Picture postcard to Australia - correct British colonial postcard rate 1½d.
Image thanks to Steve Drewett stamps.
NSW 2½d as correct rate on letter to the UK. Backstamped on arrival Glasgow
29 November 1902. ("Aore" coll.)
The Rev. James Paton, D.D. was the youngest brother of the famous New Hebridean
missionary John G. Paton. He was born in Dumfriesshire in 1843 and died in
December 1906. John G. was born 24 May 1824 and died on 28 January 1907.
NSW 2½d as correct ½oz rate on letter to the U.S.A. Sydney transit 29 May and Oakland arrival 6 and 7 July 1903.
The cover was carried to Sydney by the Burns Philp steamer YSABEL.
Image thanks to Prestige Philately Australia
NSW 2½d as correct ½oz rate on letter to Julius Kinze, Maxstrasse 17, Dresden A, Germany. Official Burns Philp cover with Sydney transit 29 June and Dresden
arrival 2 August 1903.
The cover was carried to Sydney by the Burns Philp steamer TITUS.
The writing on the cover is not English or French style but rather German style. Julius Kinze made some covers to himself in 1908/09 when he was a stamp and cover dealer
at Kötschenbroda near Dresden. It is rather astonishable that he had contact to the New Hebrides as early as 1903.
Image thanks to the Fred Petit collection.
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NSW 1d stamp on a postcard to France. Cancelled Polignac 25 January 1904 on arrival. Taxed in Australia 5c (Incorrectly taxed as the colonial postcard rate was 1d since 1903). Carried by the YSABEL which arrived in Sydney on 20 December. (Millet coll.)
Correct 2½d letter rate with all backstamps and with original letter. The letter was written by Frank Bayldon, master of the 'Tamboo', the Burns Philp boat which provided the regular mail service between the New Hebrides nad Sydney. This was subsidised at £3,600 per annum by the New South Wales government. The 2½d NSW stamp is cancelled with PCH type 1 (or 1A?) with the '0' of 1904 missing. Backstamped Sydney AP 25 04 in transit and on arrival SPALDING MAY 30 04. ("JGI" collection).
Two ½d N.S.W. stamps on a postcard to Sydney cancelled with PCH type 1. Addresse is Allen Street, Glebe Point, Sydney. (Seen on Ebay in April 2008)
NSW 1d as correct postcard rate to New Zealand.
The PCH Type 1 is the day/month
type with four digits year block. (ex "Mele" coll.)
Post card "landing stores, Erromanga, New Hebrides" to Annandale Australia
written in NH (from the content of the letter) with NSW Postal Agency 1d stamp
cancelled on arrival Sydney JA 19 06 and very fine strike of the double-oval
SHIP LETTER / 1D / LATE FEE alongside.
The card was carried by the Burns Philp steamer TAMBO wich arrived at Sydney
on 18 january 1906 from her Sydney (1905-12-01) - Lord Howe - Norfolk - New Hebrides -
Sydney (1906-01-18) run.
Scarce example for a cover or card from the NH with NSW stamp tied in Australia. ("SeSi" coll.)
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Picture postcard to Sydney "Village de Bignambo Malakula". The 1d & 1½d NSW stamps are cancelled with GK Type PM1.
Overpaid as the colonial postcard rate was 1d from 1903 on.
Image thanks to Steve Drewett & Empire Stamp Auctions
1d stamp on a postcard to Fiji. Cancelled with GK Type PM1 (missing last two digits of the year slug) and frontstamped Levuka 7 January 1907 and Suva
7 January 1907.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatélie
This picture postcard to Sernhac, Gard, France is dated 11 NO 1908 on the canceller
and arrival cancel is dated 26 December 1908. It is written on September 7, 1908,
and tells about the visit of the Kersaint in Port Vila. The 1½d NSW stamps are cancelled with
PCH type 1. (Ruecker coll.)
The latter part of 1908 was spent by "Kersaint" in what are described as 'punitive'
expeditions to Ambrym (New Hebrides), followed by a similar exercise at Santo.
This particular expedition was mounted in response to the death of a settler (Greig) and
his two daughters, an enquiry, held locally, being undertaken by Lt Valat of the
"Kersaint". (Source: "Pacifica", Jan 2004, Jacques Mérot: New Hebrides -
The Cruiser "Kersaint".)
Maybe these activities caused the delay of this postcard.
NSW 1d x4 on a letter to Sydney cancelled with PCH Type 5. Backstamped Sydney 21.DE.08. This cover was brought to Sydney by the Burns Philp & Co. Ltd steamer
TAMBO, Captain Hillman, which arrived at Sydney on this day.
The addressee was Hugh Venables (1877-1935) Vernon, son of the famous Sydney architect Walter Liberty Vernon, who was in partnership
with Howard Joseland at Castlereagh St. (Goron coll.)
The 12 December 1908 postcards to Frank Malmberg in New York - please see menu "1908 - 1908 Postal History - Used in 1911 or later" for postcards to
Frank Malmberg when he was in the New Hebrides and letters he sent when he left Vila.
James F Newman who wrote these cards was a trader on the island TONGOA. On the date DE 12 it would be an incorrect use of the NSW stamps after the deadline
Nov. 30th but was probably tolerated as the people on the islands might not have been informed on the regulations in time.
The addressee Frank Malmberg lived on Tongoa later in 1911. 6 of these cards to Frank M. are known and a couple of cards & letters later.
PCH Type 1A on NSW ½d and 1d stamps on a postcard to USA. The addressee is Frank Malmberg, who lived on Tongoa in later years (see 18 DE 1910, 01 JA 1911 and 11 AP 1911 in "1908 used in 1911"]). On the picture side cancelled on transit with a Sydney machine cancel. The Vila cancel rather clearly is PCH type 1A which in PCH is known in 1897 and 1899 only. The date DE 12 would be an incorrect use of the NSW stamps after the deadline Nov. 30th but was probably tolerated as the people on the islands were probably not informed on the regulations in time. (Klinger coll.)
PCH Type 1A on NSW ½d and 1d stamps on a picture postcard to USA. The addressee is
the same as on the postcards above. This one is a real photo postcard.
"Min Guddotter" means "my piece of gold" in Swedish.
Seen in auction 199 of Prestige Philately and mossgreen.
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