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Neath & Brecon Railway. 1906 Covers with 2d letter stamps and a KEVII 1d, a Graham cover from Onllwyn with 2d dull green control 316 and the 1d cancelled at Neath, the other Ewen cover with 2d dark green without control and 1d pen cancelled with Neath c.d.s below. (2). £120-150
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Ireland. 1903 Commercial cover bearing Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway 2d and a KEVII 1d both cancelled in manuscript and by a Collooney c.d.s., fine. Also 1907 Ewen cover with County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 2d manuscript cancelled and a KEVII ½d pair, all tied by Strabane datestamp, all stamps crossed by a heavy corner fold. (2). Photo on Page 104. £240-280
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Midland Great Western Railway. c.1900 2d Letter stamp, die proof in black on card, 75x38mm. Photo on Page 128. £80-100
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1840 (Dec.) Post Office Notice headed "NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC / Registration of Letters", announcing the introduction of inland registration on 6th January 1841, the 1/- registration fee to be paid in cash. Mail to abroad may be registered to the port of despatch only, except for letters to France which may be registered to destination if double the French rate is paid. A rare and important Post Office Notice, light folds, otherwise very fine, very few examples recorded, 213x343mm. Photo on Page 102. £1,400-1,600
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1841 (Aug 23) Long entire registered from Wincanton to Hitchin bearing 1840 2d blue, GH plate 1 with three margins (torn into at right), tied by a superb Maltese Cross in black, the registration fee paid in cash with red manuscript "Registered Letter 1/-" alongside a superb "WINCANTON" datestamp, red London "PAID" datestamp (Aug 24) on the front. Only four registered covers bearing 1840 2d blues are recorded, of which this is the only cover with the stamp clearly tied by the Maltese Cross cancel. A rare and important registered and 2d blue cover, with B.P.A Certificate (2021). Photo on Inside Front Cover. £10,000-12,000
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1842 (March) Post Office Notice No. 15 advising coins and jewellery should not be sent through the post, sums under £5 should be transmitted by Money Order, banknotes or drafts should be sent by registered post on payment of the 1/- fee, whilst it advises banknotes are still cut in half and sent in two separate postings. A scarce early notice, minor stains and small corner faults where the notice was affixed with wax to the reverse, 213x336mm. £120-150
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1844 Stampless entire from London to Edinburgh with 1d postage and 1/- registration both paid in cash, a black Maltese Cross applied alongside the "1/1" rate, very unusual. Photo on Page 104. £200-250
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1852-1921 Covers (5) and Certificates of Posting (7) including 1852 C.O.P with red boxed Edinburgh datestamp, 1864 C.O.P with printed 4d registration fee, 1878-80 C.O.Ps with printed 4d fee + 4d late fee or 2d fee + 4d late fee; an unusual West Riding Constabulary envelope with printed address and heading "Registered Letter" with label sending a sample of pepper for analysis, not posted; 1907 cover to USA with seventeen 1d stamps; and Parliamentary Proceedings covers bearing QV or KEVII 3d or KGV 5d. (12). £120-140
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1857-59 Notices issued to Postmasters, comprising 1857 (Dec 1) "Registered Letters Not Liable to be Surcharged" (correctly posted registered letters not to be surcharged if found to be underpaid, deficiencies to be charged to the office of posting; only posted out of course and redirected registered mail may be surcharged); 1858 (July 8) "Inland Registered Book Packets and Official Money Letters to be tied with Green Tape" (also all inland registered letters, including those posted out of course, to be similarly tied); and 1859 (Jan 24) Dublin Post Office Notice "All Registered Letters, Registered Packets, Official Remittances &c to be tied with Green Tape" (all registered mail to be tied, irrespective of type or destination, with illustrations of how the tape is to be tied). (3). Photo on Page 104. £300-350
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1876-83 Covers comprising 1876 cover from Southampton to Denmark franked 2½d plate 9 + Large Garter 4d vermilion plate 15 (S.G. 152, £1,100 on cover); 1877 cover from Glasgow franked 1d + 4d sage-green plate 15 (S.G. 153, £600 on cover), and 1883 cover from Glasgow franked ½d + 3d on 3d. Three unusual frankings, the 4d vermilion very uncommon on cover. (3). £200-240
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Certificates of Posting. 1844-1914 C.O.Ps for registered letters, differing types including three used by rural postmen, datestamps include the very scarce 1856 double arc "PICCADILLY" (London) c.d.s. in blue, boxed 1856 Edinburgh datestamp in red, etc. (19). Also 1863 registered cover from Llangollen franked 1d + 4d, and 1914-44 registration envelopes (3) with blank type registration labels bearing datestamps. (23). £100-120
