

1 June 1938
A First Day Cover of the British 5c and 30c stamps to USA. The stamps are cancelled with Goyns-Klinger type PM11B, the day is made of a solid rectangle behind the one figure "1". (Treadwell coll.)

1 June 1938
(new 10/2021)
About 9 years after posting the cover at left I saw another FDC of the same kind:
A First Day Cover of the British 10c stamp to USA to an address with an identical same family name. The stamp is
cancelled with the same Goyns-Klinger type PM11B.
Image thanks to Steve Drewett - Empire Stamp Auctions

1 June 1938
A First Day Cover of the British 10c stamp as local letter. The stamp is cancelled with the same Goyns-Klinger type PM11B. They changed the canceler from here on because now there is only one figure for the day preceded by a dash. See more covers by Mrs. A. Larney (E. Larny) on the France Libre page on 3. Dec 1941 and on the "censored" page on 4 March 1942. (Ruecker coll.)

1 June 1938
Local FDC. The 5 French stamps 5,10,15,20 and 25c.or tied by PCH type 11 and the British 5,10,15,20 and 25cg tied with PCH type 12.("SeSi" coll.)

4 August 1938
(new 9 OCT 2017)
Peythieux registered cover to France. 1938 issue mixed 2F70 gold cancelled with GK type PM7A, registration cachet "Villa" NR9.
Backstamped Sydney 24 AU 38 and Valence 5-9-38. The only ship in the island returning to Sydney was MORINDA leaving Sydney on 4 August
and returning on 23 August. So this cover had to wait in Vila PO until about 12 August.
Image thanks to Gaertner auctions

4 August 1938
reverse

4 October 1938
(new 6/2020)
Plain cover to U.S.A. The 25cg do not pay the correct non-colonial letter rate, underpaid 5cg - cancelled with PM7B

28 October 1938
28 October 1927 (i.e. 28 October 1938)
Twilight zone or NH in the Bermuda Triangle? (Or une bouteille de Rouge, not from
the customer but before cancelling the cover): 28 OC 27 Registered letter
to Madame E. Peythieux Valence (Drôme) France. 1938 British 30c. gold stamp tied by
PCH type 9B VILA 28 OC 27. Registration handstamp is PCH type R8.
Backstamped Valence 10-12-38 on arrival. The sender is A.E Peythieux
Sous-Capitaine on S/S POLYNESIEN. Seems like both year rolls of the handstamp had
rolled back one position ("Sesi" collection).
This letter shows very clearly that one should be very "nonchalant" when judging
NH cancellations. When I was in Santo on Oct 11, 2006, the canceller at the PO
was set to Oct 14, 2006. I think it was set only once a week. (comment: Roland Klinger)

28 October 1938
28 October 1938 - reverse

dd November 1938
10cg letter rate to the U.S.: underpaid, correct rate ws 30cg. Date illegible, transit San Pedro, Cal., DEC 9 1938 with a cachet on front saying 'Deficiency in address supplied by '28' San Pedro Calif. P.O.' as the state was not written on the cover. See [E.2.-38MYxx] too. ("JGI" coll.)

2 November 1938
(new 2/2019)
Plain cover to U.S.A. The 30cg paying the correct non-colonial letter rate -cancelled with PM7B

30 November 1938
Big (18x30 cm) and heavy registered post office letter to Fitchburg Mass. USA with US custom cachet Passed Free in violet. The French 50,30 and 5c.or tied by PCH type 15, registration cachet is type R8. Backstamped Boston Jan 17 1939 in transit and Fitchburg Jan 18 1939 in arrival. ("SeSi" coll.)

11 Dezember 1938
(new 3/2020)
Letter from Vila to Sir Harry Luke KCMG in Suva, Fiji. Luke was in December 1938 just three months High Commissioner of the British Western Pacific Territories. 10cg cancelled with PM7B paid thecolonial letter rate. (Klinger coll.)

27 Dezember 1938
Registered letter from the French Judge's office to the holder of the Land Register. The British 30cg stamp prepaid the 10 cg postage and the 20 cg registration fee. It is cancelled with PCH type 9, the registration cachet is PCH type R11. (Merot coll.)

9 January 1939 #48
Registered cover to England with a total of 1.05Fg cancelled with GK type PM11A and registration label NR10B #48. Sandafáyre Auctions

9 January 1939 #86
Registered cover to England with a total of 2.95Fg (set to 1F) cancelled with PCH type 11 and registration label R11 #86. Arrival backstamped OLDHAM LANCS 7FE39 #86. ("JGI" collection)

9 January 1939 #52
Registered cover to England with a total of 1.05Fg cancelled with GK type PM11A and registration label NR10B #52. (ex Millet coll.)

