SOUTH SHETLANDS - DECEPTION IS. - PAIR OF 1d-RATE COVERS TO ...

SOUTH SHETLANDS - DECEPTION IS. - PAIR OF 1d-RATE COVERS TO G.B. (ONE A PROBABLE 'PROVING COVER'); 6 Feb. 1944 pair of envs. ex Deception Is. Base B (?on board the writer's ships SS 'Fitzroy' or HMS 'William Scoresby') from Captain David Roberts to F.I. Co. M.D. in Surrey or to "C.H.M. Waldock" in Oxford; Waldock was a leading barrister working for Admiralty Intelligence at this time and the cover to him may have been a 'Proving Cover' addressed by him and specially taken from G.B. Both are franked with S. Shetlands 1d's tied by very fine purple "South Shetlands" cds's and each having a mainly very fine 2-ring P. Stanley backstamp (6 Mar.) but having no Naval censor marks or censor labels. Good pair. (2 covers)Cross Reference: FALKLAND ISLANDS DEPENDENCIES, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL