Very nice commercial postcard from a Tangier trader with many interesting postal history elements
More details...Scarce registered label and handstamps on neat cover
More details...Very scarce ADEN STR POINT single arc datestamp on reverse
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More details...Excellent strike of scarce WW1 military cachet plus Bombay PAQUEBOT
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More details...Scarce retta of lines cancel on postcard to Erfurt, Germany
More details...This is an early usage of the first GIBRALTAR 1d postal stationery postcard, which was overprinted on the St Vincent 1d postcards. It has a GIBRALTAR A26 duplex, and is addressed to Brighton.
More details...This is a 1912 picture postcard of the Aden camel market used with a King Edward VII Indian 1 anna adhesive, with a superb strike of the YOKOHAMA MARSEILLE No. 3 octagonal ship marking, sent to France. Nice item.
More details...This is a neat and unusual DEAD LETTER OFFICE MELBOURNE RETURNED LETTER envelope sent to the Dead Letter Mail at Suva, Fiji, for disposal. Rare item.
More details...This is a fine copy of the 6 Annas King George VI Indian airletter sheet, overprinted PAKISTAN, unused. Hard to find.
More details...This is a most unusual ACTIVE SERVICE green envelope used with two King George VI Nyasaland adhesives (9d and 2d), cancelled with the EGYPT POSTAGE PREPAID 6 handstamp, and posted to Bulawayo in 1943. Fascinating item.
More details...This is a souvenir pictorial airmail envelope sent on the first official airmail flight from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia to Zomba, Nyasaland on 9th March 1934. It received all the appropriate cachets and backstamps but has some opening tears at the top. Attractive item.
More details...This is a fine 15c Seychelles pictorial postal stationery envelope overprinted SPECIMEN, dating from 1895. Very nice item.
More details...This is a neat 1923 Barbuda BWI envelope registered with four values of the Barbuda overprints on Leeward Islands adhesives (6d - 2d - 3d - 2 1/2d) addressed to Ipswich. Scarce item.
More details...This is a most interesting envelope registered at OCEAN ISLAND, GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY with a strip of 4 and a further single King George V 1d key type stamps overprinted WAR TAX and cancelled with three strikes of the GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS handstamp. No reverse flap, hence low price.
More details...This is a picture postcard of Valletta, Malta with the scarce local cancel of ST PAUL'S BAY on a King Edward VII halfpenny stamp. This was insufficient postage to send to England, so it has a Maltese circular T, and a blue crayon '5c' due mark, and it also picked up a 1d charge mark in London. Fascinating item.
More details...This is a 1941 airmail cover from KITWE NORTHERN RHODESIA sent to a soldier in the MEF (Middle East Forces - King's Royal Rifle Corps). He had been taken as a POW and there are various cachets from attempts to deliver the envelope to him; but eventually it was returned to sender, and received a RETURNED LETTER OFFICE CAPETOWN marking on the reverse, four months after posting.
More details...This is a neat cover with two clear strikes of the FIELD POST OFFICE 18 (Ramallah, Palestine) on KGV 1d and KEVIII ½d adhesives, paying the 1½d rate to the UK. Addressed to Carshalton, Surrey.
More details...This 1941 cover has a pair of 1d King George VI Southern Rhodesia adhesives, used with the BULAWAYO machine marking advertising Rhodesian Tea, and neatly tying the scarce label "WE REALISE IN RHODESIA THE SAFE ARRIVAL OF THIS LETTER IS DUE TO THE BRITISH NAVY". Lovely clean item.
More details...This is an old Italian airmail envelope used as official mail at Atbara, Sudan by the Indian Forces with a superb strike of the FPO No R-2 datestamp from 29 September 1942.
More details...This is a 1923 Tonga TWO PENCE overprint on the 5d adhesive, used on a cover to Vancouver, Canada. It has the SUVA transit mark on the reverse of 28th December.
More details...This is a 1906 King Edward VII 1d Virgin Islands adhesive used at ROADTOWN/TORTOLA/V.I. Alongside there is a ST THOMAS D.W.I. transit mark of the same day. The Jamaica picture postcard (of a native hut) was en route to Walton on Thames, England.
More details...This is a Newfoundland Queen Victoria five cents postal stationery envelope from 1889, used (by a fervent monarchist!) in 1937 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the accession to the British throne of Her Majesty. Queen Victoria postage still remained valid at the time.
More details...This a neat King George VI 9d British adhesive with a good strike of the BRITISH POST OFFICE TANGIER, used on an airmail envelope to Sweden with the very neat double-oval O.A.T. (onward air transmission) cachet in violet.
More details...This is a trimmed cover with a very fine example of the scarce 15 cents "large head" Queen Victoria adhesive, cancelled with a MONCTON NB (New Brunswick) duplex, in 1891.
More details...This is a picture postcard sent from NARAGUTA, Northern Nigeria in 1912 to London with two superb strikes of the local office. Good condition.
More details...An immaculate unused example of the rare King George VI 6 anna airletter sheet, from 1945, which features a pictorial Christmas Greetings and Happy New Year scene inside. On the bottom left of the front is the code CORR 66. Very hard to find.
More details...This is a wreck cover sent from London and addressed to Perth, Western Australia, in January 1939. After being salvaged, a label was affixed to the reverse of the envelope with information on the crash, from the Deputy Director of Post in Perth. Fascinating item.
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