Registered picture postcard to Noumea. Overpaid 5c as it was send as long message PPC but ib fact is a short message. Registration was 25c and long message 10c. ("SeSi" coll.)
British 1d on postcard to NSW, the 1d stamp tied with PCH type 5. The picture postcard depicting Solomon Islands natives. (Goron coll.) Written by Postmaster Roy.
Postcard to Toulon France with correct 5c rate tied by PCH type 4. Cancelled Toulon 30-3-09 on arrival. A very early card with the French 1908 stamp. ("SeSi" collection)
A British and French full set "Cliquet" cover. (Seen at a SPINK auction 2011)
A British and French full set "Cliquet" cover. Backstamped Noumea 14 March 09 and Paris 27 April 09. (Blinco coll.)
Here is Jeff's write-up:
Transit and Delivery
The mail from New Hebrides was carried to Noumea by the French inter-island mail
vessel (probably “Oui-Oui”) which arrived at Noumea on 14th March 1909 the same day
as “Pacifique”. Mail from Sydney for New Hebrides mail was transshipped to “Oui-Oui”.
This cover was carried to Sydney by the Messageries Maritimes steamer “Pacifique”
which arrived on the 21st March 1909 and transferred directly the Messageries Maritimes
main line steamer “Armand Behic” (Ligne T). The mail was further transshipped at
Colombo to “Nera” (Ligne N) which arrived at Marseilles on 26thApril four days ahead of
“Behic” (the Colombo connection was the manner of the Ligne T mail system since mid
1903).
The cover has a Paris receival cancel for 27th April 1909.
14 February 1909
27 February 1909
2 March 1909
2 March 1909
Postcard to Nouméa with a long text, so the postcard rate is 10c. The text deals with the marriage of postmaster Roy's daughter.
(Klinger coll.)
2 March 1909
(new 9/2021)
9 March 1909
10 March 1909
12 March 1909
15 March 1909
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
(new 4/2020)
dd March 1909
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
Postcard from postmaster Roy to Noumea. 10c as French colonial postcard rate long message cancelled with GK type PM2. ("SeSi" coll.)
This is an interesting postcard. It has a short message, but because it was sent to a British
colonial destination (Canada) it needed 10c (1d), not 5c - but it was not taxed.
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
31 March 1909
1 April 1909
Registered cover to France, the total postage of 2/- 6p cancelled with Goyns/Klinger type PM2. Registration mark type NR1C.
Backstamped Noumea 13 4 09. The Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE arrived at Port Vila on about 7/8 April,
made its trip through the islands and was back at Vila on about 11/12 April and returned to Noumea on 12/13 April
and called at Sydney on 18 April. So this cover was most likely carried by the PACIFIQUE too. The Messageries Maritimes steamer
DUMBEA left Sydney on 19 April and arrived in Marseilles on 29 Mai. This cover is backstamped on arrival in Auxerre on 26 Mai
so I suppose that it was carried by train from Italy.
Postal rate to France in 1909 was French colonial letter rate 1d(10c) per 15g and registration fee was 2½d - so this letter
must have been very heavy....
Image thanks to Bernard Laurant via Delcampe.
5 April 1909
5 April 1909
5 April 1909
Postcard written on S.S. "Tambo", maybe from a member of the crew who had this
in these years very popular hobby of postcard collecting and exchanging.
The French 10c stamp cancelled with PCH type 6, stamped Naauwpoort May 30 09,
Port Elizabeth May 31 09, and on arrival Willowmore Ju 2 09. (Goron coll.)
5 April 1909
6 April 1909
9 April 1909
9 April 1909
10 April 1909
10 April 1909
A 1908 10c French stamp cancelled with PCH type 5 on a picture postcard to Madame M. Ratzel in Kouaoua, New Caledonia. Mr. Nicolas Ratzel was a well
known Geometer in New Caledonia from 1894 to 1939. ("Klinger" coll.)
10 April 1909
10 April 1909
11 April 1909
11 April 1909
11 April 1909
11 April 1909
11 April 1909
10c postcard to Noumea. Addresse is the mother of Paule Gleizes who received so many postcards in th pre-Condominium years.
Many of these are on this site. Postmark PM2. Sender Jean Martin Colonna, French Resident Commissioner 28 January 1908 - June 1908 and from 28 December 1909 - July 1910.
10c is the correct French long message postcard rate. (Klinger coll.)
10c postcard to Noumea. Addresse is the wife of Mister Blondeau, judge in Noumea. Sender Jean Martin Colonna, French Resident Commissioner 28 January 1908 - June 1908 and from 28 December 1909 - July 1910.
