rare pmks., the first codes being A3C on SG11 (3mgns, small thin, very pale red), A5C on SG19; second codes A4C, 1862 on 8c. rendered imperf. B.I.R. (on DLR 12c.), DRW 2, lovely ECB4, both on SG87/8; type 2 examples on DLR 2c. from Anna Regina, Belfield, Buxton, Clonbrook, Taymouth Manor; CA code of (Carmichael St.) 23 NO 82 on 2c.	£320	online	£320.00
156	48c. SG133 h/stamped locally with sans serif SPECIMEN, a fresh unused example of this rare item	£65	centre	£85.00
157	You don’t find many village cancels on the high values a odd 100 years ago, but we don’t regard Suddie on 48c. grey and purple-brown as artificial, a nice full strike at 11o’clock from 1903	£15	online	£15.50
158	Serifed SPECIMEN h/stamped on 96c. SG134, and again this will be an item most of us do not have	£70		£75.00
159	SPECIMEN ovpts. on 1898 2, 5, 15c.; 1889 defins. six of the SPECIMEN set of 10 incl. 48, 60 96c.; and 9 other CA or MCA values of this type, SPECIMEN, most on lower values, one is 48c. cat. say £240, good to fine	£30		£35.00
160	1913-–27 defins. with MCA values to 96c. Script most to 96c., all being SPECIMEN examples, 13 stamps, fair to fine	£25		£33.00
161	In case you feel like a plating exercise, here are (mostly) duplicates of our other SPECIMEN lots, mixed cond. but mainly sound	£24	online	£18.00
162	1899 2c. on 5c. pt. o.g. block of four and f.u. single: each shows an early state of the CINTS variety at row 4/1 with the limbs of the E in the process of breaking up; the block also contains a good example of the short T in TWO, raised C in CENTS at row 3/2	£44	online		£53 with Lot 163	No
163	Original backing paper still partly adheres to mint 2c. on 5c. block of four SG222 etc. from left centre of sheet (no side margins) on which you find shaved E, and above it shaved W, and quad between TWO and CENTS with the less prominent splurge between T and S on the stamp to its left	£30	online		see Lot 162
164	Mainly 19th century collection residue with both type 2 reprints, plenty of ship-types, some with code marks, over 150 stamps, majority used, only around 10 post KGV, v. mixed condition, but stc. £1600+ with the worst ignored	£110			£75	Note 1
165	Mixed cancellations etc. (37), almost all 19th century, with corks (4), TPO (9), assorted village (13), fiscal (10) incl. $2 and $5, mainly good strikes	£28			£22	Note 1
166	About 280 stamps comprise a carefully selected assembly of postmarks circa 1880 to 1920 whose dominant feature is the quality of individual strikes, there is nothing dead common, and nothing super rare, the least gettable being such offices as Hope Placer and Fort Island with such as Tarlogy and Hackney being runners up. Even should you have most of the offices you may be tempted to replace existing examples	£360		£520.00
167	1c. on 2c. P/S card of the early 1880’s with the local SPECIMEN perfin imprint, some foxing in places, but far less easy to find than you would imagine	£20
168	Here are 3 2c. rose-pink p/s envelopes written-up on 2 pages – 1897 TPO Demerara Railway cancel (said to be very scarce thus, but corner has been trimmed); Mahaica 1899 to London; 1919 to Pittsburg, 2c. War Tax added; lastly Centenary 4c., 6c. on 1931 reg’d. cover from which we infer the Official Receiver tells a trader in Manchester that he won’t get the money due to him	£30	online		£24	Note 1
169	Six covers of 1889 (2 are mourning), 2c. franking with I.R. 2c. or 1c., except for one DLR orange, most with faults (two have unflattering freckles), but be tolerant they visit between them BELAIR, Belfield, Beterverwagting, Clonbrook, Demerara Railway, and Tuschen de Vrienden	£70	online		£80 with Lot 170	No
170	I.R. 8c. (4), and 6c. (2 one with straight top) sprawl across a rather busy reg’d. cover to London EC MR 10 90 (we think) – flap and seal abstracted: two rather tatty covers of the same vintage keep it company; each travelled by Demerara Railway and EC in this case means East Coast	£50			see Lot 169
171	Lindbergh FFC’s being Trinidad–Georgetown SEP 23 1929 (9d. franking); Georgetown – Paramaribo, 24 Sep (22c.); reg’d. Georgetown–Trinidad 24 Sp (25c.); Georgetown_ Miami, (and on to Husbands, Massachusetts, 55c.), dates are postmarked, valuations are from Wike, say £140	£54		£42.00
172	Two covers with Singer Sewing M/C connections, perhaps commercial (one is reg’d. and unkindly treated 44c.); 56c. franking went 12 MR 30 to Montevideo and Porto Alegro (via Rio) intended to travel NYBRA FF south, type-written FFC endorsements – but we think they caught a later plane; Wike tabulations – arrival dates were 22 and 26 MAR (19 MAR at Rio)	£38		£29.00
173	A memento of Derek Nathan represented by four covers celebrating the 1931 centenary in their different ways: As you’d expect they are clean and neat, and one travelled by air to Canada for 50c.	£35			£28	Note 1
174	Reg’d. FFC’s of 19 and 31 DE 30, 6 FE 31 (2) to Jamaica, Cayenne, Guatemala, San Salvador,, franked 48c., 31c., 62c., 62c. – two are Driffield, one Husbands; one Collier, showing the expected markings and cachets – these flights carried -------- mail	£65		£50.00
175	Carrying 2 x 48c. defins. and sporting 2 line “TO NEW YORK ONLY/ BY AIR” which T&H don’t illustrate, this reg’d. cover left Georgetown 20 FE 34 via San Juan and NY to Liechtenstein (5.3.34) you have heard only of Vaduz, but it went direct to BALZERS – perhaps unrepeatable	£50	online	£38.00
176	Themed around the 1934–51 pictorials are a 4c. black PSRE ovpt’d. thick serifed SPECIMEN; unused 2c p/s env. in a sort of dirty or dusty pale brown; set of 7 to 24c. on 1937 reg’d. Alex Bayley cover to Barbados; some different 3c. franked Paquebot covers to Nick Ferrant in New Jersey (one as late as 1967	£24		£18.00
177	but this KGV 2c. p/s env. (in the same dusty pale brown) we have to allow to fly solo, because its serifed SPECIMEN is in the lighter KGVI format, and we don’t have to tell you that’s a rarity in his Dad’s era	£18			£14	Note 1
178	and so to KGVI p/s items: these are 2c. black wrappers ovpt’d SPECIMEN; the wrapper in use to USA 1941, 1c. adhesive added (untouched by censor); 6c. PSRE (2) the 1947 one from Leonora to NY by air, with 6c. and 12c. added, the 1950 one local, with 3c. added, and we have no idea how the post office deciphered destination, ‘cos we can’t	£40		£95.00
	BRITISH HONDURAS
179	No wmk. QV 4d. rose, centred east; for once its vulnerable paper is undamaged, SG3, f.u. cat. £160	£60	centre	£80.00
180	One slightly pulled perf. at rt. is an undeserved imperfection in a fine lge.pt.o.g. example of no wmk. 1/- green SG4, cat. £350	£30	centre
181	QV 6d, yellow SG21 lightly cancelled with ‘O’ killer, cat £200, scarce and fine	£70		£65.00
182	Lucky you! Here’s a further opportunity to buy 6d. yellow SG21 (lightish ‘O’ killer cancel) much more cheaply because shallow thinning though of fine appearance; this lot is shared by 50c. SG107 top mgnl. plate no. 1 f.u. (rare in itself)	£40		£30.00
183	Perf. 14 2c. on 6c. rose just tapped rather than killed by ‘O’ in bars, the perfs at north left intact but marginally short by scissors used to separate, dealer’s mark on reverse, but who needs it? SG25, cat. £150	£42	centre	£46.00
184	Too tiny a piece to acknowledge Aikman as the author (or could the initials faintly seen belong to another?) harbours l.h. diagonal bisect of the local 2c.on 1d. rose, with light ‘O’ killer	£15	online		£111 with Lots 186, 188, 189 & 190	No
185	1899 Revenue on 5c. o.g. horiz. pr. from right of row 1 (no top mgn. some gum wrinkling) – in this position the thin U appears on l.h. stamp, and slightly smaller R on its neighbour	£2	online	£2.75
186	A Belize TRD not featured by Proud? Exactly so, on 10c. SG132, the Belize part in crisp violet at 7 o’clock on this 1920’s stamp. It comes in a classy lot, with ALL PINES on KE 5c. and 1917 KGV 3c.; the dbl-circle Stann Creek on 3c. schge. SG38 , and single ring on 25c. SG106, the back going white (even Stann Creek is elusive on these stamps) and STANN CREEK R(AILWAY) 1916 on 2c.	£50	online		see Lot 184
187	Could a 1926 2c. rose-carmine have done service as a Postage Due when there were dedicated Dues for the purpose? Our strong suspicion is that this one did: It has a lovely postal-style pen-written Cancelled in place of a much more familiar h/stamp, included for comparison is 1933 3c. orange	£2		£1.50
188	± 1920–30, 14 2c. and 3c. values, with a range of local and overseas markings – nothing sensational – (BARR)ACKS the best – but quite pleasing	£12			see Lot 184
189	We can identify Riversdale, Radio Station, and, of course, P.A.A. Office among the 7 TRD’s on this s/card, then the customary town/village marks on KGV issues, the odd fiscal and dumb cancel, the QV incl. wide space 5c. on 3c. on 3d. m. and u. (but the last apparently re-perfed on one side – a mixed bag with a bit of sparkle	£65	online		see Lot 184
190	While we don’t usually pay too much attention to the P.A.A. Office TRD, we’ll make an exception for a nice piece cut from an air mail cover which uses the strike four times to subdue 5c. vert. strip of four and a single, as well as a single 10c.	£20	online		see Lot 184
191	1922 $2 SG137, a lovely stamp presenting from 25 OC 193? the left half of RAD(IO STATION) G.P.O. (??) – note this is not Ed Addiss TDC 2 (Proud D1) and even if telegraphic (it doesn’t have to be) it’s a must grab	£40	centre	£56.00
192	Assembly of pmks. 1941–72, 16 different items, several on piece, the Belize including Royal Visit, slogan, Parcel Post, Benque Viejo (4 types), Mango Creek, etc., just the one TRD Stann Creek Valley on KGV, no doubt once on a Roger Wells cover	£14		£12.00
193	QV 3c. p/s card (reply half) cancelled by K65 in barred vertical oval sent to the British Vice Consul at Sfezd, proposed route by vendor is via Bombay and Bushire, and so marked by sender on face; further markings include Belize JA 21 95 c.d.s, Sea Post Office/FE 25/95 c.d.s. (India type) and ABASSI c.d.s. with partial date; top left corner missing (some 2cm² in area), a light crease runs from top right edge down to midway along the right side	£46R		£46.00
194	Montgomery Ward covers of May 22, Jun 3 1919 from Monkey River and The Cayo; each has the senders details unobtrusively excised, which has cost one cover, but not the other part of its Belize TD transit b/stamp, 3c. frankings, one being WAR STAMP	£44	online		£34	Note 1
195	Similar 3c. franked cover with similar excision from RIVERSDALE FEB 18 1920 – 1st type TRD with village name at right (and only DALE is prominent) – extremely scarce on cover, though reasonably available on loose stamps	£60	online	£46.00
196	Two more similar printed blue covers from Orange Walk and Punta Gorda; also a plain white cover with typed address, this went reg’d. from Corosal (3c. and 5c. stamp) and the excision is easier to spot – all from 1920	£40		£30.00
197	1966 Postage Stamp Centenary FDC and the mint set in traffic light blocks of four	£2		£1.50
	CAYMAN ISLANDS
198	KEVII 1d. SG26, a fine mint example clearly showing the Spaven flaw at top right	£18	online	£42.00
199	Three examples of the East End Rural Post Collection boxed TRD – one very partial on the usual ¼d., one nicely legible on KEVII 1d., and one interestingly on KGV ¼d. vert pr. the strike here complete but imprecise	£30	online	£46.00
200	Boddentown 1913 on KEVII 1d.; 1914 on KGV ½d. good examples	£5		£4.00
201	KGV key-type 3/- SPECIMEN SG50s	£12	online	£13.50
202	1½d. on 2d. grey WAR STAMP, the scarce (and still unlisted) variety from row 2, broken 1 in fraction, fine o.g.	£30		£23.00
203	On this 1935 mint SJ variety the upper part of the flagstaff is nowhere to be seen, not a recognisable constant variety, but we have met it elsewhere before, so it’s best described as fickle, or unconstant	£20	online		£36 with Lot 204	No
204	1935 SJ, a fine mint set: the variety you’ll see on the 1/- value is not the short extra flagstaff (this is the wrong printer) and we’d describe it as a satellite dish, did we not know we would be flying a kite	£30	online		see Lot 203
205	1935 SJ mgnl. ½d. pair and 2½d. single, each is fine mint and they respectively show plate no’s. 4 and 2B – the days when collectors knew which plate supplied which colony have almost vanished	£12	online		£10	Note 1
206	1935 SJ set, fine mint, perf’d. SPECIMEN, cat £140	£85		£80.00
207	The Creek on KGVI ½d., 1d., 2½d., 6d., all at different dates	£8		£6.00
208	This pt. o.g. Victory 3d. does show a recognisable variety; it’s SG128a with the stop after 1946. Cat. £24 fine	£10		£8.00
