Page 36 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1913 ~ 29

REGISTERED MAIL
Registration fee 3d per mail item from 1 January 1923 to June 1970

1920 Cover Registered, label type SG3A (“South Georgia” added in red manuscript), at Empire 1d + 3d rate,
to Trowbridge, taken by tanker Albura returning 27 September 1920 to England with four bags of mail,
Liverpool arrival datestamp 16 OC 20

Rare, very few covers, registered with New Island label, known with manuscript correction for SG use
[New Island Post Office was closed in 1917]

1927 Cover Empire Registered, label type SG4, at Empire 1d + 3d rate, to Bristol
datestamped SG2, DE 4 27; SS Tijuca set sail on 5 December 1927 for Buenos Aires with mail
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