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Overview
Articles on Maritime Subjects
Page TopIllustrations of maritime covers
Articles on TPO Subjects
Illustrations of TPO covers
Full Travelling Post Office articles
Alphabetical Index of Contents and Subjects
The following is an alphabetic list of topics found within the articles listed above.
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Aden Sea Post Calcutta to Edinburgh with SEA POST and GB TPO cancels
Aden Sea Post Bombay - Aden Sea Post Office Service
Africa:
- TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa,
- East Africa - Travelling Post Offices of Tanganyika
- TPOs of Southern Africa - Boer War TPOs 1901-02,
- TPOs of Central South African Railways (CSAR),
- MPOs of South Africa, and
- TPOs of French West Africa and the Indian Ocean Colonies
- Devonport Cape Packet
- South Africa Sea Post Office - Union Castle Ocean Post Offices
Agente Postal TPOs of Mexico
Algeria TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa
AMB TPOs of Poland, TPOs of Romania, TPOs of Spain, Switzerland TPOs
AMB ASCendente TPOs of Spain
AMB DESCendente TPOs of Spain
Ambulância TPOs of Portugal, TPOs of Chile, TPOs of Chile Exhibit
Ambulancia Postal TPOs of Honduras
AMBULÂNCIAS POSTAIS TPOs of Portugal
Ambulant Switzerland TPOs
AMBULANT TPOs of Turkey
Ambulante Spanish Ambulante TPO cancel
Ambulante Italy TPOs
Ambulante TPOs of Mexico
Ambulante Switzerland TPOs
Ambulantes TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa
AMERICA F Falmouth Packets
AMERICA L Liverpool Packet Mark
American Mail The American Mail
Argentina TPO TPOs of Argentina
ARMY POST OFFICE TPO TPOs of Southern Africa - Boer War TPOs 1901-02
Australia:
- Australia Paquebot Australian Paquebot Marks
- Australia to UK Mails The Accountancy Period
- Queensland to UK Mails The Queensland Royal Mail.
- Early Orient Line voyages Early voyages of the Orient Line between England and Australia, 1877-1879
- Australia TPO TPOs of Australia
Austria TPO TPOs of Austria
Avonmouth Bristol Ship Letter Examples of 20th century Ship Letter mark usage
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Baden, Duchy TPO TPO of Grand Duchy of Baden
Bahnpost German Bahnpost Train 7 cancellation
Bahnpost The TPOs of Germany
Bahnpost Luxemburg TPOs
Bahnpost Switzerland TPOs
BIRMINGHAM SHIP LETTER Census of covers, Great Britain Paquebot Marks
Bodensee-Schiffspost Lake Mail
Boer War TPO TPOs of Southern Africa - Boer War TPOs 1901-02
Bombay Sea Post Bombay - Aden Sea Post Office Service
Bombay Pilot The Bombay Pilot: Sent by Launch for Delivery by Pilot
Boston ship mark Straight line BOSTON ship mark
Brazil TPOs of Brazil
British Guiana TPOs of British Guiana
BRIGADA TPOs of Argentina
Bristol Ship letter Mark BRISTOL SHIP LETTER
British Sea Post Office - Liverpool British Transatlantic Sea Post Offices
British Sea Post Office - Southampton British Transatlantic Sea Post Offices
British East Africa Travelling Post Offices Travelling Post Offices of Tanganyika
Bulgaria TPO TPOs of Bulgaria
BUREAU AMB TPOs of Norway
BUREAU AMBULANT TPOs of Bulgaria
Bureau Ambulant TPOs of France
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C(esko) S(lovenska) P(osta) Czechoslovakia After World War II
Canadian-Pacific Line and Canadian Australasian Line steamship sailings from 1887 to 1914
Canada RPO Canada RPOs
CAPE COLONY OCEAN POST OFFICE South Africa Sea Post Office - Union Castle Ocean Post Offices
Cape Packet, Devonport Devonport Cape Packet & Cape Packet, Plymouth
Ceylon TPO TPOs of Ceylon / Sri Lanka and Ceylon TPO Cancellations listing
Ceylon TPO Map Ceylon / Sri Lanka Map of the TPO system
China TPO Modern Chinese TPOs
Chile TPO TPOs (Ambulancias) of Chile
Chile TPO TPOs (Ambulancias) of Chile: 16 page exhibit
