
1931 incoming commercial cover from Wellburg, United States, under-franked 2c. Washington, violet postage due charge applied at New York and, tying adhesive and applied on arrival, a double-framed oval Postage Due 3d. handstamp.



1931 International Colonial Exhibition, Paris set of twelve stationery cards, each with a different image and each card with handstamped ‘412’, with the original pochette; fine condition.

1931 registered ‘On Her Majesty’s Service’ stampless envelope to South Australia bearing Nukualofa cds top right and oval registration at left, two TONGA GOVERNMENT FRANK handstamps; Australian transit and arrival backstamps.

1931-37 three 10p. ‘Statue of General Gordon’ airmails imperf colour trials on S G watermarked paper without gum; fine and scarce.

1932 (12.11.) Post Office Official cover to London franked four horizontal pairs 1929 2d. Officials cancelled R.L.S. Windhuik/ S.W. Africa cds, repeated on reverse; fine condition.

1932 (14.X.) 1.08kg parcel card to Boston, USA franked at 7L. 20s rate with Mazeikiai despatch date stamps; central vertical crease.

1932 (15.X.) 2.2kg parcel card to New Jersey, USA franked at 8L. 70s rate with Usakio-Ruda despatch date stamps; central vertical crease.

1932 (18.X.) 2.85g parcel card to Chicago franked at 8L. 70s rate with Laukuva despatch date stamps; central vertical crease.


1932 (21 FE) registered back to booklet of postcards sent to Glenelg, South Australia, endorsed “Printed Matter/ Imprime” franked French Currency 1925-34 10c. on 1d. and two 1f. on 10d. tied somewhat unclear registered oval date stamps, repeated at base together with Gibraltar transit.


1932 (28 Jul) Advice of Receipt parcel card to Basel,Switzerland, franked six 1923-34 50c. and a 20c. tied by Cadereyta De Montes cds, reverse with Bremen transit ans various Basel cancels and customs label; central filing fold clear of stamps.


1932 (30.9.) registered airmail cover from Milano, Italy, carried by Imperial Airways as part of the new route from London to India, arrival backstamps; a fine and rare acceptance.

1932 (AU 27) ‘Panton’ envelope to Cayman Islands franked two 1922-26 ¼d. tied by four-line slogan Buy/ Turks Islands/ SALT/ None Better with a further larger three-line slogan BUY/ BRITISH/ GOODS, despatch cds bottom left, underfranked with ‘T’ in circle with 3d. stamp tied Georgetown cds.


1932 (FE 27) registered ‘Wilson’ envelope to Birmingham franked Antigua Tercentenary 3d., 6d. and 1/- tied by two Barbuda B.W.I. cds, registration etiquette below, reverse with St John’s and Plymouth transits; fine and clean, scarce stamps used in Barbuda.


1932 (JY 4) underfranked envelope to Castries, St. Lucia bearing ½d. Tercentenary tied fine Barbuda B.W.I. cds with another strike below, on arrival two 1d. black/blue Postage Dues applied and tied single Castries cds; some slight glue staining around postage dues and a couple of light tone on Antigua stamp.


1932 (JY13) Incoming 'Panton' envelope from Jamaica franked Child Welfare 1/2d + 1/2d, taxed with opera glass double circle T Jamaica/Centimes 20 in violet. Cayman Is. GV 1d pair applied and tied by Georgetown cds, fine.


1932 (Mar 20) United States postal stationery envelope from Pittsburg to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, forwarded as instructed (in manuscript top left) to North borneo, with large framed Rhodesian instructional handstamp and hand illustrated handstamp and two framed OVER handstamps, reverse with Salisbury cancel of 28 Apr, Bandojermasin transit of 9.6. and Jesselton B.N.B. cds of 22 Jun, red oval DEAD LETTER OFFICE/ SINGAPORE handstamp, two U.S. Dead Letter Office cancels of Aug 16 ad Nov 5.

1932 incoming cover from Jamaica underfranked with ½ d., opera glass T handstamped applied and postage dus 2d. applied and cancelled Castries; fine condition.

1932 registered cover to New Zealand bearing five surcharge values 'Two Pence' on 7 1/2d., 10d., 1s. pair and 2s., the 10d not cancelled, others with Nukualofa cds; fine and fresh condition without backstamps.


1932 ‘Emergency Postal Service, Shanghai’ complete booklet of 5 coupons, each coupon is embossed with the seal of the Municipal Council. Fine and rare complete booklet.

1933 (1 JLY) air mail cover to Broken Hill, N. Rhodesia franked ½a., 4a. and 8a. tied by framed "CALCUTTA - KARACHI" first flight cachet, re-directed upon arrival to Liverpool and showing 'BROKEN HILL' c.d.s. top right '21 JUL 33', reverse with BROKEN HILL machine cancel '20 JUL 33' and CAIRO transit '14 JULY'.