Description
Discovery: undocumented JAFFA SYRIE postmark of French Holy Land post office, double ringed (solid lines), dated 10 SEPT [19]01 with narrow "JAFFA" but unitalicized month (similar to Ba #312), tying face & 10 centimes black/pink French SAGE postage stamp affixed to picture post card (at the ruins of Capernaum) addressed to PLYMOUTH Great Britain, and sent by a Christian pilgrim aboard the ship "Notre Dame de Salud"; with English message dated 2 Sept. 1901 ("we are due in Jaffa & Jerusalem on Wednesday" - i.e. 4 Sept). The referenced ship was the former British ship "Dunrobin Castle" (built 1875) which carried mail on the 'Cape Mail Service'; sold to Armement Letocart & Cie of Marseilles in 1893 for the pilgrim run to Palestine and renamed "Notre Dame de Salut"; broken up at Genoa in 1914.