9 January 1939 #58
Registered cover to England with a total of 1.05Fg cancelled with PCH type 11 and registration label R11 #58. Backstamped Oldham Lancs. 7 February 1939. Seen on an internet auction site.

9 January 1939 #66
Registered cover to England with a total of 1.05Fg cancelled with PCH type 11 and registration label R11 #66. Backstamped Oldham 7. Feb. 1939 on arrival. Seen on an internet auction site.

9 January 1939 #151
(new 2/2019)
Registered cover to England with a total of 2.85Fg cancelled with PCH type 11 and registration label R11 #151. Image thanks to Sandafayre

25 January 1939
(new 2/2020)
Registered letter to Switzerland. 1F90cg cancelled with GK type PM7C. reg cachet NR9.

14 February 1939
Registered letter to Paris 18: "Mademoiselle Mallet Chef du secrétariat particulier du Président du Conseil". The 10c.gold (2) and the 10c.or (2) stamps tied by PCH type 15A. Registration label is type R11. Backstamped Paris XVIII distribution 8- 4-39. ("SeSi" collection)

6 March 1939
Postcard to Andlun au Val (Bas Rhin) France. The 5c.or and 5c.gold stamps tied by PCH type 10A. ("SeSi" collection)

6 March 1939
Registered letter to Paris18. Total franking 30c. with three 10c. stamps tied by PCH type 12. The French registration label is type R11. Backstamped Paris 15-4-39 on arrival. ("SeSi" collection)

19 April 1939
Registered letter to Nouméa, 30cg pays the 10cg rate and 20cg registration fee to New Calédonia. The stamps are cancelled with PCH type 11. Suggested ship is S.S. Eridan (famous for her sqare funnels), which did the Marseille-Panama-Tahiti-Sydney run since 1935.

21 April 1939
Registered letter to Nouméa, 30cg pays the 10cg rate and 20cg registration fee to New Calédonia. The stamps are cancelled with PCH type 12. The registration label is PCH R11. (Merot coll.)

4 May 1939
Registered Peythieux cover to Valence. PCH type 12 on a French 40c stamp, one strike alongside. (seen in an old dealer's offer)

16 May 1939
Registered envelope to the Bank of Indochina at Noumea, the 10c and 20c French stamps cancelled with PCH type 10. Noumea arrival on reverse. (seen in an old dealer's offer)

25 May 1939
Letter to New Caledonia, the British 10c stamp cancelled with the Inter-Island
cancel. Nouméa backstamp.
Image thanks to Soler y Llach, Spain..

27 May 1939
Registered postmaster letter to the U.S., the British 25c and 50c stamp cancelled with PCH type 12. Sydney backstamp 3-JE39, Boston, Mass. JUL / 5 / 1939 and Fitchburg, Mass JUL / 6 / 1939. Additional Cachet "Passed Free / U.S. Customs / Boston, Mass." on front and rubber handstamp "Foreign Letter Postage / COLLECT 10 CENTS / for Customs Clearance. / Postage-due stamps / to be affixed & cancelled!" but this was not done. (Klinger coll.)

27 May 1939
27 May 1939 - reverse

10 July 1939
Letter from Club des Nouvelles Hébrides Port-Vila to Nouméa NC. The 1938 British 10c. stamp tied by PCH type 12. Backstamped Nouméa 13-7-39. ("SeSi" collection)

10 July 1939
Heavy letter to Australia with a total postage of 1Fg45cg in 1938 French stamps cancelled with PCH Type 12, registration handstamp R8. Backstamped Sydney 18 July and Ashfield, NSW, 18 July. Carried by "PIERRE LOTI" which arrived at Sydney on 18 July. (coll. Petit)

31 August 1939
Registered cover to Townsville, Queensland, Australia with a total of 1.95 Fg cancelled with PCH type 12, registration handstamp PCH type R8 . Backstamped GPO SYDNEY RS -9SE39 in transit and REGISTERED TOWNSVILLE 12 SEP 39 on arrival . ("SeSi" collection)

13 September 1939
Registered to France cancelled with PM7C. Colonial registration fee was 20 cg so theletter must have been between 40g & 60g for 30 cg. Registration label NR7A. Backstamped Noumea 20 SEPT 39 and Paris 14-11 39. (ex Millet coll.)

