Christmas Island - Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations Ltd. Private Stamps - covers up to 1935.
4 March 1919
Cover to Apia redirected to Switzerland. The 5c plantation stamp not cancelled. Maybe the plantation stampshas been affixed later
but the joint foxing around the stamp could also mean that it was placed there at the same time as the Samoa stamps. Also the position of the four stamps which is typical
for collector covers in this area speaks for this. But the Samoan clerk would not cancel the private stamp. At least an item of curiosity.
Image thanks to Samwells Postal History
4 March 1919
Reverse
4 March 1919
(new 8/2019)
Similar cover seen in a dealer offer in 1996.
Here CI stamp was crossed out, and there is a censorstamp reading " Passed by censor 3 Samoa GRI" as on the cover at left (nearly unvisible here, image enhanced in the middle).
I also have found on the net, a few covers to the same person sent from Apia.
Supposedly the cover was sent from CI with CI stamp, but was not cancelled on CI. On arrival at Apia the CI was crossed out as not valid, and Samoa stamps were added and cancelled,
and the address changed. Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen
1927
From the members list of the Historic Circle of Berne 1927
Fritz Blatter
Fritz Blatter (1883 - 1937)
Jubiläumsstr. 52 in Berne
was a very well known Swiss Numismatist.
21 November 1919
21 November 1919
Cover to France, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, the 25c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete 26-12-19.
21 November 1919
(new 2/23)
Cover to France, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, the 25c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete 26-12-19.
Backstamped Papeete 26-12-19
3 December 1919
Cover to France, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, the 5c U.S. stamp cancelled in San Francisco on 9 February 1920. (David Gillis coll.)
3 December 1919
CL2
3 December 1919
Covcer to France, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, the 5c U.S. stamp cancelled in San Francisco on 9 February 1920.
Image thanks to Prestige Philately and mossgreen
3 December 1919
CL2
3 December 1919
Cover to France, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, the 5c U.S. stamp cancelled in San Francisco on 9 February 1920.
Image thanks to Zirinsky Stamps, New York
I found this cover offered in the October 1995 Christies Auction for an estimate of AU$350-450 - realised 230.
3 December 1919
20 June 1920
(new 6/2022)
Cover from Papeete to the manager in Fanning Island, maybe from Rougier's office.
Image thanks to routed by SS Talune (The first one - Union Steamship Co, NZ) via New Zealand. Talune was well known as she brought the deadly
"Spanish Flu" to the Pacific Islands in 1918.
18 February 1921
5 August 1921
Very scarce: early incoming mail to Christmas Island. Addressed to the temporary manager (last part of 1921 and 1922) at Christmas Island,
Charles L.J.B. Pugeault.
Image thanks to Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd.
4. January 1922
Covcer to Papeete, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL1, the 10c Oceania with Papeete Tahiti.
4. January 1922
A bit awkward: Papeete address heavily manipulated...The word "imprimé" is the same handwriting as
on the Roessler covers.
8 October 1922
The following three covers are "made" by Monsieur André Leralle, famous covermaker in the South Sea Islands in
the 1920s and 30s.
December 2018: I found an old document: "Bulletin de la Société d'Études Océaniennes", No. 8, Dec. 1923. In this document
Mister Leralle is listed as "Trésorier" = Treasurer of SEO and Emmanuel "Father" Rougier as vice-president. More about Laralle on my
website New Hebrides Stamps & Postal History.
13 July 1923 - cancel CL2 only
Covcer to Papeete, Tahiti with a total of 25c + 10c Oceania stamps cancelled with the platation postmark CL2 without date.
Backstamped Papeete 23 July 1923.
A typical Leralle cover. "Au bons soins du Capitaine Bresson à bord du Roy Somers" (Leralle wrote "Sommer")
July 1923 - cancel CL2 only
Covcer to Papeete, Tahiti with a total of 25c + 10c Oceania stamps cancelled with the platation postmark CL2 without date.
13 July 1923?- cancel CL2 only
Covcer to Papeete, Tahiti - Monsieur Leralle (himself)h a total of 30c + 15c Oceania stamps cancelled with the platation postmark CL2 without date.
A typical Leralle cover. Very similar to the 13 July cover.
