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c.1947-2000 F.P.O covers and other forces mail including 1949 covers from Mogadishu bearing B.M.A Somalia stamps (2), 1969 F.P.O 1046 from Anguilla (3), Korean War, Kenya, atomic bomb tests in Australia and Christmas Island, Aden, Malta, Cyprus, Hong Kong, B.A.O.R, also a few covers from foreign forces and some pieces in an album (100s). £150-180
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Germany - T.P.Os. 1948 Stampless O.H.M.S covers to London with F.P.O datestamps 908, 910 or 912, all used on the Hook of Holland to Herford T.P.O, fine. (3). £60-80
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Korea - P.O.W Mail. 1952 Cover and a P.O.W lettersheet with a printed dove on the front, both sent by CQMS R. Ponting from No. 1 P.O.W Camp, North Korea, both with Korea A.P.O datestamps and British censor labels, the cover with a red London S.W1 Official Paid machine, scarce and unusually fine. (2). Photo on Page 112. £200-250
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Korea - P.O.W Mail. 1951 Cover to Major E.D Harding, 1st Gloucestershire Regt, BAPO 3, returned with cachet "Addressee Missing", and a cover from Harding in No. 2 P.O.W Camp, North Korea, bearing a Korea A.P.O datestamp and British censor label, opening tear, otherwise fine and scarce; front to a P.O.W in Korea handstamped boxed "OK CAMP 4" and "SERVICE DES / PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE", very tatty but rare; and a fine 1951 cover from Capt. T.R Littlewood, P.O.W in No. 3 Camp, North Korea, with bilingual "Service des / prisonniers de guerre" and red "Via The Chinese Peoples Committee / for World Peace and against / American Aggression / Peking, China", backstamped at Hong Kong; also an aerial propaganda leaflet. (5). Photo on Page 112. £220-260
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Malaya. 1955 Covers from Lt. C. Hansen of the 22 S.A.S Regt. (6) and an O.H.M.S cover with enclosed letter "22 S.A.S Air Service Regt. c/o G.P.O Kuala Lumpur - 2 / Lt Hansen is at present on operations in the jungle and is unable to write. His mail is being delivered to him by air drop, so please continue your correspondence", three covers with S.A.S Regt cachets. Also other forces mail from Malaya (17), one from General Sir Gerald Templer. (25). £100-120
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The exceptional written up display collection showing the development of postal districts and full post codes, and the sorting of post coded letters including 1704 entire letter showing the detailed address "Burrell Massingberd Esq att his lodgings in Fleet Street right agst St. Dunstans Church att the Signe of the Diall One. Mr Streets a watch maker on one side and a powder shop on the other"; 1857 P.O letter from the G.P.O to the East Yell Postmaster forwarding notices about the introduction of postal districts in London and 1861 1d pink envelope with "W.C" embossed as part of the address; 1959 Norwich post code publicity cards (4), sheet of labels and a label on card; 1952-54 Mount Pleasant sorting machine trials with red SPLSM idents comprising sideways roman numerals I, II, V, VI from April 1952 or II, III, IV (2) from 1954; red SPLSM II ident used at 1956 Radio Show or at Southampton in 1957 (stamp removed); 1958 London EC SPLSM ident 5 in violet; Norwich SPLSM idents with 1959-60 violet 8 or 16, black 16 or 31; Luton 1959 red 2 or k; Norwich 1964 impressed uninked 32; coding dots with Luton 1960-63 vertical square dots (4) or horizontal square dots; Dollis Hill 1963 booklet and air letter with trial coding bars; Norwich 1965 staff information booklet, sample tape, 1966 rectangular dots, raised white dots and a sample on paper, waxy dots (2), dummy mail with second type waxy dots (2), 1968 rectangular dots with ident E, double destacking stripes in blue and yellow, similar on dummy mail (2); 1968 London W1 black idents A or B; 1969 Wiesbaden comparison trial cover; 1970 London E.C ident A, circular coding dots (2), ident ?, upper and lower position coding dot experiment with ident K (2); 1977-84 London FS idents (3); also various photos, booklets, etc. A fine lot with many exceptionally scarce items, many from short lived trials. (75 items on 48 pages). Photo on Page 115. £2,500-3,500
