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Guadeloupe: 1889 cover, franked with 25c on 20c red on yellow-green Commerce, cancelled with Guadeloupe / Pointe-a-Pitre double-circle c.d.s. (5 Mar), paying the registered letter rate to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, endorsed “voie Anglaise”, with Basse-Terre (6 Mar), St. Thomas (9 Mar), New York (23 Mar), St. John NB (26 Mar), and Halifax (27 Mar) backstamps, scarce and most attractive.
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Venezuela: 1893, 10c postal stationery card, postmarked with neatly-struck “Aus Westindien / Uber Coln / P. Hamburg-Dampfer” c.d.s. (15 Oct), to Hamburg, Germany, bold violet TEUTONIA ship marking struck on front, Hamburg c.d.s. receiver (16 Oct), a choice steamship handstamp.
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1877, unpaid folded letter, postmarked with St. Thomas (29 Sep) D.W.I. c.d.s., to Paris, France, manuscript “7” (decimes) and circular “T” due markings struck on front, “Ligne B / PAQ FR No 4” (29 Sep) ship sorter transit and Paris (17 Oct) c.d.s. backstamps, fresh and attractive.
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1871, G. W. Smith Co.’s Market Report & Shipping List, franked with 1864 1d rose red, plate 124, paying the printed matter rate to Demerara, British Guiana, tied to cover by fair C51 vertical oval of St. Thomas, with red “St. Thomas PAID” c.d.s. (1 Oct), the odd tone spots mentioned for strict accuracy, a pleasing example of this scarce rate.
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1866, folded cover to Marseilles, France, franked with 80c rose horizontal pair (partially separated), tied by dotted anchor cancel, postmarked with St. Thomas c.d.s. (12 Dec) of the D.W.I. Post Office, endorsed “p.p.” at lower left, “St. Thomas / Paq Fr. B. No 4” (27 Dec), Paris, Lyon a Marseille, and Marseille (Jan 13) backstamps, addressee’s name partially overwritten, piece excised from back from removal of wax seal, else a fine example of this double letter rate to France.
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1876, folded cover, franked with 1870-5 40c orange and 80c rose, paying the double letter rate of 1fr20c, postmarked St. Thomas (5 Sep), endorsed “pr French Str,” stamps accordingly tied by “St. Thomas / Paq Fr. B Nr 4” c.d.s. (5 Sep), to Veracruz, Mexico, struck with “25c” in black for the Mexican inland portion, vertical fold, else a fine double rate cover.
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1873-5 (circa), large part folded letter to Bangor, Maine, franked with 1873 10c brown, tied by St. Thomas c.d.s. of the D.W.I. Post Office, oval handstamp of forwarding agents Lamb & Co at lower left, endorsed “pr Barque ‘Caracas’ via New York”, adhesive further cancelled with partial N. YORK STEAMSHIP c.d.s., vertical fold.
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1866, folded letter datelined Paris, March 30, to Cobija, Bolivia, franked with perforated Napoleon 20c blue, 40c orange, 80c rose singles and 80c pair, paying the 3fr rate, steamship and “via Panama” endorsement partially obscured by franking, cancelled by Paris “4” star and Paris (R. D'Enghien) double-circle c.d.s. (31 Mar), via London (2 Apr) and British Post Office in Panama (22 Apr), blue c.d.s. Cobija receiver on front (9 May), filing fold through 20c adhesive, a few small wormholes at top, but a striking franking to a desirable destination.
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1875, folded cover franked with Great Britain perforated 1d rose red, plate 109, strip of four, paying the rate for transit to Puerto Plata [Dominican Republic] via the Royal Mail Packet Post, tied by St. Thomas PAID C51 duplex (2 Sep), endorsed “per Mersey”, light wrinkles, horizontal fold through two adhesives, else a fine and scarce franking.
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1870, folded letter datelined St. Thomas, 23 April, carried by French ship under the terms of the Anglo-French Postal Convention, postmarked with “St. Thomas Paq Fr B NO 1” c.d.s. (23 Apr), struck with oval “FR / 2F20c”, the only recorded example of this accountancy mark on mail from St. Thomas, red London split-ring arrival backstamp (10 May), an unusual example of unpaid mail to Great Britain carried via French packet; ex “Hogensborg”
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