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1903-04 Novelty advertising postcards produced by Liverpool & Knight Co., with applied pictures originally containing pull out advertising leaflets (two now missing) all posted at the ½d rate, two of these with pictures of Chinese men, one of these redirected with an address label and ½d stamp, the enclosed leaflet replaced by a note "First of April", charged 1d with "Contains writing in / the nature of a letter", this card with a few picture faults, otherwise all fine and very unusual. (4). £100-120
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1906 Deans Postal Toys lettercard depicting a Dutch girl and windmill with enclosed six page story "My Little Dutch Girl", posted from Scarborough franked 1d. Also 1902 leaflet in the form of a booklet tied up with imitation tape advertising the play "Sherlock Holmes", franked ½d; and fold up illustrated lettercard of Warwick posted at Liverpool franked 2½d. (3). Photo on Page 92. £120-150
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1908 Junior Philatelic Society Penny Postage to the USA envelope, the unique archival group comprising the initial and final sketches for the envelope by S.R Turner with various notes on the design; drawings for the decorative panels on tracing paper (2); proof of the envelope (endorsed and signed "Proof Pulling, Sept. 1908, Sydney R. Turner" on reverse) with an accompanying letter from F.J Melville to Turner; unused envelope and envelopes postally used on October 1st, first day of the 1d rate, from London to USA (2, one with faults). An exceptional group. (9). £700-1,000
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1842-91 Covers franked 1d, underpaid and charged 2d (12) or redirected and charged 1d (6), also a front and cover sent at ½d printed matter rate but deemed to be letters and charged 1d, one with "CLOSED CONTRARY / TO REGULATIONS". Various "More To Pay" handstamps and charge marks including Plymouth "2" containing "ABOVE ½oz", etc., a few faults. (20). £120-140
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1880 Cover from Ludlow to Shropshire bearing a 1d pink stationery cutout, disallowed by the Post Office and charged 2d, refused by the addressee so returned to the sender in a "Returned Unpaid Letter" envelope of the Liverpool Returned Letter Branch bearing a "2d" charge mark and Liverpool squared circle. (2). £100-120
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1881 QV 1/- - 20/- First Issue postal orders overprinted "SPECIMEN", the set of ten denominations, all superb. (10). £300-350
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1892 QV Third issue 20/- postal order signed C.H Chamberlain, endorsed "Cancelled" in red ink, one of a number of postal orders stolen during the Boer War, minor soiling; and 1910 KEVII third issue 8/6 postal order bearing uncancelled 1d (3) and 3d stamps, counterfoil removed, with Lyminge c.d.s. (2). £100-120
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1839 Large wall poster (51x73½cm) produced by the Mercantile Committee on Postage to publicise their July 10th meeting at the Mansion House, headed "UNIFORM / PENNY / POSTAGE", continuing "Great Britain is the First to Start the Uniform Penny Postage by waiting a year for the measure, to be the last to get it, and thus lose the race to France, and Belgium, and Prussia, & the United States? Citizens of London! Answer this Question at the Mansion House on Wednesday next, July 10", printed by T. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket. Some severe wear to the edges and folds, professionally repaired, rebacked on paper with some loss to wording along central vertical and horizontal folds. Nevertheless a spectacular poster, possibly unique in private hands. Item 57 in Henry Cole's list of Mercantile Papers; the only other example recorded in James Grimwood Taylor's recent book on Postal Reform is in the British Library. £800-1,000
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1840 (Jan 6) Printed circular from the National Bank of Scotland to the bank in Stromness, endorsed "under ½ ounce" with fine "4" charge mark of Edinburgh. The letter gives instructions on how mail should be sent once penny postage is introduced on January 10th - weighing machines will be furnished to all bank branches and all letters must be marked with the weight, letters to head office and branches must be prepaid, other letters may be prepaid if postage can be charged to a clients account, but posted unpaid where postage cannot be recovered, weekly returns to be sent by post and no longer by coach parcels. £120-150
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1847 (Jan 5) Letter written and signed by Elihu Burritt on League of Universal Brotherhood pictorial notepaper. Burritt declines an invitation to visit Ipswich as he has a series of engagements in Yorkshire, and is reluctant to take part in a meeting called to oppose a policy of the English Government. Burritt's many campaigns included the promotion of Ocean Penny Postage. £120-150
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1898 (Dec.) Very small Post Office Notice headed "PENNY POSTAGE TO INDIA AND THE UNDERMENTIONED BRITISH COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES", announcing the introduction on Christmas day of 1d per ½oz postage to thirty colonies including India, Canada, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Leeward & Windward Islands, etc. Light folds, otherwise fine, 120x192mm. £100-120
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QV-QEII Postal stationery, a large quantity of unused and used postcards, reply cards, lettercards, air letters, forces and P.O.W stationery, envelopes and lettersheets, both Official and P.T.P.O issues, in three trays sorted by catalogue number, also a box with H, H2, I or K size registration envelopes, a huge quantity, all fine. (Many 100s). £600-700
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QV-QEII Covers and cards including KEVII items with printed adverts (10), QV or KEVII "SPECIMEN" overprints (9), KEVII 1d envelope handstamped "ULTRAMAR", 1902 QV 1d reply card used back from Tasmania franked ½d, KEVII 1d reply cards used from Germany or France (3), KEVII 1d card posted from Constantinople to Algeria franked Austrian Levant 20pa, 1905 ½d postcard used in British Columbia handstamped "UNPAID" and charged 1c, 1902 KEVII 1d lettercard endorsed O.H.M.S with handstamped royal arms, KEVII 1d lettercard with private overprint by the Stationery & Allied Trades Association objecting to the sale of lettercards at only 1d (staining), also 1882 Act authorising the use of Reply Cards, 1904 Act allowing postal stationery cutouts to be used as stamps, etc. (60). £250-300
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1843-1901 1d Pink envelopes and lettersheets including Specimen overprint, covers uprated with 1d reds or bearing stationery cutouts, 1847 "ILCHESTER" double arc datestamp used as a cancel (small hole in address), Maltese Cross + Woodbridge datestamp cancels, boxed "ELMDON P.P", blue "TAUNTON / 7" skeleton datestamp, undated circles, etc. (36). £200-250
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1861 1d Pink postal stationery envelope from the Street Railway Co. Ltd, posted within London, the reverse with a fine advert for "George Francis Train's Patent"depicting packed horse drawn trams for Bayswater and Paddington in front of Marble Arch, printed in gold. Photo on Page 100. £150-200
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1874 ½d Violet postcard, the reverse headed "Martin's Commercial Postcard, 4½d per Doz" with printed adverts for "The Old Sun Dial, a Politico-Religious Monthly Journal", "Green's Patent Climax Coal Saver" and "James Martin, maker of the self-inking and the "Ferret" flexible stamps", posted from Birmingham to James Martin in Newton Abbot regarding a new handle for a seal. Very unusual and scarce. £100-120
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1878 F Size registration envelope, type 1 flap with plain edge and an indented central seam, plain folded envelope without any printing or stamp, probably a proof or sample. £80-100
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c.1885 Postcard with "SPECIMEN" printed on the front, no printed stamp, the reverse with averts for ten London companies around the edges, a sample or proof for one of the multiple advert cards produced by Shelley & Co and sold at a discount below the value of the card. Very unusual. £80-100
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1890 (July 11) 3d Postcard used from London to Hawaii, partly printed message concerning a case dispatched to Sydney, backstamped at Honolulu. A scarce use of this 3d card, usually seen used to Australia. £80-100
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Jubilee of Penny Postage. 1890 Post Office Notice, "Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage Conversazione at South Kensington Museum on Wednesday 2nd July 1890 ..... Special Postage Jubilee Envelope", announcing the issue of the special 1d stationery envelope with correspondence card, to be sold at 1/- each, the additional proceeds to go to the Rowland Hill Benevolent Fund. A fine Post Office Notice, 216x336mm. £130-150
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1895-99 ½d Brown stationery cut-outs (most stamp LW2) from official Admiralty Enrolment lettersheets, on various coloured papers, comprising white/buff paper (5, three used), blue paper (5, four used, one LW4), yellow-green (4, all used, one LW4) and blue-green (used), yellow (3, one used), deep pink, or pale pink paper (3, two used), scarce even as pieces with most unknown on complete forms. Huggins/Baker LO70a/f, £50 each, some unpriced. (22). £280-320
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1899 ½d and 1d Newspaper wrappers, 1d + 1d reply card and 1d lettercard, all endorsed "Sample attached to Contract dated July 24th 1899" and signed by T. Andross de la Rue and another individual, the reply card with corner fault and lettercard a little stained, a unique group. (4). £100-120
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1901 Registration envelope stamp essay with embossed QV head, the circular frame and background superbly hand painted in blue and Chinese white, inscribed "REGISTRATION TWO PENCE / POSTAGE ONE PENNY", on thick card dated "MARCH 7. 1901", 47x60mm. A superb essay from the De La Rue archives, produced after Queen Victoria's death but still utilising her head, unique. Photo on Front Cover. £800-1,000
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1901 Registration envelope stamp essay with embossed QV head, the circular frame and background superbly hand painted in blue and Chinese white, inscribed "REGISTRATION 2d / POSTAGE 1d", on thick card dated "MARCH 7. 1901", 47x60mm. A superb essay from the De La Rue archives, produced after Queen Victoria's death but still utilising her head, unique. Photo on Front Cover. £800-1,000
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1903 Admiralty Official 3d KEVII registration envelope posted from Chatham Dockyard to Cowes, a little staining (mainly on reverse) and other minor faults, very scarce used. £160-180
| Postcards
(Also See Lots 382, 391/2, 475, 687, 846) | |
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1870-99 Postal stationery cards, selected uses including 1870 (Oct 13) ½d violet card with a 1d due mark (due to paper applied on reverse); ½d cards cancelled in red (2); ½d cards addressed abroad uprated ½d (6 cards, various stamps), 1d (2 cards), 1½d (late fee cancel) or 2d; 1872 ½d card sent internally uprated 1d (late fee?); ½d cut-out applied to a home made card; ½d cards with printed or handdrawn pictures; ½d card registered to France uprated 3d, etc. (19). £220-260
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1871-96 Privately produced cards franked 1870 ½d (7 cards) or 1887 ½d orange (4) including 1876 card with printed "Post Card" heading and royal arms contrary to Post Office regulations (which only allowed Post Office stationery cards prior to Sept. 1894); later cards including 1st September 1894 usage from Portsmouth (the first day private stamped cards were valid) and 1894 (Sep. 26) card from Llandudno with printed Post Card heading. Also an 1879 Swiss 10c postcard to Ireland, redirected with an 1870 ½d applied. An unusual lot, the pre 1894 cards allowed at the Book Post rate. (12). Photo on Page 100. £300-350
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1892 (Aug 23) ½d Brown postal stationery postcard posted from Manchester, the reverse with a lighthouse printed in red, headed ""OLD AMERICA" EXHIBITION / MANCHESTER / Top of Eddystone Lighthouse". The first example of this rare card we have seen, clearly based on the much commoner blue card issued for the 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition in London. Photo on Page 100. £100-120
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1895 (Jan 19/21) ½d Brown court size postal stationery postcard, cancelled to order at West Central District Office on January 19th, two days before the official day of issue; or postally used from Bow on the first day of issue, January 21st, the message reading "For your Collection". The first card with a few small tone spots, the second very fine, a very scarce pair. (2). Photo on Page 100. £250-300
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1894-95 Postally used picture postcards comprising 1894 (Oct 19) Cassells pictorial postcard depicting Balmoral Castle (part message over the picture, with blue crayon line) posted at Exeter franked ½d; 1895 (Apr 3) postcard with four views of Guildford posted from Guildford to Germany franked 1d; and 1895 (Aug 24) Court size postcard with three Lichfield views posted from Lichfield franked ½d. Three very scarce early picture postcards, which were only permitted from Sept. 1894. (3). £200-240
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1897-1901 Court Size picture postcards (15) and other picture postcards (3), including cards for the 1897 Diamond Jubilee (7), 1897 Gordon Memorial card, and views of London (5, one a Hold to Light card), Exmouth (2), Llandudno, Brighton or Glasgow (Caledonian Rly. Co. Central Station Hotel). A fine lot of early cards including postal use in 1897 (3) or 1898, all different, thirteen coloured, a couple with minor faults, otherwise fine. (18). £300-400
| Railways
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1897-1911 Covers, cards and ephemera including Tourist Guides to the North Eastern, Midland and London & North Western Railways; 1908 advertising cover for "G.W.R to the Cornish Riviera" with "G.W.R Permanent Way Assistant Engineers Office" imprint posted from Reading to the Taff Vale Railway; 1904 Canadian Pacific Railway advert cover with KEVII 1d, 2d and 4d perfined "CPR"; 1903 Midland Railway notepaper headed with a coloured train and "In Midland Express Train"; Official postcards (6) with coloured "England and Scotland East Coast Express Route" card and "L&S.W.R Services to the Continent" steamship card; 1904 Bangor & Crewe T.P.O cover franked KEVII ½d (both colours) + 1d pair, and other T.P.O covers (10), etc. (25). £180-220
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Railway Perfins. c.1905 Piece bearing KEVII 1d strip of four, 6d irregular strip of three and 2/6 strip of four (one creased) all perfined "G.W.R", cancelled by violet straight line "GUARANTEE" handstamps, from a railway parcel, very unusual. £100-120
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T.P.Os / Perfins. 1862-1936 Covers and cards with T.P.O cancellations or backstamps (149), all commercial, some late fees, including Caledonian, London & Holyhead, Newhaven-London (on a French stamp), Galloway, South Wales, Manchester, York & Scarborough, Manchester & Crewe, etc. Also postal stationery cards or stamps on covers and cards with railway perfins (22), station cancels (14), 1938 cover with G.W.R 3d parcel stamp (faults), a few railway stamps, etc. (193+). £550-650
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T.P.Os. 1930-86 Covers (481, virtually all pre 1971) mounted in three F.G albums and loose, mainly very fine strikes, many philatelic though some are commercial, about one third with "Posted Without Late Fee" handstamps, also registered mail with T.P.O datestamps applied to the registration labels (50), first and last day services, a few bundle labels, C.O.Ps and pieces. (481+). £500-600
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1902 (Jan 29) Registered cover from Newton Abbot to Ham, the reverse bearing the label "ER, This Packet has been diverted from the usual route, as it appeared to be too fragile for transfer by the Mail Apparatus" with "GREAT EASTERN T.P.O / E / UP NIGHT" c.d.s applied, unusual. £80-100
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Railway Poster Postcards. 1905-10 Postcards all reproducing posters in colour, comprising G.N.R Skegness is so Bracing; L&N.W.R Irish Golf Links; N.E.R The Industrial Supremacy of North East England; Midland Railway Circular Tours in the Peak of Derbyshire; G.W.R to the Upper Thames; G.W.R Lands End by Rail and Motor, 8 hrs from Paddington, five postally used, three of these from the railway companies acknowledging letters received. (6). Photo on Page 236. £240-280
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Newspaper stamps. c.1910 W.H. Smith & Son newspaper wrapper from London to Royston bearing Great Northern Railway ½d newspaper stamp cancelled by red crayon, very unusual. Also an unused red "News Intelligence" envelope to the Athletic News Agency bearing an L&S.W.R 2d newspaper stamp. (2). £100-120
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Parcel Stamps. 1903-06 Covers comprising c.1903 cover from Kirkby Stephen to Perth bearing North Eastern Railway "Charges Paid" parcel label; 1903 cover from Welshpool to Bwlch-y-Cibau endorsed "To be delivered to person calling for it at Brongwyn Station by 11.42 train am on 17 Dec 1903", reverse with "Cambrian Railways Paid Parcel from Welshpool to (Brongwyn)" label; and 1906 cover franked KEVII 1d + 1½d pair sent by express post from Clifton to London and redirected by railway with 2d blue G.W.R Prepaid Parcel stamp (faults), very unusual. (3). £180-220
