EARLIEST RECORDED INCOMING COVER IN PRIVATE HANDS
1842 (Jan 1) Incoming wrapper from Boston, United States, addressed to the first United States Consul at Zanzibar, Richard P. Waters. The cover was carried on the Cunard Line’s “Columbia” to Liverpool being handled by Harnden & Company who had offices in both Boston & Liverpool (as noted with circular hand-stamp “Pd /H”), then to London & via “Falmouth” onto Bombay via the...
Autumn Auction
By: David Feldman S.A.
David Feldman S.A. Autumn Auction
This auction presents collections of Israel, Russia, Zanzibar, British Empire, Overseas and Europe; nevertheless the two highlights of the auction are the many hundreds of single country and worldwide collections, plus the return of our celebrated Rarities of the World offering.
We will present 5 catalogues:
- Israel, including the Belinkoff and Weissenberg Collections
- Russian Post in the Chinese Empire (Part IV) - The Dr. Raymond Casey Grand Prix Collection
- Zanzibar: The Gary DuBro Collection
- All World including British Empire, Egypt, France & colonies, Russia, Overseas and Collections
- Rarities of the World including the “Ambassador” Collection of the first days usages of the World
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Lot #30000 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
Lot #30001 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1846 (Apr 11) Envelope from Captain Cornwallis Ricketts, later Rear Admiral Ricketts & Sir Cornwallis Ricketts sent to Leeds, England via India with enclosed letter. Captain Ricketts had been sent to Zanzibar at the direction of Queen Victoria to encourage the Sultan not to offer “most-favoured nation” trading status to France. Several comments in the letter are noteworthy; “Great changes in this part of the world,” and later “The Imam of...
Lot #30002 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1849 Folded entire with 3 page letter from George Putnam while at Zanzibar sent to his brother John at Wenham, Massachusetts (United States) carried via Whaler “Lucia Maria”. Light red arrival “PAID” hs and charged “7”(c). Putnam wrote the letter while in port at Zanzibar during a voyage on the bark “Emily Wilder”. He writes: “It took a quick 78 days to Majunga (Madagascar).” While in post at Majunga, another brother Horace arrived on the...
Lot #30003 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1850 Envelope from Chancellor Emile Kuhlmann of the French Consulate at Zanzibar sent to his father at Colmar, France. The cover was sent via English mails noting straight-line hand-stamp “SHIP LETTER” originally charged “1/-2” in manuscript subsequently crossed out and “30” (decimes) applied. Only recorded Zanzibar pre-post office cover carried to Europe via Cape of Good Hope & St. Helena. At St Helena forwarded by “S. Solomon” noting...
Lot #30004 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
THE UNIQUE DATE-STAMP, THE EARLIEST RECORDED FOR ANY ZANZIBAR POSTAL HISTORY ITEM
1851 (Mar 12) Envelope sent by Chancellor Emile Kuhlmann of the French Consulate to his father at Colmar, France charged 10 decimes in manuscript. The cover was sent via Aden, overland to Alexandria, then via ship to Marseille noting double circle transit hand-stamp “PAQ. ANGL. MARSEILLE/ 30 AVRIL / 51”, small cover faults with small portion of backflap...
Lot #30005 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1852 (Jan 22) Incoming stampless envelope from Colmar, France, sent to "Consulate de Zanzibar / Monsieur Emile Kuhlmann, Chancelior” charged 10(decimes) via Alexandria, overland to the Suez & via sea through the “Bab-el-Mandeb,” the entrance to the Red Sea at the Indian Ocean. During this time, mail to Zanzibar was sent to the British Political Agent Captain Haines at Aden. As there was no scheduled service from Aden to Zanzibar, the...
Lot #30006 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1852 (Feb 22) Incoming stampless envelope from Colmar, France sent to Monsieur Emile Kuhlmann, Chancelior du Consulate de France at Zanzibar, and charged 25c suggesting that the cover was sent via Marseille and down the west coast of Africa around the Cape of Good Hope. The cover displays arrival date in red manuscript as 9 July & transit time of “121 jours”. Fine and rare.
