Tin Can mail Pt. 2:
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- This is the second part of the Tin Can Mail story, this time we explore the islands of St. Kilda where ocean currents and sheer luck helped to send messages to Scotland.
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Wiki on St. Kilda: en.wikipedia.o...
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More about St. Kilda: www.pressandjo...
Blog Post on St. Kitts postal service: messageinabott...
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HMS Jackal?: wikivisually.c...
9:23 Watch full clip from National Library of Scotland: movingimage.nl...
More footage about St. Kilda: scotlandonscre...
Wiki on the Wilding Series: en.wikipedia.o...
Ocean Currents: retro.yr.no/ka...
Hirta’s RAF Base: en.wikipedia.o...
Sea and Rescue Base: www.isle-of-be...
1931 Cover on eBay: www.ebay.com/i...
15,000 GBP for cover: www.scotsman.c...
Postcards taking 10 years to reach Norway: www.scotsman.c...
Another Tin Can mail😍😍😍😍
Superb👌👌👌👌
Thank you so much 😀
Through and through a flawlessly constructed narrative and video! I was on the edge of my seat early, and every other thought in my mind was "Whoa!"
I was hoping that you would enjoy it. Thank you so much as usual for watching and commenting 😊😀
I vaguely remember that there are few St. Kilda postage stamps among my birds collection. I’ll check and let you know. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these videos!
You are very welcome, Mallard! ☺️. Thanks for watching!
Pure postal history! Thank you very much for this video. Michaël.
You are very welcome Michael, thank you for watching ☺️
Lucky Prince Charles! I can’t believe it took 10 years for the 2010 mailboat to be found, they must have assumed it ended up at the bottom of the sea. I love how different and similar both islands are, thank you so much for teaching us about them!
Glad you enjoyed the Tin Can stories 😊. Thank you for watching Sarah!
Thanks Graham, what an exciting video set. We love how you incorporate geography, history, stamp stories and all sorts of interesting bits in your videos. Please keep going! And may we suggest you look into doing a video about Pickles the dog who found the missing world cup trophy, that was stolen from a stamp show in London?
😊 Glad you enjoyed it, Yolanda. I will have to look up Pickles and the missing trophy, sounds epic! Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching!
Interesting and Wonderful.....Thank You
You are very welcome, thank you for watching 😊
When you said St Kildas I immediately thought of puffins. What a wonderful story that almost brought me to tears. How wonderful to fundraising for them in their time of need.
The story of the 14 year old sending messages to save the island is incredible! I was also almost brought to tears when reading about it, wonderful!! Thanks for watching :)
One more great and interesting episode...Brillant...!!! Congratulations Graham
Thank you Frederic 😊. Glad you enjoyed it!
Pt. 1 and pt. 2 are both great to watch. Thanks Tons for doing these videos, keep'm up!
😊 Thank you Milo, glad you enjoyed both videos.
Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating...
It sure is 😀!
Absolutely fascinating! thank you so much for such a wonderful video...
You are very welcome Karen, thanks for watching 😀
"Will these letters reach Scotland?"
"No(r)way!"
As usual great video, thanks for this focus on St. Kilda: I have a stamp from that place as well but literally St. Kilda is written on the stamp.
I think they found a hack to send international mail WITHOUT paying international postage. 😂. I think I know what stamp you are referring to, issued in 1981 as part of a National Trust for Scotland series: colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/2641-St_Kilda_Scotland-National_Trust_for_Scotland-United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_Northern_Ireland. Thanks for watching! 😊
As always so fascinating wonderful and super informative presentation lovely ☺️
Thank you kindly! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
That's a great photo of the Islanders at 8:35 - razor blades don't seem to have made it to the island and they look like a happy, welcoming bunch of people ;-) Shoes seem in short supply too.... Awesome follow up video.
Righttt?? I feel like I would enjoy hanging out with those gents. 😎. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!
You are a great communicator and I would watch hours and hours of this kind of stories. The next few hours I will be digging info about this St Kilda island for sure! Thank you very much, every time a new video is on, the in depth content is great, animations are very funny. That officers´ bored face is so inspiring :-) Keep up the good work!
Absolutely, there is so much to read about this island, you can easily get lost in the amazing stories and information out there, enjoy!! 😊
Very nice !! Thanks a lot ! Stefanos, Athens, Greece.
