Lot 483 USA #65 1862 (December 1), Eagle, Shield, & Flags, patriotic Civil War cover to Marengo, franked with 3c rose Washington, tied by “CAIRO ILLINOIS” (Alexander County) double-circle datestamp, illustrated with a red, white, and blue design depicting a centrally placed eagle and shield flanked by American flags on both sides, a bold Union patriotic design, fine. Sold for C$250.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
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Lot 185, French Equatorial Africa 1941 Censored Registered Airmail Cover Mayumba to New York, sold for C$351
Lot 185, French Equatorial Africa 1941 Registered Airmail Cover Mayumba to New York, franked with a pair of 2f 25c blue & light blue, 10f dark violet & blue, and 20f dark olive & yellow Governor Victor Liotard definitives, tied by five strikes of “MAYUMBA GABON” double circle cancellations, with violet “REGISTERED” handstamp and black “MAYUMBA” on red registration etiquette on front, Egyptian censorship tape with associated bilingual violet “Postal Censor” handstamp at left, along with “CONTROLE POSTALE COMMISION B AFRIQUE EQUATORIAL FRANCAISE” double circle censor marking and five “B3” in circle on front and back, all tied to brown paper censor tape at right, further marked with “OUVERT PAR LE AUTORITE MILITAIRE” handstamp, violet Honolulu, Hawaii (16 Nov) double circle transit and New York receiver backstamps, creases, closed tear at top, but scarce. (Sc. #67(x2), 71, 77). Sold for C$300.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 329, Jamaica 1933 Registered Special Delivery cover Montego Bay to New York, sold for C$210
Lot 329 Jamaica #99 1933 (February 20), Montego Bay to New York, registered special delivery cover, franked with 5sh ochre & blue “Woodland Scene”, tied by “MONTEGO BAY / JAMAICA” double-circle c.d.s., with violet “Fee Claimed by Office of First Address” two-line handstamp, “BY AIR MAIL PAR AVION” and “EXPRES Special Delivery” etiquettes on front, multiple transit markings including Kingston (21 Feb) and Miami (24 Feb), a fine special delivery franking. (Sc. #99) Sold for C$180.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 302, India 1880 cover with manuscript cancel to London, sold for C$210
Lot 302 India 1880, ten 1/2a blue in a block of four, strip of three, pair, and a single, postmarked with indistinct obliterator and cancelled “Postage Paid” in manuscript, to London, endorsed “via Brindisi”, to London, with Ashamboo (26 Jan), Outw Bombay (30 Jan), and London (18 Feb) backstamps, some wrinkling, but an attractive and unusual franking. Sold for C$180.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.
Lot 305, India 1893 postal stationery cover to Spanish West Indies, sold for C$321
Lot 305 India #88 1893 (January 2), 1a brown purple, uprating 2a6pi surcharged postal stationery cover, tied by “A” circular grid, registered from Dehra Dun to H.B.M. Vice Consul F.W. Ramsden at “St. Jago de Cuba”, SPANISH WEST INDIES, endorsed “via Brindisi” and “via United States”, “Registered London” (21 Jan) oval transit on front, “Sea Post Office B” (7 Jan) and “Santiago de Cuba” (4 Feb) c.d.s. backstamps, repaired opening tears at top and to back, an eye-appealing cover to a scarce destination. (S.G. 88)
F.W. Ramsden, British diplomat, was also the first person documented to have climbed the peak of Pico Turquino, the highest point in Cuba.
Sold for C$275.00 plus 17% buyer’s premium.