209	Jamaica used in the Caymans (but sorry this is 1965) and a very handsome PAQUEBOT cover, using the EII 2½d., and sporting a really neat Purser’s cachet of M/S CAYMAN PRIDE – privately addressed so probably not philatelic (only perhaps)	£20	online	£58.00
	DOMINICA
210	Written on stiff blue paper (which strongly resists the passage of time despite the customary folds), EL of 26 NOV 1868 to St Andrews, Scotland showing a reasonable red Crown Circle PAID AT DOMINICA on its face (11d. credited overseas): It describes local flooding of the estate	£120	online	£160.00
211	Outer letter sheet to St Andrews, 11d. credited overseas, and 1d. retained nurses a light red Dominica Paid c.d.s. against its shy blue background – 17 days in transit, filing folds, but clean	£120	online	£120.00
212	1d. lilac featuring SG1, pt.o.g.; R1 with a village type m/s cancel which we think is postal; SG4 with vigorous Crown Circle PAID AT DOMINICA (no village date, but that is where it originates); R4 fine horiz. pr. (unused, traces of gum) – cat, high, but not huge	£44	online	£33.00
213	½d. bisect SG12 on a small piece which is nicely enhanced by Antigua c.d.s. of MY 9 85 alongside the tall A07 killer, cat. £23+	£16	online	£12.00
214	In China ‘8’ is the lucky number, and that is why we put an outrageous estimate on QV 1d. carmine pen-cancelled Wesley 8.8.88 . Any other date and you could have had it for a third; but find that Chinese philatelist and you’ll treble you money	£100	front	£140.00
215	Abbreviated m/s “Ports” on perf. 14 1d. lilac CC, and part of the date below, some staining visible at left and top	£20	online	£15.00
216	4d. SG24a with malformed CE variety, lge.pt.o.g. and fresh	£65R	centre	£80.00
217	(ST JOSE)PH 6 DE (this inverted) 00 on Leeward QV ½d., a very clear and early example at 10 o’clock – except for Portsmouth all village c.d.s. on Leewards are scarce	£10		£13.50
218	SOUFRIERE FE 27 01, central and nearly upright on Leeward QV 1d. the central ‘RI’ under-inked	£26	online	£70.00
219	MCA ½d. SG37 (3) with part strikes of Delices, St Joseph, Soufriere: and a full Grand Bay at 7 o’clock DE 16, no year plug, on 1½d. SG74 on piece from reg’d. cover, a second very light pmk. just discernible above	£12	online		£70 with Lots 221,227, 228 &231	No
220	KEVII 5/- MCA centred west, but with a neat delicate strike of St Joseph JA 3 14, fine and distinctly scarce	£52	centre	£40.00
221	KGV badge 3d. in an irregular unit on tiny piece discretely cancelled POINT MICHEL 1 FE 26	£15	online		see Lot 219
222	1935 SJ set fine mint perf’d. SPECIMEN, cat £100	£56
223	Ppc’s; two b/w landscape views unused 1900–10; two attractive post war cards used 1964 and 1969	£14		£10.50
224	4 QV Leewards 1d. (horiz. strip of three, and single) pay the postage on PSRE to a Thomas S Garraway residing in Barbadoes, tied by DOMINICA c.d.s. of JA 2 02, no receipt cancel, boxed red Dominica registration h/stamp on front numbered 16, attractive, and inter-island mail isn’t all that common, y’know	£48	back	£180.00
225	B/w Jose Anjo ppc of Fresh Water Lake, Dominica, 1903 to London, courtesy of a Leeward stamp	£9		£7.00
226	The rather elusive 2½d. landscape p/s envelope used to St Thomas DWI in 1905 has lost its flap, but not its dignity	£24	online	£56.00
227	Sharing the stage with 1931 cover to NY (Leeward 2½d. aboard) is a rather splendid 1937 coron. cover from Soufriere – the stamps are Dominica and the sender has allowed the 2½d. to keep its sheet no. above	£18			see Lot 219
228	An Alfred Wilson cover JY 2 35 from Roseau on which a Dominica SJ 1d. combines with Leeward script Die I SG82 (cat. from £40 x 5), exercising restraint let’s say	£40	online		see Lot 219
229	A GE Pinnard b/w ppc of Point Michel (well more villagers and palm trees than housing) written Xmas Day 1907, despatched with ½d. stamp to Bournemouth on Boxing Day	£16
230	Portsmouth AP 26 10 to Massachusetts, healthy cover franked 2½d. blue landscape, b/stamps of GPO and New Bedford, small part of flap discarded; also landscape 1d. P/S card MARIGOT to Codrington College, Barbados, plenty of b/stamps incl. St John – sender has passed his later BSc	£40	online		£32	Note 1
231	1d. reddish violet p/s card clean and fresh unused; 1917 cover to Michigan with ½d. and 1d. landscape; uncensored 11 MY 40 cover to Maine with 2½d. and ¼d. (2)	£18			see Lot 219
232	FD front for SJ 1d. posted in Portsmouth to a local resident, yet signs of a paper clip lower it, it leaves us wondering whether there was a business purpose involved	£4		£3.00
233	GB 1d. reply card, returned by the Postmaster to Rutherglen , Scotland, Roseau c.d.s. of FE 9 36 on reverse, and violet GPO cachet of same date on face	£25			£19	Note 1
234	A Marshall cover with horiz. pr. of 3d. SG45 reg’d. 1925 to Manchester; had it been roughly opened you’d be cross; as it’s unopened you’ll just be scathing – honestly we can’t please some people! Perhaps you’ll like its companion, a b/w ppc with a view of the centre of St Thomas DWI, but posted FE 16 14 from St Kitts to Maine with the 1d. scarlet Spring	£24		no lot
235	Here’s one of our infrequent bargain lots; 7 covers 1937–76 (all philatelic), the FDC’s being ’37 coron., ’38 Leeward to 3d., ’46 Victory, ’51 New Constitution, 3 later villages (incl. MERO) but reading MERD, which is far from polite, and a s/card holding 17 Leeward values to 6d. (which can’t exist after 1940) reduced by 40% to	£30		£23.00
236	No doubt about the philatelic status of these six covers: Roger Wells reg’d. 1946 from CASTLE BRUCE (Victory 1d. pr. and 3d.); Point Michel to Roseau (to a pencilled address, ½d,. and 2d. stamps); 1951 (4) to Aguilar each with 2½d. pr.; one got through by air, the other three got the chop and had to dawdle	£40			£80 with Lots 237 & 238	No
237	We’re not certain whether E.A. Wilson of Staten Island was a philatelic address or whether sender was exploring Dominica: attractive covers from COLIHAUT DE 19 46 (2d. and 2½d. corner franking) and DELICES 20 DE 46 (3d. franked) via Grand Bay and Roseau, this has ‘T’ h/stamp deleted, perhaps they thought it was to go by air	£42			see Lot 236
238	Anyway this E.A. Wilson cover, reg’d. JA 3 47 from VIEILLE CASE (via Portsmouth and Roseau) deserves to stand alone for the interest that it attracted from US Customs till they decided to pass it duty free, prs. of 2d. and 2½d. both lower mgnl.	£30	online		see Lot 236
	GRENADA
239	Moderate B, 1862 on modest 1d. SG1 (we’ve never understood cat £300 for this stamp) holds court with 13 other Chalon 1d. green and 6d. (3) rose or vermilion – most have first type code letters, and guess what? – we’ve spotted a G	£56	online
240	A fresh entry, visible on the D of GRENADA affects each of the stamps on this page, ascribed to 10 different cat. classifications, incl. 3 no wmk., one being SG1. All appear nicely used, cat. very high, assembly difficulty enormous	£250		£190.00
241	There must be some reason why Gibbons cat. the Chalons so high – perhaps it’s because they can sell them. This lot of 57 1d. is alphabet soup: A: B: C: D: F, in various stages of literacy	£60		£48.00
242	6d. orange-vermilion (2) provide a lovely background for first type B and D	£12	online	£12.50
243	Four examples of first type F on QV 6d., and one of these, a two thirds strike, is first period of use on SG3	£50	online	£38.00
244	1d. SG4 centred NE, in a fresh and appealing deep green shade, and worth inspecting by someone who knows the plate positions of this issue better than we do, cat. £90	£16	online		£12	Note 1
245	1/- deep mauve SG13 (2) f.u. one with narrow spacing between ST of POSTAGE	£8			£7	Note 1
246	1875 1/- deep mauve with inverted “S” in POSTAGE, centred SE, the killer pmk. most considerately light, SG13c, cat. £500	£90	front	£80.00
247	1881 small star 1d. SG19 unused, slight surface rubbing, but we don’t think this explains the unusual shade of a very dry print	£8	online	£6.00
248	Large star ½d., 4d. SG20/1, 23, m. and u. – we could read the FOUR as FOUR PERCE – but don’t take us too seriously, you know what the lettering is like on these values	£40	online	£30.00
249	QV ½d. deep mauve cancelled first type D and an ‘unused’ forgery which strikes us as modern rather than ancient, but we may be wrong – unusual anyway	£8		£6.00
250	Broad star 2½d. (2) SG24, 25 decent used, cat. £170	£44			£34	Note 1
251	SPECIMEN examples of 1d. SG40s with small scuff at lower top right on design; QV key-type 2d., 3d., 6d.; 1906 badge ½d. to 2½d. & 6d.; KGV MCA 3d., 1/-, 5/-, Script 3d. blue, 5d., 5/-, 10/-; the rest mostly fine	£40		£42.00
252	4d. POSTAGE on 2/- SG41, 18 examples of this interesting surcharge, displaying the amateur character of this local surcharge – cat. £720	£95			£70	Note 1
253	4d. POSTAGE on 2/- 4mm spacing fine part o.g.; 2 used these showing ovpt. at very different heights; 5mm spacing, pleasant dated c.d.s., but shallow thin top rt. as with one of the other two, SG41, 42, cat. £110	£25			£19	Note 1
254	1895–99 SG48s–55s SPECIMEN ovpts. in fine mint cond. Cat. £150	£60		£46.00
255	1902 SG57s–66s SPECIMEN ovpts to 10/-, fine mint, cat. £190	£90
256	KEVII imperf colour trial on CA wmk’d paper in the colours of the issued 10/- value – sadly it’s scuffed at the foot of the duty tablet, in stark contrast to the freshness of all the rest	£70	front	£54.00
257	KGV 1/- /blue-green olive back, fine mint lower left corner block of four showing plate no. 2, SG98b, cat. £140+	£90		£85.00
258	QV to KGV, 78 items on s/card, all used save three (incl. ½d. pr. from coil), QV period, 11 Chalon, 22 other, KEVII 3, varied condition, with many fine to 2/-, 2/6, cat. £700+	£80			£60	Note 1
259	1935 SJ set perf’d. SPECIMEN, fine mint, cat. £95	£46		£36.00
260	PD 3d. SG D14, two very lightly used examples with contrasting large and small square stops	£3			£8 with Lot 261	No
261	PD’s SG D1, 2, 10, 11, 13, all f.u.; also used Chalon fiscals 1d., 4d., 6d., 9d., 1/-, 2/-	£10			see Lot 260
262	8 early ppc views of St Georges and its environs, unposted, but one is bursting with social gossip	£24		£18.00
263	“The Very Reverend Father Dowling VC, The Administrator, Archbishop’s House, Port of Spain, Trinidad” takes up most of the space on a mud-brown cover from Carriacou there’s just room for R in oval, 3 in blue crayon (what a low reg. no.!) KEVII 3d. stamp and a coffee stain; we think it’s the cover that’s been in the wars rather than the addressee, this time VC stands for something else	£22			£30 with Lot 264	No
264	Extensively, if lightly, foxed along the surface, and discoloured at the base, this 5d. franked reg’d. cover from Grenville 1925 to Washington DC has fared little better; yet the local boxed reg’n. h/stamp, the red label added and sealing wax on reverse are appealing	£20			see Lot 263
	IMPERIUM ISSUES Rather than bury these under a territory they have been listed here for clarity
265	In total 24 Trials were made, 12 in dull mauve, and 12 in green, each was given the nominal value of 2c. Here we have in the colours of Leewards 2½d., 6d., 1/- and 5/- four from these trials, colours are fresh, some very minimal clipping of perfs, gum toning as to be expected, though again this is not visible from the front, quelle surpris they have been previously hinged. Very scarce and highly desirable and offered at	£850R	front
	JAMAICA
266	1784 wrapper to Kingston 3 MR London despatch mark over flap; letters (without their wrappers) of 1800 from a Montego Bay clergyman to his dearest wife, and 1809 from Kingston to Cumbria; and a rather stodgy report and set of accounts from Blue Mountain Estate apparently hand-carried to Derbyshire	£56			£42	Note 1
267	Goodness knows what this seeming outer wrapper per packet 1836 Kingston to London once contained – the postage was 15/2! Across flap are indifferent Kingston c.d.s. in black and London arrival in red; perhaps a further apparent mark of 13/4 gives clue, sadly not to us	£16			£12	Note 1
268	Rated 1/2 each EL’s (3) 1844 Falmouth–London; 1847 Port Maria–London, and Bath – Aberdeen; 1850 wrapper Falmouth–Liverpool; 1853 outer letter sheet Goshen – Liverpool: the markings varying from modest to fine; and there’s a separate fragment with a nice unframed OLD HARBOUR date stamp AP 2 1842	£60			£45	Note 1
269	Wrapper to London from PORUS NO 19 1846 and you really will not find a finer despatch mark; Kingston (across flap) 3 days later is just as strongly inked, but has used its dbl-arc more since the supply of fresh ink to these offices – 1/2 chargeable for postage	£40
270	Local covers (4) being 1848 EL Ocho Rios to Kingston (4d. prepaid); 1848 EL Kingston to May Hill (6d. charged); 1850 EL Kingston to Mandeville; 1853 EL Old Harbour to Mandeville both rated 4d. with most strikes being sound to quite attractive	£65		£50.00