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1891-1925 Mint stamps including Midland Railway and L&S.W.R 2d sheets of twelve, N.E.R 2d sheet of thirty, L.B&S.C.R '4' on 3d sheet of twelve, Great Central & North Staffordshire Ry. Com. 4d sheet of twelve, etc. Also L.B&S.C.R 1906 ½d - 4d newspaper stamps (6), and British Rail 15p sheet of ten. (105) £150-180
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1903-07 Covers comprising 1907 commercial cover with L.N.W.R 2d and KEVII 1d each cancelled by violet oval "LEIGHTON" datestamp; Ewen cover with London, Tilbury & Southend 2d and KEVII 1d cancelled violet "HORNCHURCH" and "SEP 20 1906" (altered from 19 SEP); 1905 Wilson cover with Wigan Junction 2d cancelled violet "LOWER INCE" and QV ½d tied Wigan c.d.s; and 1902-03 commercial covers with Great Northern & Great Central 2d stamps and postage stamps all pen cancelled. (5). £180-200
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Colne Valley Railway. 1906 Graham cover from Earls Colne with the distinctive type 2d letter stamp and KEVII ½d pair each cancelled by unusual curved "RAILWAY CHARGE / 2d" in violet, the ½d pair also cancelled by Cambridge 158 duplex. A scarce stamp on cover. Photo on Page 100. £150-180
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Glasgow & South Western Railway. 1904 Commercial Cover to Brandon with a 2d stamp and KEVII 1d pen cancelled and tied by a London squared circle, a little perf toning, scarce on cover. £100-120
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Great Northern Railway. 1905 Cover to "The Station Master, Horncastle" with KEVII 1d cancelled by double ring handstamp "BILLINGBOROUGH / FOR TELEGRAMS & RY STN / G.N.R / LINCOLNSHIRE" incorrectly dated 16 APR, overstruck with another strike correctly dated 5 JUN. Sent on official company business without any need to pay a railway letter fee, but still franked 1d to comply with Post Office regulations on the carriage of letters, very unusual. Photo on Page 100. £100-120
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Hull & Barnsley Railway Company. c.1905 2d Bright green in a complete booklet of twenty, vertical crease to front cover and the first five stamps, otherwise fine. £100-120
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Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. 1906 Graham covers with the distinctive 2d stamp, one with Clifton on Trent cachet at left, the 2d stamp and KEVII ½d pair tied by Sheffield datestamps; the other cancelled by violet oval Ollerton cachet with KEVII 1d cancelled at Nottingham, minor toning at left edge. (2). £120-150
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London & North Western Railway. 1896-1900 Commercial covers, the first from London to Manchester endorsed "Express Delivery" with 1d + 3d and the 2d railway stamp tied by Manchester datestamps; the other to North Wales with ½d + 1d (both perfined L&S) and 2d railway stamp all cancelled upon arrival by Penmaenmawr duplexs, minor stains, the 1896 express cover with repaired opening tear at upper edge. (2). £140-160
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North Wales & Liverpool Railway Committee. 1904 Graham cover with 2d stamp and KEVII ½d pair all tied by Seacombe datestamps, also a single used stamp. A scarce stamp on cover. (2). Photo on Page 100. £140-160
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Wales. 1903-06 Covers comprising 1903 commercial cover bearing Furness Railway 2d and KEVII 1d both cancelled at Newcastle on Tyne; 1906 Graham cover with Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway 2d (small faults) cancelled by violet cachet of Pontrhydyfen and KEVII 1d cancelled at Swansea; and 1906 Ewen cover with distinctive Cambrian Railways 2d and KEVII 1d both cancelled by manuscript "Cam. Rlys" and London N.W machine. (3). £200-250
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Wales. 1906-08 Graham covers, the first with Manchester & Milford Railway 2d and KEVII 1d cancelled by three strikes of straight line "DERRY ORMOND" with manuscript date; the second with Manchester & Milford 2d overprinted "Great Western Railway" and KEVII 1d each cancelled violet "CANCELLED / TRECARON", a Lampeter c.d.s below, both fine. (2). Photo on Page 100. £150-180
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