1927, from Barbuda to San Jose California USA, official OHMS cover
franked with Leeward Islands ½d green and 4d red and black on
yellow
1927, from Barbuda to San Jose California USA, official OHMS cover
franked with Leeward Islands ½d green and 4d red and black on
yellow postage and revenue stamps, tied by clear circular BARBUDA
POST OFFICE cancel APR 4 1927, boxed red registration labelstrike
BARBUDA BWI No 330 at top right, violet instructional marking
NOTICE SENT and oval POST OFFICE BARBUDA cachet, reverse with
transit backstamps ANTIGUA MR 27 1927, NEW YORK N Y REG’Y DIV 3 30
1927 and SAN JOSE REG’D APR 1 1927, cover with intact embossed
crown seal on flap, addressed to Robert Eyle, Box 393, San Jose
California, scarce official registered mail from the remote British
island of Barbuda, reflects effective colonial postal
infrastructure under the Leeward Islands administration, emblematic
of small-island bureaucracy and overseas correspondence during late
British colonial governance in the Caribbean, ex Kugel, XF!
Estimate 400€.