Thank you Stefano! Glad you enjoyed it 🇬🇷
Fantastic, Graham! Always top contents. You're doing a great job for philately.
Thank you Enrico ☺️. Glad you enjoyed it.
That's fascinating. Another great episode!
It really is fascinating. Thanks for watching 😊
What a fantastic set of stories ! , thankyou for bringing them to us ...cheers !
Amazing mail history. I LOVE THIS VIDEO.
First video fantastic... second one even better! 👌
Wow thank you Jose, for the comment and for watching both videos. 😊 Glad you enjoyed them!
This was GREAT, Graham! I first heard about tin can mail in Linn’s when I was 11 or 12 years old. Reading Poe around the same time … MS in a Bottle(?) I am pretty sure I put something in the water at Ft. DeSoto as well … That would have been 1970 or so. Still haven’t heard back from that. 😢
Great video and story Graham! Both Tin Can mail videos are excellent; but, I enjoyed this one most because I've been all over Scotland but never heard of St. Kilda. You are constantly educating me and I love it! Thanks, once again.
You are very welcome Gary, I hadn't heard of St. Kilda either, not until learning about this story. Thanks so much for your support and for watching :)
Another amazing video as usual 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much 😀, glad you enjoyed it!
What a great series! So interesting!
Wow 10 years later?? I'm glad no one was waiting for rescue at that time, lol. As always, brilliant video! :D
I know, right? This could have been a very different story if the first boats took 10 years to arrive...or I guess there wouldn't be a story. 🤔. Whew glad it did arrive in 9 days, thanks for watching!!
Fascinating stuff. Well done.
I read that the Galagapos Islands has a very unique mail system. They don't actually have mail carriers so the mail is moved along but residents who are the recipients or know who they are by living nearby.
Just getting interested in stamps after finding my dad's collection , and your videos are so informative and your delivery so fluent and engaging , that I am fired up to explore this fascinating subject. There's a whole world of geography and history and politics and art and quirky facts such as this tin can mail to be explored and I'm enjoying the journey.
That is wonderful to read, Susan. Welcome to philately 😀. As you said, there is so much to explore from postage stamps and postal history, glad you are enjoying the channel. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic Video, I truly enjoy every one of your uploads. :)
Thank you very much! Glad you are enjoying the videos 😊
wow this was so interesting and i can't believe how much original ones go for and thanks for pt.2
You are very welcome, I would love an original in my collection, just wish there were more of them and that they were cheaper. thanks for watching!! :)
Another well written and produced video! What an interesting story, now I desperately want to visit the island.
Same! What an adventure that would be. 😊 Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
Very enjoyable video as always.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks Jim!
Wonderful video again! I would like to see something in the future about the first air mail postage trips either to the Arctic or Antarctic regions. I know the city I live in has a long history of mail to northern Canada, going back to the 1910s. How did polar countries develop postal systems to remote regions? How long ago? When did it first start? 🤔📫
Thank you Dennis! 😊. What an interesting suggestion, I should definitely look more into Arctic/Antarctic airmail trips. Polar mail is a fascinating area to explore. Thank you!!
Another great narrative stamp story. Very well done - again. I've thought of sending a message to you by sending a wooden boat tied to the inflated bladder of a King Cobra although there might be some issues regarding that idea.
Now that would be a fascinating item to explore 😅.... Please let me know if you decide to do this, I will go wait on the Californian coast to receive it. Lol, thanks for watching Chai.
Great video and information
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching Gul 😊
Interesting story.
I think so too! Thanks for watching Sara 😊
very cool!
😎👍
Awesome :-)
Thank you 😊
very good knowledge, useful! Wish you more great videos!
Thank you. More to come! :)
Nice video as always! I haven't been to Northern Scotland. I‘d like to explore there now!
Thanks Richard! On my list of places to explore as well! Thanks for watching.
I love the whole message in a bottle idea. I have a friend who sends them for fun.
While researching, I came across a number of 'message in a bottle' enthusiasts... I didn't know that it was a thing, and I can see the interest in doing it. 🤔
What a story! I have to say it broke my heart when you said three inhabitants had to abandon the island in 1930. But it is true life was quite difficult there.
On an unrelated note I have recently come across the topic of mourning covers; I’m sure you have enough topics for future videos but that would be an interesting one.
