1851-c.2000 Mint and used collection on pages with many useful stamps and sets, including Anguilla with 1967 (Sept) "Independence Anguilla" overprint issue 5c and 15c unused without gum; Antigua with 1903 set to 2/6 mint, 1921-29 Multiple Script CA set mainly mint (4/- used on piece), 1938 set mint; Bahamas; Barbados with 1912 3/- mint, 1920 Victory set mint; Barbuda with 1922 set mint; Bermuda; Cayman Islands with 1912 10/-, 1921 Multiple Script CA set, 1935, 1938, 1950 and 1953 sets all mint; Dominica; Grenada; Jamaica; Leeward Islands with 1902 set mint, KGV 10/-, KGVI 10/- and å£1 all mint; Montserrat with 1904-08 2/6, 5/- mint, 1938 set mint; Nevis; St Kitts with 1903 and 1938 sets mint; St. Lucia with 1860 4d blue and 6d green used, 1887 1/- mint; St. Vincent; Tobago; Trinidad with 1852-60 1d blue apparently used, 1907 å£1 mint; Turks Islands with 1909, 1928, 1938, 1950 and 1957 sets all mint; Virgin Islands with 1913, 1938, 1952, 1956 and 1964 sets all mint. A good lot, mostly fine and lightly mounted. S.G. å£12,500+ (approx). (100s). Photo on Page 102. (Image1)

Forgeries. QV Forgeries, mainly on pages, from St. Lucia (185), St. Christopher (39), Nevis (97) and twelve other West Indies colonies, including forgeries by Fournier, Panelli, Spiro, etc., a few engraved forgeries and forged surcharges. (441).

Dummer Packets. 1702/3 (Feb 11-15) and 1705 (Apr 23-26) "London Gazette" newspapers, the first with a short notice advertising the new "Dummer" Packet service to the West Indies giving sailing dates and postal rates; the second giving a longer and more detailed notice on the packet service with sailing dates and postal rates, hours or days spent at each island, and arrangements for transmitting mail from the West Indies to Bermuda and the American Colonies. (2).

Maritime Mail/P.O Acts & Notices/Ephemera. 1787-1895 Printed items including 1841 118 page report into the West India Mails; 1885 and 1895 copies of the West Indies mail contracts; 1864 correspondence on the proposed contributions from West Indies colonies to the mail packet subsidy; 1869 return of R.M.S.P ships from the West Indies; three 1843-90 P.O Notices for mails to the West Indies (the first with faults); 1871 71 page correspondence on the Leeward Islands Federation (including postal regulations); 1834 Act for conveyance of newspapers to the Colonies; 1849 Act allowing Colonial legislatives to establish inland posts; 1787 newspaper with notice of packets to West Indies; 1849 Packet Lists (4); also 1817 document chartering a ship at Tortola to sail to Turks Island and Maine; bills of lading for ships to or from Tortola; 1796 Antigua bill of exchange; 1822 letter signed by the P.O Secretary Sir Francis Freeling (after whom one of the Falmouth Packets to the West Indies was named); 1842 map, etc. (24).