GB 1853 SG8 Pl.160 Cover - Ryde (third type) Skeleton handstamp This catalogue provides a comprehensive

This catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of stamps of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man

- P223012639

neatly cancelled by a crisp Liverpool ''466'' numeral

Very fine used four margin example lettered IG

- P223015590

GB 1853 SG8 Pl.160 Cover - Ryde (third type) Skeleton handstamp This catalogue provides a comprehensive1853 Isle of Wight. Very fine entire prepaid by a four margin 1d red brown Pl. 160 addressed to London and tied by a Ryde '666' numeral. The reverse showing a very fine strike of the scarce Ryde third type skeleton handstamp (IW102, Mackay 196) for OC. 3. 1853 in the usual red brown ink with a London arrival cds for the following day. The usual double arc datestamp was undergoing repair in October 1853 which in turn led to the brief use of this third