271	EL from London 1849 via Kingston to PORUS whose dbl-arc is struck on the face, but don’t expect the dramatic impact of our earlier offering	£20			£15	Note 1
272	Was it four or was it six GB 1d. stamps that once graced our tatty 1860 cover to Mincing Lane (in London’s fair city)? Anyway there are three left intact, mildly oxydised perhaps but handsome enough, with lightish A01 killer (pity it’s not the duplex numeral) covers with the 1d. stamp are not all that common of course	£120	online	£95.00
273	1d. pine: the pale blue shade pt.o.g.; with it the three other listed shades f.u. (at Head Office) and a further 7 used examples each with a different light numeral cancel, cat £250 or so	£48			£36	Note 1
274	Pine 2d. rose unused and two used examples in contrasting shades, v.g. to f.u., cat. £290	£52			£39	Note 1
275	Pine 3d.: a fine pt.o.g. example, four more lightly used with a wide range of shades and nice examples of A57, A69, A75 (this a wing margin), cat. £300+	£70		£54.00
276	S.O.N. of a- DOG (with apologies to our transatlantic friends) This is 3d. pine to which you wouldn’t normally give room; but the RRR Plymouth to Bristol B16 TPO struck at 8 o’clock could hardly be stronger	£25			£19	Note 1
277	4d. Pine – brown-orange fine o.g. and 2 used examples in each of the two listed shades, one of the brown-orange bearing as light, clear example of the tallest A01 killer, which isn’t common, cat £300	£65		£52.00
278	Pine 6d. – a richly coloured example of the deep purple shade pt.o.g., centred just SE SG5b, cat. £800	£180			£135	Note 1
279	Pine 6d. grey-purple fine pt.o.g., and used examples of the three listed shades, the deep purple v.g.u. the others fine, cat. £390	£70			£53	Note 1
280	1/- Pine, the brown shades ranging from dingy to dull, through yellow to tawny, then purple and almost violet, six examples v.g. to f.u., cat. £150	£38			£29	Note 1
281	½d. claret CC in lge. pt.o.g. block of four for both shades, some stamps are mint SG7,7a cat. £136	£40	online	£40.00
282	Pine wmk, f.u. set of six values showing in value order A57, 78, 3, 76, 55, 67, the strikes generally pleasant	£60			£45	Note 1
283	Wing margins (like wing collars) have been out of fashion a long, long time, so perhaps it is time for a comeback: on 2 album pages are pine 1d. (2), 2d. (3), 4d. (2), 6d. (2), 1/-; CC ½d. (3), 1d. (6 incl. pr), 2d. (5), 3d. (3), 6d. (3), 1/- (2); all are used save perhaps one 1d.: half a dozen numerals, cat say £400	£50	online	£52.00
284	Mounted and written up on four album pages is an impressive array of the 1870–73 CC issues; all are o.g., pt.o.g. or unused (we can’t check this) comprising ½d. (19), 1d. (7), 2d. (6), 3d. (3), 4d. (2, no red-orange), 6d. (5), 1/- (7), 2/- (10), 5/- (8), with graduations of shade; one ½d. apparently imperf. is so clear in its printing as to be likely to have derived from an imprimatur sheet – this is excluded from cat. over £3700. General appearance is fine with no obvious faults	£450		£340.00
285	Set of six imperf. plate proofs on thick glazed paper (no wmk.); the ½d. to 1/- values in the issued colours of the CC wmk.; each has a CANCELLED ovpt. similar to Samuel D7 but minute (or imagined) differences tempt us to group ½d., 1d., 2d.,; and 4d., 6d., 1/- in separate ranks, a rare and attractive assembly	£300	online		£225	Note 1
286	CC wmk. inverted on ½d. (wing margin), 1d. (wing margin partly trimmed), 2d., 6d., 2/-, all used the first three with legible town numerals, cat. over £200	£58	online		£44	Note 1
287	1/- CC SG13 o.g. lower marginal block of four showing plate no.1 and the first letter of the imprint, the stamps fine, centred west, minor gum crease along the margin, cat £100+	£40	online		£30	Note 1
288	The 1883–97 issue featured used on six colourful album pages whose symmetry we choose not to disturb; you have ½d. (14), 1d. (10 blue, 15 rose/carmine), 2d. (10 rose/deep, 10 grey/ slate), 3d. 15 with shades, 4d. (15, five are early shade), 6d. (8), 1/- (12), 2/- (10), 5/- 85), the final sheet showing 2d. slate (2), 3d., 4d. (3) all with inverted wmk. and one 3d. in its final shade where carmine becomes almost maroon, cat. say £1150	£200
289	1959 BPA cert. impressively signed by Robson Lowe, Pemberton, Leverton, and Ginn, verifies a little known variety of the 1/- CA used where white scratch lines cross the inner frame close to the S of SHILLING – somewhat akin to the $ var. but doesn’t affect the currency!	£40	front	£170.00
290	And here is the $ variety seen on 1/- brown CA used, supported by an even earlier BPA cert. (no. 12828 undated), the 1898 pmk. spares the variety, but only just. SG24a cat. £500	£90	front	£110.00
291	Top mgnl. key-type from plate no.4 shares an album page with blocks of 1d. and 2d. (these presumed o.g.) and a piece cut from an 1892 mourning cover with key-type 1d. and diagonal bisect (to whose presence it is evident that Kingston did not object); also in this lot are a tatty cover to Morant Bay with 1d. key-type; another struck A62, 1892 into Kingston: and a commercial cover bearing key-type 2½d. horiz. strip of four, it’s suggested that late fee/double rate can explain this curious rating	£105	online	£110.00
292	1890–1 2½d. on 4d. the first setting of 12 (in vertical strip) is reconstructed from f.u. stamps on an annotated page (we note Salt Gut and St David among the pmks.); the varied alignment of each strip is nicely shown on lower mgnl trio incorporating most of the instructional imprint; there’s an attractive 1891 cover Santa Cruz to Edinburgh; and the size O E in PENNY (2nd. setting, posn. 12) is shown on another sheet as two singles mint, 1 used, and within two f.u. blocks of four, cat. £480 or so	£150		£480.00
293	The PFNNY and broken K for Y variety is found here in a vert. pr. f.u., both further embellished by JAMAICA EXHIBITION’S POST OFFICE of MY 16 91, cat. £120++	£95	centre	£115.00
294	Some numerals have become separated from their packets and join forces here: A31 on 1d. pine; A36 on 1/- CC, A38 on 4d. pine; A57 on 8 stamps incl. 6d. CC wing mgn. horiz. pr., all these are moderate to good strikes, but 617 at 9 o’clock on 4d. CA is stunning	£30			£23	Note 1
295	On key-type 2d., A47, 49, 77; on 4d. CA A63; on 1d. carmine CA G14, all classy strikes	£28		£21.00
296	A27 to 48, nice quality strikes covering 13 of these 22 numerals on values to 6d. (3), lot incl. 4d. pine	£40		£52.00
297	A50 to 79, 18 out of the 30 numerals, values to 1/-	£38		£54.00
298	F80, 81, 98; G13, 14, 16; 193, 196, 617, 640, 647; B – decent to fine strikes, one ½d., one 6d., but mainly, of course 1d. and 2d. at this period	£34		£26.00
299	S/card with 43 stamps portraying 29 numerals, and a single rather bashful Montego Bay c.d.s. on 6d. pine which dates of course from 1862, the strikes nearly all reasonable to fine, and a pity that 199 on 1d. postal fiscal, which is scarce, is not quite complete	£95		£75.00
300	Along with a used and unused b/w ppc, neither the prototype for the design, the Llandovery Falls 1d. red SG31 etc. is shown on 10 album leaves, there segregated, perhaps with undue zeal, into shades of carmine, deep red, pale red; comprising SPECIMEN, 37 mint, 57 used (a few are multiples), the writing up tells us that SG31, w, x, y are respectively represented as 5 mint, 10 used; 1 mint, 5 used; 2 mint, 9 used (or maybe we have these stats inverted and reversed; pmk. interest within	£140		£105.00
301	Falls 1d. SG31 scarce used block of eight	£3	online	£2.25
302	1d. black & red SG32 complete sheet of 60, folded at top to fit album page, usual split perfs. some toning, and signs of gluing at left hand edge, plate no. 3 in red, 5 in black at lower left and right respectively, cat £270	£70		£54.00
303	For Llandovery Falls red and black on blued paper our thoughts vary between very rare and non-existent, but here is an o.g. example with 1988 RPS cert., so we’ll treat cat. as out of date for lack of movement; two SPECIMEN examples share the page, themselves cat. £130	£140	centre	£160.00
304	Falls 1d. on cover (7), SG31 supplying rates of 1d., 3d., and SG32, rates of 1d. (Daily Gleaner) 2d., 2½d. with CA ½d., and 5d., all commercial and all originating from Kingston	£90			£68	Note 1
305	The Malvern, Jamaica, and Newport, Jamaica early single ring date stamps set out on 3 written-up sheets, on which Malvern is represented by key-type 1d. (3) and 2½d. on 1897 cover, Newport by Falls 1d. red (3) and 1900 ½d. brown p/s card (corner fault	£25		£19.00
306	The body of the Sutcliffe collection of early single ring c.d.s. is offered intact for a successor to follow through. There are 66 pages, with spaces for about 80 post towns and villages of which 36 have yet to be filled – some will be surprisingly easy! The marks are shown on 157 stamps (values to 4d., one 1d. block of eight ) 14 p/s cards, 9 covers, 7 ppc’s; most items are QV period, the later including a few up to the 1920’s	£300		£280.00
307	The QV MCA issues SG46–56 are displayed mint on four album pages, the stamps arrayed there (including the listed shades) being 3d. green (10), 3d. purple (10), 4d. red-brown (4), 4d. black /yellow (5), 4d. red /yellow, (10 incl. mgnl. block), 6d. yellow (6), 6d. lilac (10), 1/- brown (2), 1/- black/green (4), 2/ Venetian red (3), 2/- purple/blue (4), the odd gum crease, but otherwise generally fresh and fine, cat. abt. £1100	£250
308	Arms CA, the used values on two sheets comprising ½d. (8), 1d. (8 with block), 2½d. (8), 5/- (4, one cancelled at Adelphi); ½d. pr. on h/w ppc, 1903 c.d.s., but appears to have gone nowhere; plate no.1 multiples of ½d. pr., 2½d. block; ½d. SER.ET in middle of block of nine; MCA in plate block of 10 with same error, also seen in ½d. pr.; and other o.g. multiples, five with plate no. (different values to 2½d.) and seven blocks to 6d. (the 1d. and 6d. being duplicated. stc abt. £630	£120
309	Arms CA the SPECIMEN set of four and a duplicate 1d. with ULTRAMAR h/stamp (for Portuguese colonies): MCA Arms SPECIMEN set, with duplicate 1d. showing broken ‘M’ cat. say £300	£110			£83	Note 1
310	MCA Arms mounted on 3 sheets holding two complete sets and additional values as follows; bicolour ½d (6 with block), 1d. (3), 2½d. (3), 5/- (2); later colours ½d. (13 with block), 1d. (14, two blocks), 2½d. (8 with block), 6d. (2), cat. abt £390	£95			£72	Note 1
311	Arms issues on cover: ½d single on ppc Halfway Tree to Milan; ½d. on dentist’s stationery to Maine; MCA values 1d. rate from ½d. pr. on ppc to east Anglia, and 1d. carmine Port Antonio to London; 2½d. rate from SG41 (Utd Fruit Co business to Bocass du Tora, Panama); SG42 to NY State, 1d. red, (2) ½d. green to Boston; 4d. rate SG39 (4) Walkers Wood reg’d. to Kingston FE 06 (so maybe CA); ½d. with 1d. red (4) reg’d. to Boston; and SG39 (2), 41 (3) plastered across reg’d. Constant Spring to Massachusetts	£115		£90.00
312	The KEVII issue on 6 pages is represented by SPECIMEN example, 19 mint defins. incl. block of four, top r.h. corner plate block of six, 7 used (with block of four), also 1922 cover to London, 1911 reg’d. cover to Natal 1d. arms added, 1912 reg’d. ½d. wrapper to Birmingham, QV 4d. red/yellow and KGV 3d. also added, so presumed philatelic, cat. from £360, but plainly much more	£180	below	£140.00
313	KGV defins, o.g. multiples except for two 1d. blocks, 2½d., 3d. one each, 6d. (2) – all these f.u. – and 1d., 2d. plate no. singles o.g.; if we haven’t lost count there are 39 single or mgnl. blocks of four, 19 plate no. blocks of four or greater, but the 3d. also sports a lower mgnl. trio while the 2/- falters with just a lower left corner pair. Suggested cat. is around £1200 (the figure swollen by some 20 of either SG63b or c – but one pays more for plate nos. nowadays, so let’s leave it there, you get a 5/- plate block, and another plain, after all	£200		£210.00
314	1912–20 defins., the used singles on 9 pages containing 1d., 1½d., 2d., (18 of each), 2½d. (22), 3d. (24), 4d. (25), 6d. (24), 1/- (25), 2/- (7), 5/- (4 only and none on ox buff) – suggested to cat about £1000 – the odd telegraph cancel on mid range values	£150
315	KGV 4d. defin. o.g. lower left corner block of four said to be on experimental paper autumn/winter 1919/20 after the original manufacturer had gone bust	£25		£48.00
316	KGV SPECIMEN to 5/- mounted on album page, as there are 13, we assume that SG61bs, 63bs, and 90s are all included, but we won’t disturb the page to check, you’ll just have to trust Derek to have done it right, cat taken to be £294	£105	online	£80.00
	JAMAICA – The Sutcliffe WAR TAX Collection – offered mainly in chunk sized bites. The entire collection can be viewed on-line		online
