Christmas Island - Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations Ltd. Private Stamps - covers after 1935.
7 January 1936
Cover with a CL4 impression - no stamps, no other postmark.
In January 1936 the New Zealand sloop H.M.S. LEITH took Mr. Oscar Barrack, a radio operator, of Suva, to Christmas Island and left him there with
six months' supplies. In July 1936 Mr. Barrack was replaced by Mr. William Cowie, an English wireless operator, who was taken to the island by H.M.S. ACHILLES.
Mr. Cowie had supplies for twelve months. ACHILLES went to Christmas Island again in July / August 1937. (Evening Post, New Zealand, 24 March 1938).
Quite a number of covers to the English collector George Percy Cutress at 17 Rosedale Road, Ewell, Surrey
28. February 1936
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete with the
"PERLE" slogan on 21 March 1936.
28. February 1936
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete with the
"PERLE" slogan on 21 March 1936.
28. February 1936
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete with the
"PERLE" slogan on 21 March 1936.
Source: Christmas Island and its Postal History", The Pacific Islands Circle, Melbourne, 1951
28. February 1936
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp not cancelled. (David Gillis coll.)
28. February 1936
(new 14 Dec 2018)
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete with the
"PERLE" slogan on 21 March 1936.
Image thanks to Auckland City Stamps
28. February 1936
(new image 11/22)
Cover to G.P. Cutress, England. The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete on 21 March 1936.
Image thanks to Stanley Gibbons, London
28. February 1936
(new 3/2020)
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete on 21 March 1936 ##.
28. February 1936
(new 3/2020)
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 30c Oceania stamp cancelled Papeete on 21 March 1936.
Image thanks to Pacific Islands Study Circle
28. February 1936
(new 12/2020)
Not a cover - only the snippet with the Christams Island stamp is known. Could as well be from a Big Palm Cachet cover.
Image thanks to Sandafayre Stamp Auctions
3 April 1936
3 April 1936
28 May 1936
Cover to Italy, the 10c plantation stam cancelled with CL3, the 50c and 3c Oceania stamps cancelled with the
Makura double ring "Packet Boat" postmark"Packet Boat". (David Gillis coll.)
28 May 1936
Reverse
28 May 1936
Cover to England, the 10c plantation stam cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
a Packet Boat postmark, R.M.S. Makura Marine Post Office postmark of 14 July alongside. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936.
28 May 1936
Cover to West-Hootscray (correctly: West-Footscray, Ormond Rd.), Victoria, Australia. The 10c plantation stamp is cancelled with CL3,
the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with the Makuraa Packet Boat postmark. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936. Below the postmark "Marine Post Office
R.M.S. Makura 14 Juli 1936.
Image thanks to Emmanuel Riou, France.
28 May 1936
1936 envelope franked 'Christmas Island' local, tied "CHRISTMAS ISLAND/CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN" c.d.s. 'MAY 28 1936' in combination with
French 'L'Oceanie' adhesive tied "PACKET BOAT" "MARINE POST OFFICE/N.Z./R.M.S. MAKURA" transit c.d.s. Addressed to the USA.
Image thanks to Chris Rainey - British Commonwealth postal history.
28 May 1936
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp and the 1F50 Oceania cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp
additionaly cancelled with the Makura Packet Boat postmark. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936.
28 May 1936
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936. Image from Stamp Collector May 29, 1993, Graphically amended at bottom right.
28 May 1936
Cover to Sydney, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936. Image thanks to a New Zealand collector.
28 May 1936
Cover to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936.
28. May 1936
28. May 1936
(new May 2018)
Similar cover to the U.S. (seen at Ebay)
28 May 1936
(new Feb 2018)
Cover front to U.S.A., the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936.
Image thanks to Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd.
28. May 1936
(new 11/2017)
A cover to England which is similar to the one mentioned in Fitchett (see below at left).The cover is cross-marked
as registered but actually is not.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatelie
28 May 1936
Reverse - the pencil mark could mean received Jan 38 but seems quite improbable.
28 May 1936
(new June 2019)
Cover to Queensland, Australia. The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark on 14 July 1936. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936. Redirected on 25 July - Adress not readable.
This cover is similar to the symbol cover below and also mentioned in Fitchett.
28 May 1936
(new Nov 2023)
Cover to Christchurch (NZ). The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark on 14 July 1936. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936..
28 May 1936
(new Feb 2021)
Cover to Drumburgh, England. The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark on 14 July 1936. Makura P.O. closed on 6 December 1936.
This cover was shown in an old paper about Rougier & Christmas Island.
28 May 1936
(new July 2021)
Cover to St. Louis, U.S.A. The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark, date not readable. Arriving remark in manuscript on reverse: 7/28/36
28 May 1936
(new 4/22)
Cover to Detroit, U.S.A. The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark, date not readable.
28 May 1936
(new 11/23)
Cover to Richmond Hill, U.S.A. The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with
the Makura Packet Boat postmark, date not readable. Source: Le Timbre Classique Paris/Geneva
Existing according to the literature (Fitchett et al. - symbol images!):
28 May 1936 symbol
Existing according to Fitchett: registered CL 3 on 10c plantation and a pair of G&E 3d Silver Jubilee stamps.
28 May 1936 symbol
Existing according to Fitchett: CL 3 on 10c plantation and a 1F50c Ocenaia stamp cancelled Makura Paquebot 14 July 1936.
28 May 1936 symbol
Existing according to Fitchett: CL 3 on 10c plantation and a 1F50c Ocenaia stamp cancelled Makura Paquebot 3 August 1936.
8. December 1936
Cover to the Hingham, Mass., U.S.A. The 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL2, no other stamps or postmarks.
Reverse not known.
8. December 1936
Another CL1 on reverse
25. December 1936
25 December 1936
Part of a cover. This cannot be a big palm cachet as the space left of the Oceania stamp is too far empty. Small palm cachet cover from 1936 are not known.
So it must be a cover without a cachet.
25. December 1936
On a big palm cachet cover in same scale
The following 4 covers were written by a member of the 1936 Pacific expedition of the the American Museum of Natural History on
the Yacht ZACA, C. Templeton Crocker.
30 September 1936
Cover to West Nyack, New York. The 10c Christmas Island stamp cancelled with CL2 on Sep 30 1936, the four U.S. 3c stamps cancelled
Hilo, Hawaii 29 DEC 1936. Miss Olsen was the wife of Chris E. Olsen, who was a member of the Pacific expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on
the Yacht ZARA, C. Templeton Crocker.
Image thanks to CAPHILA Paris
30 September 1936
Air Mail cover to West Nyack, New York. The four 10c Christmas Island stamps cancelled with CL2 on Sep 30 1936, the 25c and 3c U.S. stamps cancelled
Hilo, Hawaii 29 DEC 1936. Miss Olsen was the wife of Chris E. Olsen, who was a member of the Pacific expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on
the Yacht ZACA, C. Templeton Crocker.
Image thanks to Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions
30 September 1936
Cover to the American Museum of Natural History - Mr. Southwick. The four 10c Christmas Island stamps cancelled with CL2 on Sep 30 1936, the 3c U.S. stamps cancelled
Hilo, Hawaii 29 DEC 1936. Chris E. Olsen, who was a member of the Pacific expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on
the Yacht ZARA, C. Templeton Crocker. (Janot coll.)
30 September 1936
Cover to the American Museum of Natural History - Mr. Southwick. The one 10c Christmas Island stamp cancelled with CL2 on Sep 30 1936, the 3c U.S. stamps cancelled
Hilo, Hawaii 29 DEC 1936. Chris E. Olsen, who was a member of the Pacific expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on
the Yacht ZARA, C. Templeton Crocker. (David Gillis coll.)
15 October 1936
A Jerabek cover to Switzerland via Hilo, Hawaii (Dec 29, 1936). Name and CL1 on reverse. Part of the content was a piece of paper
with 3 second issue (in 1936 !!) CI stamps cancelled with CL2 on the same date as the letter.
15 October 1936
Reverse
15 October 1936
Reverse
Jerabek family in Tahiti
Jerabek family in Tahiti
Source: "Tahitska odysea" by Vladimir Ustohal, 2004
1936-11-16 Single
(new 13 June 2022)
A 1936-11-16 single - maybe from a Jerabek letter.
