« MONTREAL to SIMONSTOWN SOUTH AFRICA Registered Air Mail cover.
A strip of 3, 10 cents RCMP from the King George V Pictorial Issue with t he full Plate IMPRINT on top (#223) and a 5 cents from the same issue with part of the IMPRINT on bottom (#221). 35 cents paying the International Airmail Letter to South Africa, per ½ oz, 25 cents plus the 10 cents Registry fee. On front a Montreal Canada August 19, 1937, 9AM CDS, a Registered box MONTREAL P.Q. and 2 boxed AIR MAIL. On the back you have two other MONTREAL CDS and transit cancels from NEW YORK N.Y. REGY. DIV. and a NEW YORK U.S.A. FOREIGN cancel. An exceptional cover.

Simonstown is 7.65 square mile, population in 2011 was 6569. Imagine in 1937. Simon’s Town (Afrikaans: Simonstad), sometimes spelled Simonstown, is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa and is home to Naval Base Simon’s Town, the South African Navy’s largest base. It is located on the shores of Simon’s Bay in False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been a naval base and harbour (first for the British Royal Navy and now the South African Navy). The town is named after Simon van der Stel, an early governor of the Cape Colony. »