Foreign Mail

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=100 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>King George V Silver Jubilee</B><B> - Foreign Mail</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>   </B></FONT></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="King George V Silver Jubilee"><U><B>Home</B></U></A><B>               </B><A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Information"><U><B>General Information</B></U></A><B>               </B><A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stamps"><U><B>Stamps</B></U></A><B>              </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33FFFF" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postal History"><U><B>Postal History</B></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#33FFFF" FACE="Verdana" ><B> </B></FONT><B>              </B><A HREF="id298.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Location"><U><B>Variety Locator</B></U></A><B>         </B></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Site Information"><U><B>Help/Site Information</B></U></A><B>                              </B><A HREF="id147.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U><B>Search</B></U></A><B>                               </B><A HREF="mailto:philatel2@yahoo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:philatel2@yahoo.com"><U><B>Contact Me</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=165 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="137" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div> <B>POSTAL HISTORY</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id325.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PH Stamp Issue Dates"><U>Dates of Issues of Stamps</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id311.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Issue Design History"><U>Issues Design History</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div> <A HREF="id296.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postal Rates"><U>Postal Rates</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div> <A HREF="id14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postal Covers"><U>Postal Covers</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id189.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Inland Mail"><U>Inland Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id189.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Inland Mail"><U>Inter-Island</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cyprus local"><U>Local</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id180.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Solomon"><U>Empire Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id188.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Foreign Mail"><U>Foreign Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id190.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Registered Mail"><U>Registered Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id190.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Registered Mail"><U>Empire</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id192.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bahamas"><U>Foreign</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id191.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Airmail"><U>Air Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id199.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Double airmail"><U>Double Rate</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id270.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GBairmail"><U>Airmail - Perfin</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id179.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mauritius"><U>Added Charges</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id179.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mauritius"><U>Extra weight</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id186.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sierra Leone"><U>No postage</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 ><NOBR><div>       - <A HREF="id368.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Redirected Mail"><U>Redirected Mail</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id194.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postal Marks"><U>Postal Marks</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id194.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Postal Marks"><U>Flying Boat</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id195.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dutch"><U>Posted at Sea</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>       - <A HREF="id197.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paquebot"><U>Paquebot</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id391.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Book Mail"><U>Book Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div>    - <A HREF="id182.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Honduras"><U>Other Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div> <A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Collectors Covers"><U>Commemoratives</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div> <A HREF="id269.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rocket Mail"><U>Rocket Mail</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="131"><div> <A HREF="id13.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other Postal Items"><U>Other Postal Items</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="045fa583.png"> <div> <I><B>Foreign Mail from the British Solomon Islands</B></I></div> <div> The British Solomon Islands are located near Papua and New Guinea (see map). They are comprised of some 138 islands. Tulagi, an island just north of Gaudacanal, was the administrative seat for the Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1893 and 1942, when it was destroyed by the invading Japanese army. It became fully independent as the Solomon Islands in 1978 with Honiara, on Gaudacanal Island, as its capital. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Jubilee stamps:</B> 1½d, 3d, 6d, 1/-</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="502" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 317 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2d490370.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="311" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> There are only two known examples of the 3d Solomon Foreign letter rate.</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="553" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 246 WIDTH="146"><div>  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2d7646d0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> map courtesy of  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.theodora.com/maps" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.theodora.com/maps"><U>www.theodora.com/maps</U></A></FONT> used with permission</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2d62cf00.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Information and scan kindly provided by <B>John Cooper</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>