10c is the correct French long message postcard rate. (Klinger coll.)
11 April 1909
(new 3/2020)
11 April 1909
(new 3/2020)
12 April 1909
14 April 1909
14 April 1909
14 April 1909
14 April 1909
Local (Samoa)postcard Vila
REGISTERED postcard to Noumea cancelled with GK Type PM2. Overpaid: 30c would have been enough for a registered short message postcard.
(Coll. Fred Petit)
REGISTERED postcard to Noumea cancelled with GK Type PM2. Overpaid: 30c would have been enough for a registered short message postcard.
(Coll. Fred Petit)
22 April 1909
27 April 1909
(new 7/2020)
8 May 1909
(new 5/2018)
8 May 1909
(new 5/2018)
Letter to Germany using first issue French series 5c, 10c x 2, 25c tied by
PCH type 5. Travelled via Naples too. Correct rate as non colonial letter rate was 2½d or 25c and registration for French (or mixed) stamps used 25c. The Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE Captain Chavin left Sydney on 29 April for New Caledonia and the New Hebrides.
She left Noumea for the New Hebrides on 4 May. On her way back she left Noumea on May 12 4 p-m- and arrived at Sydney on
16 May. On 15 May the German Mail Ship SEYDLITZ (Norddeutscher Lloyd) left Sydney for Bremen. Mail would have been brought from Sydney to Melbourne or Brisbane maybe.
She arrived at Naples on June 21 - so she's not good for this letter. So let's try R.M.S. OPHIR, Orient-Royal mail line (Captain A.J. Coad) left Sydney on 15 May too and departed Melbourne
two hours earlier than the SEYDLITZ. She left Adelaide on 20 May, the Seydlitz on 21 May as she loaded far more cargo. OPHIR reached Colombo on 3 June, SEYDLITZ on 4 June in the evening.
Hmmm, OPHIR was due at Naples on 20 June.... The express steamers ISIS and OSIRIS went to Brindisi, maybe the mails to Germany were processed in Naples.
(Klinger coll. ex Goron coll.)
Next try with the help of Jeff Blinco, Perth:
Messageries Maritimes' steamer AUSTRALIEN, Captain F. Riquier, arrived in Sydney from Noumea on Monday, 3 May. The paquebot-annexe PACIFIQUE arrived in Sydney with mails from Noumea on 16 May.
AUSTRALIEN left Sydney on 17 May to Marseilles via Adelaide, Freemantle, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Suez, Port Said. She left Adelaide on 22 May and was due at Colombo on June 5, Bombay June 8,
Aden June 15 and Marseilles June 25. She left Port Said in the afternoon of June 21 and arrived in Marseilles at 08:00 on Saturday June 26.
Now we know that mail was transhipped in Colombo from the Messageries Maritimes' New Caledonia line to the faster Yokohama "Ligne N" boats. So let's try the OCÉANIEN: 29 May Saigon and 25 June in Marseilles.
She left Singapore on May 31. The STRAITS TIMES of 8 June writes that Messageries Maritimes mail which left Singapore on May 31 (with OCÉANIEN) was due in London on June 23. Given that the typical Mt. Cenis
railway transport from Italy to London took 1 day this means that the OÉANIEN was too late for this letter either......
3 May 1909
3 May 1909
7 May 1909
7 May 1909
7 May 1909
Postcard to Nouméa, to Bertrand Gubbay (born near Sydney on 28 April 1888, died on 5 July 1969 in New Caledonia - information thanks to Jeff Blinco, Australia).
with PCH Type 5 on a 1908 French 5c stamp, which pays the correct postcard rate to New Caledonia.
(Treadwell coll.)
Postcard to New Caledonia, the French 5c stamp cancelled with PCH type 5.
3 May 1909
7 May 1909
8 May 1909
8 May 1909
(new 12/2018)
Postcard "Embarquement de bananes Franceville". The French 5c stamp cancelled with GK type PM2.
On reverse triangular T cachet and 0.10 in blue manuscript. The card taxed for long message (the 5c franking was for a 5 words message). ("SeSi" coll.)
The correspondence :
Mon bien aimé / Loin de toi je meurs de / langueur . Je t'en supplie / reviens près (de) moi /
A toi pour toujours / Sidonie.
It was hot under the tropical sun !
Local Postcard "Solomon Islanders". The two ½d stamps cancelled with GK type PM4.
Image thanks to The Complete Stamp Co.
8 May 1909
8 May 1909
(new 11/2019)
25 May 1909
1 June 1909
A postcard from Maurice Siméon to Kouang Tchéou Wan (China). The cancel is illegible. (Fred Petit coll.)