13 July 1923 - cancel CL2 only
Cover to Papeete, Tahiti with a total of 27c Oceania stamps cancelled with the platation postmark CL2 without date.
Backstamped Papeete Tahiti 18 July 1923. Mr. Carlos Zalapa Consul-General for Mexico, in Australia and New Zealand and visited Papeete very often. Leralle too?
13 July 1923 - cancel CL2 only.
Reverse
This cover here is a very peculiar one: I think it was produced by Monsieur Leralle too with the three covers above and maybe some more. It is marked "No 10" and
obviously Leralle forgot to write the address. It is backstamped like two of the three above with a Papeete 13 July 1923 postmark but there is no sign for any
postal handling.
There is some evidence that none of these letters were used in the post. Leralle probably stamped the Oceania stamps with the CL2 postmark, had the covers backstamped
at the Post Office and then took the whole package back with him to add the addresses later.
From my New Hebrides postal history research I know that André Leralle was an artist in producing orchestrated covers.
13 July 1923 - cancel CL2 only
(new 6/2021)
Cover without address. A total of 25c Oceania stamps cancelled with the platation postmark CL2 without date.
Backstamped Papeete Tahiti 18 July 1923.
13 July 1923 - cancel CL2 only.
Reverse
"The Roy Somers, three-masted schooner of 314 tons and 400 M lumber capacity, was built at Fairhaven, Calif., by Bendixsen, in 1891 for J. Merrill. San Francisco.
Later owned by B. H. Tietjen, she was bought in 1918 by Henry Gray & Co. for their trade with Tahiti. In 1923 thev sold the schooner to Father Rougier of Papeete, the
owner of Christmas I., and she was afloat in 1929." John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1895, The Marine Digest. August 9, 1941. p. 2
So I suppose that Captain Bresson was master of the Roy Somers in 1923
This is very interesting: during the more than 10 years I work on this website the following 4 covers finally came together. All were sent by Mr. Rougier to the
famous airmail collector L. Weber, Rieterplatz 1 in Zürich 2, Switzerland. On the two cards he confirms that he sent 2 covers and 2 postcards to Mr. Weber.
Now these four items are reunited again here 100 years later.
7 January 1924
Registered cover to Switzerland. the 4 plantation 5c stamps cancelled with CL1 and together with the Oceania 1F cancelled with a 7.1.24 Papeete / Tahiti postmark.
7 January 1924
Registered cover to Switzerland. the 4 plantation 5c stamps cancelled with CL1 and together with the Oceania 1F cancelled with a 7.1.24 Papeete / Tahiti postmark.
I found this cover offered in the October 1995 Christies Auction for an estimate of AU$350-450 - realised 420.
7 January 1924
(new Jan 2018)
Registered postcard (paid answer card) to Switzerland, the two plantation stamps cancelled with CL1.
Image thanks to Cavendish Auction House
7 January 1924 reverse
(new July 2018)
Reverse: San Francisco 21 Jan 1924, New York Foreign 26 Jan 1924, Zürich 11 Feb 1924.
The information says "2 P.C. reg., 7 letters reg., going via ???? by ??? ??? 10/1.
7 January 1924
(new 21 Feb2024)
Postcard written by Monsieur Rougier to Zurich, Switzerland.
7 January 1924
Registered cover to Palo Alto, Cal., U.S.A. The 4 plantation 5c stamps cancelled with CL1 and the Oceania 1F cancelled with a 7.1.24 Papete postmark.
Image thanks to Prestige Philately and mossgreen
14 January 1924
Local letter, dated in CL2 in manuscript. Addresse unreadable, month unsure.
Image thanks to Sandafayre
10. March 1924
Registered cover from Papeete to Boston, Mass. A lot of Tahiti stamps on front and reverse together with two 5c Christmas Island stamps
all cancelled with the Papeete / Tahiti postmark.
10. March 1924
Reverse
30. June 1924
Local letter, dated in CL2 in manuscript, second issue. Addresse Itepa Ju Rapa
Source: Christmas Island and its Postal History", The Pacific Islands Circle, Melbourne, 1951
30. June 1924
Somebody has been clever enough to wash the stamp off the cover, so that the cover no longer exists.
Information and image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.
