Christmas Island - Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations Ltd. local stamps.
Letters to the Bern/Switzerland philatelist Fred Reinhard.
23 July 2024 : 75 covers.
Johann Friedrich Reinhard (20 May 1871 - 28.4.1936) worked with the Swiss customs service, was a philatelist and journalist also founder
of the Stamp Exchange Club Bern.
Until the early 1930s he was the chief editor of the "Schweizer Briefmarkenzeitung"
Seine offizielle Berufsbezeichnung findet sich auf einem Brief von 1911 auus Tarawa an ihn:
"Frederick Reinhard / Revisor der Oberzolldirektion / Abteilung Handelsstatistik / 41 Bantigertsrasse / Bern"
![SBZ](./images/sbz.jpg)
Schweizer Briefmarken Zeitung
Schweizer Briefmarken Zeitung
The letters were carried to San Francisco by steamers of the Union Line (Union Steamship Co.) from Wellington (NZ) via Rarotonga and Papeete. From there by train
to the east cost and on to Europe.
These here are real commercial covers. I think Reinhard received Plantation stamps with these (taxed !).
Reinhard registered letter
![7 October 1918](./images/1918-10-07-reinhard-r.jpg)
7 October 1918
Reinhard registered letter reverse
![7 October 1918](./images/1918-10-07-reinhard2.jpg)
7 October 1918 - R01 & R01a
Reinhard registered letter
![7 October 1918](./images/1918-10-07-reinhard2r.jpg)
7 October 1918
Reinhard registered letter reverse
![7 October 1918](./images/1918-10-07.jpg)
7 October 1918 - R01 & R01b
Reinhard registered letter. Backstamped CL1 palm cachet, San Francisco 28 October 1918, New York 2 November 1918 and Frenhc censor cachet
"OUVERT par l'Autorité Militaire 203". Arrived (manuscript) 25 November 1918
![7 October 1918](./images/1918-10-07r.jpg)
7 October 1918
Reinhard registered letter reverse
On all Reinhard covers the 5c plantation stamp is cancelled with CL1, the big palm tree cachet in black.
![CL1](./images/cl1blackcreme.jpg)
CL1 black
CL1 in black
In Papeete the covers were cancelled either with the newer PAPEETE / TAHIT cancel or with the old one.
![Papeete](./images/1918-10-11-cance.jpg)
Older Papeete cancel
Older Papeete cancel
![Papeete](./images/papeete1918.jpg)
Newer Papeete cancel
Newer Papeete cancel
Another 7. October 1918 cover: the typical Reinhard cover now:
![7. October 1918](./images/1918-10-07-reinhard 881.jpg)
7. October 1918 - Rg 881
Reinhard registered letter #881
![7. October 1918](./images/1918-10-07-cancel.jpg)
cancel
Reinhard registered letter #881
11. October 1918 covers:
![maybe 11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 00a.jpg)
11. October 1918 ?? Rg --
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 00.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg --
Reinhard not a registered letter #00
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 1.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 1
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 1r.jpg)
Reverse - Rg 1
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 3.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 3
Reinhard registered letter #9
Image thank to a New Zealand collector.
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 3r.jpg)
Reverse - Rg 3
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 9.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 9
Reinhard registered letter #9
Source: The Royal Philatelic Society London: The London Philatelist, Vol. 78, Nr. 913, January 1969, page 16.
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 15.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 15
Reinhard registered letter #15
A 50c Établissements de l'Océanie" has been removed.
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 18.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 18
Reinhard registered letter #18
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 18r.jpg)
11. October 1918 Rg 18
Reinhard registered letter #18 reverse
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 24.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 24
Reinhard registered letter #24
![11. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-11-27.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 27
Reinhard registered letter #27 - also backstamped San Francisco & New York
![11. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-11-28.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 28
(new July 2024)
Reinhard registered letter #28 - also backstamped San Francisco & New York
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 32.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 32
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 32r.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 32
reverse
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 35.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 35
Reinhard registered letter #37. Opened, censored and closed again with "Controle Postal Militaire" tape, oval "OUVERT par l'AUTORITÉ
MILITAIRE 204" on front and reverse.
Image thanks to Auktionshaus Schlegel, Berlin
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 35r.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 35
reverse
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 37.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 37
Reinhard registered letter #37. Also censored.
![11. October 1918](./images/reinhard-1924.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 37
First mentionned in January 1924 in the French stamp magazine "Le Timbre-poste".
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 39.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 39
Reinhard registered letter #39
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 51.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 51
Reinhard registered letter #51.
