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1641 (2 March) entire letter from Sandgate Castle to Captain Collins, Deputy Lieutenant of Dover Castle, without postal markings; fine. A rare Civil war letter and with a fine red wax seal on the reverse showing three diagonal stars. Photo £300-350
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1670 (19 Sept.) entire letter to Livorno with, on reverse, a fine strike of the "franches/(rose)" type 3 cachet; fine and extremely early usage of this rare mark.
Van der Linden Certificate (2011). Photo £400-450
Note: This marking was used by the Foreign Office, by order of Gardiners survey. "There is a stamp applied to the part of the letter where the post is expresst to have been paid, to obscure it from the Forraine Postmasters abroad"
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1685 (21 Sept.) entire letter from London to Malaga, on reverse a good strike of the "franches/(rose)" type 6 cachet, fine and rare. Van der Linden Certificate (2011). Photo £400-450
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1688 (22 March) entire letter, headed "House of Lords", addressed "To the Honble Sir Robt. Southwell Knt, At the Two Talbots the further end of German St. in St. James", on reverse a very fine strike of the Government Penny Post "w/sat" for Westminster marking; the letter refers to Petitions against the Mayor of Gravesend, a libel against Lord Grey of Wark, the Archbishop of Canterbury and "The Bill for abrogating the oath of allegiance and supremacy", also under the heading House of Commons "a bill for ye better preventing of Simony", the King's speech and "What ships are necessary to make good the treaty with Holland"; light vertical filing fold, fine and rare. Photo £400-450
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1699 (9 June) entire letter, addressed to the Inner Temple, on reverse a fine strike of the Type 2 Government Penny Post marking "t/mon" for Temple and a fine, cracked red wax "crown/dog" seal; interesting contents: "This week return'd from the sea bringing his Maj part of the way towards Holland with ye Marquis of Camarthen. Vertical filing fold and a trifle soiled. A rare letter, referring to William III. Photo £250-300
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1765 (2 Oct.) entire letter (left side flap missing), addressed to Holborn, on reverse fine Type 3 Dockwra "t/we" for Temple and manuscript "Pryor" receiver; the entire letter has been slightly refolded, fine £100-120
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1768-1896 Transatlantic mail, group of fourteen entire letters and a card (all Ex Robertson), including 1768 from Jamaica to London with "portsmouth/ship lre", 1805 from London to New Hampshire with red "post paid ship letter/london/(Crown)", 1817 from Havana to London with framed "liverpool/ship letter", 1829 from Baltimore to London with red framed "portsmouth/ship letter", 1882 United States 2c. postal stationery card to Norfolk with red Liverpool P.L.O. datestamp, etc., chiefly good to fine £950-1,000
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1769 (30 May) entire letter to Long Acre, on reverse Government Penny Post markings for "w/tu" (Westminster) and Type 4 "g/we" (General Office), manuscript "Bateman" receiver; vertical filing fold affecting one of the handstamps, otherwise very fine and believed to be a unique usage of two separate offices and different days on a
non-readdressed letter. Photo £700-800
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1771-1874, selection of 19 entires/entire letters, including 1771 to Perth with straight line "forfar" and "perth" on reverse, 1828 to Romsey with red "lyndhurst/89" across flap on reverse, 1835 to Plymouth with framed "night/ja 31/1835" on reverse, 1835 from Warwick to Lutterworth with "too late", 1836 with circular undated "selby" on reverse, 1838 from Le Havre to London with red "ship letter/london/(crown)" on reverse, 1842 with red "paid at edinb", 1853 franked 1d. with Maltese Cross cancellation and Chard traveller alongside, 1850 to Hull with blue "Earl-St.Biils/1d. PAID", and a few other items, etc., chiefly good to fine £150-200
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1782 (10 Jan.) entire addressed locally with Bishop mark "13/1A"; 1790 (24 Aug.) entire letter addressed to Pickering, Yorkshire with double circle h.s.; 1792 (25 Jan.) entire addressed to Edinburgh with double circle h.s; the former a little re-folded £80-100
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1783-1881, selection of thirty-seven items with Irish cancellations, including 1783 with red "belfast/ship letter", 1801 to Port George with red "p.paid" and "belfast",
1819 with circular "belfast/89" fleuron, 1833 with "belfast/penny post", 1835 with "ballycastle" on reverse, 1837 with "(crown)/free" and "Derry/Penny Post",
1838 with "belfast/last" datestamp, 1842 with blue framed "paid at/ballymena", 1844 with blue framed "paid at/coleraine", 1846 with green "p.d/c.raine",
1848 with red framed "paid at/sligo", 1856 1d. pink envelope with Belfast spoon cancellation, etc., mixed condition but an interesting group £200-250
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1785 (23 Nov.), entire letter to Edinburgh, on reverse a fine strike of Peter Willliamson's rare "paid" (S.G. 4/37) Edinburgh local penny Post handstamp; tear through the address panel and a trifle stained, otherwise fine. Photo £200-250