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Queen Anne. 1709 (April 23) Entire letter from the Queen at St. James, superbly written in a secretarial hand in French, signed in the Queens hand "Mon Frere, Votre bonne freur, Anne R", addressed to "Mon Frere Le Duc de Lorraine", hand carried. The reverse with a superb paper covered impressed seal of Queen Anne with her crown and royal coat of arms, recipients filing endorsement "La Reine d'angleterre du 23 avril 1709 au sujet de l'indemnite de Montferrat". The diplomatically worded letter thanks the Duke for his continued friendship and loyalty to the Grand Alliance, and for giving up his claims on Montferrat; she promises her support, and will only conclude a peace (to the War of the Spanish Succession) on terms satisfactory to the Duke, whose territories continue to form a barrier to the Empire. In 1708 the Duke of Lorraine (Leopold the Good) claimed the Duchy of Montferrat after his cousin, Charles III Gonzaga, was deposed; he agreed to accept the Duchy of Teschen instead after the Holy Roman Emperor promised Montferrat to the Duke of Savoy. A fine and scarce royal letter. Photo on Page 104. £500-700
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1818 Cards with engraved portraits of The Duchesses of Cambridge, Gloucester or York, or Princess Augusta, all published by G. Smeeton of St. Martins Lane; 1840 printed card (185x272mm) "The New Windsor Pear" with a print of a pear which lifts to reveal the newly married Victoria and Albert, published by W. Mason of Brighton and Ackermann & Co of London (also another similar card, the pear unfortunately torn away); and c.1860-90 Carte de Visite photos (15) of various members of the royal family. (21). £100-120
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1821 George IV Coronation admission ticket to Westminster Abbey numbered 4422, plain portion below inscribed "North Door Upper Boxes" with printed "Howard of Effingham" signature, this portion separated from the printed ticket; also Pass Tickets for Westminster Abbey and Westminster Hall, all three superbly printed by Whiting in three colours using the Congreve method, embossed borders by Dobbs with the embossed seal of the Earl Marshall below. A scarce early example of Congreve printing by Whiting, similar examples illustrated in the recent book on Postal Reforms by J. Grimwood-Taylor. (3). £600-800
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c.1870-1908 Royal notepaper and ephemera comprising unused notepaper with embossed handpainted crest of the Prince of Wales, similar notepaper (2 types) and envelope of Princess Zeyneb of Egypt, unused notepaper with royal arms within an embossed border, 1882 and 1890 Buckingham Palace music programmes printed on similar notepaper, 1906 Great Eastern Railway time table for the Queens journey from St. Pancras to Wolferton, 1908 Windsor Castle programme of theatrical performance by Mr Lewis Waller's company. (9). £140-160
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King Edward VII. 1887 (Oct 25) Cover with "Marlborough House" flap initialled by the Prince of Wales, addressed in his handwriting to "Major H.G Miles, D.A.Q.M.G, South Camp, Aldershot", a 1d lilac tied by "LONDON / A / VR" hooded circle datestamp; and a photo of the Prince of Wales with a piece cut from a letter attached below, "Yrs v. sincerely, A.E". Also 1897 Diamond Jubilee procession H.M Office of Works ticket to the War Office stands. (3). £140-160
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1897-1911 Covers all with a royal origin, all addressed to the sculptor Emil Fuchs, who sculpted the head of King Edward VII used for the postage stamps. Comprising covers franked 1d lilac posted at London S.W (2, one with crown on flap, the other initialled "AE", by the future Edward VII?), Windsor (initialled, "Windsor Castle" flap), Cowes or Kings Lynn (2, both with "York Cottage, Sandringham" flaps), a cover franked KEVII 1d ("Buckingham Palace" flap) and stampless Official Paid covers with E.R Cypher ("Sandringham" flap), Privy Purse Buckingham Palace cachets (2) or Lord Chamberlain St. James's Palace cachet. (11). £250-300
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1901-12 Covers and cards including unused printed "GOVERNMENT TELEGRAM" envelopes with printed royal arms and address of "His Majesty The King" or "Her Majesty The Queen" (both with tone spots) and front of similar used "POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS" envelope to "His Majesty The King"; 1901 Royal Tour of Duke & Duchess of Cornwall postcards (2); 1902 card posted on Coronation day with cachet; 1911 postcards bearing Union of Philanthropic Philately Coronation labels in differing colours (3); 1912 card from Naples with "H.M YACHT / VICTORIA & ALBERT" cachet, etc. (13). £120-140
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King Edward VII. 1842-1910 Ephemera and postcards including 1842 ticket to the dinner at Tonbridge to celebrate the christening of the Prince of Wales; 1872 St. Pauls Cathedral ticket to the thanksgiving service for the Prince's recovery from typhoid; 1902 St. Pauls Cathedral order of service for the King during his illness; 1902 Westminster Abbey coronation proceedings (2); booklet with a coloured pull-out picture of the coronation procession; 1902 Naval Review ticket to S.S "Carisbrooke"; private tickets to view the coronation (3), 1902 St Pauls Cathedral thanksgiving service for the King's recovery ticket; notice of a Privy Council meeting on the royal yacht at Cowes; piece signed "Appd, Edward R&I"; 1910 Christmas card with mourning border signed by his sister Princess Beatrice; photos, postcards, etc. (36). £250-300
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King Edward VIII & King George VI. 1901 (Dec 27) Cover with "York Cottage / Sandringham" on the flap, addressed to "Mrs Colman, The Rectory, Barwick-in-Elmet, Leeds", franked 1d lilac cancelled at Kings Lynn, backstamped at Sandringham. The enclosed letter headed from York Cottage, written in pencil by the seven year old Prince Edward, also signed by his younger brother Prince Albert - "Dear Mrs Colman, we thank you very much for the books. Mary thanks you for the doll. We wish you a Happy New Year, From Edward & Albert". A scarce early letter from the future Kings Edward VIII and George VI. (cover + letter). £300-400
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Ireland. 1904 (Apr 26) "Barlerin" postcard posted during the royal visit of King Edward VII to Dublin, the KEVII ½d cancelled at Dublin, the scarce "VICE REGAL LODGE" c.d.s applied to the picture side. Photo on Page 104. £120-150
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King Edward VII. A fine large real photo of the King on W&D Downey card, signed "Edward R&I, 1907", 19x33cm. £400-500
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King Edward VIII / Queen Mary. 1913 Stampless cover with London S.W Official Paid c.d.s, addressed by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) to "Mr J. McDonald, Stalker, Mar Lodge, Braemar" and initialled "E", with a signed note enclosed; and 1938 parcel address label initialled "M.R" by Queen Mary and addressed by her to "The King, Windsor Castle" with Buckingham Palace Registered datestamp, the first with minor staining. (2). £100-120
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Queen Alexandra. 1919 (Mar 3) Stampless mourning envelope addressed in Queen Alexandra's handwriting to Lady Henry Somerset, registered from St. James St. with G.R Cypher cachet, the enclosed four page letter entirely in Alexandra's hand, on Marlborough House notepaper. She gives her seal of approval to Lady Somerset's school and hopes to be able to visit some of the children in due course. (cover + letter). £120-150
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King George VI. 1941 (Nov 28) Letter from Lord Moyne in Downing Street to King George VI recommending John Verity be appointed Chief Justice of British Guiana, endorsed "appd GRI" by the King. £80-100
The following three lots all belonged to Ernest Lemieux, chef to the Governor-General of Canada, who was also chef on the Royal Train during the 1951 Royal Tour of Canada by Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh.
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Photos, Menus, ephemera, etc., comprising 1951 Royal Visit booklet of arrangements (87 pages) and Royal Train Schedule booklet (39 pages, signed by Lieut. Comd. Parker); photographs taken during the royal tour (14, ten 254x204mm) including the royal couple leaving the train at Ottawa, Lemieux working on the train (4), Lemieux and other train staff (6), the royal party and train crew in front of the train, and the royal train (four with Canadian National Railways cachets on reverse); a similar framed photo of Lemieux receiving the 1953 Coronation medal from the Governor-General, with the medal in box of issue; menu's on cards headed with the royal arms (59, at least one from the royal train); printed Christmas cards from the Governor-General (6) and invitations to receptions (2). An interesting group. (85). £250-300
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Queen Elizabeth II / Duke of Edinburgh. A fine real photo of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh mounted on card, boldly signed below "Elizabeth" and "Philip" and dated 1951, reverse of card with "Copyright Photograph by Baron, 2 Brook Street Park Lane W.1" cachet, made into a card with a cover bearing the royal arms affixed, a fine and scarce signed presentation photo. £250-300
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Hallmarked 9 carat gold and red enamel presentation cufflinks with "G.R" below a crown, in their leather presentation box, by Plate of London S.W, the royal arms printed on the box lid in gold. Also a silver and enamel lapel badge with crown above a maple leaf, and "A Mari Usque Ad Mare / Canada 1951". All extremely fine, the cufflinks presented by the royal party to Lemieux, very scarce and attractive. (2). £600-800
