1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis ½c Lighthouse, 1c Sugar Train, 10c Hibiscus & 15c Sea Island Cotton tied to airmail cover to Massachusetts by 'ANGUILLA/27SP/67/VALLEY' cds, Cat £65 CTO but very scarce postally used on cover.
1967 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints on St Kitts-Nevis 3c Stone Gateway with the Watermark Inverted SG 4w, socked-on-the-nose cds of 12OC/67, Cat £50.
1967-68 'ANGULLA' Pictorials 1c Mahogony Tree strip of 3 & 5c Plantation House on unsealed commercial cover to USA with cds of '5DE/67', tiny blemishes. Presumably contained a Christmas card, sent at the Printed Matter rate. Very scarce.
1969 'INDEPENDENCE/JANUARY, 1969' Overprints 1c to 40c SG 52a-j plus the unlisted 20c 60c $1 $2.50 & $5, unmounted. [Gibbons state that only values to 40c have been seen on commercial mail & apparently treats the unlisted values as unissued. Quite perverse!]
(Qty 15)
1969 'INDEPENDENCE/JANUARY, 1969' Overprints 1c to 40c SG 52a-j plus the unlisted 20c 60c $1 $2.50 & $5 all tied to large printed FDC by 'ANGUILLA/9JAN69/FIRST DAY OF ISSUE' cds, registered to GB with boxed R h/s and two strikes of the '1967-69/ANGUILLA'S INDEPENDENCE/FROM ST. KITTS-NEVIS' in the same ink, London arrival b/s of 11JA69, minor blemishes. [Gibbons state that only values to 40c have been seen on commercial mail & apparently treats the unlisted values as unissued. Quite perverse! This cover, while philatelic, clearly passed through the mail and arrived in London after only two days]
1969 'INDEPENDENCE/JANUARY, 1969' Overprints 2c 4c 6c 15c & 40c plus the unlisted 20c & 60c tied to philatelic airmail cover to Texas by 'ANGUILLA/26MAR69/VALLEY' cds. [Gibbons state that only values to 40c have been seen on commercial mail & apparently treats the unlisted values as unissued. Quite perverse!]
1969 'INDEPENDENCE/JANUARY, 1969' Overprints 15c 25c & 40c plus the unlisted 20c 60c $1 & $2.50 tied to philatelic airmail cover to GB by 'ANGUILLA/8APR69/VALLEY' cds. [Gibbons state that only values to 40c have been seen on commercial mail & apparently treats the unlisted values as unissued. Quite perverse!]
POSTAL HISTORY: 1967 apparently commercial airmail cover to "Charlotte Amelie/St Thomas" (US Virgin Islands) correctly rated with 'Independent/Anguilla' Overprints 20c Boat Building SG 10 tied by 'ANGUILLA/4OC/67/VALLEY' cds. Very scarce postally used, especially on correctly rated mail.
POSTAL HISTORY: 1970 cover endorsed "FORCES MAIL" by air to Berkshire with Machin 5d tied by 'FIELD POST OFFICE/30NO/70/1046' cds in used at Anguilla, sender's endorsement "Pache APU BFPO 643" on the flap. [FPO 1046 was used on Anguilla -.4.1969 to -.11.1970]
POSTAL HISTORY: c.1970 apparently commercial airmail cover from St Thomas (US Virgin Islands) to "West End/Anguilla" with US 10c tied by straight-line 'ANGUILLA AIRWAYS' h/s.
POSTAL HISTORY: 1939 (Sep 12) commercial cover to Suriname with a complete OHMS label used for censorship (Petter Burrows #L3; rated 10) with 'OPENED BY CENSOR/("2")' h/s (#H3; rated 7), Georgetown 'CABLE AND WIRELESS/VIA IMPERIAL' slogan b/s applied in transit & 'PARAMARIBO/25.9.39' arrival b/s. Very early WWII censorship.
112: '112' 1st Type very fine strike on 1867 cover with Laureates 2d pair & 4d, 21½mm 'DUNKELD' (the later of only two recorded examples) and 'BALMORAL' arrival b/s, repaired flap fault and small peripheral tears. Rated RRR. [Goldmining]
338: '338' First Type Original State (Side Bars) very fine strike on OHMS piece with over-inked 'WANNON/FE-16/62/ VICTORIA' cds alongside. Rated RRRRR. [Western District: located at Redruth R.S.]
349: Type 1 with side-bars bold strike on turned 1883 OHMS lettersheet with very fine strike of the almost as rare 'GREEN HILL/MR28/81/...' b/s, also with largely very fine 'LANGLEY' b/s, minor blemishes. Rated RRRRR. PO 1.7.1861; closed 1.4.1891. [NB: all four recorded strikes of the cds have the date error '81' for '83']
1002: 'M2' (Second Type with 'M' = 11mm High) of Kalkee, light but obvious strike on Reading 1d orange. Rated RRRRR; no cds recorded. PO 9.8.1877; closed 1.7.1895. [Wimmera; 19km N of Horsham]
23: '23' of Swan Hill or Violet Town fine strike in blue on Half-Lengths White Veils 1d pinkish red SG 12a (margins close to large; Cat £180). Rated RRR.
1853-55 Imperf 4c pale blue SG 20, margins close - at the top - to good, overinked but clear 'B G/A 5 C/DE7/1857' cds of Sparta (Proud Type D1), Cat £700. A very scarce stamp, especially this fine.