Here is an interesting addition to František Jeřábek: a postcard from the Czech photographer Eduard Valenta in Papeete, depicting the Matavai Bay
at Pont Venus in Tahiti. František seems to have kept it as a personal memento and did not send it. On the card, he identifies himself as the "Director" (ředitel) of C.P.C.P. Ltd.
early 1938
Matavai Bay at Pont Venus in Tahiti.
early 1938
Matavai Bay at Pont Venus in Tahiti.
The card carries the big CL1 on the address side. Why the word "Poledník" (= midday) is stamped on the card I don't know. There is a copyright handstamp of the photographer Valenta,
a handstamp with Frank (his name in Tahiti) Jerabeks data and a handwriting which means "The shores of Tahiti / Matavai where Wallis and Cook's ships landed".
Thanks to Andy Owen from the United Kingdom for sharing the pictures of this beautiful Jelinek memento with us on this page.
František Jeřábek (Franta J.O. Jeřábek) was born on 11 September 1886 in Tišnova, Czechoslovakia and died on 12 April 1965 in Tišnova.
In World War I he served with the Montegrins. He wrote a book "At the court of the Montenegrin king: Memories of World War" published in 1932. He travelled much and spoke several
European languages (not English).
He was for five years Manager of a firm at Raiatea, one of
the French Leeward Isles, and there met Monsieur Coulon,
at that time Manager of Christmas Island. About the end
of 1934 Mr Jerabek's firm went into liquidation, and
shortly afterwards Monsieur Cculcn, having left Christmas
Island, recommended to Monsieur Rougier that Mr. Jerabek
should go to Christmas Island as Manager. Mr Jerabek saw
Monsieur Rougier at Tahiti, and was in due course sent to
Christmas.
(Source: The Acting Secretary to the Government, Ocean Island in Sept. 1936 at Digital Library Adelaide )
He worked with the Czechian police and then went to Tahiti and arrived there on 23 October 1925 together with is wife Marie Marie Jerábková († 23 June 1988) and
daughter Vlasta Matoušková geb. Jerábková ( † May 1994).
His son Jaroslav was born in Raiatea in 1930 († August 1999).
The Jerabek family came back to Czechoslovakia in or after World War II I suppose. In 1942 Franta wrote a book issued in Prague for young people "An adventurous trip around the world".
1936/38 - situation on CI
(new Oct 2020)
E.L. Leembruggen on the situation on Christmas Island.
7 February 1937
Partly visible cover to New Zealand (information of the catalogue).
Harmers of London auction catalogue 1985.
7 May 1937
Small unaddressed envelope.
Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.
7 May 1937
Small piece with 7 May 1937 cancel (David Gillis col.)
7 May 1937
(new Jan 2018)
Irving McClure Johnson and Harriet Electa Search "Exy" Johnson's schooner "YANKEE" on the second round the world cruise 1936 - 1938. On this cruise they brought giant tortoises from Galapagos to
Pitcairn Island and were also involved in the search for Amelia Earhart.
Irving died 1991 aged 86 and Exy 2004 aged 95.
L. Edmund "Ted" Zacher, photographer and shipmate on this boat wrote two of the five covers here
from Christmas Island to his hometown Hartford, Connecticut. He died on January 10, 1992. He was 81 years old.
"Exy" & Irving 1937
YANKEE
YANKEE at Pitcairn Island in 1937. Image thanks to colnet
3. Juni 1937
Cover from a member of Irving Johnson's schooner YANKEE to the U.S.A. The plantation stamp canelled with CL3, the
90c Oceania stamp cancelled with the Papeete PERLE cancel on 27.7.37. The postcard was forwarded to the "Fox and Hounds Hotel" in Marblehead, Mass.
Image thanks to Emmanuel Riou, France.
Text on reverse
Image thanks to Emmanuel Riou, France.
3. Juni 1937
Cover from a member of Irving Johnson's schooner YANKEE to the U.S.A. The plantation stamp canelled with CL3, the
90c Oceania stamp cancelled with the Papeete PERLE cancel on 27.7.37.
Image thanks to Emmanuel Riou, France.
Text on reverse.
3. Juni 1937
Cover from James H. Daniels, from 1936 to 1938 Second Mate on the schooner YANKEE to the U.S.A.
