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The Impressed Revenue Stamps of Guernsey (Continued)
by Jon Aitchison
The second series of Guernsey general duty impressed revenue dies.
The second series
After two years the 1903 Act was repealed and replaced. An Order in Council dated 11th July 1905 was registered on 25th July 1905 and new adhesive stamps with values of 6d, 1/- and 1/8d were issued on 25th August1905. At the same time a new range of impressing dies in slightly different designs were introduced to accommodate new rates of taxation from a greatly expanded range of tariffs. One can only marvel that stamps could be ordered, designed, dies cast, printed, the whole lot delivered by sea and put in place for use in only six and a half weeks, more that was a hundred years ago. I doubt it could be achieved today.
Inward Bound Mail to the Channel Islands During the Occupation
by Michael Wieneke
Many C.I.-collectors only collect outgoing mails from the Channel Islands, but the inward bound mail, especially during the Occupation period, is also most interesting particularly with the postal routing. As mentioned in my article about the "Stubborn Feldpost-Master", Major Lanz with his Order No. 4, dated 10.7.1940, published that postal communication with “neutral countries” was now allowed. Well, the Republic of Ireland was one of these countries and beside the “Thulliercorrespondence” the inward bound covers from Ireland from the late forties are well known to us even if they are quite scarce. In those days there was no Fieldpost-office stationed on the Channel Islands and all mail was only handled by the national postal services. Because of this, French mail received from Ireland was delivered to St. Malo by the French P.O. Arriving in St. Malo it was handed over to the German authorities and they then brought the mail to the Islands and again handed it over to the GPO in Jersey or Guernsey.
Cover from Ireland, dated 7.12.40, to Jersey with marking "Via St. Malo, France".
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