Local postcard " dans un village indigène " to a crew member of
the cruiser Kersaint in Port Vila roads. The French 5c. stamp tied by PM2. ("SeSi" coll.)
Letter from Port Vila to Paris with two French 10c stamps, tied with PCH type 4,
a very late legitimate use of this cancel,
backstamped at Nouméa "8 Juin 09" in transit and at arrival in
Alpes Maritimes (Nice) "28.7.09". (Yeomans coll.)
1 June 1909
1 June 1909
3 June 1909
5 June 1909
Registered to France. The date block of the Port Sandwich cancel is inverted but the month slug inverted again.
Carried by the Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE to Sydney and then by the paquebot SALAZIE to France.
("SeSi" coll.)
Registered Letter to France with a complete set of British 1908 issue including the scarce watermark Single Crown CA 1s.
(ex Goron coll.)
The Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE left Sydney on 26 May and returned on 13 June and carried this letter.
Image thanks to Burda auctions, Prague
5 June 1909
6 June 1909
Postcard "Village de Bignambo Malakula" from Port-Vila to Paris .
The British ½d cancelled with PCH type 5 reapplied on reverse .
Correct rate to France (less than 5 words).("SeSi" coll.)
Postcard "Indigènes de Tangoa, Sanctu-Espritu" from Port-Vila to Paris .
The French 5c cancelled with PCH type 5 reapplied on reverse .
Correct rate to France (less than 5 words). (Treadwell coll.)
Postmaster Roy wrote a postcardto Copenhagen. (ex Millet coll.)
6 June 1909
6 June 1909
10 June 1909
12 June 1909
15 June 1909
Registered letter to Paris. The 1d, 6d & 1sh stamps are cancelled with GK Type PM4, registration cachet is Type NR1C.
Backstamped Nouméa 7 June and Paris XV 2-8/09.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie
Registered letter from Port Vila to Paris with the British 1/- stamp,
backstamped at Noumea "6 JU?? 09" in transit and backstamped at arrival in Paris
"18 -8 09".
Pacifique started Sydney 23 June, arrived Noumea 27 June, went on to Vila 29 June,
arrived Vila 30 June, made the interisland trip and returned to Vila on 4 July, called again
at Noumea on 5 July and returned to Sydney on 7 July where she arrived on 11 July. This was the usual trip
she made. At Sydney transhipped to Ville de la Ciotat, transhipped at Colombo to Armand Behic
& arrived Marseilles 17 Aug 1909 then Paris on the 18 Aug. Thanks to Jeff Blinco for the help with this.
(Klinger coll.)
Registered letter from Port Vila to Metz / France with the complete French set. The stamps are cancelled with GK Type PM2,
registration cachet is GK Type NR1C. An oval registration cachet is not of New Hebridean origin. The total franking of 1F90c
is of course for philatelic reasons the colonial letter rate to France being 10c. The cover ist backstamped Sydney 12 JY 09, the
day after PACIFIQUE arrived.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie
15 June 1909
16 June 1909
30 June 1909
30 June 1909
A British and French full set "Cliquet" cover. Backstamped Noumea 14 March 09 and Paris 27 April 09. (Blinco coll.)
Here is Jeff's write-up:
Transit and Delivery
The mail from New Hebrides was carried to Noumea by the French inter-island mail
vessel (probably “Oui-Oui”) which arrived at Noumea on 14th March 1909 the same day
as “Pacifique”. Mail from Sydney for New Hebrides mail was transshipped to “Oui-Oui”.
This cover was carried to Sydney by the Messageries Maritimes steamer “Pacifique”
which arrived on the 21st March 1909 and transferred directly the Messageries Maritimes
main line steamer “Armand Behic” (Ligne T). The mail was further transshipped at
Colombo to “Nera” (Ligne N) which arrived at Marseilles on 26thApril four days ahead of
“Behic” (the Colombo connection was the manner of the Ligne T mail system since mid
1903).
The cover has a Paris receival cancel for 27th April 1909.
Postcard to Nouméa with a long text, so the postcard rate is 10c. The text deals with the marriage of postmaster Roy's daughter. (Klinger coll.)
(new 9/2021)
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
(new 4/2020)
dd March 1909
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
27 March 1909
Postcard from postmaster Roy to Noumea. 10c as French colonial postcard rate long message cancelled with GK type PM2. ("SeSi" coll.)
This is an interesting postcard. It has a short message, but because it was sent to a British colonial destination (Canada) it needed 10c (1d), not 5c - but it was not taxed.