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1969-81 Display collection written up on 24 pages including Croydon 1969 ident D, 1970-71 ident FF of Croydon and W of Norwich used on inward coding, various coding dots with Croydon uses, anomalous codes, red and black idents, Cambridge code dot size experiments (2), operator idents, Norwich 1976 yellow-green phosphor experiment and 1977 closed circuit TV coding desk experiment with ident 7, 1978 phosphor ident experiment, Sheffield 1978 blue dots first day, Oxford mail 1979 blue phosphor tape use, 1980 Guildford ink-jet printer trial, 1980 Sheffield turquoise tape trial, 1980 London I.S large dot error, 1980 Bristol large dot trials (2), 1980 Chelmsford violet ident, 1981 Bournemouth opacified turquoise tape trial, Bristol and Sheffield blue tape trials, OCR dummy mail printer trials (4), etc. (44). £300-350
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Covers and fronts mostly written up on pages including a study of 1970-75 coding dots with Croydon uses, errors, missorted mail, ident without any coding dots; spray test cover with blue dots; 1972 'Great Britain' machine; Post Code publicity slogans including Norwich types, publicity leaflets, posters and labels; 1970 dummy mail cover bearing Harrison & Son phosphor label and a mint block of labels; 1978 London F.S A indent; photos of Croydon and Reading ALF machines (5); 1970 Southampton code with ident E; 1978-79 Derby trials (2); 1978 Sheffield blue first day, etc. (200+). £100-120
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Brighton Transormas. 1935-68 Display collection written up on 35 pages including 1935 (Sep 17-23) trial period 3, G, Q and R; 1935 (Oct 7) official first day 4 + 1 on inward cover then redirected to Kew and N on an underpaid postcard; c.1959 sheet showing inward and outward groups of idents then in use; multiple idents; idents used on mail from other Sussex offices forwarded to Brighton for sorting; a study of the various differing idents including scarce large 16, 32, tiny 32, 34, 37, large Y, inverted e; 1945-46 black/red idents (7); August 1947 idents F and P in black; mail missorted at or to Brighton; uninked idents; hollow rectangular idents (3), 1968 (June 26) postcard from Canada with exceptionally late 5 ident, etc. A fine and scarce lot. (65). Photo on Page 115. £600-800
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Brighton Transormas. 1935 (Sep 19 - Oct 4) Covers and cards from or to Brighton sorted during the trial period with idents 8, D (2), J, S or W. Also six other October 1935 transormas from the first month of use, one sent on Oct 8th, the second official day of use. A scarce group. (12). £300-350
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Brighton Transormas. 1935-68 Covers and cards in a box with many differing idents, several showing multiple idents, missorts, inverted and albino idents, etc. (c.600). £200-250
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Brighton Transormas. The enormous quantity on covers and cards sorted by ident, the majority from one correspondence of c.1953-58, a few earlier or later, in fifteen shoeboxes. (1,000s). £500-600
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Norwich. 1959-79 Covers and cards including Post Code cards (3) and sheet of labels, leaflet and slogans, 1968 horizontal rectangular dots, rectangular dots on pieces of ribbon, 1960 continuous packet stamping machine, dummy mail covers with undated Leigh machine cancels (3), various circular dots from 1969 including 1975 trial cover with ident 3, etc. (100). £200-250
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Luton. 1960-66 Covers to or from Luton with coding dots comprising vertical rectangular dots in two columns (1960, a little stained but scarce), 1961-64 vertical rectangular dots (4), 1965-66 horizontal rectangular dots (5), also a 1965 Luton P.O letter. (11). £600-700
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Luton. 1960 Hardbound presentation book "Postage Stamps of the Reign of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II" presented by the British P.O to the delegates of the "Management Council of the Consultative Committee for Postal Studies, Universal Postal Union", meeting at Eastbourne. The book contains the 1953-59 Wilding and Castle ½d - £1 definitives, all regional definitives and the ½d - 1/3 phosphor definitives, the 1960 Post Office Centenary pair, also the pair used on FDC with Eastbourne International Postal Conference slogan and Luton 1960 (July 4) cover franked 3d to Norwich with two vertical rows of rectangular coding dots. A scarce cover and presentation book. £240-300