Lot #30007 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1854 (Nov 22) Incoming envelope from Colmar, France sent to "Aden mer rouge / Messiers Farsee, Edijlee, Curselijee & Sons” for “Emile Kuhlmann, chancelior, du Consules de France / Zanzibar.” The forwarders at Aden then sent the cover via a convenient ship travelling down the East coast of Africa. The routing notes Strausbourg, Paris & Alexandria, Egypt. Noted in manuscript in upper left “12 gr” on obverse and “20”(centimes) on reverse...
Lot #30008 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1858 (May 26) Incoming folded entire from forwarding agents Dossabhoy & Merwanji & Co.of Bombay sent to Antoine Michel, an agent at Mozambique, with forwarders cachet and embossed logo. The entire notes in manuscript “Per ‘Falkland’ via Zanzibar”. The entire further notes in manuscript on the reverse “Care Messrs Cheney & Spalding of Zanzibar,” previously unrecorded forwarding agents at Zanzibar. The letter requests that Michel “...
Lot #30009 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1858 Folded letter from French merchant Banzan at Zanzibar addressed to Antoine Michel, an agent for Mr. Regisaine at Mozambique. The entire encloses a 3-page letter written in French and it is noted in the letter that the cover was carried via an unnamed American schooner. The item represents one of the earliest incoming postal history items to Mozambique as well as intra-African mail. The condition is excellent with a very minor horizontal...
Lot #30010 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1857 Letter written in French carried on board steamer “IBA” from Zanzibar to Mozambique, datelined “Zanzibar le 5 novembre 1857”. Unusual
Lot #30011 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1860 (Oct 16) Incoming envelope from Salem, Massachusetts (United States) to Zanzibar carried by the Cunard Line “Canada” departing Boston 17 October to England, then carried by the P&O Line’s “Bombay” leaving Southampton on 12 November & arriving at Bombay 25 November. Forwarded from Bombay on 26 November by Dessabhoy Merwanjee & Company via Dhow to Zanzibar. Charged 65(c) on original departure and 1/-7 at England. Ex Walkley
Lot #30012 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
ONE OF ONLY 3 COVERS KNOWN SENT VIA THE SEYCHELLES BEARING MAURITIUS STAMP USED IN ZANZIBAR
1864 (Oct) Envelope sent to Augustus Arnold in Care of Rufus Green & Company at Providence, Rhode Island (United States), noted in manuscript from “Leopold Acevedo / Zanzibar”. The envelope Bears 1/- & 6d Mauritius adhesive issues of 1863 each tied with “B64” numeral cancellations applied for use by Seychelles postal officials, with...
Lot #30013 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1864 (Jun 16) Incoming envelope from Steenvoorde, France, to Mr. A. Mawhood on board the ship “Paul Augte” at Zanzibar in care of Captain Messemaecker. The cover was sent via Lille, Paris (16 June), Aden Steamer Point (3 July) & “par Suez” and bears France 1862 80c rose on tied by “3463” numeral in diamond of dots and accompanying boxed “PD” in red, very fine, signed Calves, ex Walkley
Lot #30013A - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1865 (Mar 12) Incoming quadruple rate envelope from the Goodhue correspondence sent from Salem, Massachusetts via London, Marseille and Seychelles bearing $1.80 postage composed of a strip of three and three single of 30c adhesives of the 1861 issue. This envelope is a new discovery and represents the earliest cover from the Goodhue correspondence. The cover is the only quadruple rate cover as previously recorded the highest franking from the...
Lot #30014 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1869 (May) Envelope written from "Mrs. Kirk (H. Cooke), wife of the British Consul John Kirk, sent to England having been carried first to Bombay where Indian 1866-8 8a rose and 1860-4 8p lilac issue were applied and cancelled with duplex date-stamps, one of three covers recorded by Mrs. Kirk in the 1867 to 1869 time frame, very fine & rare, ex Sturton.