317	The first WAR TAX issue handsomely written up on 15 album pages with enlarged colour reproductions of the varieties included; there are 50 ½d. stamps (8 of these are used) and a 1918 cover with seven ½d.; 30 3d. values (4 used) all sparkling on their page; multiples of the ½d. of course include plate no’s.; no stop, WARISTAMP, other quad varieties, among them a sort of X within one of a 3d. pr.; double ovpt., and inverted ovpt. SG68b and c are the highlights, while SG68d is in a block of six. Theoretical cat. around £600, but with undoubted premium value	£160		£270.00
318	DE 19 16 cover from Cross Roads to a Kingston Box No. parades inverted ovpt. ½d. SG68c as a block of four cat £480 off cover, and you won’t soak them off will you?!	£300	p26	£360.00
319	The second WAR TAX issue is arranged in considerable splendour: this lot contains the ½d. (78m. 7u. with a full pane of 60) and 1½d. 36m., 18u.) and include inserted R in top right marginal plate no. pair; two examples of TAMP on 1½d. SG71b (one of these is in a block with an inverted wmk.); inverted ‘d’ SG71f, both mint and used (we consider this to be over rated compared with other varieties, and inserted R (again in top right marginal plate no. pair), also with comparable appeal, but not status, two 1½d. showing downward shift of ovpt. such that one has only the faintest trace of STAMP at foot, and the second shows STAMP twice. Huge cat.	£1,200		£950.00
320	Just 3 album pages display the 3d. value (SG72 etc.)12m. 5u., amongst them the inserted SG72c (fine m.) and a most interesting r.h. marginal block with inverted ‘S’ this might we suppose be another inserted ‘S’, but maybe it was the printer correcting and replacing loose type, putting back the ‘S’ in yoga fashion	£80		£60.00
321	A Daily Gleaner cover 2.12.16 to London (two SG70; 3.3.18 cover reg’d. to Boston (1½d. 3d. values); and four philatelic covers comprising Huber reg’d. 1917, 3d. pr.; 3d. block reg’d. 1918 Black River to Savannah la Mar; an imaginative air mail env. 1932 to Whitstable, a mere 1½d. aboard; and a Feb 1918 extravaganza reg’d. to England its ½ and 1½d. prs. accompanied by first issue 3d. and ½d. (2) – by the way one of these doesn’t have ovpt inverted, it’s the stamps that are upside-down	£95		£75.00
322	28 pages display the third issue, the ½d. 76m., 7u., 1½d. 80m., 30u., 3d. 50m., 4u., there being full panes of ½d. and 1½d. and a half pane of the 3d.; the major ½d. varieties are ovpt on reverse, ovpt. inverted, while downward shift leaves solely STAMP and STAMP WAR, with attractive lesser varieties; 1½d. highlights are double ovpt.. both m. and u., inverted ovpt., P re-impressed with stop, and there’s much minor variation, and a ludicrous forgery (why should anyone bother?); 3d incl. inverted ovpt., P re-impressed with stop, and a delightful sideways ovpt.	£600		£460.00
323	Third issue set of three in top left corner plate multiples, ½d. horiz. pr. (1½d. Block of six), and 3d. horiz. pr. accompany 10 covers showing this issue used between Aug 1917 and Sep 1919, the last 2d. PSRE with ½d. added: all have commercial flavour – though one has no stop with 1½d. pr. – on two a 1d. defin. forms part of the reg’d. rate to US (in one case it appears to inadvertently overfranked ) so that one finds reg’d. rates of 5½d. and a 4½d. (2) to US 3½d. and 2½d. to UK and local (2) and a local cover franked with ½d. without protest	£120
324	The 4th WAR TAX issue comprises ½d. (12m. incl. plate block of four, another block of four and one with SPECIMEN ovpt., and 4u.); 3d. (108m., 9u.) and there’s the SPECIMEN pair, 3d. multiples incl. blocks of four, eight, 18, a l.h. pane, and the smaller ovpt. (SG77a) bottom left of the r.h. pane (coincidentally as with St Kitts and Virgin I.) Six Groves and Lindley items complete this lot 1920–22, four are reg’d. covers, the 3d. either supplemented with ½d. defins. or War Tax;	£130		£105.00
	Other WAR TAX offerings
325	WAR STAMPS, 18m. (incl. block, 2 pairs) 14 u., among which are 4 no stop varieties (one of which raises the question of whether ‘d’ for ‘p’ co-exists here), 1917 ½d. both mgnl. m. & u. and 1½d. claiming to be SG71w mint and SG74c used – candidly we don’t have full faith in either, but will be delighted if you prove us wrong – so mint cat. getting on for £180, but could be much more	£30
326	Inverted ovpt. on ½d. WAR STAMP SG68c f.u. cat. £120	£30	online	£36.00
327	S in STAMP omitted from the 1½d. WAR STAMP SG71b f.u. at Cross Keys, cat. £160	£44	online	£65.00
	Normal service?? will now be resumed
328	KGVI ½d. blue-green, 1d. scarlet, each in a fine mint strip of three from coils, and each incl. the coil-join resulting in a an alignment shift of which some 80 years previously Perkins Bacon would have been proud	£8		£16.00
329	This is only the second time in 37 years that we have had the repaired chimney variety on KGVI 1/- to offer, SG130a f.u. with postmark well away from the variety, modest cat. £100	£50	online	£54.00
330	One of those delightful yellow TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE (NOT FOR THE MAIL BAG) envelopes of the late 19th century, intended for Special Correspondent, Kingston, adorned with NY Associated Press, Myrtle Bank cachet; no sign of actual use, but wouldn’t you rather use them than email	£80		£60.00
331	B/stamped 1866 at Goshen, Malvern, and Mandeville before touching down at P M Generals Office, Spanish Town is an OHMS (in m/s) cover, we surmise slightly reduced at left bearing authorised bisect 1d. pine blue, cancelled A43 – it functioned as a book post wrapper and is so endorsed, but shouldn’t it have travelled free? Cat. £650+	£200	back	£190.00
332	Wing-mgn. pine on petite 1867 cover from Kingston to Greenock, apparently from the addressee’s aunt, as recorded beneath the flap; a fold across the upper face has added an extra wrinkle to the stamp also maybe making the portrait more life like	£46	online		£35	Note 1
333	1/- dull brown CC, with gentle killer that failed to tie, slumbers on a pleasant pale blue front to London that travelled in Feb 1873 per R M Str. Tasmanian, the cachet of the sender Finke & Co in blue, London receiving marks in red, filing fold low down; a month later a missive franked by 6d. CC pr. made a similar journey, and again the front survives, a little fresher, but less ornamental	£30	online	£23.00
334	The key-type 2d. green (which usually combines with other values to make up a postal rate) features here in an o.g. block of six; on cover to Maine 1894 with an earlier ½d.; and travelling in company with CA 3d. and 1/- on reg’d. cover (the front only surviving) of 1896 per HMS Mohawk to EC Cameron no longer in Tortola, now Commissioner Turks Islands	£70	online	£54.00
335	Delightful front pen-marked OHMS, its 1d. CC killed with A56 at Montego Bay AU 15 79 it reached Hampden next day to no avail, and with two sets of initials added somehow it earned the chamfered corner boxed RETURNED LETTER BRANCH SP 24 79	£50	online	£70.00
336	There can’t be many like this 1893 cover, franked key-type 2½d., which made the two month journey from Kingston to Adelaide, a little roughly opened, the result just visible on the face	£30	online	£23.00
337	Llandovery Falls issue, two covers both with mixed franking; the first 1901 to Rear Admiral Henderson, this forwarded on arrival to Germany and gaining QV 1d. lilac and ½d.; the second to Scotland and re-addressed has additional KEVII ½d. applied. The covers thus demonstrating internal and onward foreign forwarding in the UK. Unusual and both have the appearance of being commercial	£90R
338	The 1912–20 defins. on cover; Groves & Lindley or Montgomery Ward account for 1½d from Montego Bay; 2d. plus 2½d. reg’d. from Port Royal and Duncans (the stamps on this split between front and back); 2½d. plus 1d. reg’d. , and 2½d. plain, both from Kingston; The two mavericks are 4d. top mgnl. trio reg’d. to Mr R Levatino in the Strand (one of our dealer friends could put you right about this) and 2d. x 3 reg’d. from Myrtle Bank to Their Excellencies Sir Claude & Lady Mallet, The British Legation, Panama (that should hammer the price)	£110		£85.00
339	KGV pictorial ½d. and 3d. tied with Cross Roads c.d.s. of JY 10 1922 on reg’d. cover to Baghdad, re-addressed on arrival to 23 B.S.St.. Plain brown sealing strip applied at left, (from customs attention?). An unusual destination for mail from Jamaica	£46R		query
340	Crash cover this 6d. air-letter (1/3 added) posted from London to Half-way Tree 4 SEP 1946 on a Special Direct Flight to Jamaica is annotated in pencil “Salvaged from BSAA Star leader” which crashed off Gambia Sept 7, despite the trauma the letter arrived, looking perky, on Sept 9	£50		£80.00
341	35 covers, 2 fronts, mainly post 1950, a few earlier incl. censors (2), the main theme being slogan cancellations, a few meter marks, instructional marks etc., mixed cond as to be encountered in a general commercial range	£75			£57	Note 1
342	TPO marks, apparently comprising a few earlier c.d.s. and chiefly TPO 1 and TPO 2 (various types) TRD’s on EII 1960’s – 77 covers, 48 pieces, 11 stamps, strikes of mixed legibility, usually complete	£110		£85.00
343	TPO 3 (1 cover only); TPO 4 (10 covers, 5 pieces); TPO 5 (19 covers, 12 pieces), and early and late strikes of the TPO Mandeville – Savanna La Mar; all of the above believed to be EII 1960’s, these TRD’s as ever of mixed legibility	£90			£68	Note 1
344	Interesting group of free-franked covers (most are larger size) all with marks that differ in major or minor respects (from 1960’s two are earlier); 8 originate outside of GPO; 5 bear the numbered pineapple series of franks of the 80’s, of which a comprehensive assembly would make a case study in itself	£60			£45	Note 1
345	Larger covers (9) from Gloucester PA, Labyrinth, New Bashbec, Sandy River, – these reg’d. last is PSRE – Mt Prospect PA, Sangster, Watchwell, (carmine strike) Salt River PA TD, all these 1997 or later – and a 1982 TD of Garrison PO, Up Park Camp, (the large version struck in black on 45c. Scout issue)	£40		£30.00
346	We’ve spotted no duplication of postmarks, and only one philatelic item! in the batch of 64 covers, nearly all large, and one large piece, from around the post towns and villages – the majority date from the 1990’s or after, and none the worse for that: TRD’s seen for Black River, Halfway Tree (2 one on a b/stamp) and Spanish Town	£60		£46.00
	Scarce Commercial TRD Covers
347	This is a marketing test: we have picked out covers commercially used in 1946 from Dias (½d. stamp) and Frome 1½d. stamp) in a way pioneering in June of that year the oval TRD that later becomes so prevalent (though Frome has no inner oval), each cover still bears its original £20 price tag	£20			£15	Note 1
348	Boxed Allman Town probably 12.11.39 to Detroit bearing ½d. and 2½d. Censored even at this early date	£30		£23.00
349	Maybe single offerings will be a welcome relief after the cornucopia of recent lots: this is the Bird’s Hill TRD affectionately feathering New Constitution 1½d. pr. on a cover from J M Nethersole (life at school must have been such fun) to an addressee in Seattle	£10		£10.50
350	Devon Pen 1953 to a 1st lieutenant in Jamaica, New York, franked ½d. and 2d. (2) showing two fine strikes	£18			£14	Note 1
351	New Green 1948 on 1½d. to solicitors in Brown’s Town; and a better strike 1947 on 2d. on piece	£25		£19.00
352	Nine Turns 1947 and Top Hill 1943 each to a separate address in Mandeville	£35		£27.00
353	Free-frank 1935 OHMS reg’d. cover to Postmaster Grand Cayman, reg’d. oval date stamp and Georgetown c.d.s. on face; 1948 Jamaica Railway Official Paid cover DE 24 c.d.s. of TPO 1 on face, same day receiving c.d.s. of Montego Bay on reverse, together with fully dated violet Jamaica Govt. Railway TRD whose ……TS OFF(ICE) legend, may, once interpreted, be noteworthy	£30		£44.00
	Philatelic TRD’s
354	Beckford Town; Blue Mountain; Burnt ground; Burnt Savannah; Bybrook; Cave; Cobbla; Concord; Crawford; Duxes; Ellicress; Evergreen; Green Park; Harmons; Ken Jones; Kilancholly; Malvern; Meadowbridge; Munro College; Preston Hill; Torrington; Warminster: TRD covers 1965–73 (16 of them philatelic); and here’s a 1961 TRD that we didn’t have last year from Goshen!	£60		£48.00
355	From Cole Gate (AP 22 49 m/s); Devon Pen 1953; Duff House 1951; Essex Hall on KGVI ½d. late 40’s?; Johnson MTN 1949	£48		£36.00
356	From Kensington, Kentish; King Weston; Madras; Main Ridge; Palisadoes	£40			£30	Note 1
357	From Parmerscross; Pleasant valley; Rio Grande; Westphalia	£44			£33	Note 1
