738

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1899 (Mar. 3) O.H.M.S. envelope registered to Berlin, the expected charge of 41/2d. overpaid by 6d. yellow but apparently commercial, with ''(crown)/REGISTERED'' marking, red London hooded transit, German registration label and Apr. 1 arrival backstamp, having been carried on H.M.S. ''Beagle'' and the ''Orissa''. Photo.

Price Realised £520

739

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1900 (May 30) remarkable ''Buckup'' cover registered to Hamburg with sixty-nine 1d. pale red on both sides, one on the obverse showing neck blemish [14] and two with flaw on cheek, cancelled scarce F.1 v4 c.d.s.'s with ''1900'' in smaller numerals (known between May 25 and June 20 only), showing ''(crown)REGISTERED'' marking and with German label affixed on arrival. Photo.

Price Realised £270

740

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1904 (Jan. 5) registered ''Kinze'' cover to Germany carried on the ''Oropesa'', bearing 1891-1902 1/2d., 1d., 2d. and 1s., backstamped London and Hamburg transits, some address deletion and slight stains, nevertheless attractive. Photo.

Price Realised £220

741

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1917 (Jan. 1) ''Galbraith'' envelope registered to New York, bearing 1912 5s. red tied by PS.1A c.d.s. and blue pencil line, type 5A registration label at left, backstamped Liverpool Feb. 8 transit and Feb. 20 arrival datestamps. Photo.

Price Realised £110

742

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1919 (July 10) and 1920 (May 4) two registered covers to the U.S.A. bearing ''WAR STAMP'' issues, the first a ''Galbraith'' item to New York with 1/2d. and 1d. blocks of four cancelled F.4F and with type 5 registration label, Dec. 8 arrival backstamp, the second to Texas with 1s. cancelled F.4B and type 5A label, Sept. 30 arrival on reverse. SH 35a, 36a, 37b.

Price Realised £140

743

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1921 (Dec. 22) ''Iremonger'' envelope registered from South Georgia to Bristol bearing ''WAR STAMP'' set of three, the 1d. oxidised, cancelled by SG1 c.d.s.'s and with type SG3 registration label with ''(New Island)'' deleted and ''S.G.'' added in ms., London Jan. 27 transit on reverse, some minor stains, rare. One of just three recorded examples of this label. Photo.

Price Realised £270

745

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1925 (Oct. 29) registered cover from South Georgia to Bristol bearing 1921-28 1s. tied by light SG2 c.d.s with SG4 registration label below, backstamped London Dec. 11 transit. Photo.

Price Realised £100

746

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1928 (Nov. 4) envelope registered to Lancashire bearing 1/2d. and 1d. tied by fine single type South Shetlands B2 c.d.s., underpaid for a registered letter but with type 1 registration label added at South Georgia and unusually with Plymouth registered oval transit datestamps of Dec. 18 on reverse. Photo.

Price Realised £180

747

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1930 (Mar. 8) envelope registered to Pretoria bearing Whale & Penguin 21/2d. block of four cancelled by South Shetlands B2 c.d.s with additional strike and South Georgia ms. boxed registration marking type at left (type SG4a), South African airmail label and uncancelled 4d. air stamp at foot, SG2 transit of May 11 on reverse, very scarce. One of just eleven recorded examples originating in South Shetlands. Photo.

Price Realised £400

748

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1935 (Nov. 30) registered cover from South Georgia to Edinburgh bearing Whale & Penguin 1s. black on green tied by fine SG4 c.d.s with additional strike at left and SG5A registration label (malformed ''R'') below. Photo.

Price Realised £160

749

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1944 (Dec. 5) censored envelope registered from Deception Island to Benoni, South Africa during the second season of Operation Tabarin, bearing South Shetlands Overprint 1d., 3d., 6d. and 9d. and showing scarce type 11A (''NEW ISLAND'' erased) registration label (earliest recorded usage), in use for five months only, the cover resealed by type P.C.90 censor label (Examiner 3954, type, L6/1M) and backstamped Stanley and Montevideo (obscured) transits and June 4 arrival. Photo.

Price Realised £290

750

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1944 (Dec. 15) envelope registered to Bedford, England bearing 1s. cancelled PS.3B (early date) and scarce type 11A (''NEW ISLAND'' erased) registration label below, in use for five months only, slight soiling. One of only four known on Falkland Islands covers. Photo.

