1872, folded letter with printed contents, franked with 2d blue, plate 13, tied by bold strike of C51 vertical barred numeral, adjacent “St. Thomas PAID” c.d.s. in red (29 Feb), blue commercial handstamp of Costa Hermanos & Co, to Genova, Italy, a fresh and fine solo franking paying the less common printed matter rate.
Provenance:
Collection Georg D. Mehrtens, 2006
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1867, folded letter to Bordeaux, France, handstruck “20” (decimes) rate marking, postmarked with La Guayra c.d.s. (4 Dec), endorsed “via St. Nazaire”, backstamped with “LIGNE A PAQ FR No 1” c.d.s. (9 Dec, one with apparent date slug error), Bordeaux c.d.s. receiver (24 Dec), some light toning.
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1906, cover franked with 5bit light green vertical pair, 10bit brick red, 20bit green & ultramarine, and 25bit ultramarine, King Christian IX, tied by Christiansted c.d.s. (6 Dec), registered to La Sarthe, France, with St. Thomas (7 Dec) c.d.s. transit and two French c.d.s. backstamps, vertical fold at left, a pleasing four-color franking; with 1987 Nielsen certificate.
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1912, 10bit red and 40bit red & grey Friedrich VIII, tied to registered cover by St. Thomas c.d.s. (21 Oct), to Seattle, Washington, redirected within the city, with New York (29 Oct), Seattle (2 Nov) and Seattle Sta F (4 Nov) backstamps, typical light wrinkles, fine.
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1910, 10bit red postal stationery card, postmarked with neatly-struck KINGSHILL c.d.s. (2 Jul), day slug inverted, to Lokstedt, Hamburg, light corner bumps, a choice example of this elusive town cancel.
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1909, 5bit green, 15bit violet & brown, 20bit green & blue, and 25bit blue & dark blue Christian X, tied by St. Thomas c.d.s. to cover from the German Consulate to Berlin, Germany, without backstamps, a pleasing four-color franking.
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1891-5, 3c red, Type III, cancelled with neatly-struck St. Jan c.d.s. (21 Jul), to St. Croix, with St. Thomas (21 Jul) and next-day Christiansted c.d.s. backstamps, some light edge toning, else fine, the St. Jan c.d.s. being quite scarce. (Facit FK8)
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1864, folded letter dated 23 July, franked with Trinidad 1863 1d lake, paying the inland rate, tied by circular black grid, postmarked with Trinidad double-arc despatch, to Ragged Islands, Nova Scotia, endorsed in manuscript “via St. Thomas & Bermuda”, with double-arc transit backstamp (29 Jul), “4” in manuscript denoting Caribbean transit amount due, received in Halifax on August 10, partial Ragged Island receiver backstamp (13 Aug), a desirable routing.
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1908, printed price list, franked with 5bit light green, tied by Frederiksted c.d.s. (10 Feb), to Germany, with St. Thomas (13 Feb) transit and Aue (8 Mar) c.d.s. arrival backstamps, a remarkably fresh entire and scarce single franking.
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Postage Dues, 1905, 5bit to 5bit compound proof in black, with two of each value, never hinged, very fine.
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