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Haiti. 1879 (Mar 25) Entire letter from Port au Prince to St. Thomas with G.B 1877 4d sage-green plate 16 cancelled "C59", a red "JACMEL / PAID" c.d.s alongside, carried on the R.M.S.P "Nile" with a "ST. THOMAS" arrival backstamp (Mar 29). Horizontal file fold, otherwise fine. Photo on Page 42. £300-350
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Prestamp to QEII entires, covers and cards, mainly QV period, including 1896 postcard posted within Coventry simply addressed to "Dan, Coventry" with a pencil sketch of a man; postcards with message in mirror writing or pictures; 1874-75 "split" duplex cancels of London W29 or London SE12; small (100x45mm) 1864 cover, etc., also a few foreign covers. (c.280). £200-300
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1639-1990 Covers, cards and ephemera mainly from the North West of England, also some railway related items, including 1839 entire letter from London to Melling, Lancaster, endorsed "Missent to Maghull" with three boxed "Maghull" handstamps; 1913 postcard to Settle endorsed "To be posted at Giggleswick" bearing Furness Railway 2d stamp (pen cancelled) and KGV ½d tied by Settle c.d.s; 1907 postcard from London to Constantinople with "ORIENT EXPRESS" cachet on reverse; 1857-68 receipts from the Kirkby Lonsdale, Kendal and Milnthorpe Turnpike Road for road repairs (2), etc. (17). £180-200
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1670-1797 Entire letters all collected for their content including 1670 letter from Yarmouth to Thomas Pengelly in London concerning fishing and shipping; 1717 letter from Yorkshire to London with Crown Inspectors handstamp (L154); 1780 letter from Aylesbury describing the Gordon "No Popery" riots; 1797 bill for cloth bought from Robert Peel by John Thomas, etc. (9). £200-240
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1674-1853 Entire letters and covers including 1674 entire letter from London "For Mr Thomas Lewes at ye Post house in Deale" with "MR/18" Bishop Mark; 1840 cover from Ipswich to Shooters Hill bearing a 1d black KI plate 3 with good even margins tied by a fine red Maltese Cross; 1851 cover from Lincoln to USA bearing 1/- embossed (cut to shape), etc. (21). £180-200
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1719-1869 Prestamp and stampless entire letters and covers addressed abroad, including 1719 letter from Exeter prepaid 4d with 6 sols charged upon delivery, 1790 letter prepaid 1/6 from Leeds to Saxony, other letters prepaid to Spain (5), Portugal, Prussia, Egypt or Argentina, or unpaid to France, Prussia (3), Canada (2) or USA (2), also two letters from Switzerland to G.B (2), all written up on pages. (21). £200-240
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1683-1833 Entire letters sent by coach or carriers, comprising 1683 letter from Ashbourne addressed to The Black Mans Head in Nottingham "with a parcel", sent with a 32lb Christmas cheese, also mentioning the rebellious tin miners at Brassington; 1796 letter from Inverness with interesting content "I would have writ before but I waited for the carriers departure .... we had a mob here this week about the grain that is sent out of the country but our volunteers soon dispersed them .... not without being obliged to fire, they wounded several but none very ill but one man was shot in the head but is alive"; 1811 letter from Berwick to the East Lothian Bank in Dunbar endorsed "P. Union Coach carriage paid"; and 1833 letter from Rugeley to Henley in Arden endorsed "per True Blue". (4). £120-150
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1740-46 Bonds with embossed revenue stamps (3); 1814 (June 14) Printed "General Order" from the Commander in Chief ordering an announcement to be made that all letters from N.C.Os or soldiers presented to officers for 1d rate postage must be written by the soldiers themselves and not by other people; and 1874 (Mar 7) printed four page pamphlet advertising mines, minerals and mining rights under the Swinedough Estate (with a map of the Estate) to be sold by auction, posted at Bolton franked 1d. (5). £160-180