4 October 1939
As the cover was unfranked, it has been correctly surcharged 20cg representing twice the local rate of 10cg. Both language labels have been used. ("JGI" collection)

4 October 1939
The correct letter rate was 10c. So a surcharge of 2 x 5cg has been applied using two English and French 5cg taxe/due labels. ("JGI" collection)

21 December 1939
Registered Baldwin cover. The British 10c, 15c and 25c cancelled with PCH type 12, registration stamp PCH type R8. ("JGI" coll.)

26 December 1939
Baldwin registered cover with a total of 50cg cancelled with PCH type 11 and registration label R14. ("JGI" collection)

31 January 1940
Registered Messageries Maritimes cover from Vila to Aubagne (Bouches du Rhône) France. The British 10 and 20cg. stamps tied by PCH type 12. The year 40 is shown as a solid rectangle followed by 4. Registration label is type R11. Backstamped AUBAGNE-Bches DU RHONE 29.3.40 on arrival. ("SeSi" coll.)

31 January 1940
Reverse tells us that the year was 1940.

12 February 1940
Letter to France, the French 10cg stamp pays the correct rate and is cancelled with PCH type 12 which in early 1940 shows the forty as a solid rectangle followed by a "4". (Merot coll.)

1 March 1940
Registered letter from the Justice of the Peace to the holder of the Land Register
in Port-Vila. The two French 15cg stamps (10cg postage, 20cg registration fee)
are cancelled with PCH type 13, registration handstamp PCH type R8. On the left
top corner the French Official Cachet Holland type of5 is applied and the
name "Jeanson" in script.
Gaston Jeanson became French judge at the Condominium Court in 1931 and Registrar of
Titles in 1935. (Merot coll.)

1 April 1940
Registered Peythieux cover to Valence cancelled with PCH type 8. (seen in an old dealer's offer)

4 April 1940
Baldwin cover from Santo to Australia with the British 20cg and 30cg stamps tied with
PCH type 36, the first English cancel for Santo. As double works better there is a
PCH type R34 registration label affixed with #166 and a PCH type R31 handstamp
applied with #166 too. (Mele coll.)

4 April 1940
Baldwin cover from Santo to Australia franked with 10, 15, and 25cg and is numbered #167. (Merot coll.)

10 April 1940
(new 8/2018)
Registered cover from Santo to Australia franked with 10 and 40cg and is numbered #162. Backstamped Sydney. Source: Auckland City Stamps

17 June 1940
Letter to Ste Foy les Lyon (Rhône) France via IndoChina. The 10c.or stamp tied by PCH type 13. On reverse label "La défense contre la tuberculose". Backstamped machin cancel Saigon Central Cochinchine 17 AOUT 40 10h50 in transit and Ste Foy les Lyon 12-11-40 on arrival. ("SeSi" collection)

17 June 1940
17 June 1940 - reverse

26 July 1940
Commercial cover to USA, the 1938 French 10cg and British pair of two 5cg stamps are cancelled with PCH type 11. (Klinger coll.)

2 August 1940
Cover to Australia with the correct 10 cg rate stamp tied with SANTO PM16. Carried by SS MORINDA. (ex Millet coll.)

9 August 1940
Cover to Australia with the correct 10 cg rate stamp tied with PCH type 11. Carried by SS Mirani (854 t), a Burns Philp interisland vessel until 1940. (Aore coll.)

12 August 1940
Letter from Oscar Newman to his brother-in-law Louis Page, "habile géomètre du Tribunal Mixte" ( O'Reilly ). The letter was carried from some outer island by the mission vessel "St. Josef" and cancelled in Vila. For a reason unclear to me the postmaster decided that the letter was underpaid 20c and a 40c tax was applied on 12 August 1940. ("Aore" coll.)

27 November 1940
Inter island letter from Vila to Santo forwarded to Vanikoro (in light blue at left) . The British 10cg cancelled with PCH type 12 and the French 30c.or cancelled with PCH type 11. Handstamped with PCH type 38 on 24DE40 in Santo . The registration handstamp is PCH type R8 Port-Vila n°65 . Same cover as C.4.3 40NO27 but with inter-island registration n°64 . Both cancelled in Vila? The manuscript above the 30c stamp could read "Returned".

