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We are specialized in worldwide postal history from prestamp to 1940s'

We also have an extensive, mainly topographical postcard stock that is not yet fully uploaded to the website, scans on request.

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CUBA CUBA: 1865 29 MAR Folded envelope franked 1864 1r bright blue / salmon, two, both with full margins, tied by segmented cork oval cancel with Matanzas dispatch, Spanish / French TPO entry mark, Madrid transit and Marseille faint arrival backstamp, small issues to backflaps, fine appearance.

CUBA

Covers and stamps / Cuba

£95

GUATEMALA GUATEMALA: 1905 (16 Set) POSTAL STATIONERY Exhibition stationery used with red duplex Exposicion datestamp in violet, addressed Mazatenango with UPU monument design on reverse, RH perforated margin detached, full message inside, very scarce.

GUATEMALA

Covers and stamps / Guatemala

£165

PERU PERU: 1858 (20 DIC) Folded cover to LIMA franked 1858 1d. Pale blue (pair) + 2 singles, all with good margins except one margin of pair, cancelled straight line PIURA, fine franking.

PERU

Covers and stamps / Peru

£450

GUATEMALA GUATEMALA: 1898 (MAR) registered AR envelope to Nova Scotia franked on front 1893 25c orange tied by oval GUATEMALA AR/ star duplex with Reg cachet and oval dispatch all in violet, various transit backstamps incl. New Orleans, New York, St Johns, Halifax, New York registration label on front, few minor corner creases top right.

GUATEMALA

Covers and stamps / Guatemala

£65

THAILAND THAILAND REVENUE: 1900 (c.) Waterlow imperfoate proof sheet of nine with inscription at top and at foot, each in a different value, in deep green on glazed card affixed to piece (142x150mm.); a touch of soiling otherwise fine.

THAILAND

Covers and stamps / Thailand / Revenues

£895

THAILAND THAILAND: 1 sik blue, an imperforate sheetlet of nine with inscription at top and at foot on glazed card affixed to piece on thin card (142x150mm.). Rare Waterlow proof.

THAILAND

Covers and stamps / Thailand

£2450

VENEZUELA VENEZUELA: 1895 (3 May) envelope to SABA Dutch Antilles franked 1893 25c. magenta tied indistinct blue cds ST EUSTATIUS transit (20/6) and SABA arrival (21/6) back squared circle datestamps alongside, transported by the ‘Solent’, scarce destination.

VENEZUELA

Covers and stamps / Venezuela

£75

GUATEMALA GUATEMALA: 1868 (16 Avril) folded stampless cover to Switzerland with CORREOAS GUATEMALA blue dispatch cds, red boxed FRANCO alongside with French accountancy marks F/31 and GB / 1f 90c, PANAMA / TRANSIT and French entry mark all on front, rated 1.30 in red crayon, London TPO transit backstamp, La Chaux de Fonds arrival, fine, handstamped ‘MADDEN’ in red.

GUATEMALA

Covers and stamps / Guatemala / Pre stamp

£475

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