COMBOIO CORREIO TPOs of Portugal
Condução TPOs of Portugal
convoyage Luxemburg TPOs
Convoyage-Ambulant Luxemburg TPOs
Cork see Queenstown
Correio Ambulante TPOs Brazil
Courrier Convoyeur TPOs of France
courrier convoyeur TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa
CSAR TPOs of Central South African Railways (CSAR)
Cunard Cunard
Cunard 'Asia' Liverpool Floating Receiving House (F.R.H) Late Fee Mark
Cunard 'Britannia' Liverpool oval AMERICA / L packet mark
Cunard 'Britannia' Cunard Line's 'Britannia'
Cunard 'Caledonia' Liverpool Packet Mark
Cunard 'Hibernia' Retaliatory Tax
Cunard 'Palmyra' Cover sorted on board Cunard's 'Palmyra'
Cunard 'QE2' Farewell to the QE2
Czech Autobus Czechoslovakia Autobuses
Czech Mailguards Czechoslovakia Mailguards
Czech Military TPO Czechoslovakia Military TPOs 1938-1945
Czech Postal Flights Czechoslovakia Postal Flights
Czech TPO TPOs of Czechoslovakia
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Delivery by Pilot The Bombay Pilot: Sent by Launch for Delivery by Pilot
Denmark Fra Marks Fra Handstamps of Denmark
Denmark TPO TPOs of Denmark
Devonport Cape Packet Devonport Cape Packet
Dublin and Cork TPO PAQUEBOT applied on board the DUBLIN & CORK TPO
Dublin and Queenstown T.P.O (American Mail) Dublin & Queenstown T.P.O and PAQUEBOT
DVD DVDs available on a number of topics
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Edinburgh and Berwick Sorting tender EDINBURGH & BERWICK Sorting Tender.html
Edinburgh and Newcastle Sorting tender Calcutta to Edinburgh with SEA POST and GB TPO cancels
Egypt PLEIN MER marks of Egypt
Eisenbahn TPO of Grand Duchy of Baden
English Mail TPO TPOs of Australia
ESTAÇAO AMBULANTE TPOs of Portugal
ESTAFETA AMBULANTE TPOs of Argentina, TPOs of Spain, TPOs of Uruguay
ESTAFETA FERROVIARIA TPOs of Argentina
ESTAFETEROS TPOs of Argentina
Estonia TPO TPOs of Estonia
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Facteurs Convoyeurs Luxemburg TPOs
FAHRENDES POSTAMT TPOs of Austria
Falmouth Packet Falmouth Packets
Faroe Isles stamps with paquebot cancellations.
Finland TPO TPOs of Finland
Fleetwood Ship Letter Examples of 20th century Ship Letter mark usage
Floating Receiving House (FRH) Liverpool census
France Sea Post French Sea Posts and French Ligne Cancellations
France TPO TPOs of France
French N Africa TPO TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa
French W Africa TPO TPOs of French West Africa and the Indian Ocean Colonies
Füerst Bismark German Sea Post Office
G Page Top
GB / USA pre Treaty Discriminatory Tax
GB / USA pre Treaty Retaliatory Tax
GB Ship Letters and English Channel Steamers to pick up mails from wind-bound vessels in the English Channel
GB AM TPO Marks The AM Postmarks of Great Britain
GB American Mail The American Mail
GB First Sorting Carriage The World's First Sorting carriage
GB Highland Railway The Highland Railway
GB Irish Mail The Irish mail - London & Holyhead TPO
GB Paquebot Great Britain Paquebot Marks
GB RSO GB Railway Sub Offices (RSO)
GB Sea Post British Transatlantic Sea Post Offices
GB Sorting Carriage Post Office Sorter at work in a GB Railway Sorting Carriage
GB TPO Historic Preservation of GB TPOs
GB TPO 187 GB West Coast Joint Stock TPO No. 187
GB TPO Beginnings TPOs of Great Britain - The Beginning
GB TPO Carmarthen & Newcastle Emlyn SC - Parcel Handstamp
GB TPO Crewe TPOs of Great Britain - The Night Mails at Crewe in 1923
GB TPO Network TPO Network of Great Britain in 1958
GB TPO Postcards Postcards and Travelling Post Offices of GB
Germany TPO The TPOs of Germany
German Sea Post German Sea Post Office, Survey of German and American Sea Post Office / Deutsche und Amerikanische Seepost marks
German East Africa Travelling Post Offices Travelling Post Offices of Tanganyika