358	Cole Gate: TRD 1950 on ½d. franked philatelic cover; Univ Coll 2d. (3) on reg’d. comm. cover to New York. These two have reg’d. type oval c.d.s. cancelling the stamps, the c.d.s. blank at top, where REGISTERED has been stamped in, in violet on the 1951 example	£30		£23.00
359	Memorabilia: photographs (we’d say ± 1970’s of Post Offices at Bull Bay; Discovery Bay; GPO Kingston; Lacovia; Liguanea; Manchitreal; Milk River; Montego Bay No. 2; Williamsfield; finally cover of 29.1.74 commemorating Tom Foster’s visit to Jamaica Express reg’d. and addressed to him personally in Kingston	£6		£37.00
	Jamaican Judicial Matters
360	Certificate for payment of Probate Duty on 15th Sept 1914, a fiscal cancellation (GB Honi soit…” type) of that date embossed in red on this GB type 2/- grey-blue fiscal die stamp optd. JAMAICA, a clean document	£30		£23.00
361	Similarly cancelled grey fiscal die stamps of 6d. and 4/- applied to the reverse of a Bill of Exchange 14 Aug 1900 for £300, the fiscals being 1899 issue, bill and stamps both fine	£40		£65.00
362	The rarest form of red embossed cancellation has Jamaica legend in place of “Honi soit (8c.)” here it is seen cancelling embossed fiscal 1/- grey-blue attached to policy of marine insurance dated 17 May 1912 – it is believed that this is the sole recorded such example, all other surviving policies showing the “Honi soit”, cancel	£110			£83	Note 1
363	QV and KGV Judicial issues on five court documents (sound condition) and two fragmentary pieces which between them use QV CA 3d., 6d., 1/-, 2/-, arms 5/-, KGV 3d., 6d., 1/-, 2/-, 5/- the two monarchs in combination on one document of May 1914	£56
364	KGVI Revenues, all used and hole-punched, the singles being 1/-, 2/-, 4/-, 5/-, 8/6 (original colours) and change of colour 2/-, while the higher values, 10/- and £1 (TWO – what a waste) appear together on a 1940 court document	£90	centre	£200.00
365	EII. Revenue sterling issues, the used being 2/- and 6/6, the mint; 1/-mgnl., 2/- corner, 4/- (vert, strip of three), horiz, prs. of 6/6, vert pr. 8/6, 10/- vert. pr. with lower mgn. all fine	£40	centre	£105.00
366	Displayed on album page are o.g. singles of EII JUDICIAL 5, 10, 20, 40, 50, 65, 85c., and $1, and a hugely rare cover that travelled from Mandeville by air to Pennsylvania by means of a 20c JUDICIAL stamp	£100	centre
367	Map of the Island which appeared in The Gentleman’s Magazine in April 1792, but is evidently a reproduction of Gibson’s earlier map of Anno ???? The map shows all 15 parishes established by 1677, but not the parishes of Westmoreland, Portland, and Hanover, nor the change from Port Royal Parish to Kingston	£50			£38	Note 1
368	This stamp booklet SG SB3 is feeling all of its 86½ years: it has used up 8 of its ½d., 10 of its 1d. stamps, has more wrinkles than a human of like years, its ads tell of balmier days, but if still in its prime this rare souvenir would have tested and might have stretched SG cat. £850	£70		£54.00
	LEEWARD ISLANDS
369	QV 4d. (one lightly thinned perf.), a beautiful example of use in 1890 (Antigua DE 5 at 1o’clock) usage in the first few weeks of issue is incredibly difficult to find	£15		£12.50
370	Having fussed over our DE 5 on QV 4d., let’s enthuse about m/s date of 12.12.90 on QV ½d. – remember that these dates should consistently be seven days apart to catch the weekly sailing – does this help you to decide whether the date belongs to a village in St Kitts or Antigua? Stamp has deficient SE corner, so we’ll knock a £ off the estimate	£39	centre
371	1892 De La Rue orange-red embossed 2d. die proof, as used on the PSRE, fine and fresh, and scarce	£200R	front	£260.00
372	QV 5/- SG8 used respectably in Antigua, cat. £250	£65	centre	£75.00
373	Sexagenary 2½, five singles, fine lge. pt.o.g. all genuine for playtime familiarisation with the handstamp	£15	online		£70 with Lot 374	No
374	Sexagenary to 1/- (no 4d.) lge. pt.o.g. all genuine, ex Jaffe, 6d. with light fox spots on reverse, others fresh and fine, cat. over £250	£80	online		see Lot 373
375	Sexagenary 5/- SG16 – we could make tiny criticisms of the reverse, it’s fresh and fine on face, cat. £450, genuine, ex Jaffe	£110		£85.00
376	The rich variety of aberrations to be found on the 1902 surcharges is seen here in profusion on 35 stamps (presumed to be mint or o.g. incl. 4 blocks and a pr. with all three values represented, and extensive annotation, cat. £168 (if you treat as normal, which we don’t)	£80
377	A very light and gentle St Kitts killer leaves one free to enjoy the scarce wide A variety on 2½d. blue SG40a, cat. £180	£56	centre	£80.00
378	KGV 10/- green and red/green, large pt.o.g. SG79a (break in scroll, stated by vendor to be after repair, then it broke again), fine an fresh, cat. £250	£90		£70.00
379	The KGV Script set of seven Die I f.u., while it is obvious most were removed from a philatelic cover of MR 21 33, you can just make out that the 1d. was used at Sandy Point SG81–7, cat. £200	£70	online		£55	Note 1
380	KGV 3d. deep ultramarine, and Script Die I ½d. and 1d., all fine o.g. or mint form a useful and quite difficult trio, SG68a, 82, 83, cat. £117	£39	online		£30	Note 1
381	From an original mint sheet of 120 (well they all were once) 35 stamps have been removed with all plate no’s. of course, but what remains is still a handsome irregular block of 3d. SG51 with lots of gutter mgn. and potential for eloquent sub-division, cat. nearly £150	£40
382	3d. lower mgnl. fine mint with plate no. 16 (from r.h. side with double jubilee lines	£20	online	£15.00
383	We don’t count minor discolouration on reverse of KGV Script 3/- when it’s cancelled at Tortola – presumed philatelic, but who cares	£20	online	£20.00
384	Minor varieties as follows: KGV 1/- on black/olive SG54b (we have reservations about fuzziness of King’s head, to which attention is drawn); Script 2d. SG65 (a grey bar sits on the W of Leeward: KGVI 2d. grey, with name and duty tablet suitably dropped, all fine pt. o.g.	£12			£70 with Lots 388 & 392	No
385	But this is a major variety which hums and dings; KGVI 1d. blue-green with D I flaw, SG100a v.f.u. cat. £180	£70	online	£54.00
386	KGVI ½d. emerald, coil strips of three and four, former with streaky wartime gum, latter white and pure, both have coil-join, fine o.g. or mint	£12		£110.00
387	KGVI 1d. scarlet mint/ o.g. strips of four from coils, one each of Die A and B, the second with coil-join, both fine, cat. £47 as normal	£28		£50.00
388	KGVI 1/-, the three listed shades SG110/ba/bb, the first with streaky wartime gum, second lower mgnl., all fine o.g., cat. over £150	£50	online		see Lot 384
389	KGVI 5/- mint, 10/- o.g., SG112, 113b, cat. £198, both fine	£60	online
390	52 stamps QV to KGV with a good apparently unduplicated range of maritime, island, and village marks	£80		£110.00
391	Light on ½d., 1½d., otherwise fairly evenly spread among the values are 59 ¼d. to 2/- stamps used in various places – unchecked for variety (at this end anyway)	£30	online	£23.00
392	QV to 1/- f.u. Antigua, Dominica, or St Kitts; sexagenary ½d., 1d., 2½d., 1d. on 6d., KEVII ¼d., KGV MCA ¼d., ½d., with script SG74, all m. or o.g., SG69 f.u., cat. well over £140	£37			see Lot 384
393	1d. and 2½d. sexagenary adhesives (2 of each) on a reg’d. front (correct double rate) addressed to San Francisco, from the Postmaster, St Kitts, has the appearance of being commercial, we are inclined to think so, tied with two light (one crisp, one ghostly) strikes of St Kitts C/SP 26 02 duplex	£50R	online	£52.00
394	And here is an almost complete cover (minus flap and obviously trimmed) bearing Sexagenary ½d., 1d., 1/- and 5/-, address excised, cancelled with barred A09 and Nevis A/DE 8 97 c.d.s.; supporting BPA cert no. 58616 states genuine but cancelled by favour. Clean. Stamps cat. £980+ and offered at	£220R	back	£340.00
395	Make what you will of a Government House Leeward I. envelope which appears never to have been opened, its Leeward 1d., 3d., 6d. values cancelled in black by end of ruler (maritime ex St Thomas) and landed at St John’s FE 27 19 for registration on its way to Newcastle upon Tyne	£30	online	£31.00
396	The long fiscal types QV 2/- dull purple and red; KEVII 6d. purple and green, each with the MCA perfin sideways (twice in alignment on 6d.) – the QV has other small pinholes and minor creasing, earned no doubt while attached to the document on which it paid tax. The MCA (and MCB) perfins are seldom seen, and usually found on QV (or some KEVII) values	£18	online	£36.00
	MONTSERRAT
397	Line-perf. 4d blue CC SG5 with full, confident A08 killer; at cat. £40 and with some shorter perf at rt. we possibly shouldn’t offer alone; then we think Antigua 2½d. red-brown, CA (cat. £55) we see 10 of them for every one of these, and you don’t often get this fine, rich colour	£10	online	£12.00
398	Side by side on s/card Leeward Is. QV 1897 ½d. and 6d., each cancelled MONTSERRAT; the bold clear sexagenary ovpt. on the ½d. is forged – we’ve scrutinised the 6d. and conclude it’s OK – as you know Montserrat comes just after Virgin I. in ungettability, cat three figures plus	£70	centre
399	KGV Script 1d. carmine, and 1½d. red-brown, both perf. SPECIMEN, the backs are toned	£8	online	£6.00
400	KGV Script 1½d. red-brown imperf. wmk’d. single with full gum and even mgns. all round	£120	centre	£130.00
401	KGV Script 4d. horiz SPECIMEN pr. perhaps unmounted – one or two imperfections of lettering will make these plateable	£26	centre	£31.00
402	KGV 4/- black and scarlet, a mint (but toned) horiz. pr. optd. SPECIMEN, uncommon in multiples	£15	centre	£22.00
403	1935 SJ perf. SPECIMEN set, fine mint, SG94s–97s, cat. £95	£42		£33.00
404	A nice well-positioned ST JOHNS c.d.s. on KGVI 2½d. – we read the date as AU 8 1938 which could be when issue first got released in the village in this laid-back leisurely island	£5	online	£9.00
405	A fascinating s/card – make of it what you will: an ordinary QV ½d.; QV 1d. fiscal rose-lake unused; 1½d. WAR STAMP top plate no. pr.; QV 4d. CC two f.u. in different shades, one comb, one line perf.; SPECIMEN 2½d. SG71s; badge 1d. (2), KGV ½d. red-brown with maritime cancels; and two big question marks – badge 2d. grey and brown “B02” killer cancel; SJ 2½d. dbl.ring BATHURST (Gambia)	£48			£38	Note 1
406	Commercially used cover franked Leewards QV 1d.(2) and Montserrat ½d. to Chicago, all tied by Montserrat c.d.s. A/FE 21 99, receipt cancel on reverse	£26	online	£44.00
407	Nicely cancelled on its face with two MONTSERRAT A MR 17 1908 c.d.s. this attractive 2½d. p/s envelope was wafted to Hildesheim, and has been carefully preserved	£40	online	£44.00
408	1914 reg’d. cover franked with 6d. SG29a, unfortunately the chalk-surfaced version, cancelled MONTSERRAT c.d.s of 7/4/14 to Boston	£16	online	£20.00
409	A Tillman cover reg’d. from Montserrat to Port Washington has its 12 WAR STAMPS aligned in military formation as if conducting a Victory Parade	£20	online	£15.00
410	6d. SG77 on normal reg’d. duty to Chicago MR 13 25 with the postal markings to support the service it has done	£24	online	£18.00
411	1/- SG44 on cover of FE 16 29 to New Jersey – posthumous, but has life in it still. e stamp is cat. £45 off cover	£46	online
412	A flight that never was, June 20 1930 cover with 1/- and ½d., cacheted FIRST AIR MAIL, but NYBRA never called. Took over 7 months to get to St Kitts and St Lucia and back	£40	online	£30.00
413	As most philatelic covers don’t have room for 8 SJ stamps we suppose that 2 full sets in vert. pairs will have some appeal. This reg’d. cover went NO 3 35 to The Broadway Stamp Co, NY. No varieties found, but we haven’t checked for fly-specks	£56	online	£75.00
414	Roger Wells FDC 2/4/38 reg’d. from Montserrat with the short set to 3d. Need we say more?	£20	online	£15.00
415	A rare set of 8 b/w ppc’s featuring Montserrat (Photo Tex, Made in Canada) – these were carried by the Lady boats on trips to the Caribbean, have been detached from the booklet in which they were supplied, but are fresh and fine unused	£60		£70.00
416	If the Circle’s own publications are too pricey for you, here are some notes on Montserrat postmarks derived from Stan Durnin – dated but still useful	£3		£3.75
	NEVIS
417	Wrapper to London on Wesleyan Mission business; the endorsement shows it was sent from Nevis Oct 13 1846, which you certainly wouldn’t gather from a red Nevis b/stamp of minimal visibility; 1/- rated it reached London on Guy Fawkes day – ex Jaffe	£60	online
