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401640 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Facit #RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] NEVER HINGED, original gum, with LARGE MARGINS and XF centering. Wonderfully fresh, with great color, and with "almost perfectly" balanced centering and large margins (for this issue) all the way around. Finding examples with "large", clear margins on all four sides is quite unusual because the stamp cliches were only 1.5 mm apart. Thus two perfectly centered stamps next to each other would each only have 0.75 mm of margin of its own! This shipping company was formed in 1839 and served almost the entire Caribbean region. This stamp was issued in 1875 when a change (reduction) in British mail contract coverage in various locations resulted in a need for private mail services between countries, such as offered by this company. The stamps were used on letters to and from many Caribbean ports that did not have British post offices, and paid the postage for a half-ounce letter for delivery to another port in the company system. St. Thomas (DWI) was a frequent port of call for the company as part of a wide-ranging system. These stamps were genuinely used on letters; Used examples are "rare" and examples on covers are "extremely rare". The use of these stamps was discontinued in 1880, by which time most of the countries in the Caribbean region had joined the UPU. An outstanding example of a stamp missing from most DWI collections! ACTUAL item. |
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401641 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Facit #RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] NEVER HINGED, original gum, with VF-XF centering. Wonderfully fresh, with great color, and with "almost perfectly" balanced centering normal margins (for this issue) all the way around. Finding examples with "large", clear margins on all four sides is quite unusual because the stamp cliches were only 1.5 mm apart. Thus two perfectly centered stamps next to each other would each only have 0.75 mm of margin of its own! This shipping company was formed in 1839 and served almost the entire Caribbean region. This stamp was issued in 1875 when a change (reduction) in British mail contract coverage in various locations resulted in a need for private mail services between countries, such as offered by this company. The stamps were used on letters to and from many Caribbean ports that did not have British post offices, and paid the postage for a half-ounce letter for delivery to another port in the company system. St. Thomas (DWI) was a frequent port of call for the company as part of a wide-ranging system. These stamps were genuinely used on letters; Used examples are "rare" and examples on covers are "extremely rare". The use of these stamps was discontinued in 1880, by which time most of the countries in the Caribbean region had joined the UPU. An outstanding example of a stamp missing from most DWI collections! ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |
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235275 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] Mint Superb, lightly hinged with color much brighter than usually seen. ACTUAL item. |
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401642 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Facit #RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] TOP MARGIN BLOCK OF FOUR, NEVER HINGED, original gum, with VF-XF centering. Wonderfully fresh, with great color, and with "almost perfectly" balanced centering normal-to-large margins (for this issue) all the way around. Finding examples with "large", clear margins on all four sides is quite unusual because the stamp cliches were only 1.5 mm apart. Thus two perfectly centered stamps next to each other would each only have 0.75 mm of margin of its own! This shipping company was formed in 1839 and served almost the entire Caribbean region. This stamp was issued in 1875 when a change (reduction) in British mail contract coverage in various locations resulted in a need for private mail services between countries, such as offered by this company. The stamps were used on letters to and from many Caribbean ports that did not have British post offices, and paid the postage for a half-ounce letter for delivery to another port in the company system. St. Thomas (DWI) was a frequent port of call for the company as part of a wide-ranging system. These stamps were genuinely used on letters; Used examples are "rare" and examples on covers are "extremely rare". The use of these stamps was discontinued in 1880, by which time most of the countries in the Caribbean region had joined the UPU. An outstanding 4-block of a stamp missing, even as a single, from most DWI collections! Blocks are very seldom offered! Despite blocks being so scarce, because of my desire to see this block kept intact, my price is below the individual break up value of $296 for the four NH stamps. ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |
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