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1794 (June 30) Entire letter written from Brighton Pavilion and posted from Brighton to the Salopian Coffee House in London prepaid 4d, handstamped upon arrival with red experimental octagonal "POST / 94 / PAID" (Jay 97, only used April-July 1794) most unusually with the month and day omitted. Horizontal file fold, the lower portion a little discoloured, the only missing date variety of this scarce Paid mark we have seen. Photo on Page 174 in printed catalogue. £200-250
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1794 (June 27) Entire letter posted from Bishopsgate to Fleet Street by the London penny post handstamped "B.GATE / WT1" (Jay 418, recorded 1794-95), circular framed "(crown) / P. POST / PAID" (Jay 410, used June-October 1794) and framed "7 o'clock / 27 JE 94 / EVEN" (Jay 402, only used June & July 1794 in this format). A fine entire letter with three scarce marks from the 1794 experimental penny post period. Photo on Page 174 in printed catalogue. £350-400
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1795 Entire letter sent within London posted as a "window" letter at the General Post but intended for local London delivery, with red circular framed "W" (Jay 558) and a superb strike of the very large and scarce "2" charge (Jay 594, only used 1795-96), filing endorsement, otherwise fine and attractive. Photo on Page 174 in printed catalogue. £180-220
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1796 Entire letter from Hamburg to London backstamped scarce circular framed "PP / 1796" (Jay L1025a), "DE/19" Bishop Mark and London Chief Office time handstamp. The "PP" handstamp used on letters from abroad transferred from the Foreign Office to the Local Post for delivery. Photo on Page 176 in printed catalogue. £160-200
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1798 Free entire letter to Edinburgh with red Free c.d.s (Jay 782), backstamped with a superb and rare boxed late fee datestamp for "JAN / 3 / 98" (Jay 36, only used 1797-98). Photo on Page 174 in printed catalogue £220-260
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1803 Entire from Paris to London with red "P. PAYE PARIS" backstamped with the very scarce large "FOREIGN / OFFICE" single ring experimental c.d.s (Jay 1005, only used Jan.-Feb. 1803). Photo on Page 176 in printed catalogue. £280-320
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1800 Entire letter from Europe to London with rare oval framed "ST" handstamp (Jay 1058) applied in the London Foreign Branch. The purpose of this handstamp is not known, but it has been recorded on a few letters from Switzerland and northern Europe in 1800-08. Small piece missing from base, otherwise fine, ex B. Jay collection. Photo on Page 176 in printed catalogue. £200-240
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1810 Entire letter from Ireland to Kent and redirected to London, finally charge "3/5" with "In All" and red "A" handstamp (Jay 190); and 1824 entire letter from Cavendish Bridge to London with the same "A" handstamp in black. This "A" handstamp believed to have been used in the 2d Post, though its meaning is not known. (2). £140-160
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1815 Entire letter from Inverness to India but posted in London with a fine strike of the very rare scroll type handstamp of the London Foreign Branch "PUT IN AFTER 7 o'CLOCK / AT NIGHT" (Jay 1120) and an "INDIA SHIP LETTER / G.P.O / LONDON" c.d.s. An attractive item. Photo on Page 176 in printed catalogue £500-600
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1817 Entire to London with red Amsterdam handstamp and "oz at 5/4 per oz" (Jay 1035a), weighing 2 1/4oz so charged 12/-, very fine. £100-120
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1818 Entire letter from Lausanne to Guernsey directed via Paris and S. Malo, handstamped "SUISSE PAR / PONTARLIER", backstamped in London and with small circular framed "SS". This mark is unlisted by Jay but is known on several letters from Switzerland to G.B via France; its meaning is not known but it was clearly applied in the London Foreign Branch. Very scarce. £200-240
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1819 Entire letter sent within London, backstamped in error with red boxed "To be Delivered / by 10. o'Clock / on Sund. Morn" (Jay 708) obliterated by black erasure handstamp (Jay 658), very unusual. £100-120
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1820 Entire from Burnley to London with red crowned "To be / delivered / Free" (Jay 715) applied in error and obliterated by black erasure handstamp (Jay 658), extremely unusual. Photo on Page 176 in printed catalogue. £200-250
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1821 Entire letter containing a statement sworn before a J.P giving the birth and baptism dates of Thomas McCarthy, an invalid of the Royal Veterans Battn., now at Sheerness. Posted from London addressed to "Thomas McCarthy, Invalid, 5th Company, Sixth Royal Veterans Battalion, Sheerness or elsewhere" prepaid at the 1d concession rate, but handstamped boxed "NOT ACCORDING / TO THE ACT" (Jay 256) and "MORE TO PAY", charged 1/3. An unusual use of the scarce "Not According to the Act" on the front of an entire (the handstamp usually applied to the reverse), apparently charged because no rank was shown in the address. Photo on Page 176 in printed catalogue. £320-360
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1823 Small entire sent prepaid within the London local post, handstamped oval framed "MS" (Jay 562a), possibly indicating a missorted letter. £80-100
