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Our cover of the month:
December 2012
GB cover with three strikes in red of a single circle cancel "Derby - London / 15 Dec 1988 / BT" (RS1821) -
Lot 102 in the current auction.
September 2012
Letter to Germany posted via the train to Cape Town with a 'R. P. K. HEEN' (TPO down) date stamp cancelling the Late Fee 6d stamp and the 2½d
stamp for the half ounce rate to Germany. The letter was posted while the train was in a station. The only back stamp records delivery in
Wiesbaden on the 29th September, 1896. The letter was carried by the Mexican, sailing from Cape Town on the 9th September, calling at
Madeira on the 24th and reaching Plymouth on the 28th.
June 2012
NEW ZEALAND envelope with single line PAQ 4016 "PACKET BOAT" cancel & circular "MARINE POST OFFICE / N.Z. / 9 MY 1934 / R.M.S.MAUNGANUI" mark.
February 2012
This ppc of the monument at Waterloo, Belgium, was mailed on 12th August 1908 addressed to
Grinkle Station,
Easington R.S.O, England.
Yet it found its way on board a New York bound sea post office and attracted
the 'Missent to Sea Post No. 14' [Hosking TA/M16] and 'MISSENT TO / NEW YORK' handstamps.
