Trans Tasman F.d.c.

Lovely cover robster and it is a very nice cachet too.

To the best of my knowledge, this cover can be classified as "Clipper Mail", a category all its' own.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Robster,

Nice cover. I collect Newfoundland but live in New Zealand and appreciate the geography and the FDC and airmail aspect of your cover.

It is very cool and I second Bujutsu's astute point of it being Clipper Mail.

I noticed the somewhat unusual first cancel Dunedin--which as you probably know is the far south and I would hypothesize that your cover is a tad more unique originating from there (versus Auckland or Wellington or Christchurch--which would have accounted for most of the population/airmail from that era).

Also, (and I am just guessing but curious what you think): it looks like this piece went from Dunedin to Auckland then Adeliade (the first leg of the Auckland-Sydney-London flight)....so presumably didnt make it all the way. Is there a cancel on the back?

Thanks for posting.

Hi Robster. I have almost the same cover, but dated one day later at the bottom of this thread:

https://goscf.com/t/27961

Mine left from Auckland, though.

It seems I have failed to photograph the back of some covers- forgive me, will chase them up. Interesting to note the same stamp from the two countries.!

Partime--thanks for the link to the similar thread, and I really enjoyed your cover image. nice.

I'm a bit of a nerd and particular about the back of covers. in some ways, I find the back cancels somewhat overlooked and to me help tell a story of the historical path of the cover. Sometime the back cancels are on the front or vice versa.

so yeah--please post them, else to me its like the sound of one hand clapping...

for example, here is one of my covers with 3 on the front and 5 cancels on the back, which I decipher to indicate that the cover went via car, train and air:

1. Started on April 4 1950 from Gander Newfoundland (registered cancel on back)
2. Then via train with RPO on April 5 Clara & Bon N13-Ry18/RF=215 on back
3. Then on front three cancels from Bonavista on April 5 hitting the Newfoundland and Canadian stamps
4. Then she arrived in Moncton on April 7 (two cancels on back..anyone tell the difference..I can't)
5. Then finally arrived and canceled on back on April 8 in St Johns NB (not NF)

Tommy ... ask and ye shall receive. Here is the back of my cover from the previous thread. Not too exciting. Not the same handwriting, but curious that we both have some written comments on the reverse.

Thanks, interesting tidbits.

So she left Dunedin on April 26, 1940 at 1:45pm...
then from Auckland on the AKL-Sydney-London flight...
though the PS has a return address in Auckland (Potterworks Ltd?)...
which leads me to speculate that the sender was able to orchestrate or arrange to have it originally postmarked down in Dunedin to get the rarer cancel..
Then she goes to Sydney and gets off the plane on April 30 at 3pm with a GPO frank presumably so she got processed by land to Adelaide...(not sure what the "2" is).

Quite uninteresting but I like the back cancels on your cover as it adds colors beyond the plain stamp

thanks again