1 May 1924
A real nice FIRST DAY COVER and with a nice destination:
The French and British stamps cancelled with GK PM4. Vila to Papeete Tahiti.
("SeSi" collection)
1 May 1924
FIRST DAY COVER: The French stamps cancelled with PCH type 7 and the
English ones with PCH type 8. (Merot coll.)
1 May 1924
FIRST DAY COVER: The French stamps cancelled with PCH type 7 and the
English ones with PCH type 8. ("JGI" coll.)
1 May 1924
FIRST DAY COVER: The French stamps cancelled with PCH type 7 and the
English ones with PCH type 8. This cover shows the two 50c stamps with different watermark. ("JGI" coll.)
31 May 1924
The complete mixed set on a registered letter to Sydnea, cancelled with PCH type 7. Registration label PCH type R2.
Image thanks to Premier Postal Auctions
31 May 1924
(new Dec. 2017)
And here a part cover registered to Australia. The French and British stamps cancelled with GK PM4.
(source: Sandafayre Auctions)
2 June 1924
Postmaster letter registered to Paris. 20c colonial letter rate and 30c registration fee. Cancelled with GK type PM4,
registration label GK type NR2A. Backstamped Paris 26-7-24
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatelie
6 June 1924
Cover to Nantes, France. Must have had an extra paper on front with the address. No trace to
be seen of an address but a small ink dash near the extra cancel. The letter is
correctly backstamped NIMES, LOIRE INFERIEURE 28 - 7 24". All stamps cancelled with Goyns/Klinger type PM6b.
(Klinger coll.)
6 June 1924
Registered to Australia, block of four 1911 French 5c on reverse and the set of 6 on the front cancelled with PCH type 7.
Sydney arrival on reverse.(seen in an old dealer's offer)
6 June 1924
The three 1924 French provisionals and three British provisionals on a cover - the address seems to have been added in pencil later (?).
Seven nice impressions of the scarce PM6a. (Klinger coll.)
6 June 1924
(new Dec 2017)
Six 1924 provisionals on a registered cover to Sysdney cancelled GH type PM4, reg. label GK NR2A. Another 4 x 5c stamps on reverse. Backstamped Sydney 26 July 1924.
Gaertner Auktionen
6 June 1924
(new Dec 2017)
reverse
7 June 1924
(new 1/2019)
The three 1924 French provisionals on a registered cover to Victoria. Type R2 registration label not used. Goyns/KlingerPCH type PM6 b.
("SeSi" coll.)
7 June 1924
The three 1924 French provisionals on a registered
cover to Victoria. Type R2 registration label not used. Goyns/KlingerPCH type PM6 b. (Klinger coll.)
PM 6 b
Type PM6 b.
7 June 1924
The three 1924 French provisionals on a registered
cover to Victoria. Type R2 registration label not used. Goyns/Klinger type PM6 b. (Blinco coll.)
7 June 1924
(new 10/21)
The three 1924 British provisionals on a registered
cover to Victoria. GK type NR2A registration label not used. GK type PM4.
Image thanks to Chris Rainey Postal History
7 June 1924
Seen about 25 years ago in an old dealer offer for 125 BP:
7 June 1924
(new Dec. 2017)
The three 1924 British provisionals on a registered
cover to Victoria. Type R2 registration label not used. GK type PM4. (Mossgreen Auctions)
7 June 1924
The three 1924 British provisionals on a registered
cover to Victoria. Type R2 registration label not used. GK type PM4. (old dealer offer)
7 June 1924
(new 2/2024)
The three 1924 French provisionals on a registered
cover to Victoria. Type R2 registration label not used. Scare Goyns/KlingerPCH type PM6 b. coll. Fred Petit)
16 July 1924
Similar cover to Sydney, GK Type 6a. (Klinger coll.)
16 July 1924
Nearly the same cover, GK Type 6a. ("RHM" coll.)
16 July 1924 including
letter - (New 1/2020)
Nearly the same cover, GK Type 6a. (Michel Blanc coll.)
16 July 1924
Nearly the same cover, GK Type 6a. (Michel Blanc coll.)
31 July 1924
(New 1/2021)
Standard collector cover to Australia.
18 August 1924
The overprinted stamps were introduced in 1924 to meet UPU colour requirements for stamps: green - local postcard rate,
red - local letter rate, blue - overseas letter rate. To Australia the correct registered rate was 5d or 50c.
The letter bears 1/6 or 1F80c cancelled GK type PM6b (inverted date block). Maybe the sender enjoyed the new colours!
Transit SYDNEY REGISTERED 28AU24 (MAKAMBO arrival date), Melbourne 29AU24 and Canterbury VIC 30AU24.("JGI" coll.)
18 August 1924
(new 3/2020)
Parts of a cover (maybe a "Belmonte" cover". A pity as PM4 is scarce in 1924. It was cut apart by some weird
collector and the stamps were offered on piece. I bought them and joined them here (optically). (Klinger coll)
19 August 1924
Two 30c stamps on a registered letter to France cancelled with Goyns/Klinger type PM6b in red, date block inverted.
Registration handstamp Goyns/Klinger type NR3. Backstamped Valence 6-10 24 and postmaster
cachet "Condominium Postmaster, New Hebrides" (Holland type oc1). (Klinger coll.)
23 August 1924
Local letter to Receveur des Postes Port-Vila. The 3 French and the 3 British
stamps tied by PCH type 8. ("SeSi" collection)
4 September 1924
These overprints were introduced on May 1st, 1924 to conform with the UPU color
requirements for certain classes of mail prior to the introduction of the second
definitive series in June 1925. Backstamped 18 SE 1924. ("JGI" collection)
4 September 1924
4 September 1924
2 x 10c and a 30c stamp on a cover to Sydney cancelled with GK type PM6. Registration label NR2A.
Image thanks to Steve Drewett stamps.
6 October 1924
A 1911/12 French 20c and a 1924 British 3d provisional cancelled with PCH type
8 on a registered letter to Nouméa. Registration label is PCH type R2.
The addressee is Henri Legras (1850-1927), journalist, founder of the "Bulletin
du Commerce, de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Nouvelles-Hébrides". (Ruecker coll.)
25 October 1924
Four British 1911 French ½d. and a 1924 French 30c provisional cancelled
with PCH type 8 on a registered letter to Paris. The rate seemed to be 20c to France
and 30c registration in 1924. ("Aore" coll.)
27 Ocotber 1924
20c for the surface rate to Australia and 30c for the registration: Cover to Perth, WA.
PCH type 8, registration cachet PCH type R4. (Goron coll.)
6 November 1924
Registered to France, the 1911/12 20c and 1924 30c cancelled with PCH type 8.
French customs label. ("JGI" coll.)
6 November 1924
Letter
12 November 1924
Real commercial use with the correct rate paid with two 1924 10c overprints to Sydney.
Cancelled with PCH type 8 with inverted date slug.
("JGI" collection)
17 November 1924
Registered envelope to France. The 1911/12 French stamp and the 3d overprint are cancelled with PCH type 8.
Hand struck registered and arrival backstamp Paris.
(seen in an old dealer's offer)
17 November 1924
(new 6/2019)
Registered envelope to France. The 1911/12 French stamp and the 3d overprint are cancelled with PCH type 8.
Hand struck registered. (Clemens Albert coll.)
17 November 1924
(new 6/2019)
The letter included in the cover at left. A typical postmaster information. Time was not so important in the islands then: it took him 2 months
to answer! Maybe he had no postmaster imprinted sheets anymore and it took him so long to get some from the "SERVICE DE LA CAISSE" (Clemens Albert coll.)
10/18 November 1924
Ship letter to Sydney. The French 30c and English 3d stamps are cancelled with GK Type PM6, a ship cancel GK Type PM5C too on the cover. No backstamps.
This is an interesting cover: PACIFIQUE left Sydney on 29 October 1924 for her last journey to Nouméa (and the New Hebrides?) and VINCENT DE St. PAUL
went back to Sydney and made two more runs until DUPLEIX took over in January 1925. PACIFIQUE left Nouméa on 15 January 1925 for Saigon for scrapping.
VINCENT DE ST. PAUL was back i nSydney on 4 November 1924 and sailed again on 12 November, back on 30 November. The solution could be that PACIFIQUE made a last
New Hebrides inter-island run still with this postmark on board, marked this cover and then left it at Port Vila PO where it was cancelled and then
carried to Sydney with the next VINCENT DE ST. PAUL run.
(Klinger coll.)
18 November 1924
Cover with 5d overprints to Sydney, same correspondence but no Service Maritime cancel. From my 2004 archive.
18 November 1924
Cover with five 10c overprints to Sydney. Cancelled with PCH type 8 with inverted date slug. It is interesting that
there is an impression of PCH 84 (Service Maritime) on the cover below the left stamp with the date 10(?) Nov 24 too. I have no
explanation for this.
("RMD" collection)
4 December 1924
Real commercial use with the correct rate 20c colonial letter rate and 30c registration fee to France - redirected.
Cancelled with PM6a. (unknown collection)
4 December 1924
Registered letter to Aix-en-Provence, France. The 1924 30c. and the 1911 20c. stamps tied by PCH 8. Registration cachet
type R4 in violet. Backstamped Aix-en-Provence 18.1.25.
(Ruecker collection)
4 December 1924
Registered letter to Lyon, France. The 1924 30c. and the 1911 20c. stamps tied by PCH 8. Registration cachet
type R4 in violet. (Seen in an old auction)
17 December 1924
20c rate from Vila to New Caledonia, forwarded to Santo. Backstamped Noumé 25 DEC 24.
Surely one of the rare commercial covers from that time. GK Type PM6.
Pierre Bressler (1875-1939) was a postal clerk and chemist in New Caledonia, since 1914
a trader in Aoba, New Hebrides for some years and then chemist again in NC for a mining
company. (Goron coll.)
22 December 1924
Registered postcard to France, the 1924 English 3d and French 10c stamps cancelled with PCH Type8, French registration cachet.
In 1924 the colonial postcard rate for long message cards was 10c and registration fee 30c. (Klinger coll.)
24 December 1924
"Ackland" cover to Australia, with the three French issues tied
by PCH type 8. (Treadwell coll.)
29 December 1924
Cover from Vila to England, the 50c stamp paid letter rate and registration fee
and is cancelled with PCH type 8. The French registration handstamp is PCH type R3.
Backstamped REGISTERED SYDNEY 12 January 1925. ("Aore" coll.)
27 January 1925
Four British 1911 French ½d. and a 1924 French 30c provisional cancelled
with PCH type 8 on a registered letter to Paris. The rate seemed to be 20c to France
and 30c registration in 1924. ("Aore" coll.)
2 February 1925
Cover from Vila to Australia, apparently overpaid by 10c, cancelled with PCH type
8. ("Aore" coll.)
19 February 1925
Voyage of Mr. Repiquet (French Resident Commissioner) with Comte Buena Esperanza (President of the Condominium Court), Vila, 22 February 1915. (coll. Fred Petit)
19 February 1925
French Militia in Port Vila. (coll. Fred Petit)
26 March 1925
Four 30c overprints on a letter to China, cancelled with PCH type 8. Registration
handstamp is PCH type R3.("Aore" coll.)
26 March 1925
Four 5d overprints on a letter to South Africa, cancelled with PCH type 8. Registration
handstamp is PCH type R3. Backstamped SYDNEY N.S.W. - REGISTERED / -6AP25. The letter was
carried by the Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. steamer MAKAMBO which left Sydney on March 4 and
arrived back at Sydney on 6 April 1925. (Klinger coll.)