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London F.S. 1970-73 Incoming mail with circular coding dots of the London F.S, most also with black idents (27), and 1977-84 covers and cards with large red SPLSM idents (32), most on outgoing mail to overseas but five examples strangely used on internal letters. Also 1968 cover with circular coding dots and A indent of London W1. (60). £120-150
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Trials - Southampton/Dundee, etc. Southampton 'Dollis Hill' machine trial covers bearing a half or quarter stamp used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the scanner, or unstamped with undated 'Specimen' machine cancel; other unstamped test envelopes with rectangular dots and ident L (2) or circular dots and ident T all believed to be from Southampton; 1969 Wiesbaden comparison trial cover with undated Southampton 37 slogan; a rare Dundee demonstration cover with rectangular dots; and 1980 (March 26) cover from Guildford with scarce ink-jet printer trial. (9). £250-300
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1960s to Recent covers including test mail and trials, framas, MLO commemorative covers and cancels, phosphor tape (with two complete rolls, one blue), dummy mail, etc. A large quantity, all collected for a reason, viewing recommended. (Many 100s). £200-300
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c.1970 to Recent covers, a very large quantity in several boxes all with various coding dots or OCR machines, careful viewing may repay. (1,000s). £100-120
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Literature. c.1960 to Recent literature, much of it from the 1960s and 1970s, with technical booklets produced by machine manufacturers, training manuals, publicity booklets, Post Code booklets and posters, etc., mainly G.B but some foreign including items form USA, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, etc. A large quantity in several boxes with many rare and early brochures and leaflets. A very heavy lot, unsuitable for posting. £300-500
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France. 1960-79 Display collection written up on 44 pages showing various sorting machines, including trials and dummy mail. (72). £150-200
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France. 1960s to Recent covers all showing coding bars or idents, including dummy mail, a large quantity in four shoeboxes. (1,000s). £200-300
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Germany. 1942-79 Display collection written up on pages including transormas with Berlin-Steglitz 1942 (Oct 7) trial period ident Ae, first period idents (6), second period idents AA and star above AB, third period AY; Munchen Gladbach 1942-43 transormas (4); Direct Sorter machines from Dortmund (red E ident) and Frankfurt (2); Berlin 1958-62 Facer trials (4); Berlin 1959 Direct Sorter dummy mail; Siemens dummy mail with magnetic code I and OCR machines (2); OCR machines from 1961 for various towns including Munich trial, Darmstadt dummy mail and trials, Hagen dummy mail; 1977 Darmstadt ink jet printer trials (5); 1978 Wiesbaden address reader and video coding desk trials (6); 1978 Essen coding trials and dummy mail (4), etc. (82). £600-800
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Germany. c.1940 - Recent covers in six shoeboxes, various sorting machines including trials and dummy mail, also some earlier machine cancels with covers and cards from 1859. An extensive lot with some scarcer items, viewing recommended. (100s). £300-400
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Netherlands. 1931-32 Covers and cards with first type transormas of Rotterdam, the idents comprising a vertical column of four or more numbers or letters. The written up display on nine pages with c.5mm 1234 in red, c.3½mm 3456789 in red, c.5mm AAAA in red, black, green or violet, BBBB in red, black or violet, CCCC in red or green, c.3mm BBBB and CCCC both in red. (13). £200-300
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Netherlands/Belgium. 1932 - Recent Dutch covers and cards with transormas including Rotterdam first type BBBB, later types with single idents, two close or widely spaced idents, three close idents, two pairs of close or widely spaced idents, also later bar codes or magnetic coding including trials and test mail, and a box of Belgium covers with transormas or coding bars. An extensive lot in five shoeboxes. (Many 100s). £500-700
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USA/Canada. c.1957 - Recent covers including Silver Spring transormas FDC and commercial covers (4), yellow coding bars of Canada, some test mail, also a few earlier machine cancels and mailomat meters. (100s). £150-250
