Thursday, 19 June 2025

Around the world covers that visited North Borneo

These two items are plainly philatelic and contrived by the same person in Scotland UK. Otherwise, it would be impossible to see such beautiful and interesting covers. The process was actually quite complicated and involved cooperation and help from friends and contacts in these countries.


This cover left Edinburg in November 1931 and went through Bermuda, Chile, Dutch West Indies and then North Borneo and from there to Italy and then Scotland.


It also received a Retour instruction as it went through Seattle, USA and then somehow managed to reach North Borneo.


This cover has a more ambitious route. It started from Edinburg in January 1931. It went first to Palestine, a country that no longer exist due to ongoing Middle East conflict. It was then sent to Kenya in Africa and from there to South India. Then it was sent to North Borneo where it was generously franked with five stamps of the beautiful 1931 issue. Fuji was the next port of call and from there to Jamaica and then to Saskatchewan Canada before being returned to Scotland.


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