Lot #30015 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1873 (Dec 18) Incoming wrapper from London sent to Zanzibar "via Brindisi" bearing 1867-80 2s blue pl.1 tied with London "89" duplex, very fine & scarce destination, ex Walkley
Lot #30016 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1875 (Feb) Envelope from the German Consulate at Zanzibar sent to Berlin noting a deficiency charge of “60” (pfennigs) displayed in blue crayon along with the standard “T” in circle tax marking. The envelope was incorrectly taxed as consular mail was presumably free. The envelope was sent via Aden & the P. & O.’s “Australia” carrying the cover through the newly completed Suez Canal and then to Brindisi, and from there via rail to...
Lot #30017 - zanzibar zanzibar - pre-post office period (pre-1875)
1875 (Jul) Transiting envelope from Calcutta, India, sent to Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. Noted in manuscript “via Bombay & Zanzibar” with date-stamps Aden Steamer Point (9 Aug) & Port Elizabeth (20 Sep) on the reverse. The cover bears single 1868 8a. Rare destination and routing direction notation, illustrating the recognition of the recently established mail service to Zanzibar.
Lot #30018 - zanzibar zanzibar - anti-slave patrol (1864-1896)
1872 (6 & 13 May) Envelope with two enclosed letters from an officer A. Hanne on the H.M.S. “Columbine” noting in manuscript “Slave Cruising between Brava and Socotra”. Noted in the letters: “After leaving Seychelles we went to Zanzibar to fill up on provisions. When we arrived there found Livingstone expedition has just arrived in the steamer ‘Abydos’, Dawson the leader of the expedition was on board the ‘Britannia’ with me...” and...
Lot #30019 - zanzibar zanzibar - anti-slave patrol (1864-1896)
1874 (Oct 24) Officer’s letter sent from Naval Instructor Joseph D. Paul serving on the H.M.S. “Glasgow” to his fiancée Fanny May Gibbs at London. The log of the “Glasgow” records the ship arriving at Zanzibar from the Comoros Islands on 18 September 1874 and departing for the Seychelles on 5 October. B.I.S.N. Company’s “Euphrates” carried the mails from Zanzibar on 24 September, connecting with the P. & O.’s “Mirzapore” arriving at...
Lot #30020 - zanzibar zanzibar - anti-slave patrol (1864-1896)
1883 (Oct) Sailor’s concessionary rate pre-printed envelope from H.M.S. Euryalus while at Zanzibar from the Sullivan correspondence sent to Birmingham, England (received 9 November), bearing Great Britain 1880-81 2d tied by oval dumb canceller, initialled by the commanding officer, minor faults, rare, ex Sturton
Note: The “Euryalus” was on slave patrol duties off the east coast of Africa.
Lot #30021 - zanzibar zanzibar - anti-slave patrol (1864-1896)
1888 (Aug) Sailor’s concessionary rate envelope from the H.M.S. “Griffon” while at Zanzibar, from the Sullivan correspondence sent to Birmingham, England (received 21 September), bearing Great Britain 1887 2d “Jubilee” tied by Foreign Branch “FB” in London, some soiling, ex Sturton
Lot #30022 - zanzibar zanzibar - anti-slave patrol (1864-1896)
1889 (Aug) Sailor’s concessionary rate envelope from H.M.S. “Griffon” while at Pemba Island (Zanzibar), from the Sullivan correspondence sent to Birmingham, England (received 21 September), bearing Great Britain 1887 2d “Jubilee” tied by partial oval of 7 bars. The envelope was initialled by the Commanding Officer. Very rare as this is the only example from the slave patrol postal history emanating from Pemba, ex Sturton
Notes: Michael...
Lot #30023 - zanzibar zanzibar - anti-slave patrol (1864-1896)
1889 Sailor’s concessionary rate envelope from the H.M.S. “Griffon” while a Zanzibar, from the Sullivan correspondence sent to Birmingham, England (received 22 April), bearing Great Britain 188 1d lilac die II pair tied by Foreign Branch “FB” in London, initialled by commanding officer, fine
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