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1901 (Aug 27) Registered cover to Germany with 7d postage paid by 2d + 2½d (2) each cancelled by cork type K101, circular framed "R" and oval "REGISTERED / ST. HELENA", violet "PRISONERS OF WAR / CENSOR / BROAD BOTTOM CAMP" with handstruck initials "A.W.P" of Lt. Arthur Phelps, only recorded June-September 1901. A fine registered cover from Alois Graf in Deadwood Camp. Photo on Page 218. £250-300
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1902 (Jan 16) Picture postcard "Greetings from St. Helena" with pictures of landing of Cronje, Cronje en route to Kent Cottage and Col. Schiel escorted to High Knoll, the message side signed by General P.A Cronje and Col. A. Schiel, registered to Germany franked ½d and 1d pairs each cancelled by cork type K106, circular framed "R" and oval "REGISTERED / ST. HELENA", censored with the very scarce oval "GARRISON OFFICE / 16 JAN 1902 / ST. HELENA" in black (type 1, later than recorded by Mabbett & Vevers, who also only record it in violet). An exceptional registered postcard. Photo on Page 218. £500-600
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1901 (July 16) Cover from a Boer internee at Alcobaca in Portugal franked 15r + 25r pair, to a P.O.W in St. Helena with violet type BW1 censor cachet (not initialled), the cover a little toned with two small tears at upper edge, nevertheless a very scarce cover sent between camps in Portugal and St. Helena. £200-250
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1902 (Feb 14) Registered cover from Copenhagen franked 16ore +20ore, to Victor von Schadtler, P.O.W in St. Helena, with arrival c.d.s (Mar. 4) and red triangular "PASSED BY / CENSOR / DEADWOOD", only recorded in red ink in February and March 1902, an attractive registered cover probably to a Danish volunteer. Photo on Page 220. £250-300
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1902 (May 29) 1d Postcard from Le Gall, French P.O.W and noted artist in Deadwood Camp, to Paris with violet triangular "PASSED / BY / CENSOR / ST. HELENA / HEAD OFFICE". The message mentions Antigua, West Indies, the site of a proposed Boer P.O.W Camp. The Head Office censor recorded May-August 1902. £160-200
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1902 (May 29) Picture postcard with a cyclostyled and handcoloured map of the island produced and signed by Capt. De Framond, addressed to the censor P. Roux on St. Helena bearing three differing ½d stamps, violet triangular "PASSED / BY / CENSOR / ST. HELENA / HEAD OFFICE", fine and unusual. Photo on Page 220. £250-300
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1902 (Apr 17) Cover from Dr. Plowright (collector and author on censor cachets) in Kings Lynn franked G.B KEVII 1d, addressed to Capt. De Witt Hamer at Walbro Cottage, St. Helena, with violet triangular "PASSED / PRESS / CENSOR". A scarce censor cachet, only recorded February-May 1902. Photo on Page 220. £200-250
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1902 (July 22) Picture postcard "Greetings from St. Helena" addressed to Le Gall, P.O.W at Deadwood Camp, signed on the picture side by General P.A Cronje with two ½d stamps tied by St. Helena datestamps. An interesting card to the French P.O.W and noted artist Le Gall from General Cronje, mail no longer censored at this late date after the war had finished. Photo on Page 220. £180-220
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1922 £1 Purple and black on red, superb unmounted mint, with Enzo Diena Certificate (2011). S.G. 36, £300+. Photo on Page 116. £100-120
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1899 ½d - 5/- Set of nine overprinted "SPECIMEN", all in vertical strips of five as distributed by the U.P.U, superb unmounted mint, probably unique in strips. S.G. 67/75s, £850++. (9 strips). Photo on Page 166. £300-400
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1916 1d War Stamp overprint, first setting, pair with lower margin, variety watermark inverted, fine mint. S.G. 122w, £500. Photo on Page 210. £100-150
