INWARDS MAIL FROM BOHEMIA
1906 (Nov.18) usage of 5H postal card uprated 30H for registered mailing from Deutschbrod - Nemecky Brod to "The Secretary to the Governor, Port Stanley..." with London Registration cds (21 NO 06) at left; and with rare "AUSTRIAN EXHIBITION LONDON 1906" perforated vignette affixed alongside the adhesives; small filing hole at lower left.The correspondent, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, is writing to request information about the importing and exporting of products in the Falkland Islands. Rather optimistically, he writes "I beg you please send me kindly some statistic Publications & hints in this Direction besides this also some informations regarding the Colony - Sources & Progress - Custom Duty Tariff and if posible the Railway Time Table and fright Tariff." [NB: all spelling faithfully reproduced]. The population of the Falkalnd Islands in 1906 was just under 2,100.  (Image)

Estimate AU$300-500
Min. Bid. AU$220