I apologize for this post not being a cover, but I thought this Leeward
Islands block would go nicely with malolo's 10 1 01 post above. The
block bears an A12 cancel of St. Kitts and a datestamp of JA 1 01 or 01
01 01. The "SP" code indicates it was ...
The British West Indies is not known for fancy cancels, but when the
post office at Cat Cay, Bahamas opened in 1935, it used an image of a
marlin head to cancel stamps along with a temporary rubber datestamp.
Postcard from St. Thomas to St. Vincent dated December 15, 1906 with a
Christmas message. The postcard was carried by a ship not normally
enaged in the carriage of mail as evidenced by the St. Vincent Ship
Letters DE 29 06 datestamp, struck upon arri...
Cover dated July 21, 1916 from St. Vincent to the Registrar of Births
and Deaths in Grenada showing non-philatelic and in-period usage of St.
Vincent's first War Tax stamp. The War Tax Ordinance for St. Vincent
went into effect on June 1, 1916, and t...
An example of consignee mail from St. Vincent to London dated March 23,
1908. The cover was first carried to St. Nazarie, France on the French
steamer St. Arois as evidenced by the purser's manuscript pen cancel.
Partial St. Nazarie April 10 datestam...
