SIGs - Requests

last update 29 January 2023 - SHATPS members only

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SIG SH2

Postal datestamps of St. Helena since 2000 - still under construction - all support is very much appreciated - if you know of other postmarks or of other date of usage, please write to the Webmaster, thanks!



Jamestown oval date stamp missing "Post Office" 37,5 x 27 mm 15 MR 2000 - only in 2000 ??	Jamestown oval date stamp missing "Post Office" 31,5 x 26 mm known 22 DEC 2000		Jamestown circular date stamp used by favour on a cover to England, normally used for documents/postal orders, 25 mm

Jamestown oval date stamp "Post Office" 31 x 25 mm 18 AP 2000 - 25 NOV 2008	Jamestown oval date stamp "Post Office" 29 x 26 mm 1 FEB 2008 - 2 MY 2013	Jamestown oval date stamp "Post Office" 34-35 x 27 mm 11 MY 2000 - still in use	Jamestown circular handstamps 28 mm, first usage seen 20 NOV 2013 - still in use 2015

oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office Bluehill 7 FEB 2009 - today	oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office Guinea Grass St. Pauls, 7 FEB 2009 - today	oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office Redhill St Pauls 7 FEB 2009 - today	oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office Half Tree Hollow 7 FEB 2009 - today

oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office Levelwood 7 FEB 2009 - today	oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office Longwood 7 FEB 2009 - today	oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office New Ground St. Pauls. 7 FEB 2009 - today	oval datestamp 33 x 27 mm Sub Post Office Sandy Bay 7 FEB 2009 - today

SIG TDC2

Contents: 1. Royal Society Expedition covers, 2nd mail

2. TdC instructional markings

3. H.M.S. Queen of Bermuda diary 1941 (in addition to the SAC article in August 2015 (by Cliff Allen)

4. collection of Tristan da Cunha Type Va covers

5. Ship's Visits from 1506 - 1900

1. Royal Society Expedition covers, 2nd Mail - collected by Mike Faulds

SIG TDC2 Project of Mike Faulds to collect all known covers of the Royal Society Expedition, 2nd Mail (M.V. Frances Repetto).

If you have a RSE 2nd Mail cover in your collection, which isn't listed below, please be so kind to send a scan or a copy to Mike Faulds.

3 - philatelic - transported under cover, perhaps in the envelope #4? No postal markings

4 -no Cape Town markings

16 - unusual cover - interesting

If you want to see such a cover in connection with the whole Volcano Period please go to the webmaster's home page Tristan da Cunha >Volcano Period.

Instructional markings Tristan da Cunha collected by Klaus Hahn

Cachet	Usage	Measures	Specifications
	in use 1956-1961		first seen on proof sheet 14 OC 1956 >>>> rare <<<<
	1 January 1952 - ?		in George Crabb's book p. 271 two variations are pictured, a boxed T______d and a larger boxed T______c I need a scan of: the 2 variations on cover
	4 November 1952 and 16 March 1971		see Robin's Monograph No. 20, p.4 seen only on 2 covers >>> rare <<<
	seen 15 JY 1975 - still in use 2012	63x15 mm	seen on Post Office proof sheet 2012 see Robins's Monograph No. 20, p.54 >>> rare <<<

	in use 2012		seen on Post Office proof sheet 2012 I need a scan: on cover
	circular registration hand stamp	20 mm diameter	seen on cover 1987
	boxed RETURN hand stamp, a second RETURN hand stamp was seen with other letters seen 1985, period of usage unknown		see also in Crabb's book p. 271 and Robin's monograph No. 20, p. 53
	in use 2012		seen on Post Office proof sheet 2012 I need a scan: on cover
	1996		seen on a cover prepared by Robin Taylor
	1996		seen on the same cover as before
	24 January 2008	red	seen on incoming cover
	in use 2012		seen on Post Office proof sheet 2012 I need a scan: on cover
	in use1957		seen on a Pirie Gough cover 27 MY 57

H.M.S. Queen of Bermuda Chronology Jan 1941 - April 1941 - shared by Cliff Allen

PDF download of the H.M.S. Queen of Bermuda Chronology 1941 - in addition to the H.M.S. Queen of Bermuda article in the August 2015 Chronicle

known Tristan da Cunha covers with Type Va - collected by TDC2

Crabb - p. 195 - a known auction price: $1.700

a known auction price: $ 2.800 - low resolution

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Crabb - p. 195 - a known auction price: $1.900

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Crabb - p. 196

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a known auction price: $800

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a known auction price: $2.600

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Crabb p. 190, cover to Brazil - probably with Type Va on reverse as readable on p. 196

Jack Cole/SG auction 1998 - Va on reverse

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5. Tristan da Cunha - Ship's visits from 1506 - 1900

Our member Alan Melville collected the data of ship's visits from 1506 - 1900 based on publications, in collaboration with Ray Lloyd.

This list in certainly incomplete, so all members are invited to contribute to the completion of the data. If you know of any other ship's visits, please inform Alan Melville.

To keep the list searchable, you must download the Excel list to your computer.

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