Page 13 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1909 ~ 13

‘PAID at SOUTH GEORGIA’ PROVISIONALS
EBB INITIALLED, OCTOBER 1911~JANUARY 1912

Postcards at 1d UPU rate

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1911 Postcard [Osborne J.4] datestamped SG1, 11 NO 11
Handstamp SH 1A [with lower case ‘at’ & initialled by ‘EBB’]

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1911 Postcard [Osborne N.11] datestamped SG1, DE 16 11;
plus German ‘Porto’ [Unpaid] and thus Taxed* Handstamp SH 1B [with upper case A in ‘At’ & initialled by ‘EBB’]
Sender GSPE, German South Polar Expedition, ship Deutschland’s Doctor Dr Ludwig Kohl
who left the expedition on 11.12.1911 after an appendix operation

* One of only four known Taxed GSPE postcards
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