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1790 (8 Dec.), Edinburgh local entire letter with, on reverse, across flap, a very fine strike of the scarce wavy "not paid" (S.G. 4/39) of Peter Williamson's Edinburgh local Post; horizontal filing fold, fine £100-120
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1791 (30 April) entire letter, with contents, from Jamaica to Edinburgh, with fine "greenock/ship" (Robertson S.1), red Bishop marking on reverse, rated "9" in manuscript (including the Captain's gratuity); fine and scarce. Van der Linden Certificate (2010). Photo £400-450
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1794 (25 Aug.) entire to London with purple "(Crown)/post/paid" experimental marking, overstruck by black "putney" handstamp; light horizontal filing fold through the first; fine. A very rare combination of the experimental marking with a receiving house handstamp. Photo £250-300
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1795-1815, five entire letters to London (three redirected) with different red "belfast" handstamps, including "belfast/80" mileage; filing folds, fine £80-100
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1803 front and two reverse flaps of entire letter from North Carolina to London with fine oval "Ship Lre/new rumney"; vertical filing fold just clear of the marking, fine. Believed to be the only recorded example. Van der Linden Certificate (2010). Photo £600-650
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x 1821 (13 July) entire to the Cape of Good Hope with fine double oval "post paid ship lr/(Crown)/london" (Robertson type S45) in red, rated 8d. for Ship letter charge and 2d. for the internal Cape rate; fine. Photo £100-150
Provenance: Robertson
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1821 (6 Nov.), entire letter to Providence R.I, datelined "Ship Patterson off the start point of the English Channel", with fine framed step type "kingsbridge/ship letter" (Robertson S.1), red New York arrival of 30 Dec. and "ship" the same colour; fine and scarce. Van der Linden Certificate (2010). Photo £350-400
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1836 (5 Feb.) entire letter to Dublin with fine circular "dublin/penny post/1d." on the front, "ballibay" and red arrival datestamp on reverse; horizontal filing fold crosses the Dublin marking, otherwise fine £50-75
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1838 (19 Nov.) entire to Glasgow, on front boxed additional " 1/2" and red "mis-sent/
To Liverpool" (affected by light filing fold); dated markings on reverse; fine £80-100
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1840 long, partly cross written, entire letter to Brighton, on reverse "T.P./Thornhill", and on front an exceptional strike of the Brighton "P1" in red; a trifle stained. Scarce £60-80
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1844 (21 Oct.), postal notice "short general instructions/for/sub-deputy postmasters" six sides with some manuscript notes; folded and with some minor faults. An early and excessively rare document of major philatelic and historical interest and importance. Photo £800-1,000
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1847 (29 June), four page letter from W.E. Gladstone (1809-98), fine. With the accompanying stained stampless envelope, addressed to Oxon, with another letter referring to Gladstone's letter and with printed "the case of the dissenters' chapels' bill" £150-200
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1871 (31 May) stampless envelope from Jersey to Penzance, with a fine Jersey "2" Postage Due handstamp and crisp c.d.s. on the front, arrival d.s. (2.6) on reverse; fine and very rare. Photo £300-350
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1891 "The automatic Stamp Distributing Machine", single page document advocating the use of stamp vending machines; file punch hole at top and crease at lower right,
fine and a fascinating document £50-75
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1893 (26 July) "Memorandum and Articles of Association of The Postage Stamp Automatic Supply Company, Ltd."; minor cover faults, but an interesting and rare late Victorian document £100-120
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1810 (9 June) "An Act to authorize the Judge Advocate General to fend and receive Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Poftage."; two pages, a little stained and minor crease £60-80
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1810 (15 June) "An Act to grant to His Majefty certain additional Duties upon Letters and Packets fent by the Poft within Ireland"; two pages, somewhat stained £60-80
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1817 (7 July) "An Act to amend an Act of the Twenty-fecond Year of His prefent Majefty, for fupreffing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, fo far as relates to the Board of Trade; and for enabling the Vice-Prefident of the Board of Trade to fend and receive Letters and packets free from the Duty of Poftage."; two pages, fine £60-80
