TO USA & HAWAII - UNUSUAL/HIGH/EXPRESS RATES INC. SPECIAL "HAWAII RATES", ETC.: 1937-53 group inc. 22 Oct. 1953 samples packet from London to Buffalo franked 2 x 1/- Browns + 6d Purple; 6 Oct. 1952 6d regd env. from Marble Arch to Broadway franked 1/- Brown vertical pair + ½d Orange + 9d Green with express, regd & airmail labels; 23 Aug. 1941 env. from Salford to Kansas City endorsed "Written in German" with censor seal applied, franked 1/- Brown + 9d + 3d on front along with regd, express & airmail labels & red "FREE CLAIMED BY OFFICE/OF FIRST ADDRESS" hs; 30 Mar. 1940 packet from Ipswich to Portland with blue "MAY BE OPENED FOR/INSPECTION. CONTENTS/FLOWER SEEDS OF/BRITISH ORIGIN" hs & contents endorsed as 12 packets of seeds franked at the airmail letter rate at 3 x 1/- Browns + 6d Green; yellow label from London foreign section to Honolulu; etc. (23 items) Cross Reference: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, U.S.A. - HAWAII, EXPRESS MAIL, TRANSATLANTIC MAIL (Image)

TO WEST INDIES - ANTIGUA-CURACAO GROUP: 1939-59 range inc. 6 Dec. 1951 env. from a warrant officer with the Royal Inniskillin Fusiliers to Jamaica missent by air to Bermuda & readdressed to Hertfordshire with superb red "MISSENT TO BERMUDA" hs; unusual 11 June 1941 env. (missing flaps) from London sent by air to "Miss W. Melia,/Postal Censorship Office/Bermuda." with previously used 1/- Brown + 9d Green sellotaped on the front but still tied by duplex with hexagonal "T" hs above "336" charge, oval "POSTAGE/ 3/6/ DUE" & red "JUN 24 1941" hs's; etc. (29 covers) Cross Reference: ANTIGUA, BARBADOS, BERMUDA, MISSENT MAIL (Image)

TO WEST INDIES - DOMINICA & TRINIDAD INC. SCARCE P. DUES: 1937-52 group inc. 18 July 1952 env. from London by air to St. Lucia franked 1/- Brown with fine "6D/F.B./H." hs, and 4c + 8c p.due stamps cancelled by Castries cds; 13 July 1937 env. from London to Port of Spain, Trinidad franked ½d Green with hexagonal "T/20" charge plus 2d Black p.due & purple "RETOUR", "REFUSED./REFUSE." & red circular "RETURNED LETTER BR/TRINIDAD" hs's on the front or back; 8 May 1945 env. from Guernsey (the day before liberation) to Lt Commander Milbourne, c/o Admiralty in London & redirected to St. Lucia via Trinidad with red "ROYAL NAVAL OFFICE/ST. LUCIA" double-ring cds rated "9" in red ms; etc. (24 covers) Cross Reference: GUERNSEY POSTAL HISTORY, RETURNED MAIL, POSTAGE DUE LABELS, TRINIDAD (Image)