Registered cover to France, the total postage of 2/- 6p cancelled with Goyns/Klinger type PM2. Registration mark type NR1C.
Backstamped Noumea 13 4 09. The Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE arrived at Port Vila on about 7/8 April,
made its trip through the islands and was back at Vila on about 11/12 April and returned to Noumea on 12/13 April
and called at Sydney on 18 April. So this cover was most likely carried by the PACIFIQUE too. The Messageries Maritimes steamer
DUMBEA left Sydney on 19 April and arrived in Marseilles on 29 Mai. This cover is backstamped on arrival in Auxerre on 26 Mai
so I suppose that it was carried by train from Italy.
Postal rate to France in 1909 was French colonial letter rate 1d(10c) per 15g and registration fee was 2½d - so this letter
must have been very heavy....
Image thanks to Bernard Laurant via Delcampe.
Postcard written on S.S. "Tambo", maybe from a member of the crew who had this in these years very popular hobby of postcard collecting and exchanging. The French 10c stamp cancelled with PCH type 6, stamped Naauwpoort May 30 09, Port Elizabeth May 31 09, and on arrival Willowmore Ju 2 09. (Goron coll.)
A 1908 10c French stamp cancelled with PCH type 5 on a picture postcard to Madame M. Ratzel in Kouaoua, New Caledonia. Mr. Nicolas Ratzel was a well known Geometer in New Caledonia from 1894 to 1939. ("Klinger" coll.)
10c postcard to Noumea. Addresse is the mother of Paule Gleizes who received so many postcards in th pre-Condominium years. Many of these are on this site. Postmark PM2. Sender Jean Martin Colonna, French Resident Commissioner 28 January 1908 - June 1908 and from 28 December 1909 - July 1910. 10c is the correct French long message postcard rate. (Klinger coll.)
10c postcard to Noumea. Addresse is the wife of Mister Blondeau, judge in Noumea. Sender Jean Martin Colonna, French Resident Commissioner 28 January 1908 - June 1908 and from 28 December 1909 - July 1910. 10c is the correct French long message postcard rate. (Klinger coll.)
(new 3/2020)
(new 3/2020)
Local (Samoa)postcard Vila
REGISTERED postcard to Noumea cancelled with GK Type PM2. Overpaid: 30c would have been enough for a registered short message postcard. (Coll. Fred Petit)
REGISTERED postcard to Noumea cancelled with GK Type PM2. Overpaid: 30c would have been enough for a registered short message postcard. (Coll. Fred Petit)
27 April 1909
3 May 1909
(new 7/2020)
(new 7/2020)
8 May 1909
(new 5/2018)
(new 5/2018)
8 May 1909
(new 5/2018)
(new 5/2018)
Letter to Germany using first issue French series 5c, 10c x 2, 25c tied by
PCH type 5. Travelled via Naples too. Correct rate as non colonial letter rate was 2½d or 25c and registration for French (or mixed) stamps used 25c. The Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE Captain Chavin left Sydney on 29 April for New Caledonia and the New Hebrides.
She left Noumea for the New Hebrides on 4 May. On her way back she left Noumea on May 12 4 p-m- and arrived at Sydney on
16 May. On 15 May the German Mail Ship SEYDLITZ (Norddeutscher Lloyd) left Sydney for Bremen. Mail would have been brought from Sydney to Melbourne or Brisbane maybe.
She arrived at Naples on June 21 - so she's not good for this letter. So let's try R.M.S. OPHIR, Orient-Royal mail line (Captain A.J. Coad) left Sydney on 15 May too and departed Melbourne
two hours earlier than the SEYDLITZ. She left Adelaide on 20 May, the Seydlitz on 21 May as she loaded far more cargo. OPHIR reached Colombo on 3 June, SEYDLITZ on 4 June in the evening.
Hmmm, OPHIR was due at Naples on 20 June.... The express steamers ISIS and OSIRIS went to Brindisi, maybe the mails to Germany were processed in Naples.
(Klinger coll. ex Goron coll.)
Next try with the help of Jeff Blinco, Perth:
Messageries Maritimes' steamer AUSTRALIEN, Captain F. Riquier, arrived in Sydney from Noumea on Monday, 3 May. The paquebot-annexe PACIFIQUE arrived in Sydney with mails from Noumea on 16 May.
AUSTRALIEN left Sydney on 17 May to Marseilles via Adelaide, Freemantle, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Suez, Port Said. She left Adelaide on 22 May and was due at Colombo on June 5, Bombay June 8,
Aden June 15 and Marseilles June 25. She left Port Said in the afternoon of June 21 and arrived in Marseilles at 08:00 on Saturday June 26.