The addresse is Sanford Hayes Ensinger, advertising director of Remington Rand, Inc in Buffalo.
The plantation stamp canelled with CL3, the
1F50c Oceania stamp cancelled with the Papeete PERLE cancel on 27.7.37.
Image thanks to Carsten Reimers.
3. Juni 1937
Reverse.
13 January 1992
Edmund "Ted" Zacker's obituary 1991. Image thanks to "Hartford Courant".
1 August 1937
Local cover to H.M.S. Achilles. The New Zealand 1d stamp cancelled with CL2. (David Gillis coll.)
1 8 1937
Postmark blow-up
The Noonan / Sydney covers.
27. August 1938
Noonan Anzeige
Margaret M.C. Noonan was involved in the "Catholic Institute for Seaman" and maybe dealt with stamps. She had one ad in the paper in 1938.
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL 3, the 1d Cook Islands stamp with a 29 April 1938 Rarotonga cancel.
Pictures thanks to Argyll Etkin Ltd London
25. December 1937
reverse imprint
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL 3, the 1d Cook Islands stamp with a 29 April 1938 Rarotonga cancel.
Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL 3, the 1d Cook Islands stamp with a 29 April 1938 Rarotonga cancel.
Image thanks a Robson Lowe auction catalogue 1973.
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the Oceania 25c and 1F50c stamps cancelled with the Papeete Tahiti
postmark on 1.2.38.
25. December 1937
(new Feb 21)
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1d Cook Islands stamp with a 29 April 1938 Rarotonga cancel.
Image was show in an old paper about Rougier & Christmas Island.
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1d Western Samoa cancelled with an Apia on 10 March 1938.
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1d Western Samoa cancelled with an Apia on 10 March 1938.
Image thanks a Robson Lowe auction catalogue 1973.
25. December 1937
(new Dec. 2017)
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1d Western Samoa cancelled with an Apia on 10 March 1938.
source: Universal Philatelic Auctions, GB
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1F50c and 25c Oceania stamps cancelled with
the Papeete / Tahiti postmark on 1 February 1938.
Image thanks to Steve Drewett Postal History
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1p New Zealand stamp with COOK IS'DS overprint is cancelled with
a Rarotonga postmark on 25 December 1938.
Image thanks to Pacific Islands Study Circle
25. December 1937
Cover to Australia, the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with CL3, the 1p New Zealand stamp with COOK IS'DS overprint is cancelled with
a Rarotonga postmark on 25 December 1938.
Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.
no year but 1938 confirmed
F.J.O. Jerabek cover: No year, no stamps, only CL1. Confirmed for 1938
Comes with letter & reply notes asking how, when & where the recipient obtained the cover, when he was on the island, stamps availability etc.
Page 1 of content
Page 1 of content
Page 2 of content
Page 2 of content
9. Mai 1938
Jerabek cover to Czechoslovakia, the three G&E stamps cancelled with CL2.
9. Mai 1938
Reverse
26. Mai 1938
26. Mai 1938
Local Papeete cover (Jerabek too?). The French Oceania 1F and 25c stamps and the 10c plantation stamp cancelled with
Papeete Ile Tahiti postmark.
Picture thanks to Argyll Etkin Ltd London
5 July 1938
Cover to a Lieutenant on H.M.S. Wellington in New Zealand. New Zealand 1d stamp with CL1 plus rubber stamp date.
Image thanks to Keith Fitchett: "The Gilbert and Ellice Islands and its Philately, chapter five, 2004 Pacific Islands Study Circle.
Surgeon-Lieutenant Ronald Vaughan-Jones, of Birmingham, GB, was a crew member of the escort vessel H.M.S. WELLINGTON (Commander Loriston-Clarke) - so the cover is self-addressed.
H.M.S. WELLINGTON did a long Pacific Islands cruise from 27 April 1938 to 8 September 1938 and during this cruise called at Christmas Island from 4 to 6 July. This cover was just prepared as a souvenir. See Keith Fitchett page 96.
5 July 1938 symbol
There should be another cover with CL 2 cancelling 20c & 45 Oceania and Ocean Island 6 August 1938 on 2d Gilbert & Ellice. (see Vernon & Fitchett)
5 July 1938
Cover with an English 1½d stamp with CL 2 cancelling to Fiji.
