The Christmas Island (Pacific) Local Stamps and Postal History

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Christmas Island - Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations Ltd. Locals:
Cacheted covers with the big palm cachet.

20 October 2018 : 111 covers.

Please don't be astonished when you read here at the bottom of the cachet: "Operated by Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations Ltd, London" or at other places even "...... London, Paris". This sly fox Rougier named two accumulations of huts on Christmas Island "London" and "Paris".
But the company was indeed registered in London.

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Visitez cancel in 1932
(new Apr 2018)

This is how the "VISITEZ" cancel looked when it was rather new and correctly applied

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Adressees in this
25 December 1934
collection of images:

Alpiger
Baldinger
Baybutt
Blossom Ward
Carlson
Christy
Deudney
Friden
Gill Jr.
Graham

Grant
Greenhalgh I
Greenhalgh II
Gudenschwager
Haban
Hardeman
Hermansader
Heskett
Holden
Karen

Kaufman
Laws
McCarty
Mead
Mitchell
Moore
Nauss
Pence
Perry
Pump

Rahberger
Rerucha
Saunders
Schlueter
Smith Jr.
Smith
Streitwolf
Stearns
Sutton
Trott

Turnbull
van Overbeke
Weimann
Woodman

25 December 1934
van Overbeke
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - van Overbeke

25 December 1934
Alpiger
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Alpiger

25 December 1934
Graham
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Graham

25 December 1934
Deudney
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Deudney

25 December 1934
Kaufman
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Kaufman

25 December 1934
Laws
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Laws

25 December 1934
Pump
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Pump
Bild mit Dank an Gärtner Auktionen

25 December 1934
Baybutt
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Baybutt

25 December 1934
Gudenschwager
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Gudenschwager

25 December 1934
Holden
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Holden

25 December 1934
Greenhalgh I
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Greenhalgh

25 December 1934
Greenhalgh II
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Greenhalgh

25 December 1934
Smith Jr
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Smith Jr

25 December 1934
Hardeman
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Hardeman

25 December 1934
Carlson
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Carlson

25 December 1934
Mitchell
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Mitchell

25 December 1934
Baldinger
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Baldinger

25 December 1934
Christy
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Christy

25 December 1934
Gill Jr.
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Gill Jr.

25 December 1934
Gill Jr.

Advertisement.

25 December 1934
Mead
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Mead

25 December 1934
Weimann
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Weimann

25 December 1934
Rahberger
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Cachet #3

Big palm cachet cover - Rahberger
This is a cover with the red berries misaligned in the corners of the cachet.

25 December 1934
Blossom Ward
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Blossom Ward
Image thanks to "American Philatelist", Decmber 2001, page 1096
The American Philatelist

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25 December 1934
Pence
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Cachet #3

Big palm cachet cover - Pence. Cachet with shifted cherries.
Image thanks to Schwanke Auktionshaus Hamburg

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25 December 1934
Heskett
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Heskett

25 December 1934
Hermansader
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Hermansader
Image thanks to Auktionshaus Schlegel, Berlin

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25 December 1934
Moore
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Moore
Image thanks to Soler y Llach, Barcelona

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25 December 1934
Nauss
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Nauss
Image thanks to Stanley Gibbons

25 December 1934
Turnbull
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Turnbull
Image thanks to Stanley Gibbons

25 December 1934
Haban
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Cachet #3

Big palm cachet cover - Haban
Image thanks to Source: Ebay in June 2016

25 December 1934
McCarty
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - McCarty
Backstamped Whipple Ariz. Feb 9 1935. Image thanks to James Mulik

Reverse

Content

25 December 1934
Karen
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Karen
Image thanks to James Mulik.

25 December 1934
Grant
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Grant - (David Gillis coll.).

25 December 1934
Friden
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Friden - (David Gillis coll.).

25 December 1934
Rerucha
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Rerucha - stamp quite bleeched - (seen on an Internet auction site).

25 December 1934
Streitwolf
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Streitwolf
(seen on an Internet auction site).

25 December 1934
Stearns
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Stearns
(seen on an Internet auction site).

25 December 1934
Perry
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Perry
(seen on an Internet auction site).

25 December 1934
Saunders
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Saunders
(seen on an Internet auction site).

25 December 1934
Sutton
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Sutton
(seen on an Internet auction site). This cover looks like it was tin can mail to the U.S. and the can was untight.

25 December 1934
Trott (new Dec 2017)
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Trott
source: Universal Philatelic Auctions, GB

25 December 1934
Schlueter (new Feb 2018)
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Schlueter
Image thanks to Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd.

25 December 1934
Woodman (new Feb 2018)
VISITEZ....28-1-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Woodman
(seen at Ebay)

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This is a rather awkward cover: Adress in blue, C.I. cancel upright DEC 25 ????, Tahiti "VISITEZ" cancel rather clearly readable ) 29 (or 9 or 19) - 3 - 36.
All DEC 25 1934 have the C.I. cancel upside down on the lower part of the local stamp. All addresses are in black.
So this could be DEC 25 1935 but we have not registered any DEC 35 Big Palm cachet cover so far.

DEC 25 1935(?)
Brown
VISITEZ....2(?)9-3-36
(new May 2018)

Big palm cachet cover - Weil. Cancelled Papeete on 22 April(?) 1935 with the "Perle" slogan postmark.
The year is not clear on the C.I. cancel but with the date of the Tahiti cancel 2(?)9.3.26 could be 1935.
seen on an internet auction site.

2(?)9 March 1936
Brown

The Tahiti "VISITEZ" cancel - clearly from March 1936 (wrong colour image to enhance date)

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1. March 1935(?)
Culgrove
VISITEZ....22-4-35 21:00

Cachet #3

Big palm cachet cover - Colgrove. Cancelled Papeete on 22 April 1935 with the "Perle" slogan postmark.
The year is not clear on the C.I. cancel but with the date of the Tahiti cancel it could be 1935(?). This one has a cachet with the berries in the holly, slightly out of alignment.

1. March 1935(?)
Weil
VISITEZ....22-4-35 21:00

Big palm cachet cover - Weil. Cancelled Papeete on 22 April(?) 1935 with the "Perle" slogan postmark.
The year is not clear on the C.I. cancel but with the date of the Tahiti cancel it could be 1935.
Image thanks to Per-Arno Hansen.

1. March 1935(?)
Weil

Reverse

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28. Februar 1936
Quick
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Big palm cachet cover - Quick

28. Februar 1936
Hopley Yeaton
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Big palm cachet cover - Hopley Yeaton ?

28. Februar 1936
Hopley Yeaton
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Big palm cachet cover - Hopley Yeaton
Image thanks to William Carsson Philatelist, New Zealand

28. Februar 1936
Lemer ?
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Big palm cachet cover - Lemer.?

28. Februar 1936
Dorsett
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Big palm cachet cover - Dorsett

28. Februar 1936
Peterson
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Big palm cachet cover - Peterson

28. Februar 1936
Murray
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Big palm cachet cover - Murray

28. Februar 1936
Anderson (new Apr. 2018)
VISITEZ....21-3-36 14:00

Cachet #3

Big palm cachet cover - Anderson (new Apr. 2018)
Image thanks to Auktionshaus Schlegel, Berlin

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3. April 1936
Sierra Press
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Die (Bleistift-)Adresse ist die des "Sierra Stamp & Cover Service" in 629 Gough Street, San Francisco, wie bei den kleine-Palme-Briefen.

3. April 1936
Harris
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Harris
Bild mit Dank an Schwanke Auktionen

3. April 1936
Richards
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Richards
Bild mit Dank an Gärtner Auktionen

3. April 1936
Cullimore
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Cullimore

3. April 1936
Miller
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Great palm cachet: cover to Hartford, Conn., U.S.A.. Interesting: I have an image of the reverse here: it is cancelled with the Papeete cancel without slogan on 17.4.36 and with the "PERLE" slogan cancel on 20.4.36 but cancelled with flap open as part of the slogan is under the flap.

3. April 1936
Miller

Große Reverse

3. April 1936
Pond
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Pond

3. April 1936
Clemmens
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Clemmens

3. April 1936
Sierra
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Sierra Press, 626 Gough St., San Francisco
Image thanks to seller Yanis848 on Delcampe.

3. April 1936
Slater
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Slater
Image thanks to Stanley Gibbons

3. April 1936
Smith
VISITEZ....17-4-36 18:30

Big palm cachet cover - Smith
Image thanks to Stanley Gibbons

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28 April 1936
Sobchuns ?
VISITEZ....18-5-36 ??

Big palm cachet cover - Sobchuns ?

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28. Mai 1936
Osborne
MAKURA....14-JL-36 6PM

Big palm cachet cover - Osborne
Cancelled Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura, 14 July 1936
The Oceania stamp cancelled "Packet Post"

28. Mai 1936
Petersen
MAKURA....14-JL-36 6PM

Big palm cachet cover - Petersen
Big palm cachet cover - Osborne
Cancelled Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura, 14 July 1936
The Oceania stamp cancelled "Packet Post" 14. Juli 1936

28. Mai 1936
Sierra Press (01)
MAKURA....14-JL-36 6PM

Big palm cachet cover - Mit Stempel des Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura, 14. Juli 1936
Die Ozeanienmarke ist gestempelt "Packet Post"
Die (Bleistift-)Adresse ist die des "Sierra Stamp & Cover Service" in 629 Gough Street, San Francisco,
wie bei den kleine-Palme-Briefen.

28. Mai 1936
Sierra Press (02)
MAKURA....14-JL-36 6PM

Big palm cachet cover - Mit Stempel des Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura, 14. Juli 1936
Die Ozeanienmarke ist gestempelt "Packet Post"
Die (Bleistift-)Adresse ist die des "Sierra Stamp & Cover Service" in 629 Gough Street, San Francisco,
wie bei den kleine-Palme-Briefen.

28. Mai 1936
Sierra Press (03)
MAKURA....14-JL-36 6PM

Big palm cachet cover - Sierra
Mit Stempel des Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura, 14. Juli 1936
The Oceania stamp cancelled "Packet Post"
Manuscript pencil address "Sierra Stamp & Cover Service" in 629 Gough Street, San Francisco,
the same as on the small palm cachet covers.

28. Mai 1936
Sierra Press (04)
MAKURA....14-JL-36 6PM

Big palm cachet cover - sierra
Mit Stempel des Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura, 14. Juli 1936
Die Ozeanienmarke ist gestempelt "Packet Post"
Manuscript pencil address "Sierra Stamp & Cover Service" in 629 Gough Street, San Francisco,
the same as on the small palm cachet covers.

28. Mai 1936
Sierra Press (05)
no MAKURA postmark

Big palm cachet cover - Sierra
Die Ozeanienmarke ist gestempelt "Packet Post" - kein Stempel des Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura

Manuscript pencil address "Sierra Stamp & Cover Service" in 629 Gough Street, San Francisco,
the same as on the small palm cachet covers.

28. Mai 1936
Sierra Press (06)
MAKURA....14-JL-36 6PM

Big palm cachet cover - Sierra
Die Ozeanienmarke ist gestempelt "Packet Post" - kein Stempel des Marine Post Office Neuseeland R.M.S. Makura

Manuscript pencil address "Sierra Stamp & Cover Service" in 629 Gough Street, San Francisco,
the same as on the small palm cachet covers.

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Adressees in this 25 December 1936
collection of images:

Anderson G.E.
Anderson Robert S. Bennett
Brueggemann
Carr
Cheilek
Croker
Cole
Dannenberg
Davidson
Dengel

Durant
Edge
Greenbaum
Johnson, Joseph
Johnson, Edgar C.
Kern
Kresge
Kingsley
Linder
Mason
Masuero

Mc Guire
Moffitt
Morrison
Murray
Page
Peterson
Pine
Potter
Proctor
Roth
Rougier

Sierra Co.
Tansen
Tomas
Vergonet
Weaver

25. December 1936
Linder
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Linder

25. December 1936
Bennett
VISITEZ....5-2-37 8:00

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Bennett

25. December 1936
Tansen
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Tansen

25. December 1936
Johnson I
VISITEZ....5-2-37 8:00

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Johnson I.

25. December 1936
Carr
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Carr

25. December 1936
Kresge
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Kresge

25. December 1936
Johnson II
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Johnson II

25. December 1936
Edge
VISITEZ....5-2-37 8:00

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Edge

25. December 1936
Cheilek
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Cheilek

25. December 1936
Kingsley
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Kingsley

25. December 1936
Masuero
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Masuero

25. December 1936
Anderson
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Anderson

25. December 1936
Durant
VISITEZ....5-2-37 8:00

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Durant

25. December 1936
Tomas
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Tomas

25. December 1936
Croker
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Croker

25. December 1936
Mason
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Mason

25. December 1936
Mc Guire
VISITEZ....5-2-37 8:00

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Mc Guire

25. December 1936
Mc Guire

Big palm cachet cover - Mc Guire

25. December 1936
Rougier
VISITEZ....28-7-37 8:00

Big palm cachet cover - Rougier

25. December 1936
Murray
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Murray
Image thanks to Zirinsky Stamps, New York

25. December 1936
Proctor
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Proctor
Image thanks to TimbresMAG 2002

25. December 1936
Pine
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Pine
Image thanks to Phoenix Auctions Australia

25 Dec. 36, with order form
Brueggemann
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Pine
(Seen on Ebay)

25. December 1936
Brueggemann
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Order form included: it is interesting that they mistook Christmas Island (Pacific) for the Christams Island Indian Ocean.

25. December 1936
Sierra Co.
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Pine
pencil manuscript to Sierra Stamps & Cover Co.
This is the cachet type without berries in the holly.

25. December 1936
Moffitt

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Moffitt
Image thanks to Steve Drewett

25. December 1936
Kern
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Kern
Image thanks to Regency Superior

25. December 1936
Potter
VISITEZ....5-2-37 8:00

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Potter
Image thanks to Stanley Gibbons

25. December 1936
Dannenberg
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Dannenberg
Image thanks to Cherrystone Stamps

25. December 1936
Roth
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Roth
Image thanks to Raritan Stamps

25. December 1936
Cole
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Cole - (David Gillis coll.)

25. December 1936
Vergonet
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Vergonet - (Kelleher auctions)

25. December 1936
Davidson
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2

Big palm cachet cover - Davidson - (seen at Ebay)

25. December 1936
Dengel
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2 (new Dec 2017)

Big palm cachet cover - Dengel - (seen at Ebay)

25. December 1936
Peterson
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2
(new Jan 2018)

Big palm cachet cover - Peterson - (seen at Ebay)

25. December 1936
Greenbaum
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2
(new Jan 2018)

Big palm cachet cover - Greenbaum
Image thanks to Cavendish Auction House

25. December 1936
Page
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2
(new April 2018)

Big palm cachet cover - Page
Image thanks to Auktionshaus Schlegel, Berlin

25. December 1936
Morrison
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2
(new April 2018)

Big palm cachet cover - Morrison
Image thanks to Auktionshaus Schlegel, Berlin

25. December 1936
Anderson
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2
(new Oct 2018)

Big palm cachet cover - Anderson - Image thanks to Auktionshaus Schlegel Berlin

25. December 1936
Weaver
VISITEZ....11-1-37 15:30

Cachet #2
(new Oct 2018)

Big palm cachet cover - Weaver - Image thanks to Auckland City Stamps

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Empty big palm cover

Cachet #2

Empty big palm cover

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Cachet #1

Cachet #1

Cachet #1 corner

Cachet #1 corner

Cachet #2

Cachet #2

Cachet #2 corner

Cachet #2 corner

Cachet #3

Cachet #3 - poor alignment of the red cherries.

Cachet #3 corner

Cachet #3 corner - poor alignment of the red cherries.

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