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1803-1900 Letters (also two more recent items) in an album, all collected for their content, including letters regarding debts, death and the poor law; letter on behalf of the Prince of Wales to his whip maker; 1843 Quarters bill from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; 1859 letter from Boulogne posted at Folkestone with oval "FAULKNERS / CONTINENTAL PARCEL OFFICE / FOLKSTONE" F.A.C; 1837 letter from the wife of Baron Lyons in Athens to her son in Dresden redirected to London; letters from "H.G.D" to his wife "Miss Munchen" all to and from differing addresses (con artists / illegally married?); 1841 letter from Exeter bearing a 1d black (corner fault); 1820 letter to Keeper of Warwick Gaol regarding the reprieve of John Cooper who was due to be executed; 1827 letter from a man who has absconded with his uncles money, etc. All postally used, cancels include sideways duplexs (6, with Aldershot Camp), Maltese Crosses, etc. (50). £400-500
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Emigration. 1804 Printed letter from the Australian, New Zealand, Indian, Canadian & General Passenger, Emigration, Shipping & Insurance Office advertising rates for ships to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India or the Cape, with testimonials from colonial settlers, posted from London to Suffolk; and 1853 printed letter from the Scottish Australian Emigration Society advertising berths on the Barque "Eleutheria" to Port Philip for only £15 or £16, for which a deposit of £7.10.00 is required, franked 1d from Glasgow to Saltcoats. (2). £100-120
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c.1809-1960 Covers and cards including postal stationery, paquebots, postage dues, a few Greetings Telegrams, also some foreign. (c.250). £100-150
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QV-QEII Covers in a box including postage due covers, 1907 cover to Sweden bearing pictorial "Prince Albert Cachous" adverting label on the front, 1909 1d envelope to Sark cancelled in manuscript, WW2 covers from Canadian and other allied forces in G.B, 1938 cover with Lundy ½ Puffin + ½d Atlantic Coast Air Services stamp, 1935 cover to Colombia franked 9d pair + 2/6 with "By Airmail from New York via P.A.A & Scadta" label, also modern covers commemorating WW2 events with various signatures including T.W Gould V.C, etc. (100s). £250-300
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1839 Pamphlet "Post Office, Sunday Delivery of Letters", containing copies of memorials to the Treasury or PMG (46 pages); and an 1840 questionnaire on the observance of the Lords day posted from Edinburgh to Mid Calder, completed and posted back to the Scottish Society for Promoting the due observance of the Lords day; also 1857 notice "Females Eligible for Appointments in Country Offices"; 1869-97 Post Office Telegraph Acts (3); 1908 Post Office Act (46 pages); and 1904 note signed by the PMG Lord Stanley. (8). £100-120
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1858-60 Covers bearing 1855-57 issue stamps, comprising 1/- on 1858 cover from Bolton to Shanghai (central "92" cancel, not tied but with "BOLTON / 92" sideways duplex on reverse) or 1860 cover from Linlithgow to Happootelle, Ceylon; and two 6d stamps on cover from London ("Little Ilford" undated circle) to New York "to be forwarded to St. Jago de Cuba". (3). £120-150
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1859-80 Entires or covers bearing Surface Printed stamps, various rates to France (9), Germany (4), Italy (3), Belgium or Spain (8), also a part entire to Canada, and 1859 inland letter franked 4d. (27). £150-180
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1866-81 Covers addressed abroad, comprising 1866 registered cover from Plymouth to France franked 2d pair + 6d; 1868 cover from Kendal to Melbourne "via Panama" franked 6d with oval "6d / MORE TO PAY"; 1880 entire from Liverpool to Venezuela franked 4d sage-green; and 1881 cover from London to Cape Town "Per Balmoral Castle" franked 1d late fee + 6d grey strip of three (all perfined DL&Co) with Lombard St. Late Fee duplex cancels. (4). £150-180