Barnett was the author of "Fiji's Classical Stamps" in Gibbons Stamp Monthly July 1943.
Picture thanks to Chris Rainey
7 November 1938
Cover to the U.S.A., the two 10c plantation stamps cancelled with CL3. This cancel was used then by the Papeete Co. Hervé Salmona.
(David Gilles col.)
5 July 1938 symbol
According to Fitchett there should exist a cover to New Zealand with a ½d KE VIII stamp cancelled CL 3.
Symbol image - this is not the real cover. We don't have an image, please help.
The 13-01-29 cover at right has a variety of the CL 3 cancel: day at top and month in the middle. I suppose that the 5-7-38 which Fitchett mentiones has this cancel too.
13 January 1939
Cover to the U.S.A., the two 10c plantation stamps cancelled with CL3. This cancel was used then by the Papeete Co. Hervé Salmona.
Image thanks to Pacific Islands Study Circle.
1939
Cover to P. Macdonald on Fanning island. The old Gilbert and Ellice ½ stamp cancelled with CL1, another strike below.
Not before 1939 as Macdonald came to Fanning Island in 1939.
Image thanks to Cherrystone Philatelic Auctioneers
1939
Cover to P. Macdonald on Fanning island. The old Gilbert and Ellice ½ stamp cancelled with CL1, another strike below.
Not before 1939 as Macdonald came to Fanning Island in 1939.
1939
Cover to P. Macdonald on Fanning island. The old Gilbert and Ellice ½ stamp cancelled with CL1, another strike below.
Not before 1939 as Macdonald came to Fanning Island in 1939.
1939
1939
Cover to H.E. Maude on Fanning island. As it is similar to the two at left I think it is 1939 too.
Henry Evans Maude was variously District Officer of the Southern Gilberts, Commissioner fpr Native Lands, Chief Lands Commissioner and
(from 1946 - 1949) Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands.
Image thanks to Cavendish Auctions
1939
Cover to H.E. Maude on Fanning island. As it is similar to the two at left I think it is 1939 too.
Henry Evans Maude was variously District Officer of the Southern Gilberts, Commissioner fpr Native Lands, Chief Lands Commissioner and
(from 1946 - 1949) Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands.
Image thanks to Argyll Etkin Ltd.
1939
Cover to H.E. Maude on Fanning island. As it is similar to the two at left I think it is 1939 too.
Henry Evans Maude was variously District Officer of the Southern Gilberts, Commissioner fpr Native Lands, Chief Lands Commissioner and
(from 1946 - 1949) Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands.
(David Gillis coll.)
Henry Maude 1938
H.E. Maude 1938. From 1946 - 1949 Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands.
1939
1939 Fiji paquebot cover. (David Gillis coll.)
1939
1939 Fiji paquebot cover cancel (in wrong color image for better view).
14 February 1939
Cover to the wife of Thomas Henry Manning on occasion of the opening of the first Post Office on Christmas Island.
Manning was the Western Pacific High Commissioner then.
14 February 1939
(new Jan 2018)
The next 4 covers went to May ELizabeth Riemenschneider, wife of David Morissett Riemenschneider.
14 February 1939
Opening of the first Post Office on Christmas Island. Cover to Fiji.
14 February 1939
(new Feb 2024)
Opening of the first Post Office on Christmas Island. Cover to Fiji.
14 February 1939
Opening of the first Post Office on Christmas Island. Cover to Fiji.
Sorry, no better image available....
Source: photo of an article in "Stamp Collector" March 20, 1993
14 February 1939
Registered cover to the former president of the Pacific Islands Study Circle Roger Wells.
Opening of the first Post Office on Christmas Island..
Image thanks to Pacific Islands Study Circle
14 February 1939
Cover to H.E. Maude on Gilbert island. Opening of the first Post Office on Christmas Island..
14 February 1939
Cover to H.E. Maude on Gilbert island. Opening of the first Post Office on Christmas Island..
Image thanks to Sandafayre
14 February 1939
(new 2/2019)
Similar cover to New Zealand.
14 February 1939
(new Sept 2018)
Similar cover to Captain & Officers of H.M.S. Wellington, New Zealand.
25 May 1939
(new Jan 2020)
Registered Baldwin cover.