My personal opinion: this stamp has been rightly removed from this "cover": As far as the scan tells, the stamp didn't belong to this cover. A trace of a cancel
at the bottom of the stamp does not continue on the paper of the cover. My 2 cents, Roland
26 September 1924
Cover to Hawaii, the 5c plantation stamp tiedwith CL2 dated 26-9-24 in manuscript and together with a 2c US stamp cancelled
San Francisco Oct 1924.
I found this cover offered in the October 1995 Christies Auction for an estimate of AU$300-400 - not sold .
26 September 1924
From 31 July to 7 August 1924 U.S.S. WHIPPOORWILL visited the island on what was ostensibly a scientific cruise into the
Pacific for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu. However, its primary purpose was to provide cover for a major
intelligence gathering effort by the United States Government. The scientific members of the expedition studied such things
as the coral formations in the lagoon and offshore, its raised coral formations, marine life, botany and soils.
Theodore (Ted) Thomas Dranga ( *1901 - †1956) was a Haiwaiian conchologist and a member of this Whippoorwill Expedition and very possibly wrote
these two letters (and others ?) to his address in Hawaii.
The Navy Department assigned the minesweeper Whippoorwill, under Captain W. J. Poland, to survey the Line Islands. The first group left Honolulu on
July 24, 1924 and visited Christmas, Jarvis, and Washington Islands. The scientific personnel were under the leadership of Charles H. Edmondson,
and the members of the group concentrated on zoology, botany, conchology, entomology, and geology.
Information thanks to NZETC New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
I found the dates of the expeditions stay on Christmas Island in Keith Fitchetts book "The Stamps and Postal History of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands" (Pacific Study Circle 1998)
and after seeing the manuscript date on the Christmas Island handstamp (26 September 1924) I must conclude that this handstamp could only be in Papeete or at least was dated there
after the letters were carried from Christmas Island.
4 December 1924
(new 01/2020)
Cover to Italy. CL2 undated - could as well have been precancelled.
Image thanks to
Cherrystone auctions
xx. xx 1925
Cover to England, taxed. The 5c Plantation stamp cancelled with CL1 and CL2.
12. February 1925
(new 11/23)
Picture postcard to San Diego. Cancelled Papeete 12.2.1925. CI stamp not cancelled but was at least affixed at the same time as
it has the same foxing on the perforation as the Tahiti stamp.
Source: Le Timbre Classique Paris/Geneva /
12. February
Reverse
6. March 1925 #MA37
Local letter, dated in CL2 in manuscript. Addresse Mr. Noti, Keivu (Kaiau ?) Date very unsure
5 June 1925 #MA37a
(new 23 July 2024)
Cover to the U.S.A.
15 July 1925
Postcard to England, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, aditionally together with the U.S. 2c with
a Honolulu cancel on 15.7.1925.
The text: "Will you share this with the others as I could only get one, the stamps and postcards are very rare the only white man in Christmas Island
does not keep many and as he did not know we are coming, could not get any more for us. He only has a mail every six months. The island was
detected (?) on Xmas Day (by Capt. Cook) hence it's name. Love Daddy."
24 August 1925
21 September 1925
(new Jan 2018)
End of 1926
Cover to England, the 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL1 and CL2 (without date) and Blackawton, Devon on
arrival: 15 FE 1927, redirected to London. Mansucript "Please forward" at top.
Image thanks to Prestige Philately and mossgreen
21. September 1927
21 September 1927
Same configuration, same writer:most likely the same date: Similar cover to the U.S.A.
21 September 1927
reverse: backstamped RMS TAHITI Marine Post Office. Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen
5. March 1928
Cover to California. The 10c Plantation stamp, two U.S. 2c and a 10c cancelled with CL2 without date, arrival postmark San Francisco 4 May 1928.
Cancelled below the stamps Papeete / Ile Tahiti 5 March 28, at left Vaitape Bora-Bora 17.3., Uturoa Ile Raiatea 19.3.28, Taiohae, Ile Nuka-Hiva 9.4.28.
Big cachet "Etablissement Francais de l'Oceanie - Tahiti / Agence speciale des Iles sous le vent", another weak Etablissement.... District de..." cachet.
Two 2c stamps plus 10c Airmail to pay the 24c fee to New Jersey. This cover was sent
under the scheme where US airmail could be prepaid from overseas with U.S. stamps.