Price Realised £300

751

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1944 (Dec. 16) long commercial envelope registered to Buenos Aires, correctly franked by 6d. cancelled PS.3A (early date) and with scarce type 11A (''NEW ISLAND'' erased) registration label below, in use for five months only, slight adhesive tape stains, the envelope trimmed at right for display. Sent by Ernesto Rowe, Manager of the Estate Louis Williams and with the Estate's violet three line handstamp on reverse. One of only four known on Falkland Islands covers. Photo.

Price Realised £250

752

Sale number: 52

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1945 (Feb. 4) censored envelope registered from Graham Land to Dar-es-Salaam during the second season of Operation Tabarin, bearing Overprinted 3d., 6d., 9d. and 1s. and with scarce type 11A (''NEW ISLAND'' erased) registration label on reverse, in use for five months only, the majority of known examples being on mail from the Dependencies (nine from Graham Land). The cover resealed by type P.C.90 censor label (Examiner 7117, type, L7, latest recorded usage) and backstamped Stanley, Montevideo and Durban transits and June 30 arrival. Photo.

Price Realised £320

1266

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1893 (Feb. 16) official envelope registered to Birmingham franked by 1889 4d. olive grey-black and 1892 1/2d. green cancelled by Pointed Nose F.I. cork cancellations (Ob 1/93) with ''(crown)/REGISTERED'' marking, F.2. c.d.s. and London Registered oval transit datestamps, carried on the ''Pentaur'' to Punta Arenas and thence by the ''Tanis''. Photo.

Price Realised £650

1267

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1894 (May 19) attractive ''Bainbridge'' envelope registered to Northumberland franked 6d. and 1d. pair, tied by three fair to fine strikes of Bainbridge cork cancellation (Ob 2/94) and F.2 c.d.s. with ''(crown)/REGISTERED'' marking and London June 21 transit below, carried on the S.S. ''Abydos''. (See Upland Goose Mar. 1991, pp. 220-221) Photo.

Price Realised £850

1268

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1902 Ogg Bros. printed envelope to Glasgow, correctly franked 1d., 2d. but left uncancelled, apparently carried on the ''Orellana'' with London transit and July 27 arrival backstamps, slightly trimmed at left but unusual. Ex Barnes. Photo.

Price Realised £60

1269

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1902 (June 23) Ogg Brothers printed envelope registered to Glasgow franked by 1/2d. (6) with ms. registration markings, London Registered Aug. 21 oval transit and ''(crown)/REGISTERED'' handstamp, carried on the ''Panama''. Photo.

Price Realised £650

1270

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1904 (July) Ogg Brothers printed envelope registered to Glasgow with mixed reign franking of Q.V. 2d. and K.E.VII 1d. (closed tear) with ms. registration markings and ''(crown)/REGISTERED'' handstamp, carried on the ''Oropesa'', London transit and Aug. 22 arrival backstamps. Photo.

Price Realised £480

1271

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1906 (May) envelope registered to Birmingham bearing K.E.VII 1d., 2d. lightly cancelled F.4B with ''(crown)/REGISTERED'' below, carried on the R.M.S. ''Gaelic'' with June 25 arrival backstamp. Photo.

Price Realised £290

1272

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1910 (Aug. 6) envelope registered to Brighton bearing 1904-12 1/2d., 1d., 2d., 21/2d. and 6d., with type 1 label, attractive, carried on the ''Oronsa'', also Niki-Polychrom postcard of vessel (Burley PSNC 3-M). (2 items) Ex Barnes. Photo.

Price Realised £210

1273

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1915 (June 24) envelope (slightly foreshortened at left) registered to U.S.A, franked 2d., 21/2d. with registration label alongside, carried on the ''Ortega'', with backstamps incl. London transit and Hoboken Aug. 9 arrival, sender's note on reverse from ''S.S. Seattle (Bangor)'', the ''Bangor'' having been captured by H.M.S. ''Bristol'' en route to rendezvous with S.M.S. ''Dresden'', taken into Port Stanley and renamed the ''Seattle''. Photo.

Price Realised £380

1274

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1915 (June 24) envelope with Estate Louis Wiliams imprint on flap, registered to London with 1d. and 2d. cancelled PS.1B, type 5A registration label and purple straight line ''REGISTERED'', carried on the R.M.S. ''Ortega'', July 27 arrival backstamp. Photo.

Price Realised £520

1275

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1915 (Oct. 10) O.H.M.S. envelope to Switzerland, the 41/2d. rate paid, rounded up, with 21/2d. deep blue (2), carried on the ''Oronsa'' with Liverpool and London transits, Berne Nov. 23 arrival. Photo.

Price Realised £150

1276

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1918 (Feb. 6) two matching envelopes with handstamped addresses registered to California, bearing 1/2d. with 1d. and 6d., and 2d. with 21/2d. respectively, carried on the ''Potosi''.

