Pt. Sandwich 3x ---- 07 on a 15c & 4c New Caledonian stamps. ("Mele" coll.)

New Hebrides picture postcard two France with two 5c New Caledonian stamps paying the colonial long message postcard rate tied by PCH type 4 with block type and upright month block but missing year (curved marks instead). Unusual for this cancel. Cancelled on arrival Avallon Yonne, 1 May 1907. (Treadwell coll.)
The card was carried to Sydney by the Messageries Maritimes steamer PACIFIQUE (Captain Loumeau). She left Sydney on 6 March 1907 calling at Noumea, Port Vila, Nelson's Bay, Ringdove, Espiritu Santo, Ambrym, Mele, Port Vila & Noumea and returned on 25 March. She arrived at Noumea on the 10th, leaving on the 12th for the islands and returned to Noumea on the 18th. and normally stayed there for 2 days. Return to Sydney (where she was supposed to arrive on 24th) was a bit delayed as a "kanaka" died of poisonous gases in the main hold generated by green copra from the New Hebrides. So she returned to Sydney on 25 March. This means that the Vila cancel is more likely 17 March and not 19. [Roland Klinger]

GK type PM3 on a New Caledonia 10c stamp. Postcard to Frnace. (ex Millet coll.)

17 March 1907 ?

Postcard to Nouméa , the FIVE New Caledonians 1c. stamps are cancelled with PCH type 4: smudgy date block inverted. ("SeSi" collection)
Richard Rossiter served as an interpreter for the French government at Noumea from the 1880s. He was a son of the famous Whaler & Captain Thomas Rositter. Richard died in New Caledonia in 1903 aged 62 unmarried. The sender may not have known this.
Information thanks to The Rossiter Research Registry Home Page

9 April 1907

New Caledonian picture postcard, the five 1c New Caledonian stamps are cancelled with GK PM3: date block inverted. It is quite curious that the dirt is NOT there on 12 April. (Kim Spurge coll.)

12 April 1907

New Caledonian picture postcard, the 2c, 2c & 1c New Caledonian stamps are cancelled with PCH type 4: date block inverted. ("SeSi" coll.)

New Caledonian picture postcard, the five 1c New Caledonian stamps are cancelled with PCH type 4: date block inverted. ("SeSi" coll.)

Postcard "Canaques travaillant sur une plantation"; the 2c, 2c and 1c New Caledonian stamps are cancelled with PCH type 4: smudgy date block inverted. (seen at Delcampe auctions)

Postcard "Indigènes de l'île Malicolo"; the 5c New Caledonian stamp is cancelled with PCH type 4: smudgy date block inverted. (seen at Delcampe auctions)

Postcard "cases et tabou" to Paris, PCH type 4 cancel on a NC 5c. stamp (Yvert n°91) with inverted date block. Another impression of the cancel was applied to the address side. ("SeSi" collection)

15 April 1907

Postcard "Drying the copra", PCH type 4 cancel on a NC 5c. stamp (Yvert n°91) with inverted date block. (Seen at a Delcampe auctions in 2006)

Postcard "Pirogue des Nouvelles Hébrides", PCH type 4 cancel on a NC 5c. stamp with inverted date block. (Seen at Ebay auction in 2007)

New Caledonia postcard to France.

xx April 1907
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Postcard "Popinée des Nlle. Hébrides", PCH type 4 cancel on a NC 5c. stamp with inverted date block. From "www.users.winshop.com.au/merv/" = "The Rossiter Research Registry Homepage": "Captain Thomas Rossiter died 04 July 1875 at his home at 11 Windmill Street aged 75 and was buried at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney. And what of his children? ........ Richard died in New Caledonia in 1903 aged 62 unmarried.....". (Seen as a dealer's offer in 1997)

15 April 1907

Postcard "Chief ...". From my 2006 archive.

New Hebrides picture postcard with two 2c and one 1c New Caledonian Cagou stamps tied with PCH type 4 with block type and upright month block. "Nouvelles Hébrides. - Avenue des cocotiers à Vila, Cocoanut Avenue, Vila" (Merot coll.)

Postcard "Natives Vila" NC 5c. stamp cancelled with PCH 4 date block inverted. (Seen at a Delcampe auctions in 2006)

Postcard "anaques des Nouvelles-Hébrides" NC 5c. stamp cancelled with Goyns-Klinger type PM3.
The card with a Ceylon 2c stamp was sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Source: Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions

Postcard "Natives Vila" NC 5c. stamp cancelled with PCH 4 date upright. (Seen at a Delcampe auctions in 2006)

Carte postale au tarif des imprimés par un 5c. au type Groupe des Nouvelles Calédonie oblitéré NLLES HEBRIDES PT SANDWICH 26 AVRIL 07.
Postcard franked with a New Caledonian 5c stamp type Cagou as a card with less tha 5 words (printed matter) cancelled with PCH Type 4. (Millet coll.)

3 postcards : Salomon natives, Shooting fish bow and arrowand Salomon Boys. The NC 10c. stamp cancelled with PCH 4 date block inverted with italic month. Not addressed. ("SeSi" collection.)

3 postcards : Salomon natives, Shooting fish bow and arrow and Salomon Boys. The NC 10c. stamp cancelled with PCH 4 date block inverted with italic month. Not addressed. ("SeSi" collection.)

3 postcards : Salomon natives, Shooting fish bow and arrowand Salomon Boys. The NC 10c. stamp cancelled with PCH 4 date block inverted with italic month. Not addressed. ("SeSi" collection.)

Postcard from Vila to New Zealand, the rate of 10c is paid by the New Calédonian 10c stamp which is cancelled with PCH type 5. ("Aore" coll.)

Postcard to New Zealand showing Vilas main commercial road. The rate of 10c is paid by the New Calédonian 10c stamp which is cancelled with PCH type 5. (Treadwell coll.)

Postcard from Vila to France, the rate of 10c is paid by the New Calédonian 10c stamp which is cancelled with PCH type 4. ("Aore" coll.)

A very nice postcard to Avallon France . The NC 10c. stamp lightly cancelled with PCH 4 WITHOUT DATE BLOCK , reapplied to left corner , has been recancelled with a Australian KILLER handstamp. Cancelled on arrival Avalon Yonne, 24 July 1907. ("SeSi" collection)
Interesting: The same sender and addressee as at the card above center. Here the sender writes about St. Patrick: St. Patrick's day is March 17, the supposed cancellation date of the card at left.

New Caledonia stamps 5c + 2 x 15c cancelled Port Sandwich Goyns-Klinger type PM3. 10c colonial letter and 25c registration fee.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatelie

12 May 1907

Postcard from Vila to France, the rate of 10c is paid by the two New Calédonian 5c stamps which are cancelled with PCH type 4. Image thanks to Roumet Philatélie, Paris

Postcard to New Zealand showing Vilas main commercial road. The rate of 10c is paid by the New Calédonian 10c stamp which is cancelled with PCH type 5. (Treadwell coll.)

9 June 1907

Postcard with New Calédonian 1c and 4c cancelled with PCH type 4, the month block in italic and date block inverted. The address side is unused. (seen at a Delcampe auction in January 2008.)

Postcard "femme d'Aoba"; with New Calédonian 1c, 2c and 2c cancelled with PCH type 4, the month block in italic and date block inverted. (seen at Delcampe auctions.)

New Caledonian picture postcard used with NC stamp and PCH type 4 with omitted month block. (ex Jersey coll., now ???)
This card showed up again in February 2005 at a postcard auction in Christchurch NZ. It sold for 375 NZ$. Thanks to Paul Wales from Classic Stamps Limited I can present a better scan and the reverse of the card now. The postcard shows "Nouvelle-Calédonie. - MACÉ, le Bourreau de l'Ile Nou. la veille de sa 72e exécution".....

25 mm 1907

Postcard "Un Chef Canaque à Santo" to Troyes France.The NC 5c. stamp cancelled with PCH 4 Port Sandwich without month. Another impression of the cancel was applied to the address side. ("SeSi" collection)

31 mm 1907

Timbre à date en bleu NLLES HEBRIDES PT SANDWICH nn JUIL 07. Affranchissement à 10c. pour la France. Au verso transit NOUMÉA 9.7.07 et arrivée NOGENT-EN-BASSIGNY 21.8.07.
PCH Type 4 dated nn July 07 on a New Caledonian 10c stamp to France. Transit NOUMÉa on 9.7.07 and on arrival at NOGENT-EN-BASSIGNY 21.8.07. (Millet coll.)

The sender writes September 1 but that's not a problem in the islands. It was to warm to adjust the cancel. New Hebrides postcard with a New Caledonian 15c stamp tied with PCH type 4 (month block inverted). ("Mele" coll.)

