Interesting covers keep turning up on the internet E-Bay auction site complementing the articles published in our newsletter, almost making me wish that the illustrations could have been available when the original material went to press

The first item is a Paquebot cover bearing a stamp from Malta with an Adria Ungherese circular cancel (the anchor in the middle) from 1904. The cover, interestingly enough, was addressed to the State Department in Washington, DC. A typical business receiving mark, dated May 18, 1904, was applied to the front of the cover. Unfortunately, the backside of the items was not illustrated. It was offered for a starting bid of $75 and did not find a buyer at that price. This would have been a good addition to Dr. Szilagyi’s Letter to the Editor column, which showed several Paquebot covers, from the Oct-Dec 2001 issue of The News.

The second item is another example of airmail transit marking applied in Budapest to mail from the East Indies to a European destination (this time, Switzerland). This cover complements Judy Kennett’s article, A Cover from the East to Europe, which also appeared in the Oct-Dec 2001 issue of The News. This cover was posted in Padang, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies on 6 May 1933 and passed through Budapest on 17 May 1933 on its way to Solothurn, Switzerland. Austria and Czechoslovakia were the other destinations that were illustrated in the original article.

Csaba L. Kohalmi