Image thanks to Kelleher Auctions
5 March 1928
Cover to California, the 5c plantation stamp and four 1½c U.S. stamps cancelled with CL2 without date.
5 March 1928
Cover to California, the 5c plantation stamp and four 1½ U.S. stamps cancelled with CL2 without date.
5 March 1928
Cancel of Marine Post Office / R.M.S. Tahiti" 6 March 1928 on reverse.
5 March 1928
(new 2/2020)
Cover to Honolulu redirected to California, the 5c plantation stamp and four 1½c U.S. stamps cancelled with CL2 without date and Honolulu Jan 30 1928.
5 March 1928
(new 2/2020)
Cover to Honolulu redirected to California, the four 2c U.S. stamps cancelled with CL2 without date and Honolulu Jan 30 1928.
5 March 1928
Cover to California, the 5c plantation stamp and three U.S. stamps cancelled with CL2 without date.
5 March 1928
Cancel of Marine Post Office / R.M.S. Tahiti" 6 March 1928 on reverse.
6 March 1928
Cover to New York. The U.S. stamp was issued in 1925. Both stamps cancelled witj CL2. No other postmark on the front.
6 March 1928
Reverse: R.M.S. TAHITI Marine Post Offics cancel 6 March 1928. Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen
I found this cover offered in the October 1995 Christies Auction for an estimate of AU$300-400 - realised: 210.
6 March 1928
Cover to California. The U.S. stampa is a 1925 5c stamp. All stamps cancelled witj CL2 without date.
No other postmark on the front. Backstamped R.M.S. TAHITI Marine Post Offics cancel 6 March 1928. The letter was redirected (manuscript) to
3101 Kingsland (Ave.) in Oakland.
Image thanks to "philatelie", Das Magazin des Bundes Deutscher Philatelisten, Ausgabe 510, Dezember 2019.
6 March 1928
(new 11/23)
Cover to California. 3 U.S. stamps. All stamps cancelled witj CL2 without date.
No other postmark on the front. Backstamped R.M.S. TAHITI Marine Post Offics cancel 6 March 1928.
Source: Le Timbre Classique Paris/Geneva
6 March 1928
Cover to California. The U.S. stampa are the 2c and an imperforated pair of the 1½c Harding issue. All stamps cancelled witj CL2 without date.
No other postmark on the front. Backstamped R.M.S. TAHITI Marine Post Offics cancel 6 March 1928.
Image thanks to Argyll Etkin - Worldwide Stamps and Postal History, London
4. May 1928
Cover to California. The 10c Plantation stamp cancelled with CL2 without date, arrival postmark San Francisco 4 May 1928.
Image thanks to Cherrystone Philatelic Auctioneers
All these covers were very likely sent by Captain Arnold U. Laur of 80 Portsmouth Road, Piedmont mostly to possibly his wife. An interesting story about him is
that Captain Laur's ship sank off the coast of Costa Rica several years ago in a storm. All hands were forced to take to the boats hurriedly and in his anxiety for his crew
Captain Laur forgot his many possessions aboard. Not so his cabin boy. While Captain Laur busied himself with saving his men, the boy rushed to the cabin, grabbed his captain's
large and valuable stamp collection, wrapped It in blankets and threw it Into a life boat as the ship began to sink. (Source: October 26, 1929: Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California)
So he was a stamp collector and maybe he had been in Christmas Island waters with his ship in early 1928 and posted these covers.
Addendum: on 28 January 1928 FAITH arrived in Honolulu from San Francisco.
15 January 1929
Cover to San Fancisco cancelled Sydney Loose Ship Letter on the 10c plantation stamp.
Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.
21 March 1929
Cover to Denmark, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, the 5c U.S. stamp cancelled Honolulu, Hawaii.
Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.
13 August 1929
Cover to France, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, the 5c U.S. stamp cancelled San Francisco.
Image thanks to Christian Beslu via Timbres Magazine 2002.
23 November 1929
Air Mail cover to France. 2½c Gilbert &Ellice stamps plus U.S. 12c for air mail. The plantation stamp
and the G & E stamps cancelled with CL 2, the U.S. stamps ancelled San Francisco on 23 November 1929.
