Undated entire to Frankfort, Maine, endorsed “pr North Star via N.Y.”, the reverse showing single oval St Thomas Foreign Letter Office handstamp (in use 1846-61), the front with New York/ Ship/ 7cts cds.
Undated entire to Williamstown, Mass. bearing 5c. Postmaster, good even margins, cancelled violet pen strokes, red New York date stamp and slightly cursive PAID at left; A Diena initials to left of stamp. A fine clean example.
Undated envelope to Dorpat, Estonia franked 1866-75 10k. tied by oval POST SEGEWOLD date stamp with a further, superb strike on reverse showing date added in manuscript, with arrival to right. Mikulski handstamp.
Undated long blue 'On Her Majesty's Service' cover from Corfu to Paxos during period of British Administration bearing small red despatch cds and straight-line REGISTERED handstamp in red, unrecorded by Parmenter. Arrival backstamp and three red wax seals of Commisariat Ionian Islands. Missing backflap and opened out for display.
Undated Napoleonic stampless outer letter sheet to Beauvaix bearing fine strike of P.54P./ LE PORT DE LA LIBERTE handstamp at left and at right framed P.P.P.P.; some slight ageing.
Undated outer letter sheet to Caracas franked 1866 two 1r. vermilion, one marginal, plus a diagonal bisect, all with mostly good margins, tied by undated La Guaira cds. A five times letter rate for s distance of up to 25 miles, vertical filing fold affecting one stamp. Ex Villasmil & Heister. Brian Moorehouse Certificate
Undated outer letter sheet to Madrid bearing red straight-line YNDIAS with manuscript annotation "Por Cadiz" and "Diana", reverse with endorsement "Dirijida par ... Carballo Habana". Disinfected with two small diagonal creases
Undated photographic picture postcard of Governor’s Residence franked by 1917 overprinted 15c. Alfonso XIII tied by straight-line ‘ELOBEY’ handstamp in violet, addressed to Avignon; fine condition.
Undated picture postcard ‘Bain de Brousse’ to Paris franked 20 paras tied by boxed bilingual PAQUEBOT handstamp, without further postal markings.
Undated printed cover front to Italy franked India KGV 1a. and 2a.6p. tied by two straight-line PAQUEBOTS handstamps.
Undated small entire to Oosternet franked 1864 5c. tied red straight-line OOSTERWOLDE handstamp that is repeated at top; fine and rare.
Undated wrapper to Sapara bearing black oval Probolingo/ Franco handstamp, manuscript “45” charge (W de B 252a)
undated, probably late 1840 outer letter sheet to Cadiz bearing three-line S Roque transit in apparent mixture of red and black inks and also showing fine red 13½q rate handstamp. Such 23mm high marks are known on maritime mail from Britain but rated in reales, a previously unrecorded handstamp.
Unused, undated blue and red advertising and order reply envelope for the St Nicolas Pharmacy at S. Dimitriyevic, Zayecar; fine and attractive
UP Exhibition Allahabad First Aerial Post cachet in violet tying India KE7 6a to 1911 (18 FE) envelope with Allahabad dispatch, Dehra Dun arrival and registration label on reverse. Fine.CS
Victoria 1861 cover to Tewkesbury, England bearing single franking imperf 6d., tied by '5' numeral handstamp, reverse with Ballarat oval despatch, Geelong oval transit and arrival cds, routed via suez.
Victoria 1870 cover to London, redirected on arrival to "Conservative Club", bearing single franking 10d. blackish brown/pink tied Melbourne duplex, small circular framed 'R' handstamp with crown at top applied in London, arrival backstamps. The stamp has been lifted from envelope and hinged in place
Victoria 1872 cover to London bearing single franking 9d. on 10d. tied Melbourne duplex, arrival backstamp. Endorsed "Via Brindisi", envelope opened-out for display.
Victoria 1891 4d. registration envelope that has been uprated to Richmond with 1d. postal stationery cut out cancelled ovl despatch cds, the stamp image with pen cancel.
Victoria 1893 1d. postal stationery envelope to Brunswick cancelled Melbourne 'Victoria' duplex, arrival cds below this and framed UNCLAIMED AT BRUNSWICK and NOT KNOWN BY/ LETTER CARRIERS/ BRUNSWICK, reverse with manuscript "no such number West" and initialed; the backflap has been stuck down.