Price Realised £140

1277

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1918 (Feb. 8) commercial envelope registered to London franked by 1d. strip of three lightly cancelled F.4F, with label at left carried by the S.S. ''Potosi'' (III) with Apr. 25 arrival backstamp, scarce period, also a photographic card (slight faults) of the vessel in 1921. (2 items) Photo.

Price Realised £210

1278

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1920 (Jan. 19) envelope registered from South Georgia to Isabella Atkins in Stanley, bearing 1912-20 1/2d. to £1 less 5s. rose-red cancelled by seven fine strikes of SG2 c.d.s. with rare type SG3B registration label ''(New Island)'' deleted and ''South Georgia'' (handstamp applied) on reverse, carried on H.M.S. ''Dartmouth'', the 1d. slightly oxidised, otherwise fine and rare. Photo.

Price Realised £1500

1279

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1920 to 1924, four envelopes registered to the same addressee in Texas, variously rated, comprising 1920 (Dec. 23) with 1/2d., 1d., 2d. and 21/2d. (2oz. rate), 1922 (Jan. 5) with 21/2d. block of four, (Jan. 18) with 2d. block of four, all carried on the ''Orita'' and 1924 (Jan. 10) with 1s. paying scarce 5oz. rate, carried on the ''Laguna''. Photo.

Price Realised £350

1280

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1922 (May 25) printed envelope registered to U.S.A. franked at scarce 5oz. rate by marginal 1s., carried by the ''Losada'' (reproduction photo included) with London transit and Boston July 10 arrival backstamps. Photo.

Price Realised UNSOLD

1281

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1925 (Jan. 28) envelope registered to Durham, franked by marginal 6d. brown-orange paying triple Empire rate + registration, carried by the ''Oropesa'' II with Liverpool and Sunderland transit backstamps, vertical fold well clear. Photo.

Price Realised UNSOLD

1282

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1926 to 1930, four envelopes registered to England, comprising 1926 (Mar. 4) with 1oz. rate paid by 1d. strip of four, carried on the ''Magellan'' III, 1927 (Oct. 14) 2 oz. rate paid by 21/2d. dark blue pair, carried on the ''Orita'', 1928 (Feb. 28) 2oz. rate paid by 1d., 2d. (2) carried on the ''Lobos'' (with photo of vessel), and 1930 (Jan. 6) with label but insufficiently franked by 21/2d. steel-blue, carried on the ''Bogota''.

Price Realised £200

1283

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1926 (Mar. 19) and 1927 (June 16) two envelopes registered to Lennards, boot and shoe suppliers, of Bristol, franked by 21/2d. pale purple on yellow with 1/2d. and 1d., and 2d. deep purple pair respectively paying 1oz. Empire rate + registration. Also 1990 letter from Rev. J. Lennard relating the history of the firm. (3 items) Photo.

Price Realised £270

1284

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1926 (Dec. 17) printed envelope registered to New York, bearing 1/2d. and 1d. blocks of four paying the former 1oz. Foreign rate payable up until 1/2d. reduction on Jan. 1, carried on the ''Lagarto'' with p.p.c. of the vessel included. (2 items) Photo.

Price Realised £60

1285

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1927 (June 4) registered to Cheshire, franked by 2d. deep purple pair paying 1oz. Empire rate + registration, Macclesfield July 20 arrival backstamp. Photo.

Price Realised £90

1286

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1928 (Jan. 10) envelope registered unusually to Czechoslovakia, franked at 1oz. Foreign rate by 1/2d. and 21/2d. (2), carried by the ''Loriga'' with London transit backstamp. Photo.

Price Realised £130

1287

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1931 (June 9) registered to Glasgow, franked by 21/2d. pale purple on yellow and 21/2d. steel-blue paying 2oz. Empire rate + registration. Photo.

Price Realised £130

1288

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1932 (June 9) envelope registered to Glasgow, franked by 21/2d. pale purple on yellow and 21/2d. steel-blue cancelled by fair to good strikes of PS.1A with curly ''32''. Photo.

Price Realised £130

1289

Sale number: 56

Falkland Islands: Registered Mail: 1944 (Dec. 9) envelope registered from Base A Port Lockroy to Canada during the second season of Operation Tabarin, bearing Graham Land Overprint set of eight and showing scarce type 11A (''NEW ISLAND'' deleted) registration label (in use for five months only) with large blue Toronto Duty Free ''APR 10 1945'' datestamp, Port Stanley and Montevideo transits. Photo.

Price Realised £140