Now we know that mail was transhipped in Colombo from the Messageries Maritimes' New Caledonia line to the faster Yokohama "Ligne N" boats. So let's try the OCÉANIEN: 29 May Saigon and 25 June in Marseilles.
She left Singapore on May 31. The STRAITS TIMES of 8 June writes that Messageries Maritimes mail which left Singapore on May 31 (with OCÉANIEN) was due in London on June 23. Given that the typical Mt. Cenis
railway transport from Italy to London took 1 day this means that the OÉANIEN was too late for this letter either......
7 May 1909
Postcard to Nouméa, to Bertrand Gubbay (born near Sydney on 28 April 1888, died on 5 July 1969 in New Caledonia - information thanks to Jeff Blinco, Australia). with PCH Type 5 on a 1908 French 5c stamp, which pays the correct postcard rate to New Caledonia. (Treadwell coll.)
Postcard to New Caledonia, the French 5c stamp cancelled with PCH type 5.
(new 12/2018)
Postcard "Embarquement de bananes Franceville". The French 5c stamp cancelled with GK type PM2.
On reverse triangular T cachet and 0.10 in blue manuscript. The card taxed for long message (the 5c franking was for a 5 words message). ("SeSi" coll.)
The correspondence :
Mon bien aimé / Loin de toi je meurs de / langueur . Je t'en supplie / reviens près (de) moi /
A toi pour toujours / Sidonie.
It was hot under the tropical sun !
Local Postcard "Solomon Islanders". The two ½d stamps cancelled with GK type PM4.
Image thanks to The Complete Stamp Co.
(new 11/2019)
A postcard from Maurice Siméon to Kouang Tchéou Wan (China). The cancel is illegible. (Fred Petit coll.)
Local postcard " dans un village indigène " to a crew member of the cruiser Kersaint in Port Vila roads. The French 5c. stamp tied by PM2. ("SeSi" coll.)
Letter from Port Vila to Paris with two French 10c stamps, tied with PCH type 4, a very late legitimate use of this cancel, backstamped at Nouméa "8 Juin 09" in transit and at arrival in Alpes Maritimes (Nice) "28.7.09". (Yeomans coll.)
Registered to France. The date block of the Port Sandwich cancel is inverted but the month slug inverted again.
Carried by the Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE to Sydney and then by the paquebot SALAZIE to France.
("SeSi" coll.)
Registered Letter to France with a complete set of British 1908 issue including the scarce watermark Single Crown CA 1s.
(ex Goron coll.)
The Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE left Sydney on 26 May and returned on 13 June and carried this letter.
Image thanks to Burda auctions, Prague
Postcard "Village de Bignambo Malakula" from Port-Vila to Paris . The British ½d cancelled with PCH type 5 reapplied on reverse . Correct rate to France (less than 5 words).("SeSi" coll.)
Postcard "Indigènes de Tangoa, Sanctu-Espritu" from Port-Vila to Paris . The French 5c cancelled with PCH type 5 reapplied on reverse . Correct rate to France (less than 5 words). (Treadwell coll.)
Postmaster Roy wrote a postcardto Copenhagen. (ex Millet coll.)
Registered letter to Paris. The 1d, 6d & 1sh stamps are cancelled with GK Type PM4, registration cachet is Type NR1C.
Backstamped Nouméa 7 June and Paris XV 2-8/09.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie
Registered letter from Port Vila to Paris with the British 1/- stamp, backstamped at Noumea "6 JU?? 09" in transit and backstamped at arrival in Paris "18 -8 09". Pacifique started Sydney 23 June, arrived Noumea 27 June, went on to Vila 29 June, arrived Vila 30 June, made the interisland trip and returned to Vila on 4 July, called again at Noumea on 5 July and returned to Sydney on 7 July where she arrived on 11 July. This was the usual trip she made. At Sydney transhipped to Ville de la Ciotat, transhipped at Colombo to Armand Behic & arrived Marseilles 17 Aug 1909 then Paris on the 18 Aug. Thanks to Jeff Blinco for the help with this. (Klinger coll.)
Registered letter from Port Vila to Metz / France with the complete French set. The stamps are cancelled with GK Type PM2, registration cachet is GK Type NR1C. An oval registration cachet is not of New Hebridean origin. The total franking of 1F90c is of course for philatelic reasons the colonial letter rate to France being 10c. The cover ist backstamped Sydney 12 JY 09, the day after PACIFIQUE arrived. Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie