Internal Postmarks and Registration Markings of Liberia

• Registration Indicators

  see also “Registered Envelopes” under Stationeries.

  • Handstamped Markings

    • registration marking in black or violet known use: Aug 12, 1983 (MONROVIA); Dec 12, 1988 (HARPER); Sep 8, 1924 (BUCHANAN); May 9, 1891 (BASSA); no date, on cover dated Nov 24, 1998 (GRAND BASSA); no date (NANNA KROO, in violet)

      CR1

    • registration marking in red known use: 1896 - 1905 (HARPER, in red)

      CR18

    • registration marking in black known use: early 1940s (MONROVIA)

      CR2

    • registration marking in black known use: 1940 (ROBERTSPORT)

      CR23

    • registration marking in black known use: 1947 (MONROVIA)

      CR23A

    • registration marking in black known use: 1947 (GREENVILLE)

      CR22

    • registration marking in black known use: 1951 (BUCHANAN)

      CR17

    • registration marking in black known use: 1950 (HARBEL)

      CR25

    • registration marking in black known use: 1952 (HARBEL)

      CR27

    • registration marking in violet, red or black known use: 1942 (MONROVIA, in violet); 1952 (HARPER, in red); 1951 (GREENVILLE)

      CR3

    • registration marking in black known use: late 1940s and early 1950s (GREENVILLE)

      CR21

    • registration marking in black known use: 1951 (ROBERTSPORT)

      CR24

    • registration marking in black known use: 1951 (HARBEL)

      CR26

    • registration marking in black known use: 1950 - 1958 at least

      CR19

    • registration marking in black known use: 1966 (HARPER)

      CR20

    • registration marking in black known use: 1956 (MONROVIA)

      CR4

    • registration marking in black known use: 1956 (MONROVIA)

      CR5

    • registration marking in black known use: 1955 (MONROVIA)

      CR11

    • registration marking in black known use: 1965 (MONROVIA)

      CR8

    • registration marking in black known use: 1965 (MONROVIA)

      CR7

    • registration marking in black known use: ~1970 (MONROVIA) example of a battered registration mark as it is often found on covers

      CR6

    • registration marking in black known use: late 1960s and early 1970s (MONROVIA)

      CR12

    • registration marking in black known use: believed ca. 1968 (MONROVIA)

      CR13

    • registration marking in black known use: 1971 (MONROVIA)

      CR14

    • registration marking in black known use: 1972 (MONROVIA)

      CR15

    • registration marking in black known use: 1970 (MONROVIA)

      CR9

    • registration marking in black known use: 1972 (MONROVIA)

      CR10

    • registration marking in black known use: 1973 (MONROVIA)

      CR16

    • registration marking in black known use: 1969 (BUCHANAN); 197x (ROBERTS AIRPORT)

      CR28

    • registration marking in black known use: 1969 (SASSTOWN)

      CR_unlisted

    • registration marking in violet or red known use: 1920s (MONROVIA, in red or violet); 1920s (HARPER, in violet)

      CR29

    • registration marking in black known use: 1926 (MONROVIA)

      CR30

    • registration marking in black known use: 1926 (MONROVIA)

      CR31

    • registration marking in black known use: 1927 (MONROVIA)

      CR32

    • registration marking in black known use: 1937 (MONROVIA)

      CR33

    • registration marking in black known use: 1896 (ROBERTSPORT)

      CR34

    • registration marking in black known use: 1914 (MONROVIA); 1916 (BUCHANAN); 1925 (HARPER)

      CR35

    • registration marking in black known use: Nov 24, 1898 (GRAND BASSA)

      CR36

  • Wax Seals

    • registration seal in red wax known use: no date (HARPER)

      SR1

    • registration seal in red wax known use: Oct 11, 1950 (HARPER); 1958 (TAPPITA)

      SR2

    • registration seal in red wax known use: Sep 6, 1913 (“POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT / LIBERIA”, Monrovia) “POST OFFICE / MONROVIA” noted by Rogers

      SR3

    • registration seal in red wax known use: Apr 15, 1905 (“POST-OFFICE / LIBERIA”, Monrovia)

      SR-4

    • registration seal in red wax known use: Dec 31, 1908 (“POST OFFICE / MONROVIA”)

      SR-5

    • registration seal in red wax known use: Apr 2, 1951 (“ROBERTSFIELD / LIBERIA”)

      SR-6

  • Registration Labels

    • registration label in violet known use: (1906/8 ?) 1909 - 1911 (MONROVIA, HARPER)

      LR1

    • registration label in red known use: 1911 - 1929 (BUCHANAN; CAVALLA; GREENVILLE; HARPER; MONROVIA; RIVERCESS; ROBERTSPORT)

      LR2

    • registration label in blue known use: early 1950s? (MONROVIA, ROBERTSPORT)

      LR3

    • registration label in blue known use: ca. 1976 - 1980 design identical to the ‘Head Office’ series first introduced in the UK in the 1970s — so called, because in the UK they bore the names of Head Offices only instead of the thousands of place-names that had been used before; so far, labels with numbers for nine different sub-offices in Monrovia ranging from 1 to 7, RS1 and RS2 (Randall Street) have been found

      LR4

    • registration label in black known use: 1980s numbering of sub-offices in Roman numerals

      LR5