POSTAL HISTORY: 1932 Clarke Steamship Co Ltd 'Canadian Trade Exhibition Cruise' envelope airmail to Canada with KGV 1/- pair tied 'ST. JOHNS/JA21/1932/ANTIGUA' cds, carried by PanAm FAM-5/6 'Lindbergh Circle' service to Miami (Florida) and onwards by domestic airmail, a couple of minor blemishes. This cruise was undertaken in the midst of the Great Depression in the hope that the West Indies would replace existing American imports with products from Canada under an appeal to their common associations with Britain. It attracted exhibits from sixty-five Canadian manufacturers plus banks, universities and trade associations, and took place on board the "New Northland" which visited fourteen Caribbean ports between Jan 11 and Feb 28, overnighting in Antigua on Jan 20.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

POSTAL HISTORY: 1940 'On Salvation Army Service, Territorial Headquarters, Kingston, Jamaica' envelope airmail from Colonel Hodgson in Antigua to his wife in Jamaica, KGVI Pictorials 1d & 1/- tied 'ST JOHNS/MY30/40/ANTIGUA' cds, re-directed with 'KINGSTON' transit and 'MANDEVILLE/JU5/40/JAMAICA' arrival b/s, not censored, a couple of repaired edge faults at top. Unusual war-time inter-island airmail.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$80