26 March 1925
Correct 5d or 50c registered rate to South Africa franked with the French 10c 1912 definitive
and four 1d on ½d 1924 overprints. Transit Sydney Registered -6AP25. ("JGI" coll.)
26 March 1925
(new 3/22)
Correct 20c letter rate plus 30c registration on s cover to Melbourne.
19 April 1925
Coverfront registered to Alger readdresed to Martigny les bains (Vosges) France.
The 1924 30c. and 1911 20c. stamps tied with PCH 8 , registration cachet
type R5 in violet. ("SeSi" collection)
28 April 1925
The 10c overprint paying the postcard rate. PCH type 8. (Goron coll.)
30 April 1925
A French 1912 20c and a 1924 30c on 10c on a letter to Malta cancelled PM6, registration label NR2A.
Backstamped Malte on 17 June 1925.
Image thanks to Victoria Stamp Comapany Ridgewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Mr. C. Abela was an employee of Burns Philp.
30 April 1925
23 July 1925
All three British overprints used on a cover to Germany. Paul
Kiderlen, the famous German cover "producer" was still active, but had moved from
Ulm to Hall in Württemberg. This is the latest cover from him we know of. So he was
at least active from 1894 to 1925. PCH type 8 and PCH type R6 registration cachet.
PCH say this cachet is used between April 26 and June 30. So this cover extends the
time of usage a bit. (Goron coll.)
23 July 1925
reverse
22 August 1927
I found no other place to show this one: Letter from the Hagen Brothers in Nouméa
to Port-Vila. The New Caledonian Y&T #117 25c rade de Nouméa stamp
cancelled with the New Hebridean PCH type 8. (Merot coll.)
19 April 1937
Registered letter to Berne, Switzerland. Two sets of the 1924 French overprints
and two 1925 British 6d stamps cancelled with PCH type 12. The registration
handstamp is the PCH R8 "Villa" type. Backstamped Bern Briefausgabe 15 June 1937.
(Klinger coll.)
28 March 1925
Block of 4 1d stamps on cover addressed to NSW tied with GK PM6a. (Klinger coll.)
28 March 1925
(new Dec. 2017)
Block of 4 1d stamps on cover addressed to NSW tied with GK PM6a. (seen on Ebay in 2017)
28 March 1925
Block of 4 3d stamps on cover addressed to NSW tied with GK PM6a cds. (Klinger coll.)
28 March 1925
Block of 4 3d stamps on cover addressed to NSW tied with GK PM6a cds. (unknown coll.)
28 March 1925
Block of 4 1d stamps on cover addressed to Sydney cancelled with GK PM6a cds. (old auction)
28 March 1925
Block of 4 3d stamps on cover addressed to Sydney cancelled with GK PM6a cds. (old auction)
28 March 1925
Block of 4 3d stamps on cover addressed to NSW tied with GK PM6a cds. (Klinger coll.)
28 March 1925
Letter to "München Östereich". A fantastic revelation: Austria annexed München
in 1925. This sheds new light on the cause of WWII !!
Karl Dürrwanger was a Brewery in Öttingen, Bavaria.
("SeSi" collection)
28 March 1925
Block of 4 10c stamps on cover addressed to Sydney cancelled with GK PM6a cds. (old auction)
28 March 1925
Letter to "München Östereich" again! (Seen on Ebay in March 2010)
28 March 1925
28 March 1925
Block of 4 5d stamps (No. 620) on cover to "München Östereich" again. Now cut apart!
28 March 1925
Now cut apart
28 March 1925
Block of 4 5d stamps on cover addressed to Victoria cancelled with PCH type 8 cds. (Klinger coll.)
28 March 1925
(New Dec. 2017)
28 March 1925
(New Dec. 2017)
28 March 1925
(New Dec. 2017)
Block of 4 10c stamps on cover addressed to New York with KK PM6a cds. (source: Sandafayre Auctions)