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1897 (Apr 21) 1d Reply card (outward half) franked ½d, from Apia to Germany with red "N.Z MARINE P.O / R.M.S "ALAMEDA"" datestamp (Apr. 22) alongside, small tear at base, otherwise very fine. £140-180
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1899 (Dec 29) Registered cover from Apia to Germany with Provisional Govt. overprint set of eight, superb blue "NZ MARINE P.O / R.M.S "ALAMEDA"" (Jan. 26) backstamp. £220-260
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1899 (Sep 1) Picture postcard from Apia to Germany franked 1d, "N.Z MARINE P.O / R.M.S "MARIPOSA"" datestamp (Sep 8) alongside, minor soiling. £140-180
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1906-08 Picture postcards from Apia to Hamilton Hunter, British Resident at Nukualofa in Tonga, all franked 10pf, three with arrival datestamps, an unusual destination. (4). £140-180
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1906 (July 27) German 2pf reply card, the outward half sent from Berlin to Apia franked by four 2pf stamps, sent to Australia with Perth Dead Letter Office backstamps (Sep 25/Oct 3) before being forwarded to Samoa, Apia arrival c.d.s (17 Jan. 07), violet "INSUFFICIENTLY ADDRESSED" and boxed "REBUT / A L'ONONE". The attached reply half then posted back from Apia (Feb 4) franked 3pf + 5pf, redirected within Berlin. Very unusual. £200-300
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1914 G.R.I ½d on 5pf and 1d on 10pf reply cards each with the variety surcharge double one albino on both the outward and reply halves, superb unused. (2). £200-240
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1914 Commercial covers bearing G.R.I surcharges, two sent within Apia franked ½d on 3pf pair or 1d on 10pf, another to New Zealand franked ½d on 5pf pair, the 1d cover with central vertical fold and flap missing, otherwise fine. (3). £300-400
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1914 (Sep 20) Cover from Apia to Germany bearing G.R.I 2½d on 20pf with missing fraction bar variety, scarce on cover. £200-250
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1915 (Mar 20) Cover from Apia to Sydney bearing Samoa overprint 1d pair, straight line "Passed by Censor" and "OPENED BY / CENSOR / APIA, SAMOA" label tied by Sydney machine, slightly shortened at right upon opening (with loss of "OPE"), otherwise fine and very scarce. £250-300
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1915-16 Covers bearing Samoa overprints (4, one registered) and a 1d lettercard, all with black straight line "Passed by Censor", one cover missing part reverse and the lettercard glued together, otherwise fine. (5). £140-180
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1916-17 Covers, three registered from Apia to G.B (2) or New Zealand, one sent within Apia, and a cover from Sydney to Apia, all with boxed "PASSED BY / CENSOR / 2 / G.R.I / SAMOA" in green or violet. (5). £120-160
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1917 (Mar 24) Stampless cover to London with violet "SAMOA / GOVERNMENT / HOUSE / OFFICIAL PAID" and boxed "PASSED BY / CENSOR / 1 / G.R.I / SAMOA", Apia c.d.s. A rare censor, number "1" probably only used on Government House mail. Photo on Page 220. £500-600
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1917-19 Covers with KGV head issues overprinted Samoa, one cover with Tuasiui c.d.s on the registration label and stamps, all with boxed "PASSED BY / CENSOR / 3 / G.R.I / SAMOA" in green or violet. (5). £140-180
| SEYCHELLES
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1917 Picture postcard to USA franked 3c + 6c, violet circular "PASSOU PELA / BEIRA / CENSURA". Unusual, Seychelles had no censorship in World War One, and very few Seychelles items are known censored in transit. £100-150
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1871-74 Undenominated plate proof blocks of four on unwatermarked glazed paper, in the colours adopted for the 1d, 3d, 4d and 1/- values, each stamp overprinted "CANCELLED" type D7, fine. (4 Blocks). Photo on Page 194. £200-250
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1872 Perf 12½ 1/- green, watermark Crown CC sideways, mint and used. S.G. 10, £735. (2). £100-120
