More Paquebot Cancels

Agreed March

I suppose it is well worth the price though.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Post Card from St. Lucia ( St.Kitts & Nevis) to Surrey, London, sent abroad SS " CHIGNETCO" of R(oyal)M(ail)S(hip)P(acket) Co on 25 April 1923.
Paquebot : cachet cancels the stamps and the oval ship's cachet "Posted on High Seas " is under the stamps ( violet ink).
Also P.O. postmark " Castries - St. Lucia".
According to Hosking's Catalogue the framed cachet " Paquebot" ( 20 mm word length , and with frame's dims. 30 x 10 mm ) is very rare .


About this ship :
Built 1893, Displacement 4,747 tonnes , ex- Greek, 1906 purchased from Union-Castle Line renamed Segura, 1908 transferred to Jenkin's Shire Line, renamed Pembrokeshire, 1913 reverted to R.M.S.P.Co renamed Chignecto (Canada - West Indies service), 1927 scrapped.

Incredible post card.
Enjoyed the history and information too.

A nice and very useful lesson on Paquebot mail

http://www.linns.com/howto/refreshe...rcourse.aspx

A nice interesting article March. Thanks for posting.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Being a seaman myself, I found this thread very interesting. Lot's of nice items and information. I do not posess any Paquebot covers myself yet, however I would like to contribute with this classic Napoleon, canceled with an anchored-lozange. Hope you find this to be relevant for the thread.



I believe the french and colonies used this anchor-cancel for oversea mail from 1857, for mail to be carried by 'Paquebot's. If anyone can share more light on the use of this fascinating cancel, please do!

If you haven't seen marcophile.org, here is their page on black anchors:

http://www.marcophilie.org/x/x-los-i.html

Anyone with a passing interest in French cancels can lose him- or herself for hours at that site.

Cjd - Thanks, familiar with that one! I was hoping for more extensive information about the use of the lozange with anchor in specific.

But you're correct, I have spent quite some hours/days in that universe already! Just a pain with the language...



? Would you not expect anyones interest in the France cancels to last, or am I simply misunderstanding? I find that field very interesting - so far anyway

"If you don't like French cancels, you don't like life."

A "passing interest" is a way of saying a "casual interest" or something short of a passion.

You've probably seen the writeup at the TPO & Seapost Society's page on French seaposts...not much specific information but a few more places to look.

http://tpo-seapost.org.uk/tpo2/spfrance.html

I wish I had more information.

Fine, then I'd say we share a liking for Life
(Sorry for my shortcomings in UK/US language)

Appreciate the link, that was new for me. Very interesting indeed, but guess that is not covers or cancellations one would expect to find by chance. At least, now I will know what to look for! Thanks for sharing.

Your English is very good. It is a tricky language and you negotiate it well.

Picked up this black anchor this weekend on a 10c:

Just seeing this thread for the first time. One of my favorite U.S. revenue items is this paquebot cover showing an illegal/improper use of revenue as postage. Likely very scarce, if not unique.

That's a great cover. You probably know from your research that she started out as the SS Berlin and after WWI became part of the White Star line. (White Star's original Arabic was sunk by a German u-boat about three months after the Lusitania, though with much less loss of life.)

Even if the Arabic was a U.S.-flagged vessel, your revenue usage would be neat, but as a White Star vessel, it is doubly a headscratcher. You sort of wonder about the circumstances of a NY Telephone cover addressed to Long Island going on a boat, but at the end of the day, who cares?

Cjd - Your Anchor lozange is stunning - congrats!
I have some anchors in a lozange and some anchors in a star - do you know the difference?

My examples are far from as perfect as yours, but I am still very happy with them. Does the star shape has anything to do with Paris, e.g mail from Paris cancelled for maritime shipment?