Germany - USA Sea Post U.S. GER. SEA POST S.S. MANHATTAN, Instructions for the Conduct of Sea Post-Offices
Gesamtpostkurs TPOs of Austria
GEZICI TPOs of Turkey
Gravesend Ship Letter GRAVESEND SHIP-LETTER
Greece TPO Greek Travelling Post Offices from the 1970s
Greenock and Ardrishaig Greenock & Ardrishaig Packets
GSM TPO & Sea Post articles published in Gibbons Stamp Monthly
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H & K PACT / PACKET Holyhead & Kingstown Packets
Hamburg Steam Ship routes to London and Amsterdam 1825 to 1833
Holyhead London & Holyhead T.P.O - Night Down
Holyhead The Irish mail - London & Holyhead TPO
Holyhead and Kingstown Holyhead & Kingstown Packets
Honduras TPO TPOs of Honduras
Hull Ship Letter HULL SHIP LETTER
Hungary TPO TPOs of Hungary, Catalogue of Hungary TPOs
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Imperial Military Railway TPOs of Southern Africa - Boer War TPOs 1901-02
India TPO Indian Travelling Post Office
Indian Ocean TPO TPOs of French West Africa and the Indian Ocean Colonies
Indonesia Maritime marks Maritime marks of Indonesia
Italy Paquebot Italian Sea Post Offices
Italy Sea Post Italian Sea Post Offices
Italy Sea Post marks Examples of Italian merchant seapost marks
Italy TPO Italy TPOs
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Japan Paquebot Japanese Seaposts
Japan Sea Post Japanese Seaposts
JEGYZÉKELÖMENET TPOs of Hungary, Catalogue of Hungary TPOs
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KUPÉPOSTEXPEDITION TPOs of Finland
L Page Top
Lake Mail Lake Mail
Lake Winnipesaukee RPO Lake Mail
Latvia TPO TPOs of Latvia
Le Havre Paquebot PAQUEBOT applied at Le Havre
LETTRE OCEAN Ocean Letters
Ligne French Sea Posts and French Ligne Cancellations
Ligne N Paq(uebot) Fr(ancaise) no 7 Maritime marks of Singapore
Lithuania TPO TPOs of Lithuania
Liverpool Floating Receiving House FRH mark census Liverpool (F.R.H) mark census
Liverpool Floating Receiving House FRH Liverpool Floating Receiving House (F.R.H) Late Fee Mark [FRH1]
Liverpool Floating Receiving House Picture Liverpool Floating Receiving House at the quayside
Liverpool Landing Stage Post Office Postscript - Liverpool Landing Stage
Liverpool Maritime Mail Liverpool Maritime Mail Cancel [N3]
Liverpool packet mark Liverpool oval AMERICA / L packet mark [P2]
Liverpool packet mark Liverpool double ring AMERICA / L Packet Mark [P1]
Liverpool Paquebot LIVERPOOL PAQUEBOT
Liverpool 1/- rate mark Liverpool one shilling rate hand stamp
Liverpool, scarce marks Scarce Liverpool Marks
Liverpool Ship letter mark Stepped Boxed LIVERPOOL SHIP LETTER [S8]
Liverpool Ship Letter mark SHIP LETTER LIVERPOOL Crown mark [S15]
London & Holyhead TPO London & Holyhead T.P.O - Night Down
London & Holyhead TPO The Irish mail - London & Holyhead TPO
London and Bristol Sorting Carriage London & Bristol Sorting Carriage
London Paquebot LONDON PAQUEBOT 1894
London Hamburg Steam Ship routes to London and Amsterdam 1825 to 1833
LOOSE LETTER New Zealand Marine P.O. Cancels
LOOSE SHIP LETTER Australian Paquebot Marks
Luxembourg TPO Luxemburg TPOs
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Mailguard TPOs of France
Mailguard TPOs of Great Britain
Mailguard Italy TPOs
Mailguard Luxemburg TPOs
Mailguard TPOs of Portugal
Mailguard TPOs of Sweden
Mailguard TPOs of Austria
Mailguard Czechoslovakia Mailguards
Mailguard Greek Travelling Post Offices from the 1970s
Mailguard TPOs of Hungary, Catalogue of Hungary TPOs
Malta Paquebot PAQUEBOT cancel of Valletta, Malta
Maritime Mail Maritime Mail (Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary). Mail for the Merchant Navy
MAURITIUS, PACKET LETTER Plymouth Packet Letter from Mauritius
Maritime Postmark Society: Back issues of the Seaposter magazine. See publications page.