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1896 5/- and £1 fine mint. S.G. 52/3, £425. (2). £80-100
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Randlord Sir Lionel Phillips. The 16 page display formed by Paul van Zeyl (awarded a vermeil at the 2013 South African National Philatelic Exhibition), with covers to Phillips posted within South Africa (3, one 1889 cover registered from Kimberley with eight 1d stamps) or from G.B (4), pictorial Transvaal postal stationery postcards (4, Kaffir Mining Boys, two of the 1895 Jameson Raid, arms of the Boer Republics and European states sympathetic to the Boer cause, three used), picture postcards (9) and ephemera. Phillips was one of the conspirators behind the Jameson Raid for which he was sentenced to death but subsequently released; he served as President of the Chamber of Mines, and later became an M.P for the Transvaal. (20+). £250-350
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Natal. 1842 (June 12) Four page letter from Lt. General Lewis Griffith, Commanding the Royal Engineers at the Cape, to the Governor, Sir George Napier. Griffith expresses his concerns regarding the position of Captain Smith's camp in Natal and the possibility of it being overpowered by the Boers. He refers to the force under Lt. Col. Cloete then en route to Natal, where they relieved the small force under Capt. Thomas Smith besieged by insurgent Boers near Port Natal. An interesting historical letter, written two years before Natal was annexed as a British Colony, missing its envelope. £100-150
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Transvaal. 1889 (June 27) Cover with Transvaal 2d pair cancelled by violet oval "HAENERTSBURG / P.O" datestamp, to Lionel Phillips, Consolidated Coy, Beaconsfield, backstamped at Pretoria, Kimberley and Beaconsfield. Opening tears at right edge and upper left corner, nevertheless a previously unrecorded datestamp, probably unique. Photo on Page 220. £250-300
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Transvaal. 1892 £5 and 1895 ½d - 3d and 1/- overprinted "Monster", this unusual overprint only used on these six stamps, which were sent to the U.P.U as specimens; also O.F.S 1900 V.R.I 5/- surcharge handstamped Specimen, all fine mint. S.G. £530. (7). Photo on Page 198. £100-120
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c.1720-85 Entires from Holland to the Cape all with fine endorsements, an entire to Catherine Cruse (recorded as widowed in 1719) endorsed by the carpenter Jacob Brouwer on the Bark "Rheewyk"; an entire (dated 1785 in pencil) to C.L Neethling, Secretary of the Council of Justice, endorsed by Cornelius Van Eyk, "onder coopman" on the company ship "Batavier", a third "by a friend over the seas", also a 1744 document. (4). £200-250
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c.1770 Cover probably from Holland, to "le Baron Van Plattenberg" at the Cap de Bonne Esperance. Van Plattenberg was appointed Acting Governor of the Cape in 1771 and served as Governor 1774-85. £100-120
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1811-59 Entire letters (3) and entires (5) to England, two with oval "SHIP LETTER / (crown) / CAPE OF GOOD HOPE" (one endorsed by the H.E.I.C extra ship "Carmarthen"), one with oval Portsmouth Ship Letter, four with India Letter handstamps of Deal (3, one in red) or Portsmouth (per H.M Ship "Success"), two others endorsed by H.M.S "Eurydice" or "Brilliant" with boxed Packet Letter of London. Also an 1859 entire from George with "6d" charge mark of London. (8). £300-350
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1817-40 Entires to Cape Town comprising 1817 entire endorsed by the "Venus" with London India Ship Letter c.d.s (In.1) charged 1/2; 1827 entire from London "p. Jessie" charged 4d; 1834 entire "pr. Quebec Trader C.P Bellamy" with oval G.P.O Cape Town datestamp, charged 1/3 (with copy from the Perth Gazette showing the "Quebec Trader" had sailed from Western Australia); and 1840 entire "p. Bark Glenalron" to The Postmaster General with circular Cape Town crowned c.d.s, delivered free. (4). £150-200
