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Le Havre. 1864 Entire letter from Southampton to Havre franked at the quadruple rate by 2d blue plate 9 pair (both with pieces torn from upper edge prior to use) and 1862 1/- all cancelled by large "1769" lozenge, with red octagonal "ANGL. B.M / LE HAVRE" datestamp. A very scarce use of the 1/- value on "Boite Mobile" mail. Photo on Page 46. £200-240
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Le Havre. 1865 Entire letter from Southampton to Havre bearing 1d red plate 92 strip of four (perfs trimmed off at base and right) each cancelled by large "1769" lozenge cancel and tied by red octagonal "ANGL. B.M / LE HAVRE" datestamp, light horizontal file fold, otherwise fine. Photo on Page 46. £150-180
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Le Havre. 1870 Part entire (missing lower flap, a few faults) from Southampton to Havre bearing 1d red + 2d blue plate 13 each with large "1769" lozenge cancel and red "ANGL. B.M / LE HAVRE" datestamp on the front. Also single G.B stamps with lozenge numeral cancels of Le Havre comprising small "1495" on 1856-57 1d reds (7, including strip of four) and 1856 6d, or large "1769" on 1856-57 1d plates (7, including plate 91 vertical strip of four) and 2d plate 9 strip of four, 1862 4d (2), 1868 3d plate 5 and 1870 3d plate 6 strip of four. (Cover + 27 stamps). Photo on Page 34. £300-350
| Military Mail
(Also See Lots 145, 150/1, 436/46, 472/4, 478, 508/99, 677/8, 922, 1017, 1024, 1777, 1799, 1951/97) | |
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1793 (May 30) Entire from Francis Clifford to his mother in London written from Mechen, with light "DE LIEGE" and "MAASTRICHT" handstamps, backstamped "JU/6" Bishop mark and scarce "PP" (used on mail transferred from the London General Post to the Local Post for delivery). Good content includes "the Prince sent us word to pack up & quit Liege, Beaulieu had been beat, the French passed him & thought they might be here in a few hours being cavalry & nothing to stop them, the Liege patriots in great spirits ready to rise but the Prince immediately armed all the Emigrees which has kept those gentlemen in order". £200-240
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Ireland. 1800-01 Entire letters sent from Jane Fraser (using the nom de plume "John Sinclair") in Tuam to her cousin Ann Campbell (using the nom de plume "Donald Davidson" or "John Robertson") in Scotland all endorsed "A soldiers letter, paid 1 penny" and signed by the senders father Lt. Col. James Fraser of the Fraser Fencible Regt, all accepted at the 1d soldiers rate, a saving of 2/- postage on each letter. Also the book "His Majesty's Fraser Fencible Regiment of Foot 1794-1802" by Firebrace & Rawlings which details fourteen letters (including these three) from this correspondence, all deliberately sent as soldiers letters to defraud the Post Office. A remarkable series of letters showing a deliberate, prolonged and successful abuse of the 1d soldier's concession rate. The Fraser's Fencibles were formed in 1794 for home defence only, and disbanded in 1802; in 1798 they fought French and Irish forces at Castlebar. (3 + book). Photo on Page 46. £400-500
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1820 Entire letter from Woolwich to Edinburgh prepaid at the 1d soldiers rate, headed "From Serjeant R. Learmouth 1st Batt. Royal Artillery" and countersigned by an Officer, with "WOOLWICH EO / 1py P. Paid". The letter includes "excuse the manner in which I have addressed you on the outside as I have done it for the purpose of getting this franked to save postage, and when you send me a single letter have the goodness to put a penny into the Post Office along with it". The 1py P. Paid handstamp of the London Local Post is only found on soldier's letters prior to 1840. £120-140
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1850 (August) Post Office Notice No. 28 authorising the use of postage stamps on letters from seamen employed on H.M Ships on foreign stations sent to G.B in bags made up on H.M Ships. Such letters to be franked 1d each unless carried by private ships when they will be charged a further 2d unless prepaid with the additional 2d in stamps. Also 1806 London Gazette containing a P.O Notice on 1d soldiers and seamans letters. A scarce notice on the seamens 1d concession rate, 390x255mm. (2). £100-120
