Page 58 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1929 ~ 37

REGISTERED MAIL
AIRMAIL

This early Airmail philatelic cover, sent by favour, was flown by the pioneering
French airline ‘Compagnie Générale Aéropostale’,

which established air routes between Paris and South America
from the mid 1920s overflying Africa and the Atlantic Ocean

1930 Registered Airmail, datestamped SG2, 21 JU 30; with Provisional Label SG4A
This cover was taken firstly by sea to Stanley where the route endorsement was added by the hand of Maude
Carey, Colonial Postmaster, and the conventional Stanley type 5D registration label was affixed to replace the

provisional type SG4A (now partially erased) and thence, again by sea, to Montevideo.
Transferred to the Airport, the journey - flown over Brazil to St Louis, Senegal, to Paris - ends in London

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