1844 Folded entire from St.Croix, privately carried to St.Thomas, addressed to Copenhagen, reverse bears large-arc ST:-THOMAS JU30 1844 ds alongside with London and St.P.A. Hamburg transit ds, carried by SS "Forth" to Southampton (Image)

1846 Folded entire from St.Croix, privately carried to St.Thomas, addressed to Copenhagen, reverse bears large-arc ST:-THOMAS JY14 1846 ds alongside with London and St.P.A. Hamburg transit ds, rare 3s11d rate with change to the "Warrant Rate" of plus 1RBS from 218RBS ot 219RBS, very fine (Image)

1847 Folded cover dated Port-au-Plat (Dominican Republic) 17 Aug. 1847, addressed to London, carried privately to St-Thomas (British P.O. cds dated SE 14 1847 on reverse), carried by SS "Dee" to Bermuda on the 20th and by SS "Treviot" to Southhampton (arrival bs October 8th), scarce (Image)

CIVIL WAR PERIOD COVER 1848 Folded entire to Copenhagen dated St. Croix 14 MAY 1848 bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS MY30 1848 cds, London 21AU 48 transit, carried by SS "Great Western" to Bermuda and by SS "Tay" to Southampton, then Hamburg-Altona route was altered and mail was sent through Lauenberg-Lübeck / Travemünde with Swedish ship to Copenhagen, scarce (Image)

1848 Folded entire to Copenhagen dated St. Croix 26 January 1848 bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS JA31 1848 cds, London 24FEB 48 transit and ALTONA 28/2 48 cds, carried by SS "Tay" via Bermuda to Southampton (Image)

1850 Folded entire to Copenhagen dated St. Croix 16 October 1850, forwarded by Schön Willink & Co., bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS NO1 1850 cds, London 20NO 1850 transit, carried by SS "Medway" to Southampton, sent via Ostende and Achen where the marking AMERICA PER ENGLAND was struck, handed over to Prussian PO in Hamburg on the 22nd, blue K.D.O.P. HAMBURG, very fine, cert. Van Der Linden (Image)

1850 Folded cover to Madeira via London dated St. Croix 28 May 1850 bearing on reverse large-arc ST:-THOMAS MY31 1850 cds, London 18JU 1850 transit, carried by SS "Medway" to Bermuda and via SS "Severen" to Southampton, forwarded then by closed mail to Madeira, very fine (Image)

BLACK PAID AT ST.THOMAS POSTMARK 1852 Folded cover to Vera Cruz/MEXICO bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS without date despatch cds, black PAID AT ST.THOMAS pmk on face, light VERA CRUZ arrival alongside. Due to a fire at the Post Office on March 11 1855, the day and months digits had fallen out of the datestamp. Also due to the lack of red ink, the crowned postmark was applied in BLACK. ONLY THREE black crowned circle handstamps are known. Important Danish West Indies Rarity (Image)

1852 Folded entire to Madeira bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS JA4 1852 despatch cds, carried by SS "Clyde" via Southampton, red RETURNED FOR "3/3" POSTAGE applied in London, then sent back via RMS "Orinoco" and N°274 DETAINED FOR POSTAGE applied upon return in St.Thomas, further ST:-THOMAS FE20 1852 backstamp, also ms "Missent to St.Thomas", then back by SS "Great Western", 160Reis due handstamp applied upon arrival in Madeira, an extraordinary item (Image)

RARE "TOO LATE" POSTMARK 1852 Folded entire to Copenhagen dated St. Croix 29 July 1852 sent to St.Thomas on the 31st after closing of the mail bag for SS "Magdalena". As no "Late fee" was paid, the letter was held in the PO until the next Packet, carried by SS "Medway" which left on 17 August for arrival at Southampton on 5 September, extremely rare strightline "TOO LATE" on reverse, apparently only two recorded, very fine (Image)

1853 Folded entire to Copenhagen bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS NO15 1853 cds, London 5DE 1853 transit, carried by SS "Orinoco" to Southampton, then via K.D.O.P.A. Hamburg 7/12 cds to Copenhagen, very fine (Image)

1854 Folded entire from the Sardianian Consulate at St.Thomas to Gibraltar, reverse bears Sardinian Consulate handstamp, large-arc ST:-THOMAS MY31 1854 despatch ds, London 15JU 1854 transit and GIBRALTAR 24JU 1854 arrival, very fine and quite unusual item (Image)

1855 Folded entire to Copenhagen dated St. Croix 13 February 1855, bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS MR2 1855 cds, London 21MR 1855 transit, carried by SS "Parana" to Southampton, then via K.D.O.P.A. Hamburg 23/3 cds to Copenhagen, sent by CLOSED MAIL THROUGH FRANCE - 83RBS to Hamburg and 9RBS for Hamburg-Copenhagen section (Image)

1856 Folded cover to Copenhagen bearing the scarce red crowned circle PAID AT ST.THOMAS handstamp (CC2), reverse bears small arc ST:-THOMAS DE31 1856 cds, carried by SS "La Plata" to Southampton, London 16JA 1857 transit, paid 148c of which 16c for local rate, very fine cover with the scarce crowned circle (Image)

1857 Folded entire to Lübeck/Germany, bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS SP15 1857 cds, London 1OC 1857 transit, carried by SS "Parana" to Southampton, HAMBURG / 5 OCT 1857 2-line "butterfly" pmk on obverse, double-rate to cover to Germany, tear at top o/w fine (Image)

1858 Folded cover to Morsiglia/Corsica bearing on reverse small arc ST:-THOMAS JY31 1858 cds, carried by SS "La Plata" to Southampton (14 AUG) and London (16 AUG), 8 décimes to France of which 4 décimes for the British Part, unusual destination (Image)

1860 Unpaid prices current from St.Thomas to Greenock bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS MY13 1860 ds. London transit and GREENOCK MY28 60 arrival cds, "6"d packet rate, "1"s due on arrival, very fine (Image)

1862 Folded entire to Norway with crowned circle PAID AT ST.THOMAS in red, reverse bears small-arc St:-THOMAS MR1 1862 cds, red LONDON MR18 62 transit and Norwegian entry-marking SVINESUND 24/3 1862 on face, 1s5d corrected to 1s10d for Norway, scarce destination, cert. Nielsen (Image)

1862 Folded entire to France with crowned circle PAID AT ST.THOMAS in red, reverse bears small-arc St:-THOMAS JY14 1862 ds and BORDEAUX 30 JUIL 62 arrival cds, red LONDON MR18 62 transit and French entry-cds on face, very fine (Image)

1863 Folded cover to Hanover bearing red crowned circle PAID AT ST.THOMAS handstamp (CC1), reverse bears small arc ST:-THOMAS MY29 1863 cds, carried by SS "Atrato" to Southampton, paid the rate of 1s5d to London then via Belgium and Aachen where the cancel Aus England per Aachen / Franco was applied, very fine, ex "Karibik" (Image)

1863 Envelope to London bearing on reverse ST:-THOMAS MA1 1863 ds, carried by SS "La Plata" to Southampton, readdressed in London with QV 1854-57 1d red, unusual (Image)

1865 Printed matter from S.Jago de Cuba to Bordeaux, forwarded by Heise Schmidt & Co to St.Thomas where it received a QV 1858-59 2d blue (short corner perf.), tied by horizontal barred C51 numeral, London transit and French entry cds alongside, reverse bears St-THOMAS JY11 65 cds, agent's hs and BORDEAUX arrival, EARLIEST RECORDED USAGE of British stamps and C51 handstamp on transatlantic mail, rare Note: British stamps and the C51 handstamp arrived by RMS "Shannon" to St.Thomas on 1 July 1865 and could be used from July 3rd to 1 September 1877. (Image)

ST.THOMAS CODE LETTER "A" CDS 1865 Transiting envelope from New York to Barbados, franked US Washington 10c green, carried on US steamship to Havana before being sorted together with other mail at St.Thomas, bears on reverse ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED examples of this St.Thomas cds, missing in practically every DWI collection (Image)

1865 Envelope from St.Thomas to Bordeaux, reverse bears "no letter code" ST-THOMAS AP13 65, London transit AP28 cds and BORDEAUX 30 AVRIL 65 arrival, boxed GB 1F60 accountancy marking on face, very fine (Image)

1866 Folded entire to Guadeloupe franked by QV 1865-67 1s green tied by horizontal barred C51 numeral, small arc ST:-THOMAS NO15 1866 cds on reverse together with GUADELOUPE / BASSE TERRE 18 NOV 66, carried by SS "Conway" on the Barbados route, triple "4d" rate for foreign ports in the West Indies, scarce destination, cert. RPS (2004) (Image)