Cover - Tin Can Island

Thought I would share one of my latest acquistions courtesy of fellow SCFer Bas S Warwick

A nice little addition to my "general" Cover Collection

Would like to see others if possible


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Tin Can Island, not Bay. The Bay is in Queensland.

Must go check mine. Your one might be a bit special as it has an "INWARD TIN CAN MAIL" cache. I have never researched this too much but most I have seen are the "OUTWARD". Maybe Walter lost or misplaced his cache stamp that day... he had dozens

Nice covers Huckles.

I was always interested in Tin Can mail. Oddly enough, I don't have a single cover in my collection for Tin Can mail.

You might want to try this website on Tin Can mail? I found it quite informative. http://www.bettybillingham.co.uk/TCM.html

Chimo

Bujutsu

edited Title to reflect correct name - thanks tonymacg - living in Qld was obviously thinking of the Bay whilst I was typing - nice looking cover scotzm and thanks for the the link bujutsu

Here is a 1931 Tonga air mail cover with a 'mailed from Tin Can Island' cachet on what looks like a tape strip.



Here is a detail of the cachet:



The cover is by Roessler. I'm pretty sure this isn't traditional Tin Can mail, as the postmark is Nukualofa. Not to mention, it's air mail.

It is from 1931, which was the 'shark' year that forced the shift from swimmer mail to canoe mail, but that is almost certainly just a coincidence.

Any thoughts on this? (The main Tin Can Mail website does not show this.)

[edit: Also, the rate is 2d, which seems just a bit low.]

Am I seeing things? Is that 19th century stamps on a 20th century cover from Cjd?
HELP!!

It is true that the series starts in 1897, according to SG.

The half-d. indigo doesn't seem to be replaced until the half-d. yellow-green of 1934, so it would seemingly be current at this time (1931).

The 1d. has a 'lopped branch' variety that dates from 1934 onward, so it was still current, too.

Here is a 1944 cover from England along with the correspondence. These are fun covers!

Another inward cover. This one from Canada, 1939.

We may also consider this historical event "tin can mail". In 1870, when Paris was sieged by the Prussian Army that the city was totally shut off from the rest of France. The Parisians were starving and there was no incoming mail. The outgoing mails were accomplished by balooms and pigeons. The French Post Office used a well-designed "tin can", called La Boule de Moulins (The ball of Moulin). More than 500 letters were placed in the ball and dropped in the rivers passing through Paris. In the center of the city Paris, dragnets were placed to intercept the balls. Is this the earliest tin can mailing system? LOL. It certainly was not philatelically inspired.

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