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Real photo picture postcards of soldiers or nurses, apparently all given to a World War One nurse at hospitals in Carmarthen, Fleet, London, etc. (57). £80-100
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Lofthouse Park Internment Camp. 1915-18 Prisoner of War envelopes (12), a front and lettersheet and 1915-16 Christmas greetings postcards (2, one unusually to Japan) all from civilian internees, also a plain cover and postcard from the camp, and an unstamped cover from London to an internee, all with camp censor cachets including the scarce small double oval "PRISONERS OF WAR CAMP / P.C. / LOFTHOUSE PARK, WAKEFIELD" and 33mm double ring "LOFTHOUSE / P.C. / PARK" with a large star. Nine items sent within Britain franked 1/2d, 1d or 3d (front, registered), the others to Germany, Japan or within G.B all sent free of charge. (19). £320-360
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Elisabethville. 1916-17 Stampless covers to London endorsed "S.M" and "Exp de Jules George, soldat-belge, Elisabethville" both with "ELISABETHVILLE BIRTLEY / CO DURHAM" double ring c.d.s. Elisabethville was built as a munitions factory and village for Belgian refugees. (2). £80-100
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WW2 P.O.W Mail. 1942-48 Covers, cards and lettersheets mainly from German or Italian P.O.Ws in Great Britain (28), also an unusual 1945 airgraph from an Italian in P.O.W Camp 641 at Oswaldkirk, etc. (33). £120-140
| Mulreadys
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2d Envelopes in a complete uncut sheet of twelve, including stereo a195, light horizontal folds between the three rows and 3 1/2cm tear at right clear of all printing, a few other very minor edge faults but overall in unusually fine condition and a very scarce sheet. S.G. ME4, unpriced by S.G. Photo on Page 308. £2,200-2,600
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1840-42 1d Mulready envelopes (2) and lettersheets (2), the two envelopes both addressed in the same handwriting to the same person in Edinburgh, one posted locally with red Maltese Cross and July 24 1840 backstamp, the other delivered by hand. The lettersheets posted within London in 1841 with red Maltese Cross, or posted from Stirling to Westerton in 1842 cancelled by a black Maltese Cross, the last with printed Stirling Stamp and Tax Office notice inside. All with file folds but still very reasonable appearance. (4). £200-250
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1906 Illustrated address label from a parcel to Pretoria bearing Paddington Parcel Office parcel post label and KEVII 1/- block of nine (perfin "J.B / & Co"), a few faults; and tie-on parcel tag from Midland Gun Co in Birmingham to Cape Colony franked on reverse by KEVII 3d + eight 1/- stamps tied by roller cancels, two unusual items to South Africa. (2). £150-180
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1910 Tie-on parcel tag, the reverse with a printed picture of a golf ball and "The Spalding 'Black & White', White covering throughout, 24/- per dozen. The Golf Ball par-excellence, absolutely unequalled, durability unquestionable", the reverse addressed to Cape Colony, endorsed "nett weight 8lbs 1oz, net value £6.6.0" and franked by KEVII 3d + 6d + 2/6 strip of three (faults to two stamps), Putney parcel cancels and Queenstown arrival c.d.s. Very unusual. Photo on Page 46. £150-180
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1910-11 Plewlands, Edinburgh parcel post labels bearing KEVII 9d pair or 1/- pair, pieces cut from parcels (10) bearing KEVII stamps including 6d pair + 2/6 pair, 5/- + 1/- block of four, 5/- + three 1/- stamps, 5/- + 3d + three 1/- stamps, etc. S.G. £2,000+ as stamps. (12). £100-120
| 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee | |
The Eric Kenwright Collection | The fine collection containing many exceptional items of postal history and ephemera from the Post Office events at The Guildhall and South Kensington Museum in London, and other 1890 events commemorating the Penny Postage Jubilee, with many unusual usages of the Post Office envelope and its caricatures, and unique essays for the proposed stamp issue of 1890. Also see lot 1949.
