Description

Two rare postally used Canvey Island Local Post 50p stamps – the 2024 Hester’s Monorail and SS Benmohr releases – on a 2024 cover.

Only 160 copies of each stamp were released, and examples cancelled with a “Canvey Island Local Post” handstamp are seldom seen.

We have pixelated the address of the recipient and sender for the purposes of our illustration – on the actual cover it is legible.

About Canvey Island

Canvey Island itself is both an island and a town that can be found in the Thames Estuary, near Southend, with road bridges crossing the creeks that separate it from the rest of Essex.

Canvey Island Local Post (CILP), meanwhile, badges itself as a “private non-commercial local post”, dedicated “to the promotion of Cinderella stamps, postcard collecting, modern local posts (philopoly) and the history and development of Canvey Island”, and has operated since 2010.

Most recently, new issues have been released throughout 2023 and beyond after CILP took a production break for over a year.

The well-maintained website at canveypost.org features regular news updates and a full catalogue of past issues up to 2021.