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Auction: 12029 - Specialised Cayman Islands featuring the Graham Booth and John Byl Collections
Lot: 383

Cayman Islands The John Byl Collection 1908 (May-Oct.) Manuscript Provisionals During May and October 1908 supplies of the 1/2d. and 1d. stamps became exhausted. Covers were franked in manuscript and initialled by the Postmistress, Miss G.A. Parsons, or by the Postmaster, W.G. McCausland, who succeeded her in June 1908. The following section offers the most comprehensive group of these provisionals ever to appear at auction Endorsements in use from 4 to 27 October Type 5: 1908 (15 Oct.) envelope addressed locally to Georgetown, manuscript "Paid 1/4/G.A.P./asst." within brackets and with Georgetown c.d.s. alongside; vertical fold at centre. Very rare, being one of only two examples recorded. S.G. MP5, £10,000. Photo Estimate £ 3,500-4,000 Note: The initials are those of Miss Gwendoline Angeline Parsons, one time postmistress. She resigned on 1 October 1908 and became assistant to the new postmaster, Mr. McCausland provenance: Edgar Marston III, March 1992 Robert J. Cooley, September 1995

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