Surce: Paul Boulagnon, "Emmanuel Rougier", Saint-Julien-Chapteuil: Editions du Roure, 2004
about 1930
Cover to Papeete, Rückseite leer:
Adresse: Monsieur le Président du Tribunal Civil
à Papeete / Tahiti
Address enhanced
28. Februar 1930
Cover to San Francisco and cancelled there.
28. Februar 1930
28. Februar 1930
cover to San Francisco and cancelled there. (David Gillis coll.)
4. December 1934
Cover to Hawaii, the 10c plantation stamp, Oceania 1F, 15c and the two 25c carry the Papeete "PERLE" slogan postmark.
25. December 1934
VOIR TAHITI....28-1-35 17:00
Cover to the U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the two Oceania 15c and the 10c carry the Papeete "VOIR" slogan postmark.
Card in Williams cover
Card from the Williams cover above.
25. December 1934
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00
Cover to the U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the two Oceania 5c stamps carry the Papeete "PERLE" slogan postmark.
25. December 1934
VISITEZ....31-1-35 21:00
Similar cover to the U.S.A. Cancelled Papeete 31-01-35
Christmas Island stamp
Oceanie stamp
26. March 1935
Makura cancel (new 5/2020)
Cover to New York, the 10c plantation stamp vertical pair uncancelled, the four 60c Oceania stamp dumb cancelled and a
Maunganui postmark.
25. May 1935
VISITEZ....13-7-35 15:30
Cover to New Zealand, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete with the
"PERLE" slogan on 13 July 1935.
Image thanks to Prestige Philately and mossgreen
25. May 1935
(new 2/23)
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stam cancelled with CL3 on 25 May 1935, the four Cook Island ½d stamps
cancelled 9 November 1935.
25. May 1935
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 on 25 May 1935, the 5c not cancelled, the four Cook Island ½d stamps
cancelled 9 November 1935.
25. May 1935
Cover to the U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 on 25 May 1935, the two ½d New Zealand stamps
cancelled with the Makura postmark on 27(?)December 1935. (David Gillis coll.)
25. May 1935
Notice coming with the cover
25. May 1935
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 on 25 May 1935, the 1F and 25c Oceania stamps cancelled
with a mute squared circle (used on MANGANUI). A 6 NOV 1935 (!) MARINE POST OFFICE / R.M.S.MAUNGANUI postmark alongside.
Image thanks to "Timbres magazine" Octobre 1911
I'm not very sure that the 5c local on the Cook Islands cover has been on the cover originally. It may as well have been placed under the Cook Islands stamps later.
All three covers originate from the same sender according to the handwriting.
11. November 1935
Cover to New Zealand, the two 5c plantation stamps cancelled with CL2, no other postage. Backstamped Epsom 25 DEC 35.
Sender was the keeper of the plantation at that time F.J.O. Jerabek. Note: The vertical pair of the 5c stamps is imperforate in between!
11. November 1935
reverse
11. November 1935
Cover to New Zealand, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2 with date stamp.
This is one of the few moments in researching Postal History when you get an official confirmation that a cover (or two here) did indeed travel
with the normal postal service. So the request to "Christmas Island Post Office" dated from 2 February, and the covers were sent on 11 November and
received in Auckland on 24 December 1935.
27 December 1935
Notice in "The New Zealand Herold".
But an uncertainty still remains: Did Mr. Shine receive these two letters open via normal mail or in a cover correctly franked in Papeete e.g.?
The EPSOM backstamp on the first one tells us that this one came with the postal service and I assume that the other did too.
An interesting Jeřábek paper with cover recently seen on Ebay.
The images were photographed and very distorted. I tried to straighten them out a bit graphically
29 September 1935 sheet
Looking at all cancels I decided that the date is 29 SEP 1935. A large piece of paper with two CI stamps, both postmarks and
a address handstamp of Franta Jeřábek, two stamps, one cancelled and a manuscript address "Gilbert & Ellis Island, British Colonies".
Top of sheet
The top of the sheet.
Address on cover
Address on cover.
The two stamps
The two stamps.
Cover front
Cover front
Remarks on cover
Remarks on cover
Now let's see what we have here: A cover (top right) and an address on reverse. Content a large paper with two stamps, one cancelled, two postmarks and
the Franta Jeřábek address.
