15s

Lesotho 1984 Butterflies Painted Lady 15s value x 6 imperf progressive proofs comprising various individual or combination composites

Tonga 1984-85 Textile or Cloth of Gold Cone Shell 15s (from self adhesive Marine Life def set) B&W photographic proof, scarce thus, as SG 873

Tonga 1990-92 Hermit Crab in Shell 15s (from reduced-size Marine Life set) imperf proof pair, rare thus, as SG1093 (1992 imprint date)

Lesotho 1986-88 Shrike 15s on 5s unmounted mint with surcharge at right (instead of left) as SG 718*

Lesotho 1986-88 Provisional surcharge 15s on 2s Speckled Pigeon unmounted mint block of 4 SG 717

Lesotho 1986-88 Provisional surcharge 15s on 1s Greater Kestrel, the complete sheet of 40 with 1981 imprint date (SG716c) and containing 'extra bar variety & tick on 1' both on R2/5, 'curved line under bars' on R3/7 and 'top of 5 missing' on R4/7 unmounted mint

Tonga 1990-92 Hermit Crab in Shell 15s (from reduced-size Marine Life set) opt'd SPECIMEN, as SG1093 (1992 imprint date) unmounted mint

Lesotho 1984 Butterflies Painted Lady 15s imperf proof with background omitted, unmounted mint as SG 571

Lesotho 1984 Butterflies Painted Lady 15s imperf proof in blue & magenta colours only minor wrinkles but unmounted mint as SG 571

Buy Lesotho 1986 Birds 15s on 1s block of 20 with major doubling of overprint very fine unmounted for R9,250.00

Buy Lesotho 1986 Butterflies 15s on 5s strip of 3 with major overprint shift to right in margin for R1,400.00

Buy Estonia 1940 Stamp Centenary 15s imperf (from remaindered stock) SG 158var* for R121.60

 Jonathan Cape, 1952, 6th impression. Pages yellowing, owner name on ffep. DJ has 4 small clippings, but original price still shown as 15s. net.  If only books cost that today! The classic book of war at sea and the impact on the ordinary people caught up in it. 494 pp.   This is a work of fiction in the historical setting of World War II. It contains errors of fact. Times and places of specific circumstances in actual military operations, names and missions of ships, and naval communication procedures have been distorted either to suit the story or to avoid inadvertent recounting of still-secret information. All the persons and events aboard the Caine are imaginary. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental. No ship named U.S.S. Caine exists or existed. The records of thirty years show no instance of a court martial resulting from the relief of a captain at see under Articles 184, 185 and 186 of the U.S. Naval Regulations. The fictitious figure of the deposed captain was contrived from a study of psychoneurotic case histories to motivate the central situation and is not a portrait of a real military person or a type. This statement is made in view of an existing tendency to seek lampoons of living people in fiction. The author served under two captains of the regular Navy in three years aboard destroyer-minesweepers, both of whom were decorated for valour. One comment on style: The general obscenity and blasphemy of shipboard talk have gone almost wholly unrecorded. This good-humoured Billingsgate is largely monotonous and not significant, mere verbal punctuation of a sort and its appearance in print annoys some readers. The traces that remain are necessary where occurring.