Ceylon. Selected c.d.s cancels on stamps including scarce Maldive Islands c.d.s on 6c, etc. (164).

Parcel Post / Local Mail. 1935 Parcel tag originally attached to a parcel of books weighing over 8oz from the Colombo Garden Club Library to Dandegamuwa, franked on the reverse by 5c + Silver Jubilee 20c pair paying the 45c small packet rate, tied by Cinnamon Gardens c.d.s. Also a cover from Kandy to Madullalle posted on May 6th, the first day of the stamp issue, franked 6c. (2). Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

Parcel Post. 1935 Registered air mail parcel tag to New Zealand marked 13½oz, franked R5.88 (3c + 10c + 25c + R1 + R2 x 2 + Silver Jubilee 50c), an incredible 27 times rate (at 20c per half oz air postage + 28c postage + 20c registration), a Perth transit c.d.s on the front. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

Formula Registration Envelopes. 1935 Size G envelopes to G.B, one franked 29c to H.M.S "Achilles" c/o G.P.O London, directed to Lamlash with Ardrossan arrival datestamp; the other from Watawala with eight stamps totally R1.49 (including Silver Jubilee 6c, 9c, 20c and two 50c stamps), redirected from Cardiff to London endorsed "Posted Out of Course" with a 3d charge mark and 1d + 2d postage due stamps. The second opened out, otherwise both fine. (2).

1935 Covers to England all sent by air mail via India, paid 69c (5) or the double rate of R1.29 (3), various frankings and cancels. (8).

1935 Air Mail cover to England via India with 9c + five 50c stamps paying the R2.58 quadruple rate over 1½oz (with 1c overpaid), an unusual rate and franking.

1935 Air Mail covers with various stamps paying R1.09 to South Africa or R1.25 to Nyasaland (with T.P.O South and Lujire backstamps), two unusual destinations. (2). Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

1935 Covers sent by air mail via Singapore, franked 50c to New Zealand (2) or 49c to Australia, the first two overpaid 1c, unusual destinations. (3).

1935 Air Mail covers to Germany paid 55c or the double rate of 80c, or registered paid R1.27; and a registered cover franked at the 40c surface rate (4).

1935 Air Mail covers franked 80c to Sweden or Finland (with arrival backstamp), two very unusual destinations from Ceylon. (2).

1935 3c Postal stationery postcard franked 1c + Silver Jubilee 6c and 20c, sent by air mail to Austria. A scarce postcard air mail rate. Photo on Page 178. (Image1)

1935 Covers (4) and a card comprising postcard to Saigon franked 12c (sent surface mail despite an optimistic air mail label attached); registered O.H.M.S cover to Indo-China franked 40c; cover from Lindula to Dutch East Indies franked 20c; and a cover to Egypt sent by air mail via Karachi franked 60c (overpaid 1c), four unusual destinations. (4).

1935 Covers (5) and a postcard to the USA, the 3c postal stationery postcard uprated 9c, paying the surface rate; covers sent surface mail franked 6c strip of three (underpaid by 2c) handstamped "T" and charged 1 cent, or registered franked by a single 50c; and covers carried by air mail as far as London franked 40c, 80c or 44c (underpaid by 6c) handstamped "T/FS" but no charge collected in the USA. An unusual group, the three air mail rate covers all with red parallel bars cancelling the air mail labels. (6).