Now the riddle starts: Address on the cover is "Monsieur Maitre-hotel / 'Stranger'"
There are also comments on the letter in a different handwriting: "Recvd, July 6, 1954 / from Mr. Erne(s)t Riebe, 570 Roosevelt Str. / Chula Vista, Calif"
and in the same writing "for a lib. of pepper & paprika".
I found out that in the 1920s and 30s a Ernest Riebe owned a business in Chula Vista (part of San Diego): Delicatessen and Lunches, Prepared food to carry"
with quite a number of employees.
Maybe he was the "Maitre-hotel" and he received the letter from Franta himself. And in 1954 he gave it to a collector who made the remarks on front.
Two more Jerabek covers and a cut-out
8 June 1935
Cover to Papeete, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, one mark aside.
Source: PACIFICA (the quarterly of the Pacific Islands Study Circle) 1988 page 80.
8 June 1935
Cover to Papeete, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, one mark aside.
Onauction again after 30 years. The inscription at bottem left reads "personelment", the other inscript is gone.
Image thanks to Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd.
14 September 1935
A cut-out of an envelope from Franta Jerabek, with 2 different handstamps and a 2nd issue stamp, not cancelled.
(Per-Arno Hansen coll.)
20. November 1935
Postcard to Switzerland, written by the Plantation keeper F.J.O. Jerabek. The 5c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, one mark aside
and CL1 at left.
2nd issue single
This single may have been on a Jerabek letter too.
23 November 1935
Small greeting or congratulation card to Tisnov, Czechoslovakia. The address reads: "Honoured family Makuskove, Tisnov". (Jeranek came from Tisnov, Czechoslovakia.)
Cancelled with CL 2, no other stamp or postmark.
Reverse
Reverse of this card: the text reads. "F.O. Jerabek with family wishes you and the whole family all the best for New Year 1936."
Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.
František Jeřábek (Franta J.O. Jeřábek) was born on 11 September 1886 in Tišnova, Czechoslovakia and died on 12 April 1965 in Tišnova.
In World War I he served with the Montegrins. He wrote a book "At the court of the Montenegrin king: Memories of World War" published in 1932.He travelled much and spoke several
European languages (not English).
He was for five years Manager of a firm at Raiatea, one of
the French Leeward Isles, and there met Monsieur Coulon,
at that time Manager of Christmas Island. About the end
of 1934 Mr Jerabek's firm went into liquidation, and
shortly afterwards Monsieur Cculcn, having left Christmas
Island, recommended to Monsieur Rougier that Mr. Jerabek
should go to Christmas Island as Manager. Mr Jerabek saw
Monsieur Rougier at Tahiti, and was in due course sent to
Christmas.
(Source: The Acting Secretary to the Government, Ocean Island in Sept. 1936 at Digital Library Adelaide )
He worked with the Czechian police and then went to Tahiti and arrived there on 23 October 1925 together with is wife Marie Marie Jerábková († 23 June 1988) and
daughter Vlasta Matoušková geb. Jerábková ( † May 1994).
His son Jaroslav was born in Raiatea in 1930 († August 1999).
The Jerabek family came back to Czechoslovakia in or after World War II I suppose. In 1942 Franta wrote a book issued in Prague for young people "An adventurous trip around the world".
1936/38 - situation on CI
(new Oct 2020)
E.L. Leembruggen on the situation on Christmas Island.
25. November 1935
VOIR TAHITI....3-12-35 4:00 ?
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 and the 30c Oceania stamp with the Papeete "VOIR" slogan postmark on 3.12.1935.
25. November 1935
VOIR TAHITI....3-12-35 4:00 ?
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 and the 30c Oceania stamp with the Papeete "VOIR" slogan postmark on 3.12.1935.
25. November 1935
VOIR TAHITI....3-12-35 4:00
(New 11/2023)
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 and the 30c Oceania stamp with the Papeete "VOIR" slogan postmark on 3.12.1935.
Source: Le Timbre Classique Paris/Geneva /
25. November 1935
VOIR TAHITI....3-12-35 4:00 ?
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 and the 30c Oceania stamp with the Papeete "VOIR" slogan postmark on 3.12.1935.
25. November 1935
VOIR TAHITI....3-12-35 4:00 ?
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3 and the 30c Oceania stamp with the Papeete "VOIR" slogan postmark on 3.12.1935.
25. November 1935
Chapin cover content.
25. November 1935
Chapin cover content.