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1819 (12 July) "An Act to amend several Acts relating to the Post Office and Conveyance of Letters in Ireland"; four pages, minor stains £80-100
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1819 (12 July) "An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, as relates to the Postage and Conveyance of Letters to and from the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and the East Indies; and to make other Regulations respecting the Postage of such Letters and Packets, and other Letters and Packets sent by the Post."; eight pages, fine £80-100
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1820 (24 July) "An Act for imposing additional Rates and Duties on the Conveyance of Letters between Port Patrick in Scotland and Donaghadee in Ireland"; minor stains £80-100
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1823 (18 July) "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company; and to authorize Soldiers and Sailors in the East Indies to send and receive Letters at a reduced Rate of Postage."; twenty-eight pages, fine £100-150
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1824 (12 April) "An Act to regulate the Conveyance of Packets containing re-issuable Country Bank Notes by the Post, and to charge Rates of Postage thereon; to prevent Letters and Packets being sent otherwise than by the Post; to punish Persons embezzling printed Proceedings in parliament, or Newspapers; and to allow the President of the Commissioners of Revenue Enquiry to send and receive Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage"; six pages, a trifle stained £80-100
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1825 (10 June) "An Act for granting Rates of Postage for the Conveyance of Letters and Packets between Great Britain and Ireland, by way of Liverpool."; minor stains £80-100
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1825 (22 June) "An Act for granting to His Majesty Rates of Postage on the Conveyance of Letters and Packets to and from Columbia and Mexico."; minor stain spotting £80-100
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1825 (22 June) "An Act to regulate the Conveyance of printed Votes and Proceedings in Parliament, and printed Newspapers, by Packet Boats between Great Britain and Ireland, and the British Colonies, and also in the United Kingdom."; four pages, fine £60-80
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1827 (21 March) "An Act for granting to His Majesty Rates of Postage on the Conveyance of Letters and Packets to and from Saint Domingo and Cuba."; fine £100-120
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1831 (11 March) "An Act for enabling His Majesty to appoint a Postmaster General for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland."; four pages, minor staining, fine £80-100
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1832 (24 March) "An Act to enable His Majesty's Post Master General to extend the Accommodation by Post, and to regulate the Privilege of Franking in Ireland; and for other Purposes relating to the Post Office"; fourteen pages, fine £100-150
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1834 (26 March) "An Act to repeal, at the Period within mentioned, so much of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to alter certain Rates of Postage, and to amend, explain, and enlarge several Provisions in an Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and in other Acts relating to the Revenue of the Post Office, as authorizes the taking of certain Rates of Inland Postage within His Majesty's Dominions in North America.", three pages, fine £60-80
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1834 (13 Aug.) "An Act to regulate the Conveyance of printed Newspapers by Post between the United Kingdom, the British Colonies, and Foreign Parts."; eight pages, fine £100-150
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1835 (21 Aug.) "An Act to extend the Accomodation by the Post to and from Foreign Parts, and for other Purposes relating to the Post Office.", sixteen pages; fine £100-120
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1835 (10 Sept.) "An Act for Abolishing Capital Punishments in Cases of Letter Stealing and Sacrilege"; three pages, some staining and manuscript notes £60-80
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1836 (18 March) "An Act to amend an Act of the last Session for abolishing Capital Punishments in Cases of Letter Stealing and Sacrilege"; two pages, some manuscript notes £50-60
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1836 (13 Aug.) "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Conveyance of Newspapers by the Post."; eleven pages, some very minor staining, fine £100-120
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1837 (18 March) "An Act for transferring to the Commissioners of the Admiralty all Contracts, Bonds and other Securities entered into with the Postmaster General in relation to the Packet Service."; fine £80-100
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1837 (12 July) "An Act to repeal several Laws relating to the Post Office"; eighteen pages, fine £120-150
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1837 (12 July) "An Act for the Management of the Post Office"; eight pages, fine £80-100
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