My apologies for not doing any reports or website updates for more than a year now. Being a full time philatelist and editor of the GB Overprint Society journal has taken up my the spare time and energy that I have had to devote to stamps this past couple of years. Hopefully I’ll get back to some sort of normality with the blog and I’m planning on doing a few months at a time in my future posts to try and catch up.
And to recommence, I start with this unusual franking to Denmark. According to the annotation in the lower left corner, the 6d is paying the extra registration fee for compensation up to £25 and the 2½d the normal UPU rate. It sold for £13.10 which is rather cheap!
I always like to find multiple usages of the same value on a cover, or in this case, a parcel tag. Although slightly heavily cancelled it’s a rare usage of a block of eight of the 6d and if I remember rightly I underbid it to £82.
An area I haven’t explored too closely are the cancellations on the Niger Coast Protectorate issues. The first one on the left is a very scarce Bakana oval ds, and the third one, a Warri rubber parcel cancel is also not common. The group sold for £36.15.