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Our cover of the month:
December 2011
Postcard of Hamilton, Bermuda, franked with a Bermudan 1d stamp and cancelled 'HAMILTON BERMUDA / 15 FE / 1909'
misrouted to the Sea Post Office on board the SS St Paul operating between New York and Southampton.
July 2011 - not so much a cover as a 'card'
After a good day out at the much improved Midpex 2011 at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre this photograph came from member
John Barker complete with a caption from an anonymous source:
Treasurer: "Could I interest your Majesty in joining the Society? Only £12 to you sir."
KEVII: "Times are hard, and the lad is spending too much on stamps already."
Auctioneer, sotto voce: "How about £11.99"?
May 2011
Double rate (10c) letter sent from New York to Dublin but carried by a French ship and landed at Plymouth, UK.
Thence carried by rail to Holyhead and conveyed on the Holyhead and Kingston Packet to Ireland for onward transmission to Dublin.
Endorsed "Per S. S. LA BRETAGNE", the mails carried by this ship for UK were dropped off at Plymouth between 27th and 28th May
en route from New York to Le Havre, France. [The Times, Friday, May 27, 1904; pg. 8 and Saturday, May 28, 1904; pg. 12]
The H & K PACKET mark (Kidd type IX, Rob. HKP.11) bears the index number "U1" indicating that it was applied on board the packet
ferry Ulster on the way from the British mainland to Ireland. See also Holyhead & Kingstown Packets.
March 2011
Early MAIL DELAYED ON SHIP mark from the pre-1914 period with date 21st. April 1909 and New York Hudson Terminal Station Paquebot cancel.
This postcard, and similar marks, are discussed by Roger Hosking in the Spring 2011 edition of the Journal.