Mexico TPO TPOs of Mexico
Morocco TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa
mozgóposta TPOs of Hungary, Catalogue of Hungary TPOs
N Page Top
Natante Colico Como Lake Mail
New Foundland TPO Newfoundland TPOs
New York Ship Letter mark Straight line New York ship mark
New Zealand Maritime marks New Zealand Marine P.O. Cancels
New Zealand Railway TPO New Zealand RTPO Checklist, Omaru to Dunedin on the New Zealand RTPO
NORDBANERNES POSTEKSPEDISJON TPOs of Norway
Norway TPO TPOs of Norway
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Ocean Letters Ocean Letters, Draft catalogue of Ocean Letters by Otto Kjærgaard.
Ocean Line 'Washington' Discriminatory Tax
Ocean Post Office South Africa Sea Post Office - Union Castle Ocean Post Offices
OFICINA POSTAL AMBULANTE TPOs of Argentina
Oficina Postal Ambulante TPOs of Mexico
The Orient Express its History and Postal History
P Page Top
PACKET BOAT New Zealand Marine P.O. Cancels
PACKET LETTER PLYMOUTH Plymouth Packet Letter from Mauritius
Paquebot Australia Australian Paquebot Marks
Paquebot Beginnings PAQUEBOT marks: the beginning
Paquebot Dublin and Queenstown PAQUEBOT applied on board the DUBLIN & CORK TPO
Paquebot Faroe Isles paquebot cancellations on stamps
Paquebot France French Sea Posts and French Ligne Cancellations
Paquebot GB Great Britain Paquebot Marks
Paquebot Italy Italian Sea Post Offices
Paquebot Japan Japanese Seaposts
Paquebot Le Havre PAQUEBOT applied at Le Havre
Paquebot Liverpool LIVERPOOL PAQUEBOT
Paquebot London LONDON PAQUEBOT 1894
Paquebot Malta PAQUEBOT cancel of Valletta, Malta
Paquebot Queenstown Dublin & Queenstown T.P.O and PAQUEBOT
Paquebot Singapore PAQUEBOT cancel of Singapore
Paquebot Singapore Maritime marks of Singapore
Paquebot USA USA Paquebot Marks
Paraguay TPO TPOs of Paraguay
parokhod TPOs of Russia
Pasta Vagona TPOs of Latvia
Pasta Wahgis TPOs of Latvia
PASTO VAGONAS TPOs of Lithuania
Philadelphia Ship letter mark US Straight line SHIP letter mark
Pilot The Bombay Pilot: Sent by Launch for Delivery by Pilot
Plein Mer PLEIN MER marks of Egypt
PLYMOUTH, PACKET LETTER Plymouth Packet Letter from Mauritius
Plymouth, Cape Packet Devonport Cape Packet & Cape Packet, Plymouth
P&O Bombay Sea Post Bombay - Aden Sea Post Office Service, The Bombay Pilot The Bombay Pilot: Sent by Launch for Delivery by Pilot
POCHTOVY VAGON TPOs of Russia
PODVIZHNO POSHTENSKO PISALISHTE TPOs of Bulgaria
Poland TPO TPOs of Poland
Portsmouth Ship Letter mark PORTSMOUTH SHIP LETTER, Stepped Boxed SHIP LETTER PORTSMOUTH
Portugal TPO TPOs of Portugal
Post Speditions Bureau TPOs of Denmark
POSTA AMBULANTA TPOs of Romania
POSTAMBULANCE TPOs of Austria
Postcards of Ships Maritime Picture Postcards (1900 - 1920)
Postcards of TPOs Postcards and Travelling Post Offices of GB
POSTCONDUCTEUR IM ZUGE TPOs of Austria
Postiljonskupéexpeditioner TPOs of Sweden
Postkupéer TPOs of Sweden
Postkupéexpeditioner TPOs of Sweden
Postvagon Russian Postvagons TPO cancel
POSTVAGUN TPOs of Estonia
PLYMOUTH PACKET LETTER Plymouth Packet Letter from Mauritius
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Queensland to UK Mails The Queensland Royal Mail.
