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LUNDY ISLAND
LOCAL CARRIAGE
LABELS
1929-2001
I specialize in the sale of Lundy Island Stamps and have one of the largest collections at discount prices, you will find all the links to my shop and E-Bid below. More specialist items are available by direct contact at the addresses below.
Here is a
brief history
of the
exciting
Puffin Lundy
Postage
Stamps. The
earliest date
recorded for
the opening of
the Lundy
Island Post
Office is 3rd
March 1887,
though it is
unlikely that
it did in fact
operate until
1892, when the
GPO laid a
cable from
Croyde in
North Devon
across the
Bristol
Channel
to the
lundy island
and built a
stone cable
hut where the
cable
terminated-against
the east wall
of the keep of
Marisco
Castle. The
cable hut
became known
as the Post
Office, which
contained a
table and
counter,
pigeonholes
for sorting
letters, a
stationery
cabinet, as
well as two
bunks and a
cooking stove.
The latter
used by
linemen sent
from the
mainland to
lay and
service the
cables
connected to
the island’s
two
lighthouses,
there to warn
Bristol
Channel
shipping,
which
subsequently
came into
service in
1896. Still a
long way yet
to the now
familiar Lundy
Postage
Stamps!
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From 1912 to about 1915 there was a twice-weekly mail service using British not Lundy Postage Stamps to Lundy Island, one from Instow North Devon and one from Bristol operated by SS Devonia. During the First World War the service was either from Milford Haven or from Ilfracombe North Devon. In 1912 the renowned MV Lerina entered service, carrying mail between Instow North Devon and the island in the Bristol Channel, culminating in October 1925 when M C Harman acquired not only Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel but also the mail-carrying contract together with MV Lerina. The first Sub Postmaster appointed, Mr F Allday, held the post for over 30 years, until he left in 1926, being succeeded by M C Harman’s next appointee, Mr H Lang who held the Post Office for only about 1 year before leaving. M C Harman’s head gardener, Mr W Mien, then took over the Post Office but he too only held the job for a few months before leaving Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. As no successor could be found from the islands population, M C Harman requested the Postmaster General to close the Post Office and the GPO ceased to have any interest in the Bristol Channel island after the end of 1927. It is interesting to recall that the various sub-post Masters were allowed by the GPO to hire a donkey to carry the mails from the island’s landing beach to the Post Office and down again. For 2 years M C Harman continued to carry, free of charge, mail to and from the North Devon mainland on MV Lerina, the mail being transported in sealed mail bags to and from the sub Post Office at Instow North Devon by Captain W Dark, skipper of MV Lerina. Responsibility for distributing incoming mail and despatching outgoing mail on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel was in the hands of the late, renowned, Mr F W Gade who had arrived in 1926 on a three month trial, as M C Harman’s resident agent, a position to be retained except for a short break until Mr F W Gade retired in 1971. In 1929 M C Harman decided that he could no longer afford the free mail service, and to defray his costs he conceived the idea of issuing special Lundy Stamps, better known as Puffin Stamps for fixing to incoming and outgoing mail. He choose, for the new Lundy Postage Stamps the Puffin as his Puffin Stamps unit of currency for Lundy Stamps, being equivalent of the British penny, and on the 1st Nov. 1929 the first Lundy Stamps of Lundy Island were issued, the Puffin Stamps half Puffin Pink and the Puffin Stamps 1 Puffin Blue. Half a million of each Puffin Stamps Puffin value were printed by Bradbury Wilkinson and Co Ltd who also printed the additional 6 Puffin, 9 Puffin and 12 Puffin values introduced on the 9th July 1930. The bird has appeared consistently on most Lundy Stamps issues since then. Thus commenced the issue of a long series of Lundy Stamps, which form the subject of this web site. I have considerable stocks of the famous Lundy Stamps and am able to offer the following listing, all in sets, priced in Sterling, all never hinged unless otherwise stated. For ease of identification I have numbered each set with the existing system Mr Bale used to employ and was known as the ‘L List’. Please note the pictures used on this site are not to scale and are produced in this format as a guide to the item only. Non of your stamps will have faults or flaws as may be seen on some of these sample pictures, unless they are sold as such and you have been personally informed. Be sure to checkout my E-Bid auctions of quality Lundy Island items, just put in a search for ‘Lundy’ to find the current auctions. |
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Details are on the Buy page for your convienence.
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Postage and
Payment for
EUROPE
Customer Contact Information
I can normally
be contacted
by telephone
between the
hours of
09:00am and
5:00pm, Monday
to Friday
inclusive with
the exception
of Public
Holidays.
Please note
that the times
shown are GMT.
Calls are
charged at BT
standard rate.
Ian Luggar
34 Lime Grove
Bideford
North Devon
EX39 3JL
U.K.
Tel: U.K.
01237 470837
Tel:
International
0044 (0) 1237
470837
The Last Word!
I hope you will find my service fast, efficient and friendly, you will be kept informed every step of the way through your transaction. I use the Royal Mail to get your new stamps to you fast. If I have your items in stock I will ship them immediately. Please see the postage details above.
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