1906 London Cover (Per Kaiser Wihelm II)

Got this for a penny.



For those of you who like the back:

Eight days in those days London to Vermont wow.

A quick Wikipedia check showed that the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II was

Forgot to add Zipper.

You Got this for a penny. but the value is priceless.

Well it's worth a lot more than a penny, for sure.

That is indeed a lovely cover,
just about perfect, perhaps a little toned, but adds to the flavour.
Lovely backstamp.

Catalogue #207 three line London District Datestamp, six lines
CV 60c in 1983, but irrelevent due to its charisma.

Looks like a very nice "Columbia" machine cancel to me which would be well worth including in an Edward 7 collection. Worth considerably more than a penny.

I haven't a clue as to what it's worth. I thought it was pretty, and it 'started' at a penny so I bid a penny and won.

I've been doing that a lot lately. If it's 99 cents or less, and I think it's kind of cool, I bid.

The St.Johnsbury receiving cancel is actually a Doremus model DR used 1903-1907.

Awhile back, I googled the receiver's name and found that he was St. Johnsbury's first minister.

Seems like there are Steiglitz photos of the ship.

From Wikipedia: The second SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, was a 19,361 gross ton passenger steamer built at Stettin, Germany, completed in the spring of 1903. The German ship was eventually seized by the U.S. Government during WWI, and subsequently served as transport ship. A famous photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz called The Steerage as well as descriptions of the conditions of travel in the lowest class have conflicted with her otherwise glitzy reputation as a high class, high speed trans-Atlantic liner.

Stieglitz's The Steerage:

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2...he-steerage/

Here's the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line.



And the sailing table for that particular voyage.