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1881-1901 Covers (26), cards (6), fronts (3), etc., all bearing 1d lilacs, various uses of the stamp written up on pages, including Paquebots of Kingston, Largs Bay, Aden, Port Said, Lisbon and Rio; Boer War use in South Africa (4); invalid use in Malta (faults); Telegram envelope; underpaid mail to abroad; 1898 (Dec 29) early use of 1d rate to India (2); internal use redirected to France with added 5d; Sample Post and Book Post rates to Europe; used from Lokoja, Niger Coast (front) or Malta; Late Fees; internal redirection; 1895 cover from Transvaal to Glasgow franked 2½d redirected to Norway with G.B ½d + 1d pair added; 1886 ½d postcard to Germany franked ½d + four 1d stamps with "Continental Night Mail C.X1" duplex cancels (minor staining), etc. Also Parcel Post Certificates of Posting franked 1d or 2d (2), P.O.S.B Savings Slip bearing ten 1d stamps, fiscal uses and a few pieces. An interesting lot. (50). £400-500
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1889-1900 Covers (20), a card and a front addressed abroad, all bearing 1887 Jubilee issue stamps, various rates and destinations including 4d to Sierra Leone, 5d or 8d to Vera Cruz, registration envelope franked 4d to Bahamas, 6d to New Zealand or Victoria, 5d to Algeria, registration envelope franked 5d to Queensland, registered covers to Switzerland franked 2d + 2½d + 1/- (faults) or 3d + 4d, covers franked 2½d to Fiji or to USA with "PAQUEBOT" and "DUBLIN & QUEENSTOWN / T.P.O" c.d.s; front franked 6d to Angola with "REFUGO" handstamp and c.d.s, etc. (22). £200-250
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Post Office Notices & Circulars. 1889 (Jan.) Small Post Office Notice (138x217mm) "Inland Letters and Parcels, Rates of Postage"; 1872 P.O Notice "Mail for New Zealand" (faults); various complete of part Post Office Circulars with details of Ship Letters, telegraph offices at special events, 1900 Parcels to P.O.Ws in Boer Camps, etc. (9); and 1927 notice on the official collection of postal packets in London. (12). £150-180
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1891-1908 Covers and cards with unusual cancels or explanatory handstamps, comprising 1897 Eason & Son Ltd ½d newspaper wrapper with special "5" code precancel used by W.H Smith in London on wrappers for Irish newspapers; 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition ½d postcard with the "Post Office, Eddystone Lighthouse" exhibition cancel; 1897 cover to USA returned with violet bilingual "Returned to England without a reason for non-delivery"; 1899 cover with two wax seals impressed "BIRMINGHAM / (crown)" and boxed "Found open and / resealed at Birmingham"; 1908 covers with "MANCHESTER / X / MAS" machine cancels (2 types) or "LIVERPOOL / X / MAS" cancel. (7). £200-240
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Westmorland / Cumberland / Lancashire. 1893-1938 Covers and cards (67, mainly picture postcards) with cancels, including rubbers (9), skeletons (4), duplexs or single ring datestamps. Also mint railway letter or parcel stamps of the Cleator & Whitehaven Junction Railway (3) or Maryport & Carlisle Railway, and a receipt for £30 of shares from the Whitehaven, Cleator & Egremont Railway. (72). £120-140
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1900-02 Newspaper wrappers (2) and postcards (2) bearing QV ½d green, comprising ½d wrapper uprated ½d from Liverpool to Ceylon redirected back to England with Ceylon 5c; Printed "Book Post - Immediate" wrapper from London to Tasmania; Printed Matter postcard from Dublin to Argentina; and a postcard from Liverpool to Belgium charged 10c, folded in half and struck down with Belgian Post Office seals to prevent the recipient seeing the message or picture prior to paying the postage due charge. (4). £120-150
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1911-13 Downey Head ½d or 1d, postally used on covers and cards, also postal stationery, the collection in eight ring binders, including ½d first day use (staining), Paquebots, T.P.Os (including Brighton & Hastings Sorting Carriage), islands, exhibitions, many addressed abroad, registered mail, inverted watermarks, newspaper wrappers, some late uses, etc. (c.540). £500-600
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Damaged Mail - Suffragettes. 1913 (Jan 31) Cover posted within Leicester, redirected to Glenfield and back to Leicester, stained by black ink, endorsed "Caused by fluid deposited in Letter Box at Leicester"; and a 1913 (Mar 8) cover from Kensington to Lower Clapton severely oil stained, both probably damaged by suffragettes putting ink or oil in post boxes. (2). Photo on Page 42. £200-250
