TRISTAN DA CUNHA: Cachet no5, cover to S.Africa, post 1944 & insert
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Stanley Gibbons No............:D15 item type.........................: envelope / cover + insert Size approx in mm..............: 137 x 86 + 40 x 73 Period..............................: mid 20thC Item Condition...................: fair for period and place, heavy tone & soiling, hinge remnants some wear, see scans Front................................: good Back.................................: good Corners.............................: good, some rounding Edges................................: good, some small wear Franking / adhesive.............: ON SERVICE (free) Cancellation........................:Cachet No 5 SG C6 (in use from 1929) TRISTAN DA CUNHA Etiquettes / instructions........:ON SERVICE (type top left) Blurb..................................: Usual type of missive. Probably philatelic - addressed to a boy & enclosing a fragment with a fine impression of the cachet & m/s: "This is the best I can do for you, D.Hudson". The sender: F Sgt D.G. HUDSON H.M.S. ATLANTIC ISLE FLEET MAIL OFFICE. The Royal Navy weather & radio station on Tristan Da Cunha used for monitoring German U boats & shipping was named Job7. Staff of 16 men of the Tristan da Cunha Volunteers. Name changed in January 1944 to Atlantic Isle 