Page 34 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1913 ~ 29

REGISTERED MAIL
Registration fee 2d per mail item until 31 December 1921

1913 Cover Registered 2oz Empire rate (1d x2 + 2d Registration, label type SG1) datestamp SG1, AP 12 13 to Dublin
Taken by Pesca’s Cachalote II departing 3, or 4, May 1913 for Buenos Aires and routed via London, 4 JU 13

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1921 Cover Registered UPU 2½d + 2d rate, datestamp SG1, MR 1 21, taken with 4 bags of mail on 12 March by
Salvesen’s SS Sellasia to Montevideo, transit Plymouth, 13 AP 21, en route to Paris. New Island Post Office shut 1917

Rare, very few known SG covers expediently registered with un-corrected New Island label, type N1
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