Cheers
Thank you Oliver, I was also a bit saddened to learn that the islanders never returned to the island to live there, and that the last person born on the island recently died in the last 10 years. I have never heard of mourning covers, I will definitely look into them. Thank you for the idea, and thanks for watching!
@@ExploringStamps Ok, that is even sadder 😔 But thanks to videos like yours they continue to live on.
Regarding mourning covers: I actually discovered them via a UA-cam video (there’s 2-3 out there). Since then I’ve been trying to get some in my collection. But I prefer if there is the original letter with the cover, and that gets too expensive!
Another winning postal history lesson, Graham!
Thank you Mark! :)
Fantastic
Glad you think so, Isabel. Thank you for watching 😀
Welcome Back Graham!
Wow, another interesting story. Love your videos. I have collected stamps for over 50 years and never would have thought to do anything other that catalogue my stamps and find out how much they are worth.
Thank you so much Connie. I have really been enjoying the exploration of stamps and covers such as these. Thanks for watching 😊
Loved this story!
Me as well! Such a great story to learn about. Thanks for watching Christopher. :)
Eu fiquei impressionado com esse modo de envio de cartas em que se aproveita das correntes marinhas. Parabéns ao grande vídeo Grahan e saudações do Brasil.
Obrigada! E obrigado por assistir o video no Brasil 🇧🇷
That was really interesting, never heard of this story. Thank you!
It really IS interesting, thank you Erica. :)
Awesome video as usual, always a great day whenever I see your videos inn my notifications. Have you ever considered doing a video on ancient Chinese mail? There's two examples that fascinate me. One is a pair of wooden pieces that contain two different letters from two brothers that are in the Qin Army during the final years of their battle with the Kigndom of Chu. The second one is a piece of silk that was discovered in the ruins of a postal office along the Silk Road that dates from the Han Dynasty. History of postal mail seems to be a bit more ancient than I thought.
Also, would you consider the Inca use of the Chasqui (messenger) to deliver messages throughout their empire be topic worthy? I think their relay system (like the Pony Express) is very interesting.
Many thanks 😊. You are too kind. Sounds like a great topic that I need to explore, as you say, the history of postal mail goes wayy back and there are many different avenues to learn about. Thanks for the suggestion!
Love all your video''s. This one is also super and the story is new to me. Like the puffins in de the start of the video we seen them on Lundy- and Skomer Island, so nice. At Lundy they have even Puffins as currency on the stamps, but you pay them with Brittisch Pounds.
Lundy has such an interesting history, I look forward to exploring it at some point. Glad you are enjoying the videos, thank you so much for watching 😊
Looking forward to this!
Hope you enjoy it 😊
I have a plain white stamp with a green 4 and line over it. I can't find any information. Have you seen anything like it ♥
That's such a great story! I would love to have one of the little boats ☺️
Glad you enjoyed it 😊. Have you tried the app "Stamp Identifier"? Something that Ive been testing on my iPhone and its been pretty helpful, it might help figure out what stamp you have.
@@ExploringStamps Thank you! No I haven't, infact I'm working with Verizon to figure out which app managed to put malware on my phone :/. I'll check it out after I get my phone straightened out. I hope that you are doing well. You are still my favorite fun fact channel ♥
No on-location reporting? I’m disappointed. Great job, anyway. I really enjoyed this.
I tried Ted! But the puffins objected. 🙁. Lol glad you enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the video. Have a great day =)
Thank you! You too! 😊
I have a jpeg of a 1d red George V definitive, used on piece with a St Kilda postmark dated July 1918. Can't afford to buy it, as it is valued at £400 ($550), a bit steep for me! Probably was used in the tin can mail way, as in your video. As always, love your stuff - you must put a lot of time into production and research.
Thank you Peter, glad you enjoyed it 😊. That stamp could quite possibly have been sent via tin can mail, the postmark alone is something cool to have, but yeah $550 is a terribly steep. 🤔
Can you please do a video series on how to receive miniature and comm stamps of other countries from their respective philatelic department
Amazing video btw...👍😃
Your detective work was impressive, but I wonder whether you missed something more obvious? The first thing that would make me think the mail hadn't gone by boat is the size of most of the boats and canisters compared with the large uncreased cover. Notice also that the cards that arrived in Norway last year were bent, possibly damp had begun to get at them. I am hoping to get a Pacific tin can mail cover for my collection.