25 May 1939
(new Jan 2020)
Reverse.
25 May 1939
(new May 2020)
25 May 1939
(new 10/2021
Cover sent to Suva, Fiji.
28 January 1940
Not too much evidence that this cover ever saw Christmas Island. The CI stamps could have been placed on the cover later.
"CONTRÔLE POSTAL / ETABLISSEMENT / FRANCAIS / DE L'OCEANIE" censor cahcet on front.
Image thanks to Regency Stamps
30 March 1940
(new 14 Dec 2018)
23 October 1940
This is another Roger Wells cover cancelled on 23 October 1940 and routed via Papeete (backstamped 10.11.xx VISITEZ TAHITI...) and cencored with the CONTRÔLE POSTAL
cachet (sample of this cachet shown).
Backstamp
Sample of censor cachet
30 October 1940
(new 14 Dec 2018)
Tubb (= John Fancis Hambly - he often used the name J. Tubb) cover to Sydney; registered and manuscript "passed by censor"
Image thanks to Millenniume Philateic Auctions auction archive
29 July 1942
Blank cover with CL1a, CL2 and the first Christmas Island postmark dated 29 July 1942. (David Gillis coll.)
29 July 1942
Blank cover with CL1a, CL2 and the first Christmas Island postmark dated 29 July 1942. (David Gillis coll.)
29 July 1942
Blank cover with CL1a, CL2 and the first Christmas Island postmark dated 29 July 1942. (David Gillis coll.)
1942 possibly
(new 2 Jan 2019)
Blank cover
16 June 1948
Registered cover #1 to Fanning Island. Reg # in CL1.
Image thanks to Keith Fitchett: "The Gilbert and Ellice Islands and its Philately, chapter five, 2004 Pacific Islands Study Circle.
18 December 1948
(new 1/2019)
Registered from Fanning Island to England.
Nice but a bit remarkable is this cover: Fanning Island but with Christmas Island handstamps CL1 and CL2. Airmail and registered, the 3/1d G&E stamps
cancelled with the Fanning Island postmark, U.S. transit backmarks Honolulu Jan 13 1949 and Chicago Air Mail Field Truck(?) Jan 15 1949.
As there is no normal Christmas Island postmark on the cover I suppose that CL1 and CL2 were at hand in Fanning Island. Seen at Ebay.
18 December 1948
(new 1/2019)
Backstamps
FDC: 29 August 1949
Seen at an internet auction site.
FDC: 29 August 1949
A Silver Wedding First Day Cover cancelled Christmas Island to Fanning Island. CL 1 at left.
FDC: 29 August 1949
Address darkened
FDC: 29 August 1949
Seen at an internet auction site.
FDC: 29 August 1949
(new 9/2019)
Seen at an internet auction site.
FDC: 29 August 1949
(new 4/2022)
A Silver Wedding First Day Cover cancelled Christmas Island to Fanning Island. CL 1 at left. (The dimensions of this image are a bit disturbed
as it was reconstructed from a photo with an angular perspective)
FDC: 29 August 1949
Address darkened
FDC: 29 August 1949
A Silver Wedding First Day Cover cancelled Christmas Island to Fanning Island. CL 1 at left. (The dimensions of this image are a bit disturbed
as it was reconstructed from a photo with an angular perspective)
FDC: 29 August 1949
Address darkened
FDC: 29 August 1949
(new 3/2024)
Seen at an internet auction site.
Mr. Harold A. Markham, 'Old Marko', plantation manager and local island commissioner at Christmas Island (former planter for 35 years at Munda Island, BSI and about 74 years old in 1949)
possibly wrote these letters to Mr. Kelvin Nicholson (sometimes written Nickelson or Nickolson too), British Commissioner for Washington, Fanning and Christmas Islands.
District Officer of the Line Islands. At least in 1948 Mr. Nickolson visited Markham on Christmas Island.
Nicholson made a lot of observations about the tern birds there and on other line islands.
10 October 1949
FDC cover of the UPU issue to a Transpacific Cable opreator in Fanning Island.
10 October 1949
FDC cover of the UPU issue to Fanning Island.
10 October 1949
FDC cover of the UPU issue to Fanning Island.
10 October 1949
FDC cover of the UPU issue to Fanning Island.