Bermuda Puzzler!

Another one stumping me! We have here what appears to be Scott#39.

Scott however says it was issued in 1909 and the beautiful SON cancel here says 1903? EKU? or Counterfeit cancel?

Help! Much thanks!

Scott #29, issued 1902. And should have Watermark #2, not #3.

Aha!! so it is! mystery solved! Much thanks!!

Super cancel, by the way. Hamilton is exceptionally common, but that is a nice strike.

A quick poll for curious ME. If you owned this stamp, with its perfect SON cancel inverted, would you mount the stamp upside-down in your album to show off the cancel?

If I had a traditional album with one example of each stamp, I would mount it right side up. (Actually, I'd probably pick a stamp with a subtler cancel in that instance.)

But as someone who doesn't mind multiples of a stamp one bit when looking for cancels, yes, I might leave it inverted. When I'm storing stamps in stock pages, inverting the stamp tells me that the watermark is inverted (or otherwise interesting). So until it made it onto a display page, it would stay right side up.

i mounted it inverted!!

:)

Note : Bumped Thread.

Seek opinions : Sandys or Sandy's ?

I'd have to vote "Sandys". I ran the image though some filters, and it looks like the "apostrophe" is more consistent with the dirty spots around the "A" in "ATLANTIC" than with the surrounding ink.

Well spotted. I agree.
Originally I thought the "S" had been tampered with ie retouched to include the apostrophe.
Sandys it is then.