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 51-r.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 51
reverse
![11. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-11-74.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 52
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 54.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 54
Reinhard registered letter #54
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 57.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 57
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 61.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 61
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 68.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 68
Reinhard registered letter #68
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 68r.jpg)
11. October 1918 Rg 68
Reinhard registered letter #68 reverse
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 70.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 70
Reinhard registered letter #70
![11. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-11-73.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 73
Reinhard registered letter #73
![11. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-11-73r.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 73
reverse
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 76.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 76
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 77.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 77
Reinhard registered letter #77
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 982
Reinhard registered letter #982
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 983a.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 983
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 983.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 983
Reinhard registered letter #983 - This was the same in cover in a Harmers of London auction 1985. It showed up again after 32 years.
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 984.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 984
Reinhard registered letter #984, San Francisco 28 Oct, New York 2 November
![11. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 984r.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 984
Reinhard registered letter #984, San Francisco 28 Oct, New York 2 November, censored
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-11-reinhard 989.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 989
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-11-992.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 992
(new July 2024)
Reinhard registered letter #992
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-11-992-r.jpg)
11. October 1918 - Rg 992
(new July 2024)
reverse
![12. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-12 wo reg.jpg)
12. October 1918 - no Rg#
A Reinhard cover out of the normal order and without registry
This Reinhard letter was apparently forgotten on 11 October and was dispatched one day later. It received no registration
and was stamped with the newer Papeete postmark which appeared on 31 October normally.
31. October 1918 covers:
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 64.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 64
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-65.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 65
Reinhard registered letter #65
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-65-r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 65
reverse
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 68.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 68
Reinhard registered letter #68
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 68-r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 68
reverse
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 69.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 69
Reinhard registered letter #69
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 72
Reinhard registered letter #72
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 73.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 73
Reinhard registered letter #73
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 83.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 83
Reinhard registered letter #83, backstamped San Francisco 23 December 1918 and New York 28 December 1918.
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 84.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 84
Reinhard registered letter #84
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 95.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 95
Reinhard registered letter #95
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-109.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 109
Reinhard registered letter #109
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 111.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 111
Reinhard registered letter #111
Backstamped San Francisco 23 Dec and New York 12-28-1918.
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 111r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 111
Reinhard registered letter #111
Backstamped San Francisco 23 Dec and New York 12-28-1918.
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-140.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 140
Reinhard registered letter #111
Backstamped San Francisco 23 Dec and New York 12-28-1918.
Image thanks to Auction Galleries Hamburg
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-140-r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 140
Reinhard registered letter #111
Backstamped San Francisco 23 Dec and New York 12-28-1918.
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 229.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 229
Reinhard registered letter #229
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 232.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 232
Reinhard registered letter #232
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 337.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 337
Reinhard registered letter #337 - backstamped San Francisco 23 DEC and New York 28-12-1918
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 337r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 337
Reinhard registered letter #337 - reverse
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 371.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 371
Reinhard registered letter #371
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-373.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 373
Reinhard registered letter #373
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-373r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 373
Reinhard registered letter #373 - reverse
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 383.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 383
Reinhard registered letter #383
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 384.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 384
Reinhard registered letter #384
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 771.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 771
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 788.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 788
Reinhard registered letter #788
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard xxx.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg xxx
Reinhard registered letter #xxx from =October 1918 possibly.
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 798.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 798
Reinhard registered letter #798
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 798-r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 798
reverse
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 799.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 799
Reinhard registered letter #799
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 801.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 801
Reinhard registered letter #801
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 841.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 841
Reinhard registered letter #841 - (David Gillis coll.)
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-876.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 876
(new 23 July 2024)
Reinhard registered letter #876
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 892.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 892
Reinhard registered letter #892
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 892r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 892
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 893.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 893
Reinhard registered letter #893
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 893r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 893
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 897.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 897
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 900.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 900
Reinhard registered letter #900
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 900r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 900
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 903.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 903
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 905.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 905
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-906.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 906
Reinhard registered letter #906
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-906-r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 906
Reinhard registered letter #906
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![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-908.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 908
Reinhard registered letter #908
Image thanks to David Feldman
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-908r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 908
Reinhard registered letter #908
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![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 909.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 909
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 920.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 920
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-930.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 930
(new 23 July 2024)
Reinhard registered letter #930
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-931.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 931
Reinhard registered letter #920
Image thanks to Andy Owen, GB
![31. October 1918](./images-2/1918-10-31-reinhard-931-r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 931
Reinhard registered letter #920
Image thanks to Andy Owen, GB
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 977.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 977
Reinhard registered letter #977
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 977r.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 977
reverse
![31. October 1918](./images/1918-10-31-reinhard 978.jpg)
31. October 1918 - Rg 978
Reinhard registered letter #978