418	A valuable small collection of Nevis (21m., 18u., 1 forgery) with 1862 1d. (2), 4d., 6d. (2), 1/- (2), some on bluish paper, recess 1d. (3), 4d. (2), 1/- (2), litho 1d. (4), 4d., 6d., 1/- (2), the 17 key types incl. as unused or pt. o.g. both 1d. lilac-mauve, 2½d. red-brown, 1/- pale violet, good to fine, est. cat. £2,500	£400			£320	Note 1
419	Top rt. corner plate proofs in black of the Nissen & Parker 1d., 6d., and 1/- values on surfaced paper	£105	centre
420	On slightly thicker paper comes the companion 4d. value, also from top rt. but this rejected by pen-lines across the design, possibly because faces are blurred in the printing – an interesting progressive proof	£40	centre	£30.00
421	Imperf. plate proof of Medicinal Spring 4d. lavender grey; 6d. in gold ochre; 1/- in crimson lake, each on the usual medium card	£60	centre	£48.00
422	Difficult as it is to know when one is looking at preparatory or posthumous proofs, we take the 1d. maroon to be early, and the 1d. green horiz. pr. to be later. Both of course imperf. The first with modest, the second with large mgns.	£40	centre	£65.00
423	Complete sheet of the 4d. value in greyish-blue on heavy cartridge paper, the finished product lacking the clarity of the issued stamps. Small crease lower right well clear of the printing	£90	online	£180.00
424	Litho 1d., the no. 1 retouch (always the most prominent of these varieties), cracked gum Cat. £140	£48	centre	£36.00
425	The scarce 6d. green SG32 pt. o.g., cat. £400, just a small hint of tardiness top rt., which with a stamp of lower value we possibly wouldn’t even mention	£80	front		£63	Note 1
426	m/s dated 20/1/82 this is clearly one of those items handled by the PC (and mule?) on his rounds of the island: what makes it exciting is that this is REVENUE key-type 1d. lilac-mauve So what if not authorised for postal use, it served the function and is far scarcer than SG F6 fine condition	£25	centre	£46.00
427	Local revenue ovpt. on litho 1d. red, it is misaligned(to show parts of adjoining ovpts.), but justified horizontally, to show type-setting rather than h/stamp (as often seen), m/s date 27/2/79 in a style not inconsistent with postal usage. Keeping company is St Kitts 1/- olive-green SG R6 with light uprt. killer cancel, and here, by contrast we suggest, but can’t demonstrate cancellation by favour	£20	online	£38.00
428	The very scarce local “Revenue” ovpt. on litho 4d. orange, a key value for the fiscal collector. Unused (we don’t expect to find gum), but very fresh	£30	centre	£65.00
429	1905 ppc to Oxford – a stamp has vanished from the address side (we’re not sure about this) for once it matters not at all, on the face there’s a three quarter view by Jose Anjo of the ruins of the house where Lord Nelson was married, and a St Kitts 1d. bottom rt. to give perfect balance	£18	online	£16.50
	SAINT CHRISTOPHER
430	How amazing that a GB6d. on MY 28 1859 cover cancelled A12 should also display on its face a London DB c.d.s. in red. This small cover to Macclesfield is rather soiled and was roughly opened, also (if it matters) the stamp has straight-edge at left, yet it’s a very scarce and wholesome item with a quality St Kitts dbl.-arc b/stamp	£280	online
431	In deference to Michael Medlicott we shall categorise our Antigua 1d. pen-cancelled 19/3/90 under St Kitts with this caution; Antigua villages and St Kitts villages cancelled in a similar style. We can only assert with confidence that it is neither St Philip nor Dieppe Bay: After much comparison we put nothing more positive forward	£40	centre	£30.00
432	1d. CA SG12 – a village m/s date has been gently removed from the face, and an array of dots replaces it, an amazing item as it still looks fine	£15	online		£12	Note 1
433	Range of 7 dated village cancels 1879 to 89, stc. over £100	£44
434	ONE PENNY/6d. SG24, 4 m., 3 u.; a previous owner’s note for the m. “Partial Double Surcharges” (Kiss Prints) won’t get us excited, though we will acknowledge a slight trampoline effect, nice condition anyway	£40
435	1882–90 set of two SPECIMEN 6d. and 1/-, both large pt.o.g., cat. £110	£48
436	1d. rose SG A3 with village m/s cancel 22/7/86 – scarce usage	£15	online	£12.00
437	6d. postal fiscal SG R3 horiz. pr. used on piece cut from a mourning cover, cat. £100	£35	online	£42.00
438	Blue is the right colour for our OHMS endorsed 1884 cover to a village near Bath, as it laments its rough opening – almost opened out – loss of a bite at top and a stamp of unknown denomination dropped off, or removed. The good news is the 4d, blue horiz. pr. nestling against 6d. green which have survived – covers of this vintage are just s-o-o-o-o scarce	£60		£70.00
	SAINT KITTS
439	We can find no positional imperfections in the SPECIMEN ovpts. on SG1–7s, they’re all neat and tidy as to be expected	£30	centre		£24	Note 1
440	Leeward KGV 5/- MCA lightly struck with the decorative cachet of the Administrator of St Christopher & Nevis	£8		£6.50
441	Sandy Point c.d.s. of JU 1 28, struck on each of four 2½d. SG44 in a block franking a reg’d. cover on a piece not quite large enough for us to identify the dealer recipient – anyway a fresh and sprightly item	£16	online	£12.00
442	Leeward 1d. and 1½d. hinged together sharing a badly distorted (and not easy to read) example of the very scarce DIEPPE BAY TRD dated 9 NOV 29	£40	centre	£30.00
443	About 60 stamps, multiples or pieces, all used, QV to early E.II decorate two larger sized s/cards, with St Kitts, Nevis or Anguilla markings, including village, and some quite useful maritime or receiving marks overseas (but one Barbados Posted on Board could belong to any island	£42			£30	Note 1
444	The front of a reg’d. cover JA 30 13 to Wales neatly franked with duplex cancelled badge 6d. (cat. £25), the reg’n. label printed in handsome maroon	£20	online	£15.00
445	Four covers to NY or elsewhere in the US 1914–30, three have Leeward issues (one in combination with 1d. violet, rates are 2½d., 1½d., or 1d.), and wiser heads than ours have ascribed three of these to either CA (Cayon) or SP (Sandy Point) which you may be able to check by reference to the A12 of the duplex, (but don’t expect crisp legibility)	£75
446	Complete central DB code c.d.s. on script 1½d. red on tiny piece joins forces with reg’d. OHMS cover franked 6d. to carry it to Massachusetts in 1920, minor commercial fatigue	£20	online	£15.00
447	A censored cover of 23 DE 40 bearing a 3d. SG73 to New Jersey, full dbl. circle ST KITTS /Crown/….3, the word CENSOR missing, underinked?	£28		£21.00
448	This 4 NO 43 cover bears a pr. of 6d. (must be SG74), ½d. and 1d. and flew to California, sealing strip at left has the inscription EXAMINED BY 14670, cat. £44.50 for stamps	£24			£19	Note 1
449	Another censored cover, a little earlier, 8 OC 40 with 3d. adhesive and censor mark, this patchy, and its number just off the cover, sent by Emile S Delisle to The Quaker Oats Co. in NY	£24		£18.00
	SAINT LUCIA
450	Scarce incoming EL JU 12 1823 in which you’ll find a trading account from Findlay Bannatyne supplemented in French by a careful update of 5 June from Henry Pontiguy (who seems to have flitted between Paris and London) ending with a 12 June postscript detailing receipt of 3 fresh shipments from St Lucia in the last 7 days; a clean item of character which travelled on the HM Packet Princess Elizabeth, rated 2/2	£80	online	£80.00
451	6d. emerald-green SG8, a used example whose centring one has to admire – cat. £100	£52	online	£65.00
452	The unissued Half Penny (on 6d. emerald), a fresh mint example showing wmk. reversed SG9x, cat. £100	£40		£30.00
453	An exciting written up album page to which are attached (well two are free floating) QV stamps with French maritime marks as annotated: there’s SG1 with Martinique’s blue grill of dots; of the 4d. yellow two are SG27 and two are F16 (there’s one F28 too) and DLR key-type comprise ½d., 2½d., 3d., 4d. (3) – high cat. and huge appeal. Strikes mainly good to fine	£150		£220.00
454	Continuing the French flavour, but adding Le Havre arrivals, and moving to Barbados, Ebony Ruler, and Antigua arrival we have 18 KEVII ½d., 1d., 2½d. values all with a maritime theme	£35		£27.00
455	A useful and interesting range of village, maritime, and fiscal markings, 30 items QV to KGV	£48			£36	Note 1
456	1902–03 SPECIMEN ovpts on SG58s/62s, all fine mint, the 2½d. is r.h. marginal, cat £100	£48
457	1902 2d. green and brown ovpt’d. vertically with SPECIMEN, SG63s, very minor cease visible on reverse, but for all that it’s apparently u.m., cat £60	£24
458	KGV Script 3d. SG100 and 100a mgnl. mint, respectively with lower plate no. 16, and upper plate no. 21 : while SG100 can be attributed to four different plates, and 100a to plate 21 only, the two plate no’s here are of about equal scarcity	£30		£23.00
459	The KGV script 1d. rose-carmine so a complete l.h. pane is quite something; plate no. 10 is at base only, single jubilee line all round, and each side of gutter; a few split perfs. show this pane has not had an easy life, but cat £720, it must be worth	£180	online
460	1935 SJ perf. SPECIMEN set, fine mint, SG109s–112s, cat. £90	£38		£30.00
461	1d. and 2d. dues fine unused, each with wide font “No”. being nos. 21540 and 13260 each quite high in the numeral series – the 2d. a very tall example, SG D1b, D2b, cat. £53	£20	centre	£15.00
462	Arrayed on album leaves or stock pages are 134 stamps, a Myerscough front (with ½d. (9) a QV wrapper and Cutress cover 1936 (Barbados maritime). There are QV and KGVI 5/- values mint, and a large variety of village and other cancellations with French maritime, Paquebot, foreign arrival etc., but the daddy of them all GRAVESEND SHIP LETTER on KEVII ½d. horiz. pr.	£180	online	£140.00
463	Straight-edge at foot, no gum, yet a lovely fresh example of 1876 6d. mauve ovpt’d. SPECIMEN in 2mm capitals – rare	£40	centre	£80.00
464	Detached triangle flaw on QV 2½d. plainly seen within JY 2 89 c.d.s. – shallow thin at SW does not materially detract from a handsome looking stamp SG33a. cat. £160	£50	front		£38	Note 1
465	KGV script 2/6 SG104s and you’ll only need another 4 values for the full SPECIMEN set	£12	online
466	Mint strips of four from coils, being KGVI ½d. perf. 12½; 1d. both perfs., each incl. coil join, SG128a, 129, 129a, all fine	£20		£15.00
467	KGVI 1c., 2c. perf. 12½ each in a strip of four from coils with coil-join, fine	£14			£11	Note 1
468	It’s artificial, but of obvious rarity, an imprint pair of the 1948 SW £1 SG143 beautifully used at Soufriere 2FE 49	£60
469	Though we try to be suspicious of postal fiscals here are 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d. we pass as v.g. to f.u. F1, F14, F16, F19, cat. £86	£29	online	£26.00
470	Front bearing two ovpt’d. and an ovpt’d. bisect, SG53, SG54, and SG55, all tied with light A11 killer, used in Castries, St Lucia c.d.s. C AU 9 92 also graces the front, to one E G Bernhardt Esq. (this scribbled over), cat. for loose stamps £80	£56	back	£54.00
471	Beneath a strong St Lucia/C/JU 15/92 c.d.s. trying to tie a bisect to small piece, lies a faint JA 3?/92 part cancel. So does that make the no fraction bar a fake?, You’d think so, yet funnily enough the surcharge looks healthy to us, so we offer “as is” at half its normal figure	£24	online	£18.00
	SAINT VINCENT
472	On 1d. rose at 11 o’clock a rather pleasant RABACCA NO 22 86	£6	online	£8.50
473	BU(Buccament) a sumptuous strike AU 24 80 at 2 o’clock on 1d. olive-green	£65	front	£65.00
474	ST MR 2 81 in exactly the right position decorates 1d. olive-green SG29, the stamp trimmed but not blighted	£15		£14.00
475	A starter kit of cancellations on QV 1d. (10 incl. pr.) showing moderate Barrouallie (2), Chateaubelair (2), good quality Georgetown, and 3 others, plus good Layou on 2½d. SG97	£14		£14.50
476	QV 5/- SG32 a used example quite gently brushed with two light killer cancels, a soft shade evenly framed by large mgns. at top left and rt. – fine appearance notwithstanding a small thin at lower left, cat. £700	£180	centre	£140.00
477	Can you believe that here is another used example of SG32 5/-, a recurrent feature is the cancel is puzzling – three intersecting strikes of A10 killer, none unduly heavy in itself, when you look closely at this stamp (cat. £1,500) is splendidly centred and available at	£150		£200.00
478	ONE PENNY on 6d. bright green SG34, centred SW, excellent colour, unused, an interesting example because the wmk. is slightly tilted, such that the paper would have been a trifle misaligned at time of printing	£80		£150.00
479	Personally we like our wmk. varieties to be visible with the naked eye; others of you out there will be content to own them – QV perf. 12 1/- wmk. reversed SG45x pt. o.g. cat. £350 Interested?	£110	centre
