

1897 incoming uprated Japan postal stationery card with printed message offering ‘List of Missionaries in Japan and Korea, and Statistics of Missions in Japan for 1897’ to Presbyterian mission at Shanghai, redirected to Soochow, bearing red-brown Japanese despatch, Japanese Offices in Shanghai entry cds, transfered to Chinese Office with Shanghai Local Post index D cds and Dollar Chop of same MR 2 date and a fair strike in blue of scarce Soochow Dollar Chop of 4 MR; two diagonal creases and other wrinkling.

1897 printed ½d stationery card of Institute of Jamaica used within Kingston showing fine half circle TOO LATE handstamp at left; fine condition.

1897 ‘Rejected Design’ 1½a. postal stationery card very fine unused.


1898 (15 Juil) 25c. postal stationery envelope, 146 x 112mm, used to Melbourne, Australia tied double ring Papeete Taiti cds with another clear cds alongside, reverse with fine strike M.O. & S.B St. Kilda Ry Stn of AU 6.


1898 (AP 13) registered 2d stationery envelope to Scotland bearing single franking Five shillings tied small cds, reverse with Birmingham transit and Montrose arrival cds. The stamp a little faded, rare on any type of cover.


1898 20c registration postal stationery envelope, size G, to Belgium, uprated 40c on front tied by oval Registered date stamps, Belgian Postman’s routing handstamp, arrival backstamp. Fine condition.

1898 2d registration postal stationery envelope, up-rated 2½d, to London tied 'BRASS RIVER' cds, LIVERPOOL transit and arrival backstamp.

1898 4k. postal stationery card to Holland cancelled by large violet double oval ROPIT/ AGENT YAFFA date stamp, arrival cancel at left. With message, slight overall toning but a good example of this usually illegible, rare date stamp.

1899 (17/12) ’20 PARA 20’ on 5k stationery card tied by Kerassunde Osterr. Post cds to Paris, redirected within the city, with entry cds and redirection cds.

1899 (31/10) 3c. postal stationery card to Hamburg uprated 1c. tied single Sandakan cds, arrival cancel to left, with short message; fine clean condition.

1899 10p. stationery parcel card to Buchs, Switzerland cancelled Belgrade bilingual cds, Zimony Zemun bilingual transit, central vertical filing crease.

1899 2d. postal stationery envelope to New York uprated thee 2 1/2d. tied cds, clean condition with arrival cancels.

1899 2d. registered stationery envelope, size H, to Boston, USA, additionally franked 6d. and 1/- tied oval datestamps, London transit, arrival backstamp; vertical filing creases not unduly detracting.

1899 overprinted 1d. postal stationery card to Hampstead, London, cancelled Mochudi cds, arrival backstamp.

1899 ‘4 Milliemes’ on 5m. postal stationery card with substituted ‘4’ used from Khartoum to Cairo, at base tpo Bani Suwef – Cairo, with short message. Some slight ageing, a generally good commercial example.

1900 (1 Jul) 3c. Alfonso XIII postal stationery card of 1899 used to Hagenow (Mecklb.) Germany tied by blue-grey cds, arrival cancel at left; full message on reverse, fine and scarce.

1900 (12 Sept) 3c. postal stationery card, uprated 1c. and 2c. in same design to Potsdam, Germany, tied by Jacmel date stamps, Le Havre transit at top and arrival cds at left.

1900 (15 JY) 2d. registered postal stationery envelope additionally franked with Queen Victoria set, both front and back, addressed to Haida, Bohemia and routed by Madrid.

1900 1/2d. stationery card underfranked from Battery Rock to United States bearing Barbados despatch cds, framed 'T' handstamp top left, COLLECT/POSTAGE 2 CENTS handstamp with pre cancelled 2c. postage due applied, New York transit and Beverly Mass flag machine cancel.

1900 2d postal stationery registration envelope, up-rated 4d & 6d, tied by barred 'T1' cancel and part by oval 'Registered/Turks Island' date stamp, addressed to Philadelphia, New York transit on reverse.