Ceylon 1855 Trincomalee Steamer Letter to London East India Co. Stampless FL
Stampless folded letter, with contents from a sailor to the Secretary of the East India Company, requesting payment for naval service, backstamped with TRINCOMALEE / STEAMER LETTER, struck on front with oval RECEIVED /VIA SOUTHAMPTON (24 Sep), partial red c.d.s. on reverse, address panel with tear, heavy vertical filing folds, a difficult strike.
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Ceylon 1865 Colombo Steamer Letter Via Marseilles to Bordeaux France SFL
Stampless folded cover, without contents but docketed Colombo, 11 July, 1865, struck with clear British / Packet / Postage / Paid on front, rated 1/- overstruck by red Marseilles entry mark, and "20" (decimes) in black, backstamped COLOMBO / STEAMER LETTER, Alexandria double split-ring transit in blue, Paris and Bordeaux c.d.s. (16 Aout), horizontal filing fold, scarce and fine.
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Gibraltar 1878 Great Britain 1/2d & 2d on Cover to Madrid Spain A26 Duplex
Folded cover, franked with Great Britain 1870-79 ½d rose-red, plate 14, and 1858-79 2d blue, plate 15, each tied by superbly-struck Gibraltar A26 duplex (April 3), Laffitte correspondence to Madrid, Spain, with Y. Bergel sender's cachet at lower left, no backstamps, trivial filing fold, lovely and fresh.
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Gibraltar Sc #22-28 (1899) 5c on 1/2p to 75c on 1sh Queen Victoria Set Used
5c on 1/2p green to 75c on 1sh bistre Queen Victoria, used set of seven, more difficult as such than mint, chiefly fine-very fine. (S.G. 15/21)
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Great Britain 1804 Alexandria Egypt ISLE OF WIGHT SHIP LETTER Stampless Cover FL
1804, stampless folded letter, datelined Alexandria, to London, endorsed at lower left "per ship Hero / Cap Cole", particularly fine strike of Crown oval "SHIP LRE / ISLE OF WIGHT" (Robertson type S1), charged "11" in manuscript, with c.d.s. arrival backstamp (Feb 1), a choice example of this difficult strike, rare in such quality.
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Great Britain 1808 Ireland MERMAID Free Frank Stampless Folded Cover Drogheda
1808, folded cover, postmarked with red DROGHEDA 24 straight-line, to the Honourable John Foster, Chancellor of the Exchequer (Ireland), Dublin, with red crowned "FREE" double-framed "Mermaid" datestamp (Sep 30), manuscript"8" charge fee applied in error and cancelled upon arrival in Dublin, light vertical filing fold, a fine example of this scarce and desirable "Mermaid" marking.
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