22 August 1907 : A postcard to France. 10c is the correct French colonial long message postcard rate.
Image thanks to Lugdunum Philatelie This card carries the postmark which was the example from which the 22 AOUT 1907 forgery was made. See the forgery page here

22 August 1907

22 August 1907 : Another one: postcard maybe to France. 5c is the correct French colonial short message postcard rate but the reverse is empty. Just a souvenir card.
This card too carries ste postmark which was the example from which the 22 AOUT 1907 forgery was made. See the forgery page here

35c registered to Paris - I suppose 10c colonial rate and 25c registrations fee. One of the very scarce registered covers of this period. (Ed Grabowski coll.)

Australian postcard sent from Port-Vila to Marseille France. The 10c NC cagou stamp tied with PM2 on 28 SEPT 07 in red . ("SeSi" coll.) First seen .

28 September 1907

New Hebrides postcard with a New Caledonian 10c Cagou stamp cancelled PCH Type 4 25 JUIL 07. The rather scarce cachet "ORIGINE NÉO HÉBRIDAISE L'Agent des Postes" has been applied to both the address side of the postcard and again alongside the second strike of the double ring Port Sandwich canceller on the picture side. (Merot coll.)

25 October 1907

New Hebrides postcard with a New Caledonian 10c Cagou stamp tied with PCH type 4. (Treadwell coll.)

Registered letter via Noumea to the U.S. with 50c in New Caledonian stamps cancelled with PCH Type 4. Backstamped Noumea 30 OCT 07 and Los Angeles Registered Dec 21 1907. (Ed Grabowski coll.)

27 October 1907

A French military cover to Nouméa. The 1907 French military stamp (F.M.) pays the rate to New Caledonia to a French military person on a ship in Nouméa harbour. Cancelled with a Pt. Sandwich cancel. (NN coll.)

Both of them together.

Letter to Nouméa. The New Caledonian 10c stamp cancelled with a Pt. Sandwich cancel. (seen in an US dealer's offer)

Postcard "Un Chef indigène de Santo" sent to ANNANDALE SOUTH CAROLINA USA. The NC 10c Cagou tied by PCH type 5 with inverted date block 22 NOV 07, recanceled twice in transit with wavy machine cancel SAN FRANCISCO JAN 19 1908 and FORGETOWN JAN 27 1908 and ANNANDALE JAN 27 1908 on arrival .

22 November 1907

Cover to France, the New Caledonian 10c stamp cancelled with PM3, date illegible. Backstamped 25 or 26 11 07 Noumea and 8.1.08 Port Louis.

xx November 1907

Foreign rate 25c to Suva. Commercial cover from Vila 2 DEC 07 to "Joske Okulvi" in Suva. Noumea 9 DEC and Suva 27 DEC. The dealers in Suva were "Brown & Joske" and "Sturt, Ogilvie & Co." - I wonder who got this letter. The letter was carried from Vila to Noumea by one of the small ships belonging to the French New Hebrides Co. and from Noumea to Fiji by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. steamer RANI, which arrived at Noumea on 21 December en route to Fiji. RANI arrived at Lautoka on 26 Dec and Suva being a day cruise from there the arrival date on the cover fits to RANI. (Ship info thanks to Jeff Blinco, Perth) ("Anon" coll. GB).

Postcard from Vila to New Zealand - 10c rate. ("Anon" coll. GB).

Double rate cover to Nouméa, the bloc of four NC 5c stamps is cancelled with PCH type 4. The month bloc of the cancel is inverted. The stamps are tied to the cover by the "P" of Port and the "W" of SANDWICH in the eprforation holes.The second impression at left is clearly identical, applied in a similar angle and with a bit less intensity, typical for the second impression without using the inkpad in between.
The addressee seems to be Auguste Maëstracci, who had possessions on Vaté, New Hebrides. (Auguste disparu en mer en 1913) (Millet coll.).

Postcard written by a crew member of the Pacifique to his father. The title: "Paquebot Pacifique Port Sandwich Ile Mallicolo" and the two New Caledonian stamps are cancelled with PCH type 4, month in italic, plus a Noumea cancel of Dec 24, so everything fits for real postal use. (from a French collector)

Postcard "Solomon Island Canoes" from Port Sandwich, sent by Alfred Vigoureux founder member of the Société Française des Nouvelles Hébrides local agency, to Avallon Yonne France. The two 5c NC stamps tied with PM3 Pt Sandwich 21 DEC. 07: Correct 10 c colonial rate for a postcard with long message. On back AVALLON 4-2 08 in arrival . Travel time 45 days. ("SeSi" coll.)

21 December 1907

Postcard with a New Caledonian 5c stamp cancelled with PCH type 4. (Seen at Delcampe auctions in April 2009.)