The Disinfected Mail Study Circle (DMSC)

Hi, John, Nice to hear from you and your exhibition plans. For opening a new thread about a cachet from Aleksinac please go to Serbia in the forum. Than choose "+ create thread". Now you can type in your text. For adding pictures please click on…

Perfect, thank you very much!

Hi Andre, I need some help using the site. My first aim is to put up a letter with a cachet that is completely new, on a letter that has been through Aleksinac. How can I put photos onto the site, and where should they be placed to best elicit an…

I hope it is batter and readable.

(Quote from Hedy)

The HMS Bellerophon arrived in Gibraltar on Oct. 9th, 1850 and was cleared for Westward on Oct. 11th. I assume that the letter was sent by the HMS Rattler to Liverpool. The HMS Rattler arrived in Liverpool on Oct. 21st, 1850 and was…

Dear Hedy,
I have increased the maximum file size for you. Please give it a try.
Kind regards,
André

Dear Andre

Scans heavier than 1 Mb can not be upload. I tried!

Queen Anne Royal Proclamation published on November 8, 1711. H.M. ordered quarantine installation on British ports due to Plague, a term used at that time for infectious diseases without knowledge of the causative agents.
Here the immediate cause was an…

Dear Hedy,

Thank you very much for showing this interesting document! Unfortunately the low resolution makes the pages hard to read.
I can recommend a book to people who are interested in the Baltic pest: "The Last Plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713" by…

Queen Anne Royal Proclamation published on November 8, 1711. H.M. ordered quarantine installation on British ports due to Plague, a term used at that time for infectious diseases without knowledge of the causative agents.
Here the immediate cause was an…