BRITISH GUIANA Miscellaneous

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Fiscal stamps

1869 Tree

(Reduced sizes)

These stamps should be perforated. The values $1 black, $2 orange, $3 brown, $4 green, $5 grey, $6 brown, $7 lilac, $8 lilac, $8 blue, $9 yellow, $10 black, $12 orange, $16 blue, $20 red, $30 green and $40 red exist.

1865 Inscription 'Summary Jurisdiction British Guiana', large stamps

48 c red
(Reduced size)

The following values exist: 12 c orange, 16 c green, 24 c black, 48 c lilac, 48 c red, 50 c brown, 60 c blue,72 orange 96 c lilac, 96 c grey and $1 yellow. Furthermore two provisional surcharges eixst: 50 c on 12 c yellow (1875) and 50 c on 60 c blue (1887).

Envelopes

1881 Queen Victoria in a circle, inscription: 'BRITISH GUIANA REGISTRATION FOUR CENTS'

  4 c red

1894 Ship (for normal envelopes), frames different for each value

2 c red

  1 c green
  2 c red
  5 c grey 

Surcharged

  'TWO CENTS' on 5 c grey

What are these?:

(Inscriptions: 'COMMITTEE OF PILOTAGE DEMERARA AND ESSEQUEBO', 'POST OFFICE BRITISH GUIANA' with ship and 'GOVERNOR OF BRITISH GUIANA' with ship and crown)

Postage Due Stamps

1940 Value, inscription 'POSTAGE DUE BRITISH GUIANA'

  1 c green
  2 c black
  4 c blue
  12 c red

Tramway Stamp

'Le Timbre Poste' 362 (1893), page 18 lists a 'Tramways parcels delivery' stamp for Georgetown in the value of 2 c (issued around 1893). I have never seen this stamp.

Cancels

Whim, single circle towncancel

Towncancels in alphabetical order; between brackets (set of year of stamp on which the cancel is first seen by me)
Ann's Grove British Guiana, single circle (1934)
Acquero British Guiana, single circle (1938)
Agricola (1931)
Albouystown B.Guiana (1889)
Arakara (1889)
Airy Hall: 'BG' and 'AH' in single circle with date below (1876)
Anna Regina B.Guiana in double circle (1876), also later single circle cancel
Aurora in double circle (1876), also later single circle cancel
Bagotville British Guiana, single circle (1948)
Bartica, single circle (1889)
Bartica Grove, double circle (1889)
Beterverwagting British Guiana (1934)
Bel Air, double circle (1876)
Belfield B.Guiana, double circle (1876)
Blairmont (1953)
Buxton, double circle (1889)
Bourda British Guiana (1934)
Cane Grove (1934)
Cape Crow (1934)
Cammichael Street, single circle (1889)
Cornhill (1934)
Cotton Tree, double circle (1889)
Danialstown, single circle (1889)
De Kinderen (1954)
Enmore (1938)
Eversheim (1938)
Fellowship, single circle (1889)
Fort Wellington, single circle (1876), double circle (1889)
Georgetown, 'A03', single circle (1889)
Grove (1965)
Hope Placer (1889)
Kitty (1934)
Kwakwani (1938)
Leguan (1876)
Leonora, double circle (1889)
Lodge (1954)
Mabaruma (1954)
Mackenzie (1935)
Mahaica, single circle (1889)
Mahaicony, double circle (1889)
Marlbor (1889)
Massaruni, double circle (1876)
Matthews Ridge (1954)
Meten Meer Zorg (1931)
Morawhanna (1889)
Naamryck (1889)
New Amsterdam, double circle (1889), single circle (1889), also 'A04' cancel
Nigg (1913)
Orinduik (1954)
Parika (1938)
Plaisance (1935)
Potaro (1897)
Providence (1954)
Queenstown (1934)
Reliance (1954)
Reliance-Canje (1889)
Skeldon (1876)
Sparta, single circle (1889)
Suddie, double circle (1889)
Tumatumari (1913)
Tuschen (1889)
Warenaam, single circle (1889)
Weldaad, single circle (1889)
Whim, double circle (1889)
Wismar (1889)

Travelling post offices
Bartica steamer (1889)
Berrice steamer (1889)
Demarara Railway (1889)
East Coast Railway (1889)
West Coast Railway (1935)

Revenue (fiscal) cancels

Revenue cancels
Usually in manuscript or violet ink.