480	QV DLR issues (12) generally fine pt.o.g. – 2½d surch. milky blue and blue, 2½d. plain, 4d. purple-brown, chrome-yellow, 5d. on 4d., 5d. on 6d., (all shades), 5d. plain, 6d., cat. abt. £235	£48	online		£56 with Lot 483	No
481	PML type II local SPECIMEN – just room for it on QV perf. 14 ½d. green, (some letters under-inked makes it rarer perhaps?)	£70	centre
482	We reckon with DLR 1d. red, you hardly meet the same shade twice, as shown by this assembly of 21 ex Jaffe: we note five in the bottom row with that curious doubling of name and duty etc., also bashful Parcel Post and tall A10 killer	£20		£15.00
483	PML type XV SPECIMEN on 1897 3d. on 1d. together with a mint block of four of SG63, the single in a slightly rosier hue than the block – ex Jaffe	£30	centre		see Lot 480
484	Printed by DLR from the transferred PB plates, horiz. pr. of the 1/- value in black on unwatermarked cartridge paper, almost touched bottom left, otherwise even mgns. all round; although at this time DLR had probably finished with recess printing, they made a fine job of this attractive item	£120	front	£95.00
485	Vert. plate proof pair in black for 1d. value of the KGV defin. issue – these were to be DLR’s own design, of course – large even margins and fine	£120	centre	£95.00
486	In Dec. 1912 somebody spent £2 to produce this block of twenty, SG91, used at Kingstown, that must have been some Xmas present! The stamps cat at £840. The block assumed unique	£320		£240.00
487	Yet it is trumped by our similarly used block of nine of KEVII 57 – SG92, even classier in appearance, and we’d suppose just as rare, but cat. only £450	£300		£230.00
488	KGV MCA 1d. lightly used with forged local WAR STAMP ovpt. calculated to puzzle a novice collector, well some of them	£3
489	WAR STAMPS being first, second, and fourth settings, with double (unused) and comma SG122a and b), DLR issues SPECIMEN and four shades, all save the double mint or o.g. stc. cat over £240, ex Jaffe	£70			£50	Note 1
490	Third setting 1d. WAR STAMP SG123 handsome o.g. example, cat. £90	£48	centre
491	1d. WAR STAMP SG122/b block of nine, chiefly mint, the comma version appearing in the centre column; l.h. column has some staining on reverse, and you may prefer to detach it, because the other six are fine and the lower two show a lovely bounce, but not the double that was claimed	£40	centre		£30	Note 1
492	KGV £1 script perf. SPECIMEN SG141s	£20	online	£22.00
493	With no guarantee that you will share the enthusiasm, the legend on this part page holding 1946 Victory and E.II Coron. all m. points to 3½d., reading interest variety of King’s face – ex Jaffe	£2			£30 with Lot 494	No
494	Album page ex Jaffe featuring two mint sets of the 1973 surcharges on the 1970 birds issue, and a third mint example of $10 on $1 showing light but crisp double surcharge behind, all fine	£40			see Lot 493
495	We’d say there are 650 used low values crammed onto a s/card, KGVI to late ‘40’s, KGV, and even a few QV 1d., just the sort of lot through which to trawl in hope of finding pmks. even if they don’t arrive	£30		£23.00
496	When all the dust has settled we may all find (it’s the 25 year rule for uplift) that there are fewer sets of Format progressive proofs than we all thought – there’s lots to initial on them. after all: these four are of course for the Nov. ’84 release of the Locomotive issue featuring 5, 40, 75c. and $2.50 values	£36		£27.00
497	QV 2d. PSRE size F franked SG62 5d. sepia paying the double rate to Germany, tied with Kingstown c.d.s. A/DE 10 97, appropriately receipt cancelled on arrival in Hanover, unopened which tells you all you need to know, still attractive	£48	online	£36.00
498	1908 cover to Hull and re-addressed, a modest looking cover, franked with QV key-type 1d. and nothing like as common as you’d think	£25	online
499	An R.L. sale of St Vincent 28 Jun ’50, described by Marcus Samuel (no PR but some realisations recorded) – a bit careworn – scattered highlights – and the much more impressive HRH ST Vincent sale of 23 Nov ’64, with PR	£30		£23.00
	TOBAGO
500	1775 letter hand-delivered, (no postal markings) to that isolated northern sea-battered village of Castara, apparently forwarded 6 months later to Madeira, the usual sorry tale of a pointless law suit, but what scarce local usage	£150	online	£300.00
501	In a clearly written, but careworn 1791 letter to North Britain, H.B. Gordon washes his hands of an executorship and the small legacy that goes with it – scanty and enigmatic postal markings with nothing to show that Tobago was in French hands at the time	£70		£105.00
502	Fragile 1837 outer wrapper to Glasgow, rated 2/5 with additional ½d. – there’s a vivid Tobago Fleuron across the flap	£60		£130.00
503	Travelling per Ship Forester on 10th June 1844, this EL reaches London on 25 JY, collecting rating of 8d., and red FALMOUTH SHIP LETTER en route	£90		£105.00
504	1/- rated packet letters of 1846 and 1849, to London and Edinburgh, the Tobago dbl.-arc on the second much classier than on the first	£80	online	£60.00
505	The Crown Circle Paid at Tobago is so elusive that even a strike as weak as this deserves respect – it’s on the face of a careworn mourning wrapper 1861 to London, 6d. credited and a light but very decent Tobago dbl-arc b/stamp	£80	online	£160.00
506	GB 4d. of rich colour and though the perfs are a bit trimmed at left you could hardly improve on centring or A14 killer strike. SG Z2 cat. £375	£140		£170.00
507	The QV CC issue to 5/-, both m. and u, with duplicate 6d. u. (one with inverted wmk.) and and 1/- m. (one used of fresh appearance and once had a cert.), both 5/- values are badly toned, so cat. nearly £3000 is viewed with caution	£300			£230	Note2
508	SG3w fine mint example, cat. £100	£36		£46.00
509	How could Scarborough PO tell whether a 5/- slate was CC or CA (unless they rejected any for postal use after 1883, which we don’t believe they did). So we give high marks to the obviously healthy c.d.s. of FE 18 97 (inverted code A) on 5/- CA – which contrasts beautifully with all the forged ones you’ve met in the past – seductive and rare	£90		£70.00
510	1880 CC set to 1/- both m. and u. with extra used in the shape of 1d. vert. bisect on a rather bland piece, 4d. (2 of course, but one very bright in colour), and a more welcome duplicate 6d., cat. say £1670	£220	online		£160	Note2
511	4d. SG10b with malformed CE, f.u. and scarce	£100R	front	£120.00
512	Graced by a long tail 2 at top right, here is an o.g. block of four of 2½d. on 6d. SG13 (John Marriot hunted such in vain for many years) On the same page three more singles all good to f.u. cat. £550 with a significant plus	£250	online		£190	Note2
513	20 more singles of 2½d. on 6d. making it look common (which it isn’t); the 14 m. incl. 4 with long tail var. the 6 used incl. a rare pair The two pages are annotated and maybe you’ll have some thoughts about plating	£280			£210	Note2
514	The CA issues with shades and colour changes, both m. and u. We don’t much like the used 6d. SG19, but the add-ons for these four pages include mint blocks of 12 of the earlier ½d. and 1d, duly plated, 1/- orange-brown plate block from SE, and a spare 4d. green. Cat. about £1800	£240		£180.00
515	1/- orange-brown with ‘slash flaw’ SG24ca, pt.o.g. , pulled perf. at top left, and miniscule paper adhesion	£42R	centre	£44.00
516	A page to have you juicing contains the SPECIMEN trio stuck to card (we express no view about this), the 1/- orange-brown (2 singles and a scarce used pair), and the distorted CE variety (3 m. examples) – one of these being a horiz. plate strip of three, and another with the rare “squashed fly” flaw between S and T of POSTAGE	£180	online	£180.00
517	½d. on 2½d., ½d. on 6d. stone (SG26,27 etc.) respectively 21m., 3 u., incl. block of six, and 12 m. and 2 u., incl. block of four, wide spacing and other annotated variance amongst these with illustration of a block of thirty six, (we know where this resides) not in these pages	£50		£38.00
518	½d. on 6d. orange-brown SG28, 28a (4 m., 2 u.) the wide space var. being f.u., with these there are 7 surcharge forgeries, 4 m., 3 u., one of these on 4d. grey, and one of the mint a “double” surcharge	£250		£190.00
519	1d. on 2½d. SG29, 29a, 13 m., incl. vert. strip of three, one with wide spacing, 5 u.	£150			£115	Note2
520	½d. on 4d. SG30, 30a, 3 m. incl. distorted CE, 2 u., all look fine, cat. about £450	£110			£85	Note2
521	½d. on 4d. SG30a, malformed CE var. lge.pt.o.g.	£95R	front	£100.00
522	2½d. on 4d. SG31, 31a, the 10 m. incl. distorted CE in block of four and in vert. pr., the 10 used incl. a rare block of six, cat about £490+	£120	online	£120.00
523	½d. on 4d. fiscal, 21 m., 11 u., a study on two pages which includes the distorted CE variety m., multiples and numerous “spaced” examples – huge cat. but we believe this stamp is vastly overvalued	£200		£150.00
524	Slash flaw and Slash flaw repaired; the flaw showing on ½d. u., 1d. m. (and 2 u.), 2½d. used (only one!), 6d. mint top mgnl. block of four, 1/- pale olive-yellow m.; the repair shown on ½d. mint corner block of eight, and 4d. mgnl block, and we’ll give the 1d. and 2½d. m. the benefit of the doubt stc. abt. £900	£300	online	£230.00
525	SG20 ½d. dull green mint pane, folded vertically between rows 3 and 4, horizontally between 4 and 5, and again 8 and 9. This is from the first printing, neither Slash flaw, nor its subsequent repair is visible, aside it has at row 8/3 an apparently perceived large G, and at row 2/4 a stop after G of Tobago	£60	online	£46.00
526	SG27, 27a in mint lower marginal horiz. strip of six from row 10 with full selvedge showing plate no.1 below 2nd and 4th stamps, some perf. splitting	£20	centre	£23.00
527	A study of cancellations (mainly on cheaper issues) and fiscal usage of the CC/CA issue with the odd postal cancel on CA, while the CA mint incl. both the 5/- and £1	£110		£130.00
528	Collection residue (various between SG3 and SG31), cat £560 but condition mixed hence	£40	online		£30	Note2
529	Postal stationery cards – the full H&G series (1 to 8 represented by 4 SPECIMEN; 16 unused, 9 used) – of these we reckon only two were commercially used, and of the others one (a ½d. surcharge reg’d. abroad has lost its uprating adhesives) condition is adequate if mixed in places; the surcharges incl. a missing hyphen and other quirks of lettering	£130	online	£105.00
530	A Kiderlen cover (over which we do not normally enthuse) with a redeeming factor, for despite its 1/11½d franking made up of 1/-, ½d., 1d., 4d., and 6d., because the 4d. has the malformed CE, were this truly commercial we would be inclined to accept a moderated SG valuation of from 40x on cover, stamp cat. £90 and so offered at	£90	online	£110.00
531	The PSRE assembly with sizes H1 and H2 unused, one H1 used (adhesive removed) size G unused and used(2½d. adhesive), size F SPECIMEN, unused and 3 used (with 2½d., 1d, x 3, and ½d. x 5 respectively) a rather desirable group.	£200	online	£150.00
532	We can’t suggest that this delicate small cover to Lionel E Legge, Trinidad Asphalt Co. Trinidad is properly rated, sporting its 1/- orange-brown SG24c; we simply reckon it is about the only way you’ll find this stamp on cover	£400	online	£360.00
	TRINIDAD
533	EL 1.9.45 to Edinburgh, its contents typical of a formal business letter of the period; recipient has carelessly overwritten a small part of the pleasant Trinidad dbl.-arc SP 5 1845 b/stamp, the endorsement showing equal carelessness in misreading date of letter, – as appropriate postal markings	£36	online	£27.00
534	Though it’s worn and torn, the fragment that remains of this blue cover has all the essential parts; with b/stamp Trinidad AU 7 1862 dbl.-arc and St. Lucia AU 11 arrival, the face holds rough perf. 1d. rose at top rt., rate mark 4 in blue crayon apparently deleted, addressed per steamer to Macfarlane and Co, and we infer a consignee’s letter	£60	online	£52.00
535	1851 1d. blue, SG3, a scarce strip of three, each ever so gently cancelled with type O2 ‘3’, cat. £180	£70		£220.00
536	1d. brownish red SG7 on which Britannia is attractively framed by a light type 2 numeral 1 killer, a fine rather choice example with clear to large mgns. all round, cat. £65	£20	online	£21.00
537	If all litho red SG20 were as fresh and well-preserved as this o.g. example cat would be much higher	£9	online		£34 with Lots 538 & 546	No
538	1/- indigo imperf. SG29 – some paper adheres to the reverse, and much dignity to the face	£20	online		see lot 537
539	Sharp and clear type 7 ‘11’ MR 3, probably 1882 on perf. 14 Britannia rose-carmine at 1 o’clock, rather scarce	£12	online	£9.00
