Only a year behind now…
The above cover is an item I would liked to have added to my collection. Usages of the I.R. Official ½d blue-greens are very scarce and this example is particularly attractive with a pair sent from Newcastle upon Tyne. At £100.01 it was cheap.
Nothing too special about this cover but it’s nice usage of registered envelope. Sent from Vryburg, which is pretty common, with a vertical pair of the 2d paying the 4d rate to Port Elizabeth in the Cape Colony. It sold for £80.85
I have a fondness for printed envelopes. And although this is hardly the most interesting looking example, I was intrigued as to what the British Empire League was. Wikipedia kindly obliged me with the necessary information: It was a society founded with the aim of securing permanent unity for the British Empire. It helped to mobilise troops during the Second Boer War and the First World War, and it even called for the introduction of an imperial penny post, which of course came to pass on Christmas Day, 1898. I bought it for $11.02.
And I finish with an item that I swiftly picked up at the buy-it-now price of £25. It’s a horizontal bisect of a 2½d on a small piece which is very unusual. But bizarrely it has a New Zealand Kuripuni cds!
The 1887 Jubilee Issue 