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Ephemera comprising 1889 St. Martins League Bazaar printed souvenir poem and reproduction Mulready to commemorate 50 years of penny postage (but incorrectly stating "Penny Postage founded 1839"); advertising notice "Some Thynge Newe, Toe bee hadde atte ye poste offys, in ye Gildehalle", for the 1790s Post Office at the Guildhall event (some splitting at folds); and "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case" with folder and booklet "Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-writing" by Lewis Carroll, published 1890. (3). £150-180
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Various items including "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case" with its folder, booklet by Lewis Carroll and original envelope; Die Proof in black for a proposed Penny Post Jubilee envelope to be issued at the 1890 Edinburgh Exhibition; Mulready "Lord Holland" forgery printed by T. Hinton in 1890 (faults); Berlin or Hamburg Local Post stationery commemorating 50 years of stamps and depicting Chalmers and Rowland Hill (3, all different); 1903 "Penny Post Series" picture postcards (2), etc. (13). £150-180
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Notebook entitled "Newspaper cuttings concerning postage stamps" with various cuttings, also imitation Mulready card with Christmas Greetings on the reverse and "The Mulready Envelope A Souvenir of the Penny-Postage Jubilee" printed in gold on the front, and Post Office Conversazione advertising handbill (reduced in size). Also three books comprising "Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage", second edition, 1891 (331 pages, hardbound), "Celebration by the Corporation of the City of London of the Jubilee Anniversary of the Introduction of Inland Uniform Penny Postage at the Guildhall, London, 16th May 1890, A brief account of the Post-Office and a catalogue of articles exhibited" (67 pages), and "The Penny Postage Jubilee and Philatelic History" by Phil, 1891 (260 pages, rebound). (4). £150-180
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Imitation Mulready postcards published by H.H & Co with "The Mulready Envelope, A souvenir of the Penny-Postage Jubilee" printed on the front, the reverse with differing Christmas Greetings verses, unused, one with a few very minor stains, otherwise fine and a scarce pair. (2). £160-200
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Covers and cards with various Guildhall or South Kensington handstamps (7, five C.T.O, two with Tube Post handstamps), unused 1d postcards (2), unused Furniss caricature envelope with insert card, etc., also scarce Furniss New Century insert card (with written message). (16). £100-120
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1890-91 Coloured Post Office Christmas cards, the 1890 card depicting the 1890 Penny Post Jubilee postal stationery and handstamps; the much scarcer 1891 card "With Christmas and new year greetings from the Postmaster General and the Officers of the G.P.O" depicting various pictures including the late Henry Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General from 1886 until 1891. (2). £120-150
| Proposed Penny Post Jubilee Stamps | |
A stamp issue marking the Golden Jubilee of postage stamps was proposed, and De La Rue submitted 15 essays with two differing QV heads based on portraits by Sir Edgar Boehm and Professor von Angeli, and various frame designs. This proposed stamp issue was abandoned by the end of December 1889 due to cost. Four of the essays are in the National Postal Museum, leaving just eleven essays available to collectors, all of which are unique. | |
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1d Handpainted essay in lilac and Chinese white on tracing paper dated "DEC 17th", Boehm head, the frame identical to that of the 1d lilac stamp, a light ink cross drawn across the head, faintly inscribed at upper edge in pencil "I.R Vol. 7/123", 41x54mm. A superb and unique essay from the De La Rue archives. S.G. £8,500. Photo on Front Cover. £1,800-2,200
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1d Handpainted essay in lilac and Chinese white on card with Angeli head and frame type D, dated "DEC. 23rd 89" and inscribed "No. 3" and "the best I think" with initials ("JSP"?), 74x92mm. A superb and unique essay, considered by De La Rue to be the finest of the 15 designs submitted. S.G. £8,500. Photo on Inside Front Cover. £2,400-2,800
| Post Office Conversazione at the Grosvenor Gallery, 19th June 1889 | |
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Four page "Programme of Music" with "G.P.O" and a crown embossed on the front, small file hole at upper left corner, otherwise superb, the first item we have recorded from this event. £100-120
| Post Office Departmental Dinner, Holborn Restaurant, 15th January 1890 | |
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Printed place setting card with a reproduction of a Mulready and "Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage, 10th Jan., 1890" printed in gold, named to H.P King, a senior Post Office official, fine and scarce. £100-120
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A similar card named to "The Daily Chronicle" and signed by F.E Baines, Chairman of the Post Office Committee organising the Jubilee events. Baines has also written "S.K.M 2nd July" on the card, a reference to the Conversazione to be held at the South Kensington Museum. Fine and very scarce. Photo on Page 46. £140-160
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Printed invitation card to the "Commemoration of the Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage Departmental Dinner" at the Venetian Chamber, Holborn Restaurant, with "GPO" and a crown embossed at the top, unused, superb and very scarce. Photo on Page 46. £120-150
| Rowland Hill Dinner, Drill Hall Hampstead, 7th April 1890 | |
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Printed invitation card with a reproduction of a Mulready and seven line invite to a dinner given by the relatives of Rowland Hill to commemorate the Penny Postage Jubilee, unused, superb and very scarce. Photo on Page 46. £150-180
| Conversazione at the Guildhall, 16th-19th May 1890 | |
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1890 "Guildhall" Master Die Proof of the 1870 1/2d (without corner letters or plate number) in black on wove paper, 73x60mm. One of the small number of proofs of line engraved stamps printed from the original dies in connection with the Penny Post Jubilee celebrations at the Guildhall. Fine and rare. S.G. DP69, £29,000. Photo on Inside Front Cover. £3,000-3,500
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Die Proof of the re-engraved VR 1d black, produced for use on the invitation cards to the Guildhall Conversazione, in black on wove paper, a couple of edge tears at left and minor creasing all well away from the printed proof, reverse with pencil inscription "for the corporation invite with the Postage Jubilee", 75x88mm. Also an unused invitation card numbered 1973 with the VR 1d black in the central design. A fine pair, the stamp proof rare. (2). Photo on Inside Front Cover. £600-700
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Printed green card "For the use only of Post Office Officials engaged in the proceedings - Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage - Conversazione at Guildhall on Friday May 10th. Admit ___", named to Mr Matthews, a couple of corner creases; and cyclostyled "Plan of proposed arrangement for postal work" showing the Guildhall with the Branch Post Office and entrance for postmen and postal officials marked in ink. (2). A rare pair. Photo on Page 46. £200-250
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Two Programmes of Music for May 16th, one for a performance at the Guildhall by the Coldstream Guards Band and in the art gallery by Willoughby's Band; the other to be performed in the Council Chamber by officers of the Post Office, both superb and scarce. (2). £180-220
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Printed advertising notice for the Post Office of 1790 at the Guildhall, headed "Some Thynge Newe! Toe bee hadde atte ye Poste Offys, in ye Gildehalle", unusually fine. Also cover with printed heading "The Exhibition at the Guildhall" posted from Merton (May 24) to Berlin. (2). £120-140
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Red linen tie-on mailbag label, "V. (crown) R / PENNY POSTAGE JUBILEE / FROM GUILDHALL Post Office, / To ___", unused, spectacular and rare. Photo on Page 52. £300-350
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Exhibit labels with printed heading "Penny Postage Jubilee at Guildhall 1890" between the royal and Corporation of London arms, printed in black in three sizes, 89x67mm card unused, 114x89mm card inscribed "218, Caution to carriers, coachmen, and all other persons sending letters otherwise than by the post. November, 1817", and 184x118mm card unused but bearing a 1d lilac tied by the May 16 rubber "octagonal star" Guildhall datestamp without number. A scarce trio, the last with tear at base, otherwise fine. (3). Photo on Page 48. £350-450
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Printed exhibit label, 184x118mm, the plain white octagonal portion cut out and the printed frame reapplied onto a piece of paper bearing the May 16 Guildhall rubber "octagonal star" datestamp without number, 2nd July South Kensington large size c.d.s and blue "GR" handstamp, very unusual. Photo on Page 48. £120-150
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Guildhall 1d postal stationery postcard to "B. Scott Esq FRAS, Guildhall E.C" with rubber "octagonal star" May 16 datestamp without number, the reverse with printed message of thanks from the Penny Postage Conversazione Post Office Committee of Co-operation to the Jubilee Postage Committee, signed by the five committee members including F.E Baines and R.C Tombs. A fine and rare card, only sent to member of the Jubilee Committee. Photo on Page 48. £250-300
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Guildhall 1d postal stationery postcard with the rubber "octagonal star" May 16 datestamp without number, unaddressed, the reverse with printed message of thanks from the Penny Postage Conversazione Post Office Committee, signed by the five committee members including F.E Baines and R.C Tombs. A fine and scarce card, sent to Post Office officials. Photo on Page 48. £160-200
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Money Orders for 1d, both with the rubber "octagonal star" datestamp without number, in violet dated 16 May on order no. 17 or in black dated 19 May on order no. 456. The second with small central hole, otherwise fine and scarce. 365 Money Orders were issued at the Guildhall, most for 1d. (2). Photo on Page 48. £180-220
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Postal Order for 1/- with rubber "octagonal star" May 19 datestamp without number, three pressed vertical folds, otherwise fine and scarce. 180 Postal Orders were sold at the Guildhall. Photo on Page 48. £200-250
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Piece cut from a page of Post Office notepaper with embossed arms, bearing proof strike of a "PENNY POSTAGE / JUBILEE" skeleton datestamp of MY 5; and another piece with a proof impression of the "octagonal star" rubber datestamp without number dated 17 May. Also a Post Office envelope with three trial impressions of the "octagonal star" datestamp with central "3" dated 17 May. The first possibly unique, the skeleton c.d.s not recorded used and unlisted in "Special Event Postmarks of the UK". (3). Photo on Page 52. £300-350
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1d Postal stationary postcard cancelled by a trial strike of the "octagonal star" rubber datestamp without number, unusually with "PENNY / POSTAGE JUBILEE" and the date omitted, the first such example we have recorded. Photo on Page 52. £150-180
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Two sheets of Post Office notepaper with embossed arms both bearing proof strikes of the "octagonal star" datestamp with central "12", one page with twelve strikes in black, the other with nine strikes in red, all dated 16 May, red impressions contrary to regulations and very scarce. (2). Photo on Page 50. £700-1,000
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1832 Prestamp entire prepaid 1d in cash, addressed to "Mr B. Scott, Chamber of London, Guildhall", reposted in 1890 with a 1d lilac cancelled by May 16 "octagonal star" datestamp with central "8"; and 1848 wrapper also to Scott at the Guildhall with a 1d red cancelled by "38" number, reposted in 1890 (with enclosed Guildhall rent form) franked 1/2d green, the 1/2d stamp cancelled in manuscript whilst the 1d red is recancelled by May 19 "octagonal star" datestamp with central "12". An unusual pair. (Also see lot 313). (2). £180-220
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Two covers addressed to C. Macrae in London both bearing 1864-79 1d reds, plate 187 cancelled "octagonal star" datestamp with central "7" dated 19 May, and plate 219 cancelled by the 2 July South Kensington large c.d.s, an unusual pair. (2). Photo on Page 52. £180-220
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Post Office Telegraphs form bearing the twelve 1/2d - 1/- stamps then current, each cancelled by the "octagonal star" datestamp with central "1", dated 19 May. Minor staining not affecting any stamps, otherwise fine and very unusual, this steel numbered datestamp usually only used on actual posted mail. Photo on Page 50. £400-500
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May 19th cover to the renowned dealer and author Walter Morley in Sittingbourne bearing the four 1/2d stamps issued since 1870 cancelled by "octagonal star" datestamps with central "3", arrival c.d.s, an attractive and unusual franking. £100-120
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May 19th covers with numbered "octagonal star" datestamps, four covers to Stoke Newington bearing 1887 3d, 5d, 6d or 9d stamps all tied by datestamp number "9", the other cover with 1d Inland Revenue postal fiscal tied by datestamp number "4". Also embossed 1/- vermilion postal fiscal with rubber "octagonal star" datestamp without number (S.G F53, £1,200). (5 covers + stamp). Photo on Pages 16 & 52. £300-350
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Covers and cards with "octagonal star" steel datestamps (22) numbered 1-10 or 12, or rubber datestamps without number (2), six cancelled to order, the other 18 addressed and sent through the post, various postal stationery including 1841 2d envelope and 1889 3d postcards (2), one cover to Belgium franked 1/2d + 1d pair, also pieces (4, one with 1887 10d), a few faults though most are fine. (28). £200-250
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