540	Type 9 on 1883 1d. (4) and 4d., being T3, 6, 15, 18, 21, fine strikes at 11-12 o’clock, except T18 (3 o’clock)	£35	online	£27.00
541	Two 1d. Britannias perf.12½ both with type 7 cancels ‘18’ at 11.30o’clock, dated MR 14 78 and ‘30’ at 11o’clock from JY 2 188?,both are good clear strikes	£25R		£26.00
542	This 1/- dp. bt. mauve SG71 looks more attractive on EL than it would alone, as the scissors used to separate have removed the perfs at right. The letter went to Halifax via London in late 1865 with filing folds free of anything significant. An appealing item despite the somewhat shaky alcoholic hand of the GPO official who cancelled it	£80	online	£65.00
543	½d. lilac SG98, sumptuously cancelled with type O4 ‘10’ at 11 o’clock	£20		£21.00
544	½d. deepish lilac SG98, a fine block of four with two delicate upright c.d.s. of Cedros/A/ DE 22/ 86, seldom to be seen at such an early date	£30		£32.00
545	QV 1d carmine with inverted wmk. f.u. SG107w cat £150, and nicely dated AP 3 89, in case it helps you to research how many sheets were printed – and when	£60	centre	£46.00
546	QV 5/- perf. 14 SG113 fine lge. pt.o.g. centred right, cat. £55	£19	online		see lot 537
547	1896 issue the short SPECIMEN set of six to 6d. apparently mint SG114–9s, 1d. has small fault at SE corner, others OK	£30			£21	Note 1
548	1907 5/- SG144 lge. pt.o.g., cat. £50	£16	online		£13	Note 1
549	1909 SG147, a block of six carrying three and a half strikes of the Todd’s Road c.d.s. each at 8 o’clock, corner faults at NE and SW, nevertheless an unusual item	£4		£5.25
550	Type O4 ‘28’ at 7 o’clock on KGV ½d., SG218, a fine impression of this difficult to find numeral, in use at the Leper colony at CHACACHACARE though not as rare as Aldiss recorded at this period	£14		£15.50
551	Except for 12c. SG235a, the 1935 pictorial issue complete mint with both listed perfs. about half are top mgnls., cat. £75	£22		£16.50
552	1935 pictorial 1c., 2c. SG230, 231, each in a fine mint o.g. strip of four from coils, the 2c. shows coil-join	£15		£20.00
553	SJ 2c. lower left corner block of four v.g.u. (well the extra flagstaff at upper left is fine, this stamp hardly touched by the postmark	£20	online		£18	Note 1
554	E.II 1960–4 defins., the complete set of 15 fine mint, and now mature enough to be worth acquiring – cat. £45	£12			£9	Note 1
555	TRINIDAD postmarks, 69 different from 56 offices; ARIMA to ST MADELAINE, 1880’s to 1936. All are quality strikes	£200		£150.00
556	Do you like the twee serifed SPECIMEN on Barbados and Trinidad as much as we do? This example is on PD SG7 (some toning on reverse) and. as you know there were rather few of any stamp so treated	£27	online		£20	Note 1
557	SPECIMEN examples (5) of 1929–45 Dues; the 4d. with red ovpt. is toned, so don’t take much notice; three of the four top values have paper attached, and we’d like to think the hieroglyphics on these have some kind of archival origin, but don’t dare suggest it. 5d., 6d., 8d., and 1/- are all perf’d SPECIMEN of course	£32			£25	Note 1
558	A mourning cover SP 20 82 from San Fernando, though routed through Lionel Legge it has none of the artificiality of the usual Legge correspondence, and Mr Chavez must have been as chastened to receive as we are to see it survived. Cancelled type 9 ‘T2’ and similar b/stamp, its sole forgivable transgression. it is missing its flap (Ex Ramkisson)	£90	online	£95.00
559	Printed Matter cover needed only US 1c. stamp to travel per SS FONTABELLE to Port of Spain, wavy line m/c cancel on which we cannot read date, but take to be ±1900	£14			£65 with Lots 562, 565, 566 & 567	No
560	Boyd & Co used ½d. and 1d. (2) to send this 1905 cover to Brooklyn, the stamps attracting NY PO HUD. STA. c.d.s. on arrival in NY – a clean commercial item	£20		£15.00
561	When you travel next to the village of Matelot the road will take you no further, and this we think is the point that had been reached by a French tourist, who sent this RRR Muir Marshall ppc to Le Demi Lune (Rhone) in 1913. The French text will cause no difficulty, even to the linguistically challenged	£100	online
562	As wrappers are so easily discarded, one has to treat KGV 1d. brown (for the Press Archives in Brussels) as somewhat scarce – which maybe why it was still around in 1955	£12			see Lot 559
563	20 early ppc’s unused or with messages	£48
564	Souvenir Folder of Trinidad, unused with its 15 colour photos intact within – we’d assess the date as post-war period, produced by Paramount Photo Studios of Frederick St. – and we reckon that any suggested kinship with the film-makers was quite intentional	£5	online	£4.00
565	Two rather classy philatelic items: the QV ½d. brown inland p/s card used 1899 to Holland, with 1d. stamp added; 1935 SJ 1½d. of St Vincent collecting black Lady Hawkins cachet and Paquebot Trinidad c.d.s. on its way to George Hill in Philadelphia	£28			see Lot 559
566	Disenchanted, disillusioned with the oft philatelically contrived SJ covers, well we believe this one did actual commercial duty, franked as it is with a solitary 24c. (MY 25 35)on air-mail cover to Battersea	£30			see Lot 559
567	KGVI 4c. and 6c. took a neat KLM FFC from Trinidad to Barbados Oct 19th 1938 for Mr & Mrs Louis L Bayley	£12			see Lot 559
	TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS
568	For the first time ever we are excited about an example of 1d. dull rose SG1; of unusual appearance, we suspect it may have been used, but that’s beside the point; we have never seen one with perfs. and mgns. of this quality, with traces of the adjacent stamps at north and east, and the western mgn. is even wider, so it’s presumed to come from left of sheet	£30	centre	£23.00
569	½ in 1d. SG16 m. Cat. £190	£40	centre	£50.00
570	QV 1d. orange-brown r.h. bisect on piece; after much careful thought and careful comparison with cancellations of the 1880’s we feel satisfied that its two light killers are authentic – SG55a, cat. £5000 on cover	£70	centre	£100.00
571	On apiece which we think travelled to NY, two 2½d. red-brown SG56 sandwich a pr. of 1889 1d. lake, one of which shows the ‘throat flaw’	£30	centre	£24.00
572	One Penny on 2½d. SG61, a fine and wholly exceptional used horiz. strip of four, which at a collective rate of 4d. probably did genuine postal duty. Erratic lettering engenders C for O (2), clipped ‘e’ (cp Dominica 1d. on 1/-; are you tempted to go plating	£40	centre	£52.00
573	1889 1d. pale rosy lake, a composite sheet of 30 m., the l.h. columns being hinged together with two r.h. columns from another sheet, couple of other hinges to fend off split perfs otherwise mint and of course showing the two varieties SG64/b/c, cat. £115,50	£56R	centre	£56.00
574	From those far off days when you could buy things for a farthing we offer as SPECIMENS the rosy mauve and the red version of SG115s, 116s on the verge of celebrating their centenary	£14	online	£11.00
575	1922 6d. mint, wmk. reversed, unobtrusive short perf. top right, otherwise fine SG171x cat. £80	£25	online	£19.00
576	The faintest of OFFICIAL PAID c.d.s. and the boldest POSTMASTER 11 AUG 1933 TURKS ISLANDS cachet give status to a very plain env. to Ohio, converted to OHMS. They economised in those days. They’d stopped drying salt, and hadn’t begun to build banks. A rather scarce item actually	£24		£18.00
	VIRGIN ISLANDS
577	1d. green SG1 a fine and most attractive block of four from positions, 17, 18, 22, 23, mounted at top, mint below – they don’t come much better, cat. £180+	£100	centre	£220.00
578	Originating from row IV/5 we’re told (i.e. bottom right) is 1/- on white paper SG21, cancelled by A01 killer dipped in a newly refreshed inkpad – if this happened every five years, the stamp would date from 1871 or 1876 (but we’re kidding) cat. £170 and scarce when so healthy	£65	centre		£50	Note 1
579	The uncompound 1866 perf. 15 1d. green, an item in our Golden Jubilee auction, back with us for disposal – and see the lengthy article in Bulletin 213, it still appears to be the one-off example; of course the seller wants it to go higher than last time, but that doesn’t have to be by that much	£720	front	£720.00
580	1868–74 1d. green perf. 15 unused, identified as row 2/1 of transfer F	£10	online	£8.00
581	1888 4d. on 1/- on toned paper, plated to row II/3, small pt.o.g. (125 from each plate posn.) Cat. £130	£40	centre	£30.00
582	DLR 1/- brown SG41 pt.o.g. (minor gum creasing), its perfs sticking out dramatically like Struwelpeter’s hair	£14	online
583	Slightly less of the Struwelpeter effect with this very fresh, well centred example of the much less frequently available sepia shade, SG40	£20	online
584	The 1899 SPECIMEN set SG43s/50s, cat. £160	£56	centre
585	Leeward Sexegenary 2½d., a genuine ovpt. cancelled by favour with a Tortola c.d.s. – we have met this naughty practice a few times (it is after the E C Cameron era), but the items are still very scarce	£20	online	£15.50
586	Robust A13 killer (resurrected if you recollect in 1902) annoint the three Leeward surcharges arrayed on an ample if uninformative piece	£32	online	£30.00
587	VIRGIN GORDA AP 27 09, excellent almost complete c.d.s. on piece torn from 1d. p/s env.	£4		£3.50
588	KGV ½d. and Leeward 1d. violet used together in Tortola 1926 on piece; Virgin Gorda c.d.s. on KEVII 2½d., KGV key-type 1d., and 1922 badge ½d.	£24			£19	Note 1
589	The 1922 MCA SPECIMEN set of four, the M on the 5/- not broken, but distinctly teetering, SG82–5s, cat. £90	£32	online	£25.00
590	QV Leewards ½d. (5), each tied by TORTOLA C/ JU 22/ 96 c.d.s. on clean cover to Port au Prince, Haiti where b/stamped, routed via St Thomas (transit mark). Mail from this period to Haiti can be considered rare, if not unique. Some gum staining on flap and a previous owner mounted it with selvedge, otherwise fine, and as stated possibly unique. Ex McCann	£180		£140.00
591	FDC of the US Bay St. Tercentenary. Sent from Charlestown, Mass. Now you know we’d need a reason for offering that, so here’s the story; off it went again to the Postmaster, Tortola, with a US 10c. air stamp on Jul 19 1930, and (no doubt following a brief after dinner nap) he sent it back from Roadtown AU 18, bearing two 1½d. red-brown (who paid for these?) There’s a twist in the tale – addressee was Charles PONZI, perhaps an early example of a family scheme	£40
592	Written on 31 Mar, to Austria, date stamped AP 3, this pre-war b/w ppc of Government House, Road Town can’t have been sent in 1938 as the c.d.s. on KGVI 3d. would appear to read, because these stamps were not then issued. Clearly post WWII as reverse bears a unrecorded Soviet censor mark in violet (a.z.). Rare anyway. Then you’ll see KGV 6d. (2) and 1d. red freighting an uncensored 1944 cover by air to Gloucestershire, last of our trio is a simple 1d. franked cover from S L Horsford & Co Ltd. in St Kitts sent to Fishlock in Tortola, April 1919. We see nothing philatelic in any of these three items	£48			£36	Note 1
	BRITISH POST OFFICES ABROAD
593	No phone books to look up an address for “Messrs. F Huth & Co, London” in 1848, but this wrapper got there (with its then contents) – it came from VERA CRUZ (Mexico) as proclaimed by lovely dbl-arc, on reverse, 2/3 paid, red London transit c.d.s., a clean fresh item for its age, the filing creases not obtrusive	£40	online	£36.00
594	1845 EL from the British PO in Havana heading for Paris per “str Anglais” through London, endorsed on the front with short-lived boxed COLONIES &c. ART. 12 and all other relevant postal markings	£65	online	£50.00
595	1855 EL from Havana follows a similar course, but by now the more prolific ART.13 cachet was in use	£40	online	£30.00
596	The boxed AR.13 also figures on 1847 wrapper from Arequipa (was that Peru or Chile in those days?) to Paris – plenty of marking interest, the one that intrigues us is JU 1847/ LIVERPOOL/SHIP (a boxed mark with chamfered corners) rather scarce at this period	£50	online		£33	Note 1
597	The British PO in Callao (now that was unequivocally Peru) sent this 1861 wrapper on its way, the best of numerous markings being the hexagonal GB//2F87 5/10c (no wonder they converted to decimal currency before the UK did)	£36	online	£27.00
598	The scarce A90 mail boat mark on GB4d. vermilion plate 8, a fine strike, at 6 o’clock though the 0 only makes it on halfway	£20	online	£44.00
599	A92 mail boat cancel at 10 o’clock on 1856–8 GB 1d. a bold, almost aggressive strike	£24	online	£18.00

British West Indies Study Circle

BWISC/BCPSG AUCTION 2010

Held Friday 7th May 2010 at 13:00

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