Great Bitter Lake
Association
Peter Valdner (2017, updated)
There are already a few articles on the GBLA on this blog - Mail from Ships and warning against GBLA Imitations.
Now a few preliminary data from the book GBLA Stamp Catalogue for the fellow ASFE collectors. So far I have listed following names on GBLA stamps. The definitive list will be in the Catalogue.
1. Afr. Glen,
Djakbier GBLA
2. African Glen
3. African Glen
GBLA
4. African Glen
Yellow Fleet GBLA
5. Agalampus
6. Agalampus GBLA
7. Agalampus GBLYC
8. Agalampus Great Bitter Lake Association
9. Agalampus, Port
Invercargill
10.
Agapenor GBLA
11.
Agapenor,
Melampus
12. Agapenor, Melampus GBLA
13. B. Bierut GBLA
14. Bierut
15. Bierut GBLA
16. Bol. Bierut, Djakarta
17. Boleslav Bierut GBLA
18. Djabiporst
19. Djabiporst Canal Maritime de Suez
20. Djabiporst GBLA
21. Djabiporst Suez Canal GBLA
22. Djabiporst Yellow Fleet GBLA
23. Djakarta
24. Djakarta GBLA
25. Djakarta Suez Canal
26. Djakarta SWJG
27. Djakbier GBLA
28. Djakbier, Muwinikies GBLA
29. Djakbier, Porstar GBLA
30. Djakbier, Portstar GBLA
31. Djakbiporst GBLA
32. GBLA
33. GBLFA
34. GBLYC
35. Great Bitter Lake
36. Great Bitter Lake Association Suez Canal
37. Killara GBLA
38. Killara, Nippon GBLA
39. Lednice
40. Lednice GBLA
41. Ledmelaga GBLA
42. Ledmelaga Yelow Fleet GBLA
43. Levsky GBLA
44. Melampus GBLA
45. Melpenor GBLA
46. Muewinikies GBLA
47. Munsterland
48. Munsterland GBLA
49. Munsterland, Nordwind GBLA
50. Muwiniki
51. Muwiniki GBLA
52. Muwinikies GBLA
54. MWNKE GBLA
55. Neleus
56. Nippara GBLA
57. Nippon GBLA
58. Nordwind GBLA
59. Polish Oceanic Lines GBLA
60. Polskie Linie Oceanyczne GBLA
61. Port Invercargill
62. Port Invercargill GBLA
63. Portstar GBLA
64. Scottish Star GBLA
65. Scottish Star Great Bitter Lake GBLA
66. Sindh
67. Sindh Canal de Suez
68. Sindh Canal de Suez GBLA
69. Sindh GBLA
70. Suez
71. Suez GBLA
72. Suez Canal GBL
73. Suez Canal GBLA
74. V. Levsky GBLA
75. Vasil Levsky Yellow Fleet GBLA
76. Yellow Fleet GBLA
If you have any GBLA stamps with different inscriptions, let me know, please, to be added to the list.
Stamps were issued by crews of all fourteen trapped ships. They traveled first to the "GBLA Post Office" on the Nordwind, where the stamps and covers were cacheted, then to the port on the Lake bank. From there, they were transported to "official" post offices, mostly in Egypt.
If you collect covers, you can collect ASFE not only by a name on stamps, but also according the ship or ship group where the stamp was produced. Identification can be difficult, you will have to consult the catalogue. Another good option is collecting according to ships where the items were mailed from to the Nordwind. Either the cachet Mailed on Board or the sender could indicate it.
Stamps will be shown in the Catalogue. I would like to show them all in color. Next picture illustrates the difference between a black&white and color picture .
If you have any GBLA stamps in your collection, I would like to ask you to contact me to discuss providing scans. There is a chance you have some stamps which I have not listed, yet.
GBLA is represented only once in the 780 ASFE list, otherwise the list would get too complicated for practical collecting. I have also several lists of local stamps, which refer to the main list. Each ASFE collector can choose himself which stamps to collect, but at least a few GBLA stamps should not be missing.
Sources: Internet a archív autora
Sources: Internet a archív autora
Contact tot the author: valdpete@yahoo.com
