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19/07/2024

Whoops! Someone made a blunder.

St Kitts Air Letter to England dated December 18, 1954 which was mistakingly sent to Bermuda as evidenced with a lovely red MISSENT TO BERMUDA hand stamp and a Hamilton December 20 back stamp.

I wonder if it ever made it to Mr H Cocker in Bolton? There’s no UK arrival mark so we may never know.

25/10/2022

April 16, 1972 cover from the Bermuda NASA Space Station! The cover marks the occasion of the Apollo Flight AS 511, Apollo 16 and is signed by M Cowley for the Station Director.

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11/10/2022

Cover bearing 2 1/2d Dock to Rockford Illinois. This standard letter rate but for an additional 1/2oz the rate increased by 1 1/2d which must have been the case here. The cover was charged 6c Postage Due on arrival being 1 1/2d extra postage + 1 1/2d penalty to equal 3d which converted to 6c. The cover bears the Bermuda T in a circle marking — indicating tax was to be collected by the recipient, as well as the USA instructional ‘Collect Postage 6c’, and the three 2c USA Postage Due Stamps showing the tax had been paid.

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05/10/2022

The St David’s Post Office was very small and did not process much mail – covers with a St David’s postmark are thus sought after. In 1924, the date stamp was actually lost for a time resulting in the small amount of mail that was processed being cancelled in manuscript as shown on this cover dated September 15, 1924. Only one other cover is known and that has the same date. The date stamp must have been located shortly after as it is seen on other mail items known to exist before the Post Office closed in 1934.

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27/09/2022

While covers are frequently seen censored by both the Axis and the Allies, it is less common to see a cover censored twice by the British. This On Active Service (OAS) cover was Censored and sent from Gibraltar on February 16, 1942 as evidenced by the Gibraltar PC66 tape at left from Censor 6750 (reverse) and the purple Gibraltar ‘Passed By Censor 3225’ handstamp. The cover then made its way by ship to Lisbon where it received a Lisbon February 21 backstamp. After Lisbon, the final stage of the journey was to Boston, USA, but not before it was intercepted one last time in Bermuda where it received the PC 90 tape at right with manuscript IC (indicating Bermuda), from Censor 6750. As is often the case, there are no USA receiving marks, however there is no reason to suggest that this cover was held in Bermuda and did not ultimately arrive in the USA.

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19/09/2022

The outbreak of WWI was the first time the country had to implement Civil Censorship operation for communications — responsibility for which fell to the postal authorities. Censorship started on August 6, 1914 and this cover postmarked August 7 bears the CM11 Censor Mark of John Pierce Hand, as shown by the initials JPH in the boxed cachet. Hand was only in the position of Censor for a few weeks, resigning by the middle of September 1914 — perhaps he decided reading other people’s mail in great quantity was not for him!

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12/09/2022

After the Boer War ended in 1902, most of the some 5000 all male POWs were sent home to South Africa. A small number opted to stay in Bermuda, while others went to New York. This photo is clearly of Reid St, Hamilton and was likely taken shortly after the end of the war.

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05/09/2022

Cover dated January 23, 1957 from Venezuela to Hawaii. Rather than travelling West 9500km, the cover travelled North 3000km where it ended up in Bermuda and received a January 28 Hamilton backstam, and a 'MISSENT TO BERMUDA' cancel in red on the front. No further transit or receiving marks mean we may never know if it made it to the recipient; Mr Harold Lion the director of the Foster Park Botanical Garden.

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29/08/2022

The Fort Victoria carried tourists between New York and Bermuda in the growing tourist trade from 1919. A key part of her success was the introduction of prohibition in 1919, which banned the sale of alcohol in the USA; however once the ship was outside of territorial waters, it was free of this limitation and could open its bars for the sale of alcohol. Unfortunately, on December 18, 1929, the Fort Victoria sank in New York harbour after being rammed in dense fog by the Algonquin. Passengers and mail were salvaged with one of three types of adhesive label applied to all mail before it was forwarded to its destination. Because the harbour was blocked by the wreck, the Fort Victoria was blown up in October, 1930, using 25 tones of dynamite to eliminate her as navigation hazard and to once again clear the passage.

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22/08/2022

A December, 1965 postcard from Bermuda to Ireland that got wet in transit resulting in the stamp(s) soaking off. The card had the British Mount Pleasant Inland Section (MPSI) ‘Damaged By Sea-Water’ cancel applied before it presumably was delivered to recipients Mr & Mrs H P Kennedy.

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