6-D Fiji Registered Ohms 1913 - Help ID Please

I took this out of a 50cent bin years ago and just because I liked the OHMS, I would like to know some more about it. I am puzzled by what looks like stamp hinge remnants on either side of the stamp. They were place on afterwards because the postmark is underneath. The backside simply has a Boston, MA CDS. Help please, no blue cross for registered mail, Great Britain only on the blue crosses? (Front dated (13? I can see the three) Aug 1913 and back dated 19 Sep 1913. And to top it all off, it is addressed to a stamp company. - Jeff

Sorry, I can't help with the sender's info., but as to the Hub Postage Stamp Company of Boston, they were in business in the mid-1910's (an internet search shows ads for them in Meekel's Stamp News as early as 1914.)

A public document search (below) shows the company issued stock and was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1920:



Here's an interesting side note, though. The July 4, 1914 issue of Meekel's Weekly Stamp News contains this quote:




Yet as noted above, the Hub Postage Stamp Company was incorporated in 1920. Perhaps a the new name "Hub Postage Stamp Company" was created for this new incorporation (?)

thanks for the info wt1. - jeff

I like the stamp. I bet the cover was used before for something, perhaps internal government mail, and to save money and paper and all that, the person used the envelope again and tried to unsuccessfully rip off the previous sticker placed where the stamps usually go.

The cancel is over the 'hinge' as you called it so it was probably there before affixing the stamp.

I think the general dirtiness / moldiness of the cover misleads one to think there could have been other stamps on there that had been removed.

nothing more?

That's it. Puzzler is correct, the envelope was used as something before. It appears something was taped to it with glue tape, and removed later on to be used for it's intended purpose - an envelope.

That happens often in the South Pacific, even to this day, due to shortage of supplies. I have seen many re-used envelopes from Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Tuvalu.

Thanks everyone, very happy and grateful for the explanations - Jeff

I'd agree with the above,
the CDS is ontop of those curious sticker bits.

If you were studying the cover, you would establish
the 6d reg rate fiji to US,
the cover has been folded twice and shows rust damage
from being a long time in a clipboard, or metal
clips of some sort, and it has been behind
another article which has resulted in mixed
toning to the cover.

It may be, the registration was a "carded" route
due to what I presume to be the US aux mark and number
The coloured registration crayon marks do not appear on
all items, I am not aware of Fijian custons regarding those.

What would intrigue me is the use of OHMS cover,
usually if the cover was a second use, people scrub out the OHMS.
If it was OHMS use,what was the sender buying?
We shall never know as the contents are gone.

thanks Rod

My bet is that it was the stamp company buying Fiji stamps from the Fiji Post Office.

I have old OHMS envelopes from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands post office in Tarawa used to send purchased stamps.