Falkland Islands and Antarctica continued... Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia continued... Lot Symbol Descrip Opening 261 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1916 envelope registered to Tønsberg with cachet of the “Tønsbergs Hvalfangeri, South Georgia” in violet , the only example that we have seen, sent from Husvik station and franked 2d. strip of three paying 6d. foreign rate for 1-2oz. + registration cancelled SG2 (date unclear) with SG2 registration label and backstamped fine Bureau de Mer de Norvege Bergen-Newcastle “21 IV 16” c.d.s. Addressed to ship owner Oscar Hytten, one of the founders of A/S Tønsberg Hvalfangeri. Ex Barton and Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £600-800 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 262 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1916 (Apr. 27) very rare censored cover to Nøtterøy franked 1/2d. and 2d. cancelled SG2 and part covered by large “OPENED BY/CENSOR/412” label, likely carried on the “Ocean” with label affixed in London after arrival at Liverpool. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £1,000-1,200 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 263 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1916 (Nov. 9) envelope unusually to Sweden, sent by whaler Olavsson at Leith Harbour (endorsement on flap) franked 21/2d. tied by SG1 c.d.s., carried on the “Pentaur” with Stromstad Dec. 20 arrival on reverse. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £200-250 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 264 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1919 (June 14) Falklands postal stationery 1d. letter card, very rare commercial use written by Postmaster Edward Binnie to his brother in Stanley, additional 1d. affixed presumably paying war tax, and cancelled by SG1, with interesting message complaining of a four month delay in receiving mails etc. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £600-800 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 265 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1920 (Oct.) stampless envelope from Tristan da Cunha to H.W. Nelson in England collected by whale catcher “Southern Cross”, departing on Oct. 3 with fine type II cachet in purple-black and arriving at Prince Olav Harbour on Nov. 13, later shipped south and backstamped South Georgia Nov. 26 before despatch to Montevideo on the “Overdale”, roughly opened. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £500-600 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 266 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1923 incoming registered cover to a whaler at the Compañía Argentina de Pesca Grytviken station, sent from Helsinki May 4 bearing 1917-22 5p., 20p., 75p. and 2mk. paying 2mk. foreign rate plus in error the 1mk. domestic registration charge rather than 2mk. foreign registration rate, backstamped at Buenos Aires June 2 and carried on the “Tijuca” to South Georgia but undelivered with “Return” noted in blue pencil, sent back with scarce type SG3 registration label (“New Island” deleted and “So. Georgia” added in red ms.) likely on the “Southern Isles” via Liverpool with Dec. 16 c.d.s. and framed violet ‘Returned without a reason’ cachet, and boxed “RETOUR” cachet in violet added back in Helsinki. A very scarce registered return item, ex Heijtz and Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £500-600 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 267 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1923 (Mar. 31) envelope addressed to W.H. Wilkinson at the Pelican Works in Birmingham, foreshortened at top, bearing 21/2d. dark blue upper half diagonal bisect purporting to pay 1d. rate, tied by fake SG1 “C/MR 31/23” c.d.s., a few minor cover stains and creases but scarce. Unlisted in “The Bisected Stamps of 1923” (Upland Goose Vol. VIII, No. 6, Dec. 1986) by Malcom Barton. (Image1) Est. £80-100 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 268 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1924 (Nov. 15) cover registered to Norfolk correctly franked by 1921-28 1/2d., 1d. and 21/2d. purple on yellow paying 4d. rate with light individual SG1 c.d.s’s and SG4 registration label, backstamped London transit and Brandon Dec. 24 arrival. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £150-180 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 269 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1925 (Mar. 1) registered cover to Paris franked at 41/2d. rate by 1912-20 1d. pair with “WAR STAMP” 1/2d., 1d. (2), their use continuing for ordinary mailings, cancelled SG1 and with very rare use of New Island registration label (type N1) without amendment, carried on the “Sellasia” with Plymouth and London Apr. 13 transit backstamps. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £500-600 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 270 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1925 (Apr. 25) envelope to Oslo from P. Berg on the Pesca vessel “Don Ernesto” at Grytviken (endorsed on flap), franked by 1d. with 2d. at the scarce 3d. 1oz. foreign rate in use only between 1922 and 1925, cancelled by SG1 c.d.s.’s with May 30 machine arrival on reverse, carried on the whale factory ship “Sevilla”. The “Don Ernesto” was built in Norway in 1910 as a whale catcher, the only such ever built with two guns forward and one aft, but had been transferred for use as a sealer and general purpose vessel in 1920. All mail from sealers is very scarce. Ex Burley and Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £500-600 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 271 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1925 (Dec. 16) homemade photographic picture postcard showing sperm whale (image as Heyburn AF-7-af) sent unusually with endorsement from Prince Olav Harbour addressed to Oslo with seasonal greetings, franked at foreign postcard rate by 1/2d., 1d. tied by SG2 c.d.s. and carried in the tanker “Peder Bogen”. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £250-300 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 272 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1925 (Dec. 31) homemade picture postcard showing Walter Stuart and sent by him, addressed locally with New Year greetings to Edward Binnie, Magistrate at King Edward Point, franked by 1d. paying inland postcard rate and tied by superb SG1 c.d.s., a true item of commercial inland mail, never having left the island. Walter Wilfrid Stuart (1889-1958) served in various positions and had been appointed Assistant Customs Officer with effect from Nov. 5 1923. See new entry in online Dictionary of Falklands Biography (www.falklandsbiographies.org). Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £350-450 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 273 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1926 (Oct. 12) scarce photographic postcard from set of six views of Stromness whaling station (unrecorded by Heyburn) to Norway headed “Stromness 10/10” and franked at foreign postcard rate by 1/2d. and 1d. cancelled by SG2 c.d.s., carried on the “Tijuca”. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £150-200 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 274 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1926 (Dec. 10) envelope to Hilda Jorgensen in Tønsberg, Norway franked by 21/2d. pale purple on pale yellow tied by SG1 c.d.s., minor cover faults but this printing scarce to find used on cover from South Georgia, carried in the “Harpon” to Montevideo. Ex Burley and Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £180-200 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 275 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1927 (Mar. 14) official envelope commercially used registered to Bristol by Alfred ‘Nelson’ Jones, correctly franked by 1d., 2d. (2) with SG2 cancellations, type SG4 registration label and personal red wax seal on reverse, carried in the “Professor Gruvel” to Rio de Janeiro. The “Professor Gruvel”, which in 1922 had carried the body of Ernest Shackleton to Montevideo, foundered in ice later this year on Oct. 12 600 nautical miles south of the Falkland Islands. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £180-200 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 276 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1927 (June 3) official envelope addressed by Deputy Magistrate William Barlas to his fiancé Christina Scott Robertson in Scotland, franked 1d. cancelled by SG1, carried by the “Fleurus” to Stanley and in the “Lobos” (photo included) from there to London. Ex Vevers. Photo. (Image1) Est. £100-120 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 277 , entire, etc. Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1928 (Jan. 19) cover to his fiancée, Gudrun Abrahamsen, in Norway with fascinating enclosed six page letter (translated transcription included) in which he mentions writing now ‘as the Thor Minor is leaving in a few days, it is convenient’, sent unusually from Larsen Harbour by Thoralf Hystad, radio operator on the whalecatcher “Thor Senior” owned by the Bryde & Dahls Whaling Company and based in Godthul Harbour, franked by 1921-28 1/2d., 2d. tied by light SG2 c.d.s. with Sandefjord Feb. 25 machine arrival on reverse, extremely scarce. Ex Vevers. Heijtz certificate (2013) Photo. (Image1) Est. £500-600 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 278 Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1928 Provisional 21/2d. on 2d. purple-brown, mint with lightly toned gum, small tone spot at top. Ex Burton. S.G. 115, cat. £1,300. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Falkland Islands 115] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £250-300 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 279 Used Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1928 Provisional 21/2d. on 2d. purple-brown marginal block of four from the left of the sheet, cancelled by central SG1 “19 FE/28” c.d.s., fine. Ex Boyd. S.G. 115, cat. £6,000+. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Falkland Islands 115] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £1,500-2,000 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. 280 Used Falkland Islands Dependencies: South Georgia: 1928 Provisional 21/2d. on 2d. purple-brown, right marginal, tied to piece by SG2 “FE 19/28” c.d.s., fine. Ex Burton. B.P.A. certificate (1949) S.G. 115, cat. £1,500. Photo. (Image1) Get Market Data for [Falkland Islands 115] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Est. £350-400 Closing..Dec-03, 03:30 AM EST. Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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