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Stamp Collecting and Easter Island Stephen Pendleton Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 11 2006 Moai Mail: Stamp Collecting and Easter Island Stephen Pendleton Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Pendleton, Stephen (2006) "Moai Mail: Stamp Collecting and Easter Island," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 11. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol20/iss1/11 This Research Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Pendleton: Moai Mail: Stamp Collecting MOAI MAIL: STAMP COLLECTING AND EASTER ISLAND Stephen Pendleton* HORT OF A TUALLY VI !TING RAPA N I, what is the year. the yawl Pandora - on a round-the-world voyage ­ S(sometimes) cheape t way you can indulge your passion stopped at Easter, where the crew prepared, but did not mail, for that place? Well, you can collect po tcard or carving, correspondence. This perhaps wa due to the fact that supply or some of those tiki mugs one can find for ale on eBay. A hips rarely came to the island. In any event, Chilean tamps for me, I have been involved for the pa t few years in a were applied, but they were over-written with "Isla de Pas­ earch for letters and stamp either from the i land, or with cua," no cancel being available. The envelope were carried an Ea ter I land theme. Combine the cancellation and ca­ on the Pandora around Cape Hom to ew Island in the chets of the Ea ter I land po t office, letter from or about Falklands where there wa a whaling station with a post of­ the island and stamps issued mainly by Chile, and you will fice. The letter was cancelled at ew Island, with this very have a very interesting collection. rare marking. Because thi item i probably unique (through The earch i far from easy. A k any stamp dealer if he at one time there probably was another letter, a two imi­ ha any Ea ter Island mail, and he i likely to give you either larly inscribed stamp are known); its value cannot be e ti­ a quick "no" or a look suggesting you are one of the quirkier mated. specimens of our species. Even Chilean philateli ts (yes, ometime what isn't found can be ju t a important as there are quite few in that gorgeous country) do not have what can be found. In 1916, the yacht Carnegie, under com­ much of a supply. Just to track down the fifty or 0 Chilean mand of 1. P. Ault, visited Ea ter I land following its cir- moai stamps is quite a cumnavigation of Antarc­ task. And early letters, tica. Ault reported that no from the 19th and early Chilean hip had been to 20th century, are ex­ the i land in a year and a tremely rare. So little is half. He al 0 reported actually known of thi taking letter from the period that there are till 1(1'): (!r J(.(rrh( i land' Governor and chances of undiscovered Ikrrl- 'rio, I '. rl ,1N mailing them in Bueno raritie , perhaps in old Aires, and mentioned that corre pondences, sail­ /.ror liru Al'l(1'(,,/. /-;/I'/t mail wa left on the is­ or ' letter , etc. fr. f;:,).:- {r1(/ • ('I'J'{'1..' land (none of the e letter One example is the . were e er received.) He George Cooke corre­ placed "valuable Rapa pondence. Cooke wa a Nui tamp" on the cov­ A letter from George Cooke to hi wife. II has the USS Mohican cancellation. er . Thi i an odd refer­ US avy urgeon who It wa sent following Cooke's visit to Easter Island. erved on a number of ence because no tamps American aval vessels specifically for Easter in the 1880s and early I890s. During his time of ervice, he Island are known to exist from that time. wrote many letters home to his wife. Over the past few A few older Chilean stamps are known to have a "Rapa year, orne of these have turned up on eBay, where they Nui" overprint, but these are thought by experts to be fake. have been old for fairly reasonable prices. Cooke's relation­ I belie e they are fakes, mainly becau e no Chilean authority ship with Easter Island involves his service with the US would allow the native name for the island to be used, in­ Mohican. After vi iting many port in the Pacific, the Mohi­ stead of the Spanish "Isla de Pascua." Finding uch a cover can topped at Ea ter I land for about one month in late would be an important di covery. 1886. During thi time, Cooke helped investigate many of The fust letters with markings howing origination at the i land' archaeological remains. When the ship reached Easter Island come from the Chilean avy. These began to Chile, Cooke sent everalletters home. Two are of particular appear in the early 1930s and are circular or oval in shape intere t: one wa sent in February of 1887; the other in April and usually say something like "Subdelegation Maritima Isla of the arne year. While the contents are not recorded, they de Pascua," or "Apo tadereo aval eccion I la de Pascua." likely contained reference to the i land. Also known, although very rare, i mail originating Al 0 known to exist are letters from early visitors to from the eompanie that controlled the sheep ranch on the the island, such as Policarpo Toro, Katherine Routledge, island. The Compafiia Explotadora Isla de Pascua, a well a Alfred Metraux, and the Chilean mi sionaries. However, if the shipping company of Valparai 0, Ha erbeck and kar­ the envelopes had any marking howing their origin a welt, had postal cachets. Ea ter Island, the e have not been recorded. Possibly the mo t common mail (a relative term for One fascinating envelope is known from 1910. In that any early Easter Island material) was carried by the fir t *SPE [email protected] Rapa ui Journal 71 Vol. 20 (1) May 2006 Published by Kahualike, 2006 1 Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation, Vol. 20 [2006], Iss. 1, Art. 11 airplane flights to touch down on the island. For mo t of it "pentothal card." Some adverti ing genius working for Ab­ history, the i land lacked an air trip, so uch arrivals had to bott Laboratories in the 1960 had a plan to attract attention be made by flying boats. Thi was hazardous due to the lack to their product. Doctors were sent a postcard with a uitable ofgood harbors and the rough character of the coastline. photo from orne exotic place (Pitcairn, Easter, Tahiti, or the On 19 January 1951, a proving flight was made from Antarctic, but the side of the card with the cancel (all legiti­ La Serena, Chile, to the i land by a Catalina 405 flying boat mate) carried an advertisement for Pentothol ane the ia. nicknamed Manulara. The The year that Mataveri pilot was Robert Parrague airport opened in 1967 Singer and he carried along a marked a real revolution for few ouvenir letters with an the i land. ow groups of appropriate four-line marking touri t were able to visit the in Spanish. After a bit more island and they added to the than 19 hours, the plane arrived demand for postal ervice in off Mataveri. Although dam­ order to send souvenir po t­ aged and unable to return, it cards and letters home with did prove that air flight to the the island cancel. The air­ island was possible. port's opening led to two Just a few months later, a other events that proved very much more ambitious flight important, not only for stamp took place, a flying boat called collector, but the i land as a the Frigate Bird II. Patrick whole. The flf t, in April Taylor, an internationally 2.20 1967, was the arrival of the known pilot who pioneered first organized touri t group flights in ew Guinea, the In- to fly to the i land, led by the dian Ocean, and the Pacific One of the first Chilean stamps to mention Rapa ui. I ued in pioneer of adventure toun m, wa the pilot. Taylor's goal 1940, it show a picture ofPolicarpo Toro along with a kavakava Lars Eric Lindblad. Lindblad was to fly from Australia to woodcarving figure. was aware of the advertising Chile with stops in Fiji, Sa­ value of souvenir mail and moa, and Easter Island. The his ship created dozens of TOUR DU MONDE N! II 174 flight left Sydney on 12 such covers on the Antarctic March 1951 and reached Val­ voyages. The group arrived paraiso on 26 March; he re­ via L Chile and the visit turned to Australia in April. lasted from 9 to 14 ApriI. It More cover of several type was only for the hardie t trav­ were carried on this flight; eler. There were 41 partici­ those that carry markings pants who mu t have paid a from Australia or Chile are hand orne fee to join the common and worth only a ILE DE PAQUES group.
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