Bermuda to United States
April 28, 1916
This censored and registered cover traveled the Atlantic
from St. Georges
at the north
end of the main island to
New York City by mail steamer.
St. Georges is the fifth oldest Northern European municipality in the
Western Hemisphere.
(Of course, all were preceded by the Spanish municipalities from
Souithern Europe.)
The cover then went by rail from New York to its destination in Boston.
It was addressed to the Home
Needlework Magazine.
It was probably an order for either a subscription or
some of the patterns or books such a magazine would offer.
The St. Georges post office stamped the cover with a bold REGISTERED, \
added a preprinted registry label, marked a blue pencilled cross on
both front and back, and then struck the stamps with two St. Georges
CDS.
The cover is censored but does not appear to have a censor
tape seal.
This leads me to believe that the letter was handed to the postal clerk
for mailing still open and the clerk accomplished the censorship
and stamped the cover with the 'PASSED' triangle.
What do you think?
On its arrival in New York on May 2 the cover received
a new serial number which had to be stamped twice.
It also received two oval Registry Division handstamps on the back.
The cover went on to its destination where it was received
in the Boston Registry department on May 3.
The cover is franked with stamps from the 1910 caravel issue.
There are two 1d red and a 2½d blue (SG 46 and 48).
I'm not sure what the artifact at the lower right rear is,
possibly an owner's mark.