Bidspirit auction | World postal history: lot of


World postal history: lot of 4 postcards and a cover, including two cards sent to Canada and taxed with Canada postage due stamps, two cards with Malta King Edward VII stamps and a Western Samoa cover, 1939 - Lot of 4 postcards and a cover; the main photograph shows the stamp sides: (1) a Tuck 'Oilette' card, 'Mirror Grange, Squeak's Bedroom', from the Daily Mirror's Pip, Squeak and Wilfred; with a Great Britain 1d King George V stamp, a Greenwich machine postmark, a T 10 tax marking and a Canada 2 cents postage due stamp; sent to Welland, Ontario; (2) a 'Cuban Milk Vender' card, published by Harris Bros., Havana, no. 2003; with a Cuba 1 centavo Bartolomé Masó stamp, Havana postmarks, a tax marking and a Canada 2 cents postage due stamp; sent to Hamilton, Canada; (3) a British India 'Cooly Woman' card; with a Malta 1d King Edward VII stamp; sent to Grimsby, England, the message mentioning the S/S Horsley; (4) a 'Saluti da Palermo' panorama card, published by Alterocca, Terni, no. 2889; with a Malta 1d King Edward VII stamp and a Valletta postmark; sent to Chipstead, Sevenoaks, Kent; (5) a Western Samoa cover with a 1d stamp of the 1914-1939 issue, Apia postmark 29.8.1939, to Wellington, New Zealand. Condition: used, exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 5