1910
Ships to the New Hebrides:
Dates from Sydney - arrival Sydney. (Compilation: Jeff Blinco & Roland Klinger)
PACIFIQUE: (MM)
1910-08-14 - 1910-09-04
1910-09-08 - 1910-10-03
1910-10-08 - 1910-10-30
1910-11-09 - 1910-11-27
1910-12-07 - 1910-12-25
MAKAMBO: (BP)
1910-07-06 - 1910-08-29
1910-09-02 - 1910-10-26
1910-11-01 - 1910-12-22
1910-12-31 - 1911-02-21
MALAITA: (BP)
1910-08-01 - 1910-09-26
1910-10-01 - 1910-11-21
1910-12-01 - 1911-01-19
Here the letter included with the 9 Nov 1910 cover to Tanna and the transscription in French.
Local letter Vila - Tanna 1910, page 1 (click to close)
Local letter Vila - Tanna 1910, page 2 (click to close)
Local letter Vila - Tanna 1910, transscript (click to close)
29 April 1910
A nice incoming letter to the Postmaster Mr. Roy. Alain Millet writes: "Heavy letter between 281 and 300 gr: 25c for 20 gr and 15c for every 20 gr more
sums up to 2.10 F plus 25c registration fee so total 2.60 f: 8mILLET COLL:9
26 August 1910
Registered letter to Newark, USA with two 1F and two 10c stamps. They are cancelled with PCH type 7. (Goron coll.)
26 August 1910
Letter from the Condominium Postmaster to Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. The 1910
10c and 1F stamps cancelled with PCH type 5. Here we have the same phenomenon that
there are stamps on the cover which to our knowledge had not been in Vila at this time.
("JGI" coll.)
28 August 1910
Postcard to England with correct 10c rate, tied by PCH type 5. (Goron coll.)
2 September 1910
The 5c, 10c and 1fr. of the 1910 French set
on a letter to Switzerland. Maybe the stamps had an earlier first day of issue than given in
Hals / Collas. The stamps are cancelled with PCH type 5. (Merot coll.)
2 September 1910
The 5c, 10c and 1fr. of the 1910 French set
on a letter to Switzerland. Maybe the stamps had an earlier first day of issue than given in
Hals / Collas. The stamps are cancelled with PCH type 5. ("Aore" coll.)
We are confronted with a special problem here: the stamps were on sale at Vila from
11 September 1910 according to Hals/Collas. So one could think that this date can only be wrong considering
the date on the cover. But they were on sale in Paris since 16 March 1910 at the
"Agence Comptable des Timbres-Poste Coloniaux".
It may be that this letter was written by the addressee himself and he affixed the stamps too and sent the letter to Vila. So on the letter the postmaster in Vila saw correct stamps which he had not for sale himself.
15 September 1910
Registered cover to New South Wales, with British colonial letter rate of 2d and registration fee of 2 1/2d.
The 1908 25c and the two 1910 10c stamps cancelled with Type 5. (Klinger coll.)
24 September 1910
Registered letter to France, the 1908 French 25c and 1910 French 10c
pay the colonial rate to France and the registration fee. They are cancelled with
PCH type 5. (ex Jersey coll., now ???)
24 Sept. 1910
Postcard to Sydney, showing Vilas 'Fifth Avenue', the French 10c stamp cancelled
with PCH type 5, a Sydney machine cancel has been applied too. (Treadwell coll.)
14 October 1910
15 October 1910
Mixed frankings : ½d 1908 British and 10c 1910 French issue on a postcard from Vila
to St Gallen Suisse as a correct 15c. postcard rate to Switzerland, cancelled with a nice
impression of PCH type 7 in blue. The card most likely has been carried to Sydney by the
Messageries Maritimes steamer Pacifique, which arrived at Sydney on Oct 30.
August Ess was one of the settlers Burns Philp placed on their territory in Santo
in 1902. In a source of 1918, he is mentioned as copra maker on Tongoa. See postcard in "1911/12" "Used in 1916". ("SeSi" collection)
9 November 1910
Scarce local letter from Vila to Tanna. See included letter at left. The writer had been scared out of Tanna because of some incidents between the French recruiting ships
St. Michel (Comptoirs Français des Nouvelles Hébrides, Nouméa) and Tam-Tam with the Tannaese but was brought back and reinstated later by the French cruiser Kersaint. No information found about the addressee so far.
Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. steamer MALAITA left Sydney on October 1, calling at Lord Howe Island on the 4th, Norfolk Island on the 7th and arrived at Vila on the 11th.
She left Vila for the southern end of the group on 12th, arriving back on the 15th, leaving for the north on the 18th and came back to Vily on
November 7. She departed on 11th and called at Erromanga and Tanna despatching this letter there. She returned to Sydney on 21 November.
The sender may have been a Chiérésin, who in May 1897 was stewart on the French ship St. Antoine from Noumea to Sydeny. (Treadwell coll.)
11 November 1910
BIG registered letter to Paris . The complete 1910 French issue plus
British stamps of the 1908 issue : 1/2d, 1d, 2d, 21/2d, 5d, 6d tied by
PCH type 5 in blue. Backstamped Paris 31-11-10 ( This means that the cover
needed only 3 weeks to travel from Vila to Paris in 1910! There must be a
mistake somewhere!). ("SeSi" collection)
14 November 1910
A Cliquet cover to paris with the French 1910 set cancelled with PCH type 5. ("Mele" collection)
14 November 1910
(new 2/2021)
This was a Cliquet cover until the owner decided that it was better to cut off the cover maker address of Mr. Cliquet.
27 November 1910
Correct 10c colonial letter rate to a military man in Nouméa. Cancelled Goyns-Klinger type PM4 in blue. The year slug not inverted.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie France.
13 December 1910
Letter to USA with a single and a pair of the 1910 French 10c stamp. The stamps
are cancelled with PCH type 7. Backstamped Elberton 8 February 1911. (ex Jersey coll., now ???)
18 December 1910
Postcard to Nouméa with correct 1d rate tied with PCH type 5 in blue.
("SeSi" collection).
18 December 1910
Postcard to France, the 1910 10c stamp is cancelled with PCH type 5 in blue. Cancelled on the
picture side with the Sydney "running" cancel on 20 Jan 1911. The picture shows the house of the
French judge. (Klinger coll.)
d9 mm 1910
British 2d stamp on a letter to France, cancelled with PCH type 7, date partly
readable as from 1910 I suppose.
Picture thanks to Simon Andrews stamps.