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c.1820 Entire to "His Excellency Lord C.H Somerset, Governor & Commander in Chief, Cape of Good Hope" with fine Post Office "crown" handstamps of George and Cape Town. Lord Charles Somerset was Governor 1814-26; in 1816 he established country Post Offices under paid Postmasters at six towns including George. £100-120
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c.1820-45 Entires with Post Office "crown" handstamps, many unusually fine strikes, including Bathurst, Kowie, Simons Town, Zwellandam, Tulbagh, Cradock, Beaufort, Worcester, Clan William, Port Elizabeth ad Uitenhagen, also one entire without postmarks, a good lot. (20). Photo on Page 220. £550-650
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1827-50 Entire letters (3), entires (5) and a cover from England to Cape Town or Port Elizabeth all prepaid as ship letters, with red London Ship Letter datestamps types S29, 48 (2), 50 (3), 51 (2), 52, one to an officer on H.M.S "Thalia", two endorsed by the "Earl of Egremont" or steam packet "Bolivar", two with boxed "TO PAY" applied upon arrival. (9). £300-350
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c.1830-40 Entires with partly printed addresses to Ministers or Officials of the Dutch Reformed Church, two printed in English with "On Service" heading bearing scarce "John Bell / Secy to Govt" handstamp, or similar "Actg Secy to Govt" handstamp, the others printed in Dutch with boxed "PREPAID" handstamps. (4). Photo on Page 224. £250-300
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c.1830-50 Entire with boxed "POST PAID " (7), "PREPAID" or "TO PAY" (6), also one with manuscript "unpd", several with Cape Town or other Post Office "crown" handstamps. (15). £250-300
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c.1840-50 Entires prepaid 4d, one to Cape Town with red boxed "PREPAID", the other to Malmesbury with red "TOO LATE", two scarce explanatory handstamps in red. (2). £150-180
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c.1849 Entire to Cape Town marked "pp4", with octagonal framed "23" of Somerset West, unusually fine and scarce. Photo on Page 224. £150-200
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1849 Entire letter and an entire both to J. Stewart, Master of the Supreme Court in Cape Town, prepaid 4d, with octagonal framed "38" of Uitenhage, scarce. (2). £200-250
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1850 Entire letter and an entire prepaid 4d to Cape Town, both with fine octagonal framed "46" of Grahams Town, the entire with piece torn from upper left corner, the letter folded, unusually good strikes of this scarce handstamp. (2). £150-200
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c.1850 Entires to Cape Town both with octagonal framed "51" of Bathurst, fine and scarce. (2). Photo on Page 224. £200-250
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c.1850 Entires to J. Steward, Master of the Supreme Court in Cape Town, marked "pp8", with octagonal framed "52" of Beaufort, one with small tear at lower edge, otherwise largely fine and scarce. (2). £200-250
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1849-50 Entire letters to Port Elizabeth or Cape Town and a cover to "Revd A. Murray, Bloemfontein" all marked "4pp" with octagonal framed "55" of Graaff-Reinet, the cover a little stained but unusual to the Orange Free State, the two entire letters fine, scarce. (3). Photo on Page 224. £350-400
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c.1850 Entire letter prepaid 4d to Graaff-Reinet with octagonal framed "56" of Richmond, fine and scarce. £120-150
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c.1850 Entire letters (2), entires (2) and fronts (2) all prepaid to Cape Town, all with octagonal framed numeral handstamps, comprising "16" of Tulbagh and "19" of Clanwilliam on entire letters, "21" of Malmesbury and "52" of Beaufort on entires, "34" of George and "58" of Hankey on fronts, "52" with file folds and filing endorsement on the front but a good strike, "34" and "58" very fine, the others a little under or overinked, a scarce group. (6). £400-500
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