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Auction: 168 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 745

Village Usages Assembly, Abbreviated and Extended Datestamps, the highly interesting balance of the collection, cleanly mounted on album pages, including stamps exhibiting abbreviated types -mainly Q.V. issues-, with BAR (4), BEQ (11), BI (2), CA (13), CH (3), CO (8), CUM (1), K (7), L (4), MES (4), RAB (9), ST (6), UE (1), extended-village small types including Barrouallie, Bequia, Biabou, Bridgetown, Buccament (rare), Calliaqua, Canouan, Chateaubelair, Colonarie, Cumberland, Georgetown, Layou, Mesopotamia, Rabacca, Stubbs, Union State, "St-Vincent/C" provisionally used at Peruvian Vale, larger types with New Ground, rare New Adelphi diameter 23.5mm. on KEVII ½d being one of nine stamps known, Orange Hill, etc, modern issues with mainly philatelic usages from Arnos Vale to Union Island; the collection is notably enriched by various dozens of covers of which 36 bearing late Q.V. or K.E.VII issues, also including some few attractive registered formula envelopes, with remarkable usages as Barrouallie small c.d.s on one of the just four inland mails recorded, small Canouan c.d.s. on two items, etc; generally fine-very fine with some faults in the early Q.V. issues as usually found, a very scarce and very difficult to duplicate advanced assembly on St. Vincent village datestamps, representing a good and quite comprehensive basis to expand, this field being of great significance and desirability in the St. Vincent collection.

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