Page 35 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1913 ~ 29

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

GRYTVIKEN WHALING STATION, 1904 ~ 1965

COMPAŇIA ARGENTINA DE PESCA SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA of Buenos Aires,
known as ‘PESCA’, built, owned and operated the Grytviken whaling station

1920 Cover Registered UPU 2½d + 2d rate, franked 5d [½d excess],
datestamped SG1, OC 7 20, with a provisional ‘New Island’ registration
label, duly amended to substitute for a South Georgia label since proper
ones were not available. Taken on 23 October by Salvesen’s cargo ship,
Sellasia, outbound via Capetown with five bags of mail for London,
transit marked 3 DE 20 [New Island PO was shut down in 1917]

Flap, shown at 80% linear, bears a complete impression of PESCA’s corporate seal and sender’s address

Part of a ‘PESCA .

Grytviken, South

Georgia’ label / wrapper,

franked at 1d, paying for

the Printed Matter

double rate (weight

band 2 to 4 ozs) and

datestamped by SG2,

NO 8 19

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