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Rest of the World. c.1940 - Recent covers and cards with transormas from Brazil, Argentina, Israel and Egypt; c.1970 Yugolavia trial stamps and stationery used to test various phosphors; various coding dots and bars, idents or OCR machines from Australia, Switzerland, South Africa, Italy, Brazil, Roumania, Hungary, Russia, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Czechoslovakia, Lebanon, Singapore, Scandinavia, etc, with some dummy mail; also New Zealand 1908 cover to London with small circular '1d Postage Paid' and a Wellington Official Paid c.d.s added due to the overseas address. An interesting lot in four shoeboxes. (Many 100s). £200-300
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The Mike Kitson Collection, Part 1 | |
The first section of this fine collection featuring Crowned Circles, G.B used in Egypt and the Levant, and selected items from Central and South America and the Caribbean. | |
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Antigua. 1867 Cover to Liverpool prepaid 11d in cash with superb red "PAID / AT / ANTIGUA" and red London Paid c.d.s, backstamped at Antigua and Liverpool, very fine. S.G. £650. Photo on Page 115. £250-300
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Argentina - Buenos Ayres. 1854 Entire to Spain with a good strike of "PAID / AT / BUENOS AYRES" in black, red "24Rs" applied in Spain, backstamped at the British P.O at Buenos Ayres, Santa Cruz de Teneriffe and Bilbao with a senders cachet. An unusual routing via Teneriffe. S.G. £850. Photo on Page 115. £250-300
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Barbados. 1851 Entire (part upper flap missing) to India House in London paid 1/- in cash with a good red "PAID / AT / BARBADOES". S.G. £475. Photo on Page 115. £150-180
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Canada - Quebec. 1847 Entire to Montreal prepaid 9d in cash with red "PAID / AT / QUEBEC" and datestamps of Quebec and Montreal, light file fold, very attractive. S.G. £150. £70-90
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Chile - Valparaiso. 1868 Entire letter to New York "pr vapor via Panama" prepaid 1/- in cash with inverted red "PAID / AT / VALPARAISO" (CC1), "PANAMA" British P.O c.d.s, "N.Y STEAMSHIP / 10" arrival datestamp and senders cachet, backstamped at Valparaiso British P.O, the crowned circle a little doubled but very easily readable, an attractive entire letter. S.G. £450. £120-150
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Cuba-Havana. 1855 Entire to Vera Cruz with fine black "PAID / AT / HAVANA" (CC2), backstamped with the Havana double arc datestamp, prepaid 1/- in cash. S.G. £1,000. Photo on Page 115. £300-400
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Danish West Indies - St. Thomas. 1861 Entire letter prepaid 4d to Jamaica with a good red "PAID / AT ST. THOMAS" (CC1) and a Kingston, Jamaica arrival c.d.s, backstamped St. Thomas double arc datestamp. Some splitting at folds and small corner tear strengthened internally with a few light tape marks, an attractive entire letter to an unusual destination, the letter with printed ship design above the senders name Lamb, Ball & Co, Ship Brokers, St. Thomas. S.G. £500. £150-200
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Dominica. 1868 Entire letter to Scotland with light but complete and very readable red "PAID / AT / DOMINICA" and a Dominica backstamp, prepaid 1/- in cash, light vertical and horizontal folds as is usual for this correspondence. S.G. £550. £100-120
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Guadeloupe. 1867 Entire letter to New Orleans bearing French Colonies 40c tied by a retta cancel with Pointe-a-Pitre c.d.s, then transferred to the British P.O paid 4d in cash, a reasonable strike of red "PAID / AT / GUADELOUPE" applied. Backstamped at the British Post Offices at Guadeloupe and St. Thomas, with "N.Y STEAMSHIP / 10" arrival c.d.s, an attractive entire. S.G. £2,000. Photo on Page 119. £400-500
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Haiti - Jacmel. 1865 Entire letter to New York paid 4d in cash, with a good red "PAID / AT JACMEL" overstruck by "STEAMSHIP / 10" arrival handstamp, backstamped at Jacmel British P.O and Kingston, Jamaica. An unusual routing, carried by R.M.S.P "Ruahine" to Jamaica and then by U.S steamship. S.G. £950. Photo on Page 119. £200-250
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Hong Kong. 1858 Entire (side flaps removed) prepaid 1/- to London with red "PAID / AT / HONG KONG" (CC 3) and a London Paid arrival c.d.s, backstamped Hong Kong double arc datestamp, fine and attractive. S.G. £475. Photo on Page 119. £160-180
