1809 letter to the Captain of HMS Tartar, part of the British Baltic Fleet, from his wife. The cover that started me researching the Harwich packets since nothing then published could tell me why it was charged 2/2d, why endorsed “via Gottenburg”, and how it got to destination. Six years later have now written two […]

Denmark and Great Britain - Mail across the North Sea to 1875 - Birthe and Chris King Register Now 12 November 1828, Part wrapper sent from Danish Altona to London, with SCHIFFS BRIEF-POST HAMBURG and SHIP LETTER LONDON (W&J 1218 recorded 1820-1846). Charged 4 Schilling Courant in Hamburg and charged 1/4 as a double rate […]

Register Now Via Nicaragua with Commodore Vanderbilt 1851-1857- Gordon Eubanks This October 1854 cover from San Francisco to London was given to the letter bag operator Sullivan who applied a very faint red marking and provided it to Vanderbilt’s agent to sail on the Sierra Nevada, departing 24 October, arriving San Juan del Sur 6 […]

Register Now One of the greatest philatelic rarity of Transjordan is the strip of three of the 1923 April-October ½ Piastre surcharge in black on the 9 Piastre March 1923 issue with the left stamp showing the ½ Piastre omitted giving rise to a unique unrecorded stamp. The center stamp shows a double ½ piastre […]