POST OFFICE IN PARADISE - Miscellaneous Other Foreign Marks

This page last updated: 6 September 2001

::: Miscellaneous Other Foreign Marks :::

A treasure trove of foreign postal markings is found on this around the world 1894 German postal card bearing, among other stamps, the Hawaii 2¢ brown Scott No. 75. Postmarks of Cairo, Suez, Batavia, Hawaii, San Francisco, Savannah (Georgia, USA), Semarang (Dutch Indies), New York and Paris are among those on this card.

All marks shown here are taken from mail to or from Hawaii. This sample is a fraction of what exists, particularly from Europe and the United States where correspondence was extensive. Marks are organized here according to continent and the postal markings are mixed with the auxiliary marks. Oceania is a separate group to pick up islands. North Atlantic ship marks are shown following the geographically based marks. A representative bibliography is at the end of the page.

African Marks

Algeria	Cape Colony	Egypt

Constantine	Grahams Town	Cairo February, 1894

Asian Marks

China


Hong Kong and Canton July, 1852	Canton Paid July, 1852

India	Bombay Sea Post Office	Bombay Sea Post Office

Colaba, Bombay November 10, 1895	December 22, 1887, Kirk type 4	November 5, 1895, Kirk type 7, set A

Japan


Nagasaki November, 1892	Tokyo November 17, 1898

Australasian Marks

Markings associated with the New Zealand Marine Post Office or Australasian loose letters will be found at NZMPO and Paquebot Marks.

New South Wales	New Zealand	Western Australia

Sydney, Ship Letter September 6, 1856	Wellington March 8, 1892	Kalgoorlie May 16, 1889

European Marks

France


Calais October 20, 1856	Marseilles October 5, 1886	Paris July 1, 1886

Germany


Bremen February 15, 1888	Bremen Closed Mail February 2, 1864	Bremen Open Mail October 30, 1855

Great Britain


Ballater, Scotland July 6, 1881	Deal Deal Ship Letter (mail for London was dropped at Deal on the south coast and taken by carriage or train to London for earlier arrival)	Liverpool Harnden & Co. express Courtesy of Albert Chang


London May 23, 1845	London August 10, 1855	London February 21, 1881


London August 7, 1884	London October 4, 1893	London, Paid "tombstone" January 29, 1853

Ramsgate
August 11, 1855

Holland	Hungary	Portugal

Rotterdam March 7, 1891	Budapest December 17, 1890	Lisbon November 2, 1878

Russia

St. Petersburg
November 15, 1892

North and Central American Marks

In addition to these marks, those used on mail sent through Mexico in the 1840's are shown in the Via Mexico page under Pre-Treaty Mail and California markings pre-San Francisco are shown at Mail to California and Via San Francisco & Panama.

Canada	Mexico

Palmerston March 17, 1897	Monterey November, 1889

United States


Boston May, 1840	New Bedford February 15, 1842	New Bedford Hale & Co., forwarder, Courtesy of Albert Chang


New Orleans September 13, 1842	New York August 31, 1840	New York January 1, 1859


New York September 23, 1886	New York September 7, 1888	New York registry June 15, 1889


New York Maitland Phelps, forwarder 1849	St. Augustine, Florida October 10, 1888	Yuba City, California March 14, 1888 [Of course I would include an inbound letter to Honolulu from the town where I spent my youth.]

South American Marks

Argentina


Buenos Aires February 1, 1856	Buenos Aires F. Schroeder & Co. forwarder mark February, 1856

Chile

Valparaiso
W. D. Phelps, forwarder manuscript
February 30, 1844

Oceania Marks

Azores	Dutch Indies	Jamaica

Funchal May 9, 1882	Semarang March 3, 1894	Kingston September 20, 1888

Micronesia	Philippines	Philippines

Ponape Mission	Manila June 17, 1852	Manila May 19, 1852

Samoa	Sri Lanka

Apia J. W. Langhorn forwarder	Colombo October 29, 1886

Atlantic Mail Ships

British Numeral Cancels on Cunard Steamships


A98	A98

American Packet


New York March 29, 1856	New York October 4, 1856	New York January 19, 1864

U.S. Packet

Liverpool
July 5, 1881

BIBLIOGRAPHY

For Australasian marks, see:

White, John S., The Postal History of New South Wales 1788-1901, The Philatelic Association of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, 1988.

McNaught, K. J., The Postage Stamps of New Zealand, Vol. VII, the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, Upper Hutt, 1988.

For marks used in connection with British and British overseas mail, see:

Robertson, Alan W., A History Of The Ship Letters Of The British Isles, 1955-1964, Second Edition (reprint), Harry Hayes, Batley, Yorkshire, 1973.

Mackay, James A. English & Welsh Postmarks Since 1840, Dumfries, Scotland, 1980.

For United States markings, see:

Ashbrook, Stanley B., The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851-1857, Vol. 2, H. L. Lindquist, New York, 1938.

Alexander, Thomas J., Simpson's U.S. Postal Markings, 1851-61, U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, 1979.

Hargest, George E., History of the Letter Post Communication Between the United States and Europe, 1845-1875, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 1971.

Cole, James M., Cancellations and Killers of the Banknote Era, 1870-1894, The U. S. Philatelic Classics Society, Columbus, Ohio, 1995.

For the Bombay Sea Post Office marks, see:

Kirk, R., British Maritime Postal History, 2 vols., Postal History International, Proud-Bailey Company, Ltd., Dereham, England, circa 1980-1981.

For worldwide forwarder marks, see:

Rowe, Kenneth, The Postal History and Markings of the Forwarding Agents, Leonard H. Hartman, Louisville, 1996.

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