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Ionian Islands - Corfu. 1851 Entire letter with a Corfu c.d.s and superb "PAID / AT / CORFU" crowned circle in black, light horizontal file fold, otherwise very fine. S.G. £650. (Property of another vendor.) Photo on Page 119. £200-250
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Ionian Islands - Corfu. 1853 Cover to Ireland prepaid 1/- in cash, with a superb "PAID / AT CORFU" in black and a Corfu c.d.s, London Paid, Dublin and Clonmel datestamps. A little light staining at the upper left corner, not affecting any handstamps, an attractive cover. S.G. £650. Photo on Page 119. £200-250
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Mexico - Vera Cruz. 1863 Entire letter to New York with oval framed "FRANCO" and "CORREOS / FRANCO / VERA CRUZ", then transferred to the British P.O prepaid 1/- in cash, with good black "PAID / AT / VERA CRUZ" (CC3), backstamped Vera Cruz British P.O double arc datestamp with "STEAMSHIP / 10" arrival handstamp. Light file folds, otherwise fine and unusual. S.G. £1,000. Photo on Page 119. £300-350
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Newfoundland - St Johns. 1848 Entire to Quebec paid 4d in cash with red "PAID / AT ST JOHNS / NEWFOUNDLAND", unusually handstamped "MORE-TO-PAY" and charged a further 1/8, backstamped at St. Johns, Halifax and Quebec. The addressees name removed and reinstated in pencil, otherwise fine. S.G. £950. £100-120
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New Zealand - Port Victoria. 1852 Entire letter from Lyttelton to London prepaid 6d to Sydney with red "PAID / AT / PORT VICTORIA NEW ZEALAND", endorsed "Pr Pauline to Sydney Sep. 18th - 52", charged 2/- upon arrival. Backstamped at Port Victoria and London. Light file fold, otherwise fine, a good example of this uncommon crowned circle. S.G. £1,200. Photo on Page 119. £240-280
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New Zealand - Russell. 1858 Cover to England prepaid 2d to Sydney and a further 6d to England, with light red "PAID / AT / RUSSELL NEW ZEALAND" and an Auckland datestamp, backstamped "RUSSELL / NEW ZEALAND" c.d.s and upon arrival at Plymouth. The address panel partly overwritten, having apparently been an exhibit in a court case. A very scarce crowned circle, very few examples known. S.G. £7,000. £300-350
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New Zealand - Wellington. 1852 Entire letter from Rotoaira to England with superb red "PAID / AT / WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND", prepaid 2d to Sydney and charged 8d upon arrival. Backstamped with superb Wellington c.d.s and at London and Cockermouth. A fine and attractive entire letter. S.G. £350. Photo on Page 119. £140-160
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Nova Scotia - Amherst. 1849 Entire letter from Minudia, Cumberland Co., to Collinsville, Conn., with red "PAID / AT AMHERST. N.S.", prepaid 11½d, charged 10c upon arrival. Backstamped at Amherst, Sackville, St. John and St. Andrews with red Robbinston, Me, transit c.d.s on the front. Light file folds, otherwise file, an interesting routing. S.G. £1,000. Photo on Page 121. £300-350
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Peru - Callao. 1852 Entire letter from Lima to Italy "via Panama" with red "PAID / AT / CALLAO" and double arc backstamp, prepaid 5/8 in cash. Handstamped oval framed "PD" and "VIA DI / BEAUVOISIN" with datestamps of London, Calais and Genoa, file fold and small hole to address panel. S.G. £700. £100-120
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Porto Rico - San Juan. 1861 Entire letter from Arecibo to New York "via Jamaica" carried by forwarding agent to San Juan then posted at the British P.O prepaid 1/- in cash with red "PAID / AT / SAN JUAN PORTO RICO" and "STEAMSHIP / 10" arrival handstamp. Backstamped at San Juan and Kingston, Jamaica with "AMELL, JULIA & CA / ARECIBO P.R." and large part "VIAS Y COMPANIA / PUERTO RICO" F.A.Cs. Light file folds, otherwise fine, carried on the R.M.S.P "Solent" to Jamaica and then by U.S Steamship. S.G. £650. Photo on Page 121. £250-350
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St. Lucia. 1853 Long cover to France with red "PAID / AT / ST LUCIA", oval framed "PD" and datestamps of St. Lucia, London, Calais, Paris and Bordeaux. Central fold, a little light staining at left well away from all handstamps. S.G. £900. £150-180
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