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London F.S. Paquebot Posted at sea
Hello there,
I am intruding with a question, on behalf of a stamp acquaintance of me : http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/11/54/43/10/london10.jpg London F.S. 1933 / Paquebot / Posted at sea F.S. means Foreign Section (London). The stamp is a 2.5 pence one, Barbados The destination is Switzerland. Questions : Did the boat deliver this letter at London Harbour, or did it deliver it elsewhere, with despatch transfer to London Foreign Section ? Was à Barbados stamp valid for franking on any british boat, or not ? Any learned comment about this cover will be welcome. Thanks. -- Cordialement, Bruno |
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London F.S. Paquebot Posted at sea
Sir F. A. Rien a écrit :
bc92 found these unused words: http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/11/54/43/10/london10.jpg London F.S. 1933 / Paquebot / Posted at sea F.S. means Foreign Section (London). The stamp is a 2.5 pence one, Barbados The destination is Switzerland. Questions : Did the boat deliver this letter at London Harbour, or did it deliver it elsewhere, with despatch transfer to London Foreign Section ? It would have been delivered into the GPO at the port of call. You'd have to trace the ship's route to know where. Right. Normally, this cancellation, which doesn't seem to be rare, should (?) have been applied at the port of call. Either the port is London, or a number of british harbours post-offices could use this cancel ? I fell like I am missing some point. Many thanks all the same. -- Cordialement, Bruno |
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London F.S. Paquebot Posted at sea
Sir F. A. Rien a écrit :
bc92 found these unused words: http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/11/54/43/10/london10.jpg Right. Normally, this cancellation, which doesn't seem to be rare, should (?) have been applied at the port of call. Either the port is London, or a number of british harbours post-offices could use this cancel ? I fell like I am missing some point. Either the port was the City of London or it was missed by the locals processing the mail at whatever port the ship reached. I believe that it would have passed through the 'foreign desk' on its way out of the UK. Failure to cancel locally caught - or direct delivery to [put in an ex-UK bag] the FS processing. My thanks again. -- Cordialement, Bruno |
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