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1827 Entire letter from Paris to London with very scarce red "F.P" handstamp (Jay 559), used on letters transferred from the Foreign Branch to the 2d Post for delivery in the town area. Very fine, ex B. Jay collection. Photo on Page 176 in printed catalogue. £180-200
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1827-43 Entire letters, entires and a front all with Sunday handstamps comprising red circular "To be Delivered / Sund / MORN / by 10" (Jay 711); "S" Paid datestamps, Jay 122 or 123 (2, one a front); and "S" c.d.s, Jay 28 (2), one entire letter from Jersey to Germany "P.Lauda via Rotterdam". (6). £100-120
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1829 Entire letter from Paris to London with a Foreign Branch datestamp and small unframed "S.S" handstamp. This mark is unlisted by Jay but is known on several covers from France to London in 1829-30, and was clearly applied in the London Foreign Branch; its meaning is not known. Light vertical folds, otherwise fine and scarce. Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue. £200-240
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1829 Entire letter from Leicester to "General Post Office, London", endorsed "not" before G.P.O and handstamped scarce red "NOT CALLED FOR" (Jay 258). Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue £200-250
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1832 Entire letter posted within the London 2d Post and handstamped "2" which has been obliterated by an erasure mark and replaced by "In All" and "4", both then strangely also obliterated by erasure marks (Jay 656) and again handstamped "2". A most unusual item. £150-180
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1836 Cover to Deptford signed "Lichfield" by the Postmaster-General, with red octagonal crowned "To be / delivered / Free" (Jay 716). £120-150
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Cross Post. 1837-39 Entire letters from Richmond to Reading with Richmond c.d.s and boxed "Hounslow / Py Post", or to Paris with red Peckham c.d.s and "Shooters Hill / Penny Post" in black, both largely fine. (2). £70-80
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1839 Entire letter from Bristol to London charged 1/7 but endorsed "single only" and returned for a refund with manuscript "Overcharged 9d only single R. Hutchins", red crowned "To be / delivered / FREE" (Jay 717) and the rare "REBATE / (crown) / 23 NO 23 / 1839 / INLAND OFFICE" (Jay 298), the charge altered to 10d. The Rebate datestamp only recorded November-December 1839. A couple of small edge tears, otherwise fine. Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue. £500-600
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1584 Entire from Norwich to Bartolomeo Corsini in London, written in French by Louis Cantin. A fine English Corsini letter. £250-300
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1668-1954 Entire letters, entires, covers and cards all written up on album pages including undated circles, rubbers, skeletons, mileage marks, numerals and duplexs, free franks, 1666 entire letter from Great Yarmouth to Essex, etc. (107). £200-250
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1831 280 Page Guide, "James Lumsden & Son's Steam-boat Companion or Strangers Guide to the Western Isles & Highlands of Scotland", third improved edition, red leather covers, containing three maps, illustrated descriptions of the routes and sights from Edinburgh to the Highlands and Islands, also the voyage from London to Leith with an excursion through the North of Ireland and a description of the Lakes of Cumberland. A four page appendix lists steam vessels employed in the Clyde and Forth, canal passage- boats and mail departures from Glasgow and Edinburgh by stage coach. An interesting volume. £80-100
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1693-1712 Entire letters from Edinburgh with superb Bishop Marks including rare "NO/23" Bishop Mark of 1693, the first year of use, dated less than four months after the first recorded Edinburgh Bishop Mark (heavy horizontal fold, a little splitting at left edge), also 1709 entire letter to London (faults) and small 1712 entire letter prepaid 4d to Newcastle, the first two also with London Bishop Marks. (3). £150-200
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1739-70 Entire letters all with town handstamps comprising straight line "DUNDEE" (1739), "MONTROSE" (2, 1739-40), "DUM / FERMLINE" (1740), "DUNBAR" (1743), "BERVIE" (1744), "ANNAN" (1745), "PERTH" (1746), circular framed "MONTROSE" (1753) and "GLAS / GOW" (2, 1754-61), etc., most unusually fine. (14). £280-320
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1752-1846 Prestamp and stampless entire letters with straight line handstamps including "PORTSOY" (1773) and "STRON= / =TIEN" (1794), Edinburgh Penny Posts, 1771 entire letter from Musselburgh posted upon arrival with London "PENNY POST PAID / G / MO" Dockwra handstamp, U.P.P "2" charge marks including distinctive dated "2" or Edinburgh (2, only used Jan.-May 1840), also 1768 entire letter from a Surgeons Mate on H.M.S "Levant" describing his six years service in the West Indies posted from Portsmouth to Edinburgh. (23). £200-240
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1782-1869 Entire letters and covers including four entire letters to Wigtown endorsed to go "per mailcoach" (3) or "per express", various postal markings with "SANQUAR / PENNY POST" applied in error and purposefully smudged and replaced by "SANQUAR", double ring "POST OFFICE / ELGIN" (4), circular "THORN / HILL" and "LOCH / GILPHEAD", "BORROWS = / TOWNESS" and other straight line handstamps, etc. (47). £200-240
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1840 (Nov 12) Entire letter written from Aberfoyle to Edinburgh prepaid 1d in cash with red manuscript "1", most unusually with an orange handstruck "1" cancelled out by a Maltese Cross and a Doune datestamp, all in matching orange ink, and red boxed "MISSENT / TO / STIRLING", a unique item. £150-200
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1846-96 Stamped covers and letters including 1855 cover from Kenmore with 1854-55 1d tied by green "196" numeral (a fine deep colour with matching backstamp, stamp crossed by light vertical fold), 1855 cover to Singapore bearing four margin embossed 1/-, Scots local cancels, 1856 entire letter with 1d block of four, 1859 Returned Letter Office envelope with enclosed Perth experimental duplex cover, etc. (29). £200-250
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1858 Small mourning cover to Alexandria, Egypt, with 1d red + 1856 6d pair tied by two strikes of "STOCKBRIDGE" type VII Scots Local cancels. An attractive and scarce use of Scots Local cancels on a cover to an unusual overseas destination. Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue £250-300
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South Uist. 1885-86 Covers to Glasgow both endorsed to go by private ships to Oban where the 1d lilacs were cancelled, the first cover with a Lochboisdale Pier backstamp endorsed "per steamer to Oban", the second cover endorsed "per Trojan". Recipients endorsements on both covers show they originated at Bornish. Very unusual. (2). £70-80
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Isle of Skye. 1900 Cover posted from Aberdeen to Yorkshire franked 1d, the reverse depicting the Broadford Hotel on Skye with mountains behind and a steamer in front of the hotel. A little light spotting mainly to the front, a most attractive cover. £70-80
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1746 (May 10) Entire letter from the Earl of Thomond, written from "Camp de Perck", addressed to Sir Richard Warren in Paris, with superb "ARMEE FLANDRE" handstamp. Thomond was from a famous Irish renegade family, and fought for the French; Sir Richard Warren, also an Irishman, fought as a Captain in the Franco-Irish Regiment. In 1745 he went to Scotland as a.d.c to Lord Murray and fought for the Scottish Jacobite army. He returned to France in April 1746 to try and get French support for the Jacobites, and returned to Scotland later in 1746 to bring Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, back to France. An interesting historical letter in which Thomond tells Warren he is glad he is back from Scotland, with the rare Flanders Army handstamp, used during the War of the Austrian Succession. Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue. £400-500
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1754 (Apr 29) Entire letter from Capt. John Glascoe at Bergues, addressed to "Monsieur le Chevalier de Warrenne Colonel d'Infant a Cassell en flandre" with fine "DE. BERGUE" handstamp. Warren's name was used as an alias by Charles Stuart, and this letter appears to be to the Prince himself. Glascoe writes " I received with the greatest satisfaction Your Majestys gracious favour which attribute to your many sublime & vast occupations & royal schemes which are daily engendring in Your Majestys brain ..... like a faithful subject wait with patience & an entire confidence in the benignity of Your Majestys superior capacity .... Your faithful subjects Dardis, Wogan &c return Your Majestys many thanks for his royal & kind remembrance of them". An interesting historical letter. Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue. £700-800
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c.1760 Entire letter from London with a Dockwra backstamp, addressed to a Mr Flower in the Scottish army at Leyden, Holland, charged 12st. The letter is signed A. Temple, and talks of visiting Norway, Mr Flower possibly visiting Italy or The Hague, and Lord Portland's visit to Holland. Most of Bonnie Prince Charlie's army escaped to France after the 1745 Rebellion, and became a mercenary army, taking part in many European wars. An unusual use of a Dockwra on a letter addressed abroad. £120-150
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1715 (Jan 14) Entire letter from Ipswich to London backstamped straight line "IPSWICH" and a "IA/16" Bishop Mark, small hole in address panel, otherwise fine, the town handstamp superb and early. Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue. £300-350
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1772 (Dec 17) Entire letter to London, the left flap with an unusually fine strike of the rare "BIRMINGHAM" chandelier type handstamp. One of the most unusual and attractive of all prestamp marks, only used 1772-73 with very few clear strikes recorded. Repaired where the seal was removed, otherwise very fine. Photo on Page 180 in printed catalogue. £500-600
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1678 Entire letter to John Moore in London inscribed "leave this at ye post house in London" and "po pd 3d" with "at doncaster" written before the postal rate, reverse with Bishop Mark; and 1695 entire letter to Hamburg endorsed "Post Pd att Doncaster 11d" with the rate changed to 8d, reverse with manuscript "doncaster" and "FRANCHES" handstamp of the London Foreign Branch (Jay 1078). The 1678 entire letter with small insect hole to address panel and 1695 entire letter with outer page separated from the letter, nevertheless two rare early manuscript "Doncaster" endorsements both clearly added by the Post Office. (2). £280-320
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