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1924-37 KGV Covers and cards and some revenue documents including uses of the 1929 PUC issue, 1934 Photogravure issue including air mails, Brighton transormas, various overseas rates, etc., mostly written up on pages. (71). £180-220
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Damaged Mail. 1945 (Sep 6) Covers from G.B to British forces in Germany both handstamped "DAMAGED BY FIRE" (2); also c.1947 cover to Nottingham with "HQ BTE, MELF 14" (Moascar) return address franked 2½d, handstamped "ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE". (3). £70-80
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1901-11 Covers and cards, selected uses and cancels or cachets including 1905 postcard from Dublin to Italy with violet "POSTED AT (Clapton S.O) UNDER / COVER TO THE POSTMASTER OF (Dublin)" and similar 1903 endorsement of Edinburgh; 1908 cover cancelled in crayon with manuscript "found adhering to a similar letter at" alongside a Stratford on Avon c.d.s; Jan. 1st 1902 ½d First Day use; 1907 card torn and repaired with Officially Sealed labels handstamped "Open when received / at the P.O Liverpool" (altered to "Torn"); Sweden 2ore reply postcard used from Douglas, Isle of Man back to Sweden; covers bearing labels of the 1908 Dover Pageant (2) or "Fair Trade", all tied; card addressed with a photo and puzzles and a cover addressed in verse; registered letter AR form franked 2d; London E.C "hammer" datestamps (2); late fees; G.B stamps used in Mexico, South Africa or Southern Nigeria; 1905 (Apr 1) first day of 1d rate to Australia (faults), etc. An interesting group. (56). £500-700
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Foreign Destinations. 1902-11 Covers and cards to foreign destinations including card to Cook Islands with fine "MANGAIA / NZ" arrival c.d.s; cover to Sudan with red oval "RETURN TO SENDER / 5 VI 10", boxed "UNCLAIMED" and "RETURNED LETTER OFFICE / KHARTOUM" c.d.s; also items to Iceland (with Leith transit c.d.s), Persia, Hawaii, Java, Zanzibar, Grenada, Haiti, Selangor, British Guiana, Danish West Indies, Gold Coast, British Honduras, San Salvador, Chile, Mauritius, etc., all with arrival datestamps, several redirected or returned with explanatory cachets. (39). £350-400
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Redirection - Combination Frankings. 1902-10 Picture postcards (19) and covers (3) all from abroad to G.B and then redirected with G.B KEVII stamps applied, comprising stamps of India (4, two from Aden), Malta (Notable c.d.s and "T" handstamp), Egypt, USA (3, one with violet "Missent to / Honolulu"), Russia, New Zealand (3), Germany (2), Bavaria, Italy (2), France (2), Belgium or Switzerland. An unusual group. (22). £200-240
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Postage Due Mail. 1902-10 Covers and cards addressed abroad, all underpaid with postage due stamps applied upon arrival, including postcards with 1d due stamps of Grenada or Trinidad, two covers to Norway charged 24ore with 4ore + 20ore dues or 10ore pair + two 1ore pairs, etc. (17). £150-180
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Shakespeare Labels. 1902-06 Picture postcards (5) and a lettercard from Stratford on Avon all bearing a 1/- "Shakespeare Stamp" in various colours cancelled by a Stratford on Avon c.d.s, the lettercard also franked 2½d to Germany, the postcards franked 1d to Germany or USA (3) or ½d to Worcester. Also a mint 1864-65 Shakespeare Memorial 1d label. An unusual group, the use of these 1/- labels contrary to Post Office regulations, all fine. (6 + label). £250-300
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Novelty Postcards. 1909-11 Novelty shaped postcards with enclosed pull out views, ten with a separate address tag attached by string, all postally used with a KEVII ½d stamp, comprising 1d coin from Hunstanton, bathing machine from Llandudno, bathers in the sea from Eastbourne or Blackpool, a Robin from Forfar, a tin of sardines from Great Yarmouth, a thistle from Bridgend, a lifebuoy and sailor from Tintagel, plaice from Hayling Island or Scarborough, and a kipper from Selkirk; also an unused Bournemouth card in the shape of a crab. A very unusual group. (12). £350-400
