Postal History of the 1910 Provisional Series - used in 1911
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1910



Ships to the New Hebrides:
Dates from Sydney - arrival Sydney. (Compilation: Jeff Blinco & Roland Klinger)

PACIFIQUE: (MM)
1911-01-11 - 1911-01-22
1911-02-01 - 1911-02-19
1911-03-08 - 1911-03-21
1911-03-29 - 1911-04-16
1911-04-26 - 1911-05-14
1911-05-24 - 1911-06-15
1911-08-14 - 1911-09-03
1911-09-13 - 1911-10-01
1911-10-11 - 1911-10-29
1911-11-08 - 1911-11-26
1911-12-06 - 1911-12-24

MAKAMBO: (BP)
1910-12-31 - 1911-02-21
1911-03-01 - 1911-04-23
1911-05-01 - 1911-06-23
1911-07-02 - 1911-08-24
1911-09-01 - 1911-10-21
1911-11-01 - 1911-12-20

MALAITA: (BP)
1910-12-01 - 1911-01-19
1911-02-01 - 1911-03-22
1911-04-02 - 1911-05-24
1911-06-01 - 1911-07-27
1911-08-01 - 1911-09-24
1911-10-01 - 1911-11-21
1911-12-01 - 1912-02-20


Besides these ships the ST. LOUIS of the U.C.N.C. (Union Commerciale de la Nouvelle Calédonie) made a couple of trips Sydney - Nouméa and sometimes Vila.





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10 / 12 February 1911

A horizontal pair of the British 1d stamp with the
PCH Type 7B (the "mirrorred F") February 10, 1911 cancel (Ruecker coll.)
and same position but two days later struck in blue. (Klinger coll.)




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The left cover was in its original state in year 2002: New Hebrides registration handstamp, manuscript reg.-nuber, U.S. registration handstamp and printed reg.-number. The other cover at right shows this too.
Then somebody objected the printed "postage stamps" and felt he must stick an U.S. registration label over this imprint. No sense and understanding but the cover is ruined!. The image in the middle shows how it looked when I saw it at a French auction in year 2009.

Both covers were carried from Port Vila to Sydney by the Burns Philp & Co. steamer MALAITA (arrived Sydney 21 Nov) and from Sydney to San Francisco by the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand steamer TAHITI (ex PORT KINGSTON) departing Sydney 11 Sept. and arriving San Francisco on 5 January 1912. (Info thanks to Jeff Blinco)

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