Queenstown PAQUEBOT applied on board the DUBLIN & CORK TPO
Queenstown Paquebot Dublin & Queenstown T.P.O and PAQUEBOT
Too Late Ship Sailed marks of Queenstown and Cork
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R.P.O USA RPOs, When there were Railway Post Offices Without Railroads in Virginia
R.P.O and T.P.O Newfoundland TPOs
Railway Sub Office GB Railway Sub Offices (RSO)
Rail Systems The More the Rail the Faster the Mail Studying the impact of major rail systems on speeding the ocean mails.
RECEIVED FROM H.M. SHIPS Maritime Mail (Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary)
REPARTIÇAO AMBULANTE TPOs of Portugal
Research resources page
River Post River Post
RMS USA RPOs
Robertson Revisited Robertson Revisited Second Supplement 2016 (Colin Tabeart)
Roger Hosking In Memoriam
Romania TPO TPOs of Romania
Royal Navy Maritime Mail (Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary)
RPO Canada Canada RPOs
Russia TPO Russian Moscow - Kaliningrad TPO cancel
Russia TPO TPOs of Russia
Russia TPO TPO Cover from Odessa to Marseilles 1873
Russia TPO Russian Postvagons TPO cancel
S Page Top
S S Leinster Holyhead & Kingstown Packets
Sea Post Bombay - Aden Bombay - Aden Sea Post Office Service
Sea Post France French Sea Posts and French Ligne Cancellations
Sea Post GB British Transatlantic Sea Post Offices
Sea Post Italy Italian Sea Post Offices
Sea Post Japan Japanese Seaposts
SEA POST OFFICE Bombay - Aden Sea Post Office Service
Sea Post USA United States Sea Posts
Sea Post USA - Germany U.S. GER. SEA POST S.S. MANHATTAN, Survey of Deutsche Seepost marks, Instructions for the Conduct of Sea Post-Offices
Servicio Ambulante TPOs of Mexico
SEYYAR TPOs of Turkey
Ship Letter Beginnings Early Ship Letters
Sierra Leone TPO Sierra Leone TPOs
Singapore Maritime marks Maritime marks of Singapore
Singapore Paquebot PAQUEBOT cancel of Singapore
South Africa MPO MPOs of South Africa
South Africa - UK voyages 1850-1893, see resources page
Southampton Ship Letter Mark SOUTHAMPTON SHIP LETTER
Southampton Paquebot Slogan marks, see the Resources Page
Spain TPO TPOs of Spain
Spanish N Africa TPO TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa
Sri Lanka TPO Ceylon / Sri Lanka UP BATTICALOA TPO
Sri Lanka TPO Ceylon / Sri Lanka UP INDO-CEYLON TPO
Sri Lanka TPO TPOs of Ceylon / Sri Lanka and Ceylon TPO Cancellations listing
Sri Lanka TPO Map Ceylon / Sri Lanka Map of the TPO system
Sweden TPO TPOs of Sweden
Swedish America Line Sea Post Office Swedish America Line
Switzerland TPO Switzerland TPOs
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Tanganyika Travelling Post Offices Travelling Post Offices of Tanganyika
Teplekhod TPOs of Russia
Transatlantic Post Office British Transatlantic Sea Post Offices
Transatlantic Post Office Plymouth British Transatlantic Sea Post Offices
Travelling Post Offices TPOs of Great Britain - The Beginning
TREN TPOs of Romania
Tunisia TPOs of French and Spanish North Africa
Turkey TPO TPOs of Turkey
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U S SEA POST PORTO RICO United States Sea Posts
U S SEA POST TRANSPACIFIC United States Sea Posts
ufficio ambulante Italy TPOs
Union Castle South Africa Sea Post Office - Union Castle Ocean Post Offices
UNITED STATES SEAPOST United States Sea Posts
Uruguay TPO TPOs of Uruguay
US French Sea Post French Sea Posts and French Ligne Cancellations
US Line 'Manhattan' U.S. GER. SEA POST S.S. MANHATTAN
USA Germany Sea Post U.S. GER. SEA POST S.S. MANHATTAN, Survey of Deutsche Seepost marks
USA Paquebot USA Paquebot Marks
USA RPO USA RPOs
USA Sea Post United States Sea Posts
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VAGON POSTAL TPOs of Argentina
Vagon Postal TPOs of Romania
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The More the Rail the Faster the Mail Studying the impact of major World Wide rail systems on speeding the ocean mails.
XYZ
Zeppelin Radio Telegram