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1909 (July 27) Real photo picture postcard of Bleriot's aircraft surrounded by onlookers and a policeman, posted from Dover just two days after Bleriot's historic cross channel flight, with interesting message "This is the airship that I saw. I have got a stave that was broken off it as a little keepsake. This is a very good photo of it about 50 minutes after it landed". A fine card, by Whorwell of Dover. £80-100
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1909-10 Picture postcards of planes flying at the 1909 air meetings at Doncaster (2, real photo cards) or Blackpool, or the 1910 meetings at Shrewsbury (real photo of L.D Gibbs in flight) or Lanark, all postally used with messages concerning the air meeting, the last with "LANARK / GRAND STAND" c.d.s. Also 1913 Robert Sinclair Tobacco Co. First Aerial Delivery label, later air letter stamps (3), and 1937 cover from Lundy Island bearing ½d Atlantic Coast Air Services stamp. (10). £120-150
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1910 "Empire Illustrated" flight postcards, intended to be flown from Blackpool to Southport by C. Graham-White but only carried for seven miles when the plane was forced to land due to bad weather, the reverse overprinted with an explanation in red. A flown card posted in London (Aug 26) franked ½d, and an unused card, the flown card with two corner creases, the unused card superb and the only unused example we have seen. (2). £200-250
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1911 Souvenir and Programme of the Great Air Race Circuit of Britain, 1010 mile air race for the Daily Mail £10,000 prize, starting July 22nd 1911, printed by W.E Jefferson & Co of Newcastle. A scarce programme listing the 30 competitors and their planes, the five sections to be flown and the eleven aerodromes at which competitors must land, the race starting and finishing at Brooklands. £100-120
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1911-36 First Flight covers and cards including 1911 (Sep 9) First UK Aerial Post cards (2, one endorsed "Missent to C. Sodbury") and cover; 1929 First UK acceptance of South Africa internal air service (3), G.B to Baghdad via Cologne & Nuremberg route, London to Stockholm night flight; 1934 Inverness to Wick and return flights by Highland Airways; 1935 Liverpool to Isle of Man and return flights, London to Libya via Rome and cover to Switzerland with Croydon Aerodrome datestamps; 1936 Liverpool to Rotterdam or Amsterdam, last 4d flight to Denmark, London to Nigeria first direct flight. (18). £220-260
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1929-61 Covers and cards including 1951-54 covers bearing BEA letter stamps flown to or from the Channel Islands (13), Scilly Isles, Stornoway, or Belfast to Liverpool; commercial prewar covers including 1939 1d postcard registered to Uruguay uprated 2/2, etc. (35). £100-120
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1879 (Sep 16) Cover posted from London to Bristol with enclosed letter from the balloonist Joseph Simmons, "Woolwich, Tuesday 1.30, My dear Elise. The accent is not to take place tomorrow as the garrison is out, therefore we cannot get the soldiers and it is indefinitely postponed, yours Joe", with a short newspaper article about the proposed demonstration of Simmons balloon to the War Office at the Royal Arsenal. Also an 1874 cutting about the death of a Mr De Groof who died after falling from Simmons balloon, and a photocopy of an 1888 magazine recording Simmons death in a balloon accident. £80-100
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1895 Leaflet headed "A Message from above TO THE ELECTORS OF SOHO WARD", depicting a balloon, dropped from the "Saladin" balloon over Birmingham during local elections, supporting Lempriere, "the free and independent candidate". A fine and rare leaflet, 190x88mm. Photo on Page 56. £150-200
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1903 (Aug 29) Lifeboat Saturday Balloon Post, picture postcard depicting a balloon flying over cliffs, headed "Balloon Post" and "From the Clouds, 29th August 1903", actually flown on September 5th from Alexandra Palace in north London to Ongar. 3,200 Postcards were dropped at 16 points en route, this card from the final card drop over Ongar, posted from Ongar on September 21st unusually addressed to France franked 1d. A fine and rare card, signed on the front by the finder. Photo on Page 56. £600-700
