Losnr. 6172 - 309.-320. Auktion
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Losnr. : 6172 Haiti
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Navassa Island 1886: 7 c. deep bright blue, plate II, first printing, perf. 13½, a used example in combination with 3 c. olive-bistre on pale bistre, second printing, perf. 13½, used on 1886 single rate cover with imprint 'H.M.S. Forward' on reverse, addressed to 'H.M.S. Neptune' on the Mediterranean Station; tied by "Port au Prince / Haiti" cds's (July 6). "Calais a Paris" transit cds (July 24) and reverse with Rome cds. Readdressed back to England with London transit (July 31) and "Portsmouth / 625" duplex of eventual receipt. A remarkable and unusual cover.rnrnNote: H.M.S. Forward was a 4 gun screw gunboat launched in 1877. The gunboat later played a part in the "Navassa Massacre" when, in 1889, the Atlas Steam Co. vessel "Athos" sailed on 21 September 1889 in order to intercept the ASC vessel "Alene" at Navassa Island and to transfer the Mails from Haiti destined for New York. When the "Athos" arrived at Navassa Island it was boarded by an Officer of H.M.S. Fortune who informed the captain that a mutiny had taken place on the Island with only 6 of the eleven officers escaping with their lives. The H.M.S. Fortune delivered the survivors to Jamaica and guano exctraction stopped thereafter.Ausruf : 750 CHFZuschlag : nicht verkauft -