9 December 1940
Correct 10cg colonial letter rate to Australia. Ex Bill Holland coll. Although censorship of mail was introduced in the New Hebrides
and Australia immidiately after the declaration of war in Europe in 1939, this December 1940 letter was censored in neither country.
The cover is endorsed ont the reverse "From K.H. Garvey Vila".
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie France.

24 December 1940
Baldwin "Christmas cover" from Santo to Australia, the British 5c and 25c and the FRench 20c stamps tied with PCH type 38. As double works better there is a GK Type NR17 registration label affixed with #375 and a GK Type NR18 handstamp applied with #375. (Mele coll.)

24 December 1940
Baldwin "Christmas cover" from Santo to Australia, the British 20cg and the French 5cg & 25cg stamps tied with GK Type PM15. As double works better there is a GK Type NR17 registration label affixed with #370 and a GK Type NR18 handstamp applied with #370 too. Backstamped Vila 28 DEC 40 with GK Type PM7C and Sydney 3 JAN 41. (image thank to Malcolm Goyns)

24 December 1940

27 February 1941
Internal registered cover with 10cg postage and 20cg registration(?) to the Vila postmaster Ludovic de Gaillande. Cancelled PCH type 10, registration cachet PCH type 8, the one with the miss-spelled VILLA. (Aore coll.)

8 March 1941
Registered letter to Australia, correctly franked 30cg. Unusual for a civil letter not having been censored. ("JGI" coll.)

23 April 1941
Letter to Sydney with a French 1938 5cgold and a British 1925 2d stamp. They are cancelled with PCH Type 11. Tax stamped in the New Hebrides with manuscript 10cgold and Tax stamped Sydney 1½d paid by a 1d and a ½d Australian Tax stamp. Adressee informed handstamp dated 8.5.41. (Alain Millet coll.)

23 April 1941
Uncensored 10cg rate cover to the High Commissioner of the British Western Pacific Territories Sir Harry Luke in Fiji. ("JGI" coll.)

21 July 1941
Letter to the High Commissioner in Fiji, the 20c stamp cancelled with PCH type 38. (Ruecker coll.)

24 September 1941
10c rate to Noumea, not censored, postmark Goyns Klinger type PM7C. (ex Millet coll.)

24 November 1941
10c rate to Australia, not censored, postmark Goyns Klinger type PM7C. (Klinger coll.)

4 December 1941
10c rate to AUstralia, not censored, postmark Goyns Klinger type PM7C. (Klinger coll.)

21 July 1942
Picture postcard "un coin de la côte à Epi" from Port Vila to San Francisco . The 20c.or tied by GK type PM11A. Correct non colonial postcard rate. ("SeSi" coll.)

14 August 1942
This cover with the return address of the USS Crescent City, PCH type 38 tying mixed postage stamps is dated two days after the Crescent City reached Santo. However no postal service was extended o this item and it was held simply as a souvenir. (Jersey coll.)

21 October 1942
Piece with the 10c normal and the 5c, 10c Postage Dues. Cancelled Santo, 21OC42. (Klinger coll.)

21 October 1942
Complete set of Postage Due stamps on five unaddressed covers tied by PCH type 36 first
English cancel for Santo.
Cover 1: 5c. postage due
Cover 2: 10c. postage due tied by PCH type 36 and French 1F stamp tied by PCH type 38.
Cover 3: 20c. postage due
Cover 4: 40c. postage due and British 25c.
Cover 5: 1F postage due
("SeSi" collection)

12 March 1943
AVIS DE RECEPTION with octogonal handstamp AR.Two French 10c. stamps tied by PCH type 11. PORT-VILA 12 MARS 43. The registred letter sent by Cdt Nicolas Harelle Director of the Société des Iles Banks to Monsieur Launay Henri settler of the Société Française des Nouvelles Hébrides in Santo. Backstamped by PCH type 37 SANTO 9 APR 43. ("SeSi" collection)

12 March 1943
12 March 1943 - reverse

17 March 1943
Cover with mixed 1F25c (a 5c stamps is a tax stamp)to U.S.A. cancelled GK PM16. (Blinco collection)

9 May 1943
(new 10/21)
Cover with 2 10cg stamps cancelled GK PM7D to Washington, U.S.A., underfranked 10cg.
Image thanks to Steve Drewett Postal History

15 July 1943
Correct 5cg local island rate cancelled with Goyns-Klinger type PM11A. Édouard Pouillet was a planter in Mele. Not censored.
Ex Bill Holland coll.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie France.