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1905 (July 12) Beckenham Flower Show picture postcard with the printed message "Despatched from the Clouds by Balloon Post, from the Beckenham Flower Show, Wed., July 12, 1905", addressed to Germany, a KEVII 1d cancelled at Gravesend (July 12), Preetz arrival c.d.s (July 14),. The balloon flew from Beckenham to Romford; cards were dropped at Chislehurst and Gravesend. A fine and rare card, almost certainly unique to an overseas address, ex Peter Jennings collection. Photo on Page 56. £700-800
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1906 "Reginald Bray" postcard despatched from Crystal Palace by Brock's fire balloon on September 22nd, found by F.W Newman at Petworth, 11.30am on September 23rd, and posted from Petworth the following day franked KEVII ½d. A unique card. Photo on Page 56. £150-200
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1907 (Oct 12) Daily Graphic Balloon postcard headed "A Message from Mid-Air", flown from Crystal Palace to Mellerud in Sweden where the balloon crashed landed depositing the aeronauts on the ground with many of the cards; the balloon then took off again flying a further 30 miles unmanned to Tosse where it landed with the remaining cards. The card franked by a KEVII 1d (corner fault) cancelled in manuscript and tied by the "TOSSE" c.d.s, handstamped "T" and charged 1d, minor staining on the picture side but very unusual with a G.B stamp. £100-120
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1932 Parcel tag originally attached to a balloon, with the printed message "This Balloon was sent off at S. BENET'S GARDEN FETE (in aid of Church Funds) On September 10th, 1932" with details of the sender (Master Peter Cameron, London, N.W.5) and finder (Achiel Allein, Cultivateur a Reninghe, Belgique, on September 13th 1932), the reverse with printed address of S. Benet's Vicarage in Kentish Town, London, N.W.5. Franked by a G.B 1d tied by Boesinghe c.d.s, delivered without charge, probably a unique survivor from this charity balloon flight. Photo on Page 56. £120-150
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1911 (July 17) Two page typed letter signed by D. Lewis-Poole, organiser of the Aerial Post, to Mr Gates, Manager of the Hendon Aerodrome, regarding posting of items in the Shepherds Bush area as posting will no longer be possible at the White City due to Kiralfy demanding 50% of the gross receipts of all sales, stating the Aerial service is designed to illustrate its use in the case of a besieged city, and enclosing a photograph of the design, with proofs of envelopes and postcards to follow as soon as possible. The letter is accompanied by the photograph on thick card (144x183mm) of the artist's drawings for the envelopes and postcards, as adopted but with "HENDON" instead of "LONDON" in the wording. A unique photographic essay and letter. (2). Photo on Page 58. £1,000-1,200
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1911 Postcard essay printed in black, reading "HENDON TO WINDSOR" instead of "LONDON TO WINDSOR", "Lendon" in the lower left corner instead of "Copyright", the reverse blank, endorsed "Card left here today by Mr Bailey when he called. 17/7/11". Very rare, Field stated two examples known, one of these sold in the D.D Edwards auction, unique with this endorsement. Photo on Inside Front Cover. £2,000-2,400
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1911 Postcard proof in black, "Lendon" instead of "Copyright" in the lower left corner, reverse instructions considerably different to those used on the adopted design, handstamped violet "SPECIMEN", a couple of light surface scrapes to the printed design, a very rare "Specimen" overprint on a proof card, the only such example we have seen in black. Photo on Page 58. £800-1,000
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1911 Postcard proof in red-brown printed on thick card, the reverse blank, very rare. Photo on Page 58. £500-600
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1911 Envelope proof in purple-brown, the design showing clear plate retouches to the clouds, fine unused, scarce. Photo on Page 58. £200-250
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