Thank you Philip! ☺️ yes absolutely, you can actually see a fold crease across the top of the cover, it runs right through the stamp at the Queens eye level. The question then is, was it folded to go in a mailboat, or just folded to go in someone’s pocket or lunchbox for the helicopter ride back 😅. Thanks for watching.
Hi from Romania!
Nice video! I'm really thinking about sending a mail boat in 2030. To comemorate the 100th anniversary of the evacuation!
Hi Yan! Thanks for watching. I think that would be awesome, I bet the National Trust for Scotland will be planning to do something as well 😀
Some what related, I read that in 1952 the US Fish and Wildlife Service dropped thousands of plastic covered post cards in the Gulf of Mexico with instruction to mail them back to the department when found. The purpose of the drop was to collect data on the currents. I admit that my source is engage more in philatelic lore that philatelic facts. I have try to research this but have not pursued it thoroughly. Has anyone heard of this? I would love to have such a cover.
Ooo that's really interesting, I would love to know more. If anyone else knows more please comment and let us know. Thanks for sharing James :)
Tin can mailboat mail? It's fascinating back then, sending a mail where you are not sure if it will reach its destination or not 😅
Absolutely! Although when I send things internationally, I do wonder if it will actually arrive as well 😅... my odds are a little bit better of course! Thanks for watching Mark.
Hahaha, agree 😂
How often to you upload? Just curious as I am pretty sure I have seen every episode so far and I'm having withdrawals hahah not really. But I do enjoy your channel.
😊 between 3 to 5 weeks. Glad to see you are enjoying this channel. I hope to have a new video soon, just finalized the script. 👍
It's important postal HISTORY
try to explore Flores and Corvo islands mail, they're the two westernmost islands of Europe!
ooo I will definitely look into it, thank you 😀
Wouldn't a genuine tin can mail envelope have significant curving or bending? Those tiny wood boats look.......... tiny.
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Hey that's a really good point. After looking carefully again, there is a light crease that runs across the cover, you can actually see it at 10:50 (through the Queen's eyes).... who knows 🤔 maybe it did go via tin can mail.. or someone's lunch box during the helicopter ride back to the airbase.
@@ExploringStamps "or someone's lunch box during the helicopter ride back to the airbase." LOL!
Jokes aside, the crease may in fact be evidence in favor of it being an actual tin canned piece of philatelic history!
I think you would enjoy another Island of the United Kingdom. It is known as the lonely island Tristan da Cunha.
Looking it up! Thanks for the recommendation Tom!
Hi thank you for your great channel land I have started to collect stamps again from watching your videos. I must say that I was disappointed with your previous video on New Zealand stamps as there is so much more to show about New Zealand stamps. For example did you know the following: 1. New Zealand was the first country in the world to create a stamp that was posted from Antarctica from the 1908 Nimrod Expedition. 2. New Zealand was the only country to create Health Stamps. 3. New Zealand was the first country in the world to use pictorial stamps. 4. New Zealand was the first country to use advertisement stamps with advertisements on the back of a stamp. 5. Lastly related to this video a little, New Zealand was the first and only country to use Pigeon Post stamps. I would love to see a new video portraying New Zealand Postal history a bit better and can help with information if you need it. Thanks Neil
Thank you Neil. I haven't yet done a video on NZ postal history, only one on a NZ kiwi stamp a couple years ago, where I simply explored the concept of kiwi/forever type stamps. As you mentioned, there is a lot of fascinating firsts with the country's philatelic history, perhaps a topic in the near future 🤔. Thanks for watching!
As i also collect NZ stamps i started in 1970, while living there for 12 years[1967-1979].i know reside in Greece, and another fascinating country to collect.
India has a great postal history do make a video on it..
It sure does! I would love to do a video on India's postal history in the near future 🇮🇳👍
Did you receive my letter?
@@vedantvishwasdeokar I did! I sent you an email a couple of weeks ago, and also dropped a reply in the mail recently :)
That's great📮I must have missed that email thanks for the confirmation, I actually have to inform my local post office as they were excited since after 30 years an airmail was processed from there..cheers🌹🌹👌👌
Here is the actual tin can mail at Tonga post office (travel video from Taiwan) ua-cam.com/video/PMXERyAhP9Q/v-deo.html
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