2 September 1943
Avis de Réception: Two British 10c stamps cancelled with PCH type 36, the second day digit is a blank square. It is remarcable that this paper does not follow the two language rule! Still affixed with the original two rusty needles is the complete registration segment, the VILA label not corrected to SANTO. It belonged to a postal object from Mr. Harelle, (at this time director of the "Société des îles Banks") to Mr. Launay, (at this time settler of the "Société Français des Nouvelles Hébrides" (Klinger coll.)

2 September 1943
2 September 1943 - reverse

18 October 1943
O.C.S. post office cover to New York, the British 5c stamp (normal rate to U.S. : 30cg) cancelled with PCH type 11. (Klinger collection)

7 December 1943
(new 3/22)
French 1938 set (ex 5c) including the tax Stamps on a local letter fragment from an American Lieutenant to his wife cancelled GK tyoe PM 11A 7 DEC 1943 and type PM7C with the date 37 DEC 43 !!!

11 January 1944
Local letter to Bombing Squadron 104 Espiritu Santo franked with four British postage due stamps 5c., 10c., 20c., and 40c. tied by PCH type 38. ("SeSi" collection)

20 January 1944
Letter to France, 2 x 5 cg cancelled with Goyns Klinger type PM11A. The first "4" of the year is not correctly set. Colonial letter rate was 10 cg. "Messageries Maritimes" imprint on reverse. (Klinger collection)

14 February 1944
Registered letter to Noumea- uncensored. Colonial letter rate 10cg and colonial registration fee 20cg. Cancelled PM11A, registration label NR10C. (ex Millet coll.)

11 September 1944
Correct 10cg local inter-island rate cancelled with Goyns-Klinger type PM11A. Reverend John Gillan was at Tangoa Mission Ccollege. Not censored.
Ex Bill Holland coll.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie France.

14 September 1944
Underpaid letter to the U.S.A. (non colonial letter rate was 30 gc). The French stamp cancelled with Goyns-Klinger type PM15 and the English one with PM16.
Ex Bill Holland coll.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie France.

22 September 1944
Letter from Santo to Vila with both the 5c stamps and both cancels. Sign of the San Francisco Palace Hotel (enlarged in the scan) on reverse. (Klinger coll.)

22 September 1944
Letter from Santo to Vila with both the 5c stamps and both cancels.
Image thanks to Steve Drewett stamps

20 October 1944
Curious letters from Santo to Australia. Two French and two British 1938 10c stamps tied with PCH type 38. Mr. Baldwin, the famous Australian New Hebrides collector, got hold of an unused NZ military cover which had the NZ censor handstamp applied but not signed. So this letter seemed to have reached its destiny without any censoring. (Mele coll.)

20 October 1944
Two French and two British 1938 15c stamps tied with PCH type 38. (seen in an old dealer's offer)

24 October 1944
New Zealand military cover from Santo to Sydney which had the NZ censor handstamp pre-applied but not signed. Uncensored letter sent by (and to) Mr. Baldwin a famous Australian New Hebrides collector. Pair of 10c. postage due stamps tied by PCH type 38. ("SeSi" collection)

25 October 1944
Interisland cover to Tanna with the British 5c stamp, cancelled Vila with PCH type 11. In the background another local cover with the same stamp but tied with PCH type 10 and a type 11 additionally. (Mele coll.)

28 January 1945
Letter from Santo to Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand. the British 40cg and 50cg stamps and the British 40cg POSTAGE DUE stamp are cancelled with PCH type 38. One of the very rare covers with a (unintended?) normal use of a POSTAGE DUE stamp. (Klinger coll.)

19 March 1945
Letter to France. 10cg colonial letter rate cancelled with GK type PM7D. (ex Millet coll.)

30 May 1945
A complete set of the 1938 gold issue plus the five TAXE stamps on a Burns Philp (South Sea) Coy. Suva cover to Burn Philp in Santo (New Caledonia !!). Cancelled with GK Type PM16. Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie

30 May 1945
Burns Phil Suva

3 July 1945
Letter from a medical officer to New York, Port Vila censor cachet in violet. The British 30c stamp cancelled with PCH type 11. A late use as PCH give April 1945 as last use date. (seen in an old dealer's offer)

15 September 1945
Correctly franked letter to the U.S.A., non colonial letter rate 30 gc. All stamps cancelled with Goyns-Klinger type PM16.
Ex Bill Holland coll.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie France.