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1839 (Dec 25) Entire from Edinburgh prepaid 4d, and an entire letter from Caracas to London by packet backstamped in London on Christmas day charged 3/1 (2/1 packet rate + 1/- inland postage from Falmouth). (2). £100-120
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(Also See Lots 43, 319, 320, 538-551, 553/4) | |
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1849-1965 Covers and cards (101) with sub-office datestamps, Sark, slogans, etc., also stamps and pieces. (101+). £100-120
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1905-41 Picture postcards (9) and a cover including 1905 postcard with two India ½a stamps cancelled in Jersey but handstamped hexagonal "T / 10 / JE" and charged 10c in France; 1908 card posted at St. Aubin, from the territorial army camp with circular violet "MEDICAL CORPS / (Red Cross) / THE ROYAL MILITIA OF JERSEY"; 1941 stampless cover from the German Red Cross office in Paris to Jersey, etc. Also three 1905-10 Scilly Islands postcards, one from Tresco to the West African island of San Tome. (13). £100-120
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World War Two. 1942 Cover to Leipzig with German 10pf + 15pf cancelled by St. Peter Port datestamps, plain censor tape tied by "Obercommando der Wehrmacht / y" cachet, very unusual. Also a 1940 Red Cross envelope from Geneva to Jersey, 1941 postcard with bisected 1940 2d tied by Cobo c.d.s, and 1943 lettersheet from a Channel Islands internee in Biberach Camp. (4). Photo on Page 108. £150-180
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(Also See Lots 371, 744, 949) | |
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Carlisle. 1844 (June 15/22 & Aug 9) "Carlisle Patriot" newspapers all with long accounts of the preliminary proceeding and trial of John Nicholson, a clerk in the Carlisle Post Office, found guilty of stealing letters and sentenced to 10 years transportation, the last also with an account of De La Rue's production of stationery envelopes. Also lists of unclaimed letters, announcement of the birth of the Prince of Wales, reports of various murders, etc. (3). £120-150
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1644 (Sep 17) Entire letter from George Gansell in St. Albans, addressed "For the Right Honorable my very good Lord the Earl of Manchester these with my service", concerning a loan and payment of His Lordship's Regiment. Edward Montagu, Second Earl of Manchester, commanded a regiment of the Parliament army, capturing Horncastle, Lincoln, York and securing Lincolnshire, but was charged with neglect following the Second Battle of Newbury in October 1644, resigned his commission in 1645 and retired from public life in 1649, becoming Chancellor of Cambridge University. In 1660 he became a Privy Councillor and Lord Chancellor. A fine civil war period letter. Photo on Page 108. £200-250
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Watford. 1790-1996 Entire letters, covers and cards (c.118) and a few pieces, the Michael Goodman collection in an album, including concave handstamp, "18" or "29" mileage marks (4), Penny Post with "No. 1" of Bushey, frees, 1839 "Cash letter", 1841 (Nov 8) skeleton backstamp in red on a 1d Mulready (faults), 1845 (Dec 13) skeleton in black, 1857 "Too Late", 1853-55 stampless covers to India (2), 1869 cover franked 4d to France, 1885 cover franked 4d to Trinidad (faults), curious 1895 postcard posted at Biggleswade and reposted at Watford three days later to the same address, 1901 Money Order with unusual c.d.s, 1904 skeleton, 1946 P.O.W card, etc. (118++). £400-500
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Watford District. 1825-1974 Covers and cards, the Michael Goodman collection in an album, comprising Bushey (15) with "No. 1" on Watford Penny Post letter, undated circles (3), registered P.T.P.O stationery envelopes, 1918 skeletons; Bushey Heath (22) with undated circles (8, two types), 1903 card to Paris returned to sender due to a stamp on the picture side, 1919 skeleton; Elstree (21) with "T.P / Elstree" (3) or straight line "Elstree", undated circle, "C97" numeral; Garston (3); New Watford undated circle; Hunton Bridge undated circle; Letchmore Heath (5) with undated circle, 1909 skeleton; Watford Postal School cover. (69). £300-400
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1858 (Sep 2) Cover franked 1d from Sligo to Ballasalla, backstamped with a fine small "BALLASALLA ISLE OF MAN" undated circle, very scarce. Photo on Page 108. £200-240
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(Also See Lots 383, 392, 497, 523/8, 634) | |
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1840 (May 16) Entire letter from Sevenoaks to London, the 1d postage prepaid in cash, with superb red "P1", one of the more unusual UPP Paid marks, only recorded in 1840. £100-120
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(Also See Lots 385, 448, 453/9, 461/4, 470/2, 555/7, 566-573, 678, 947) | |
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1642 (Sep 27) Entire letter written from Clayton, addressed "To his verie loving frende Mr Edward Wilson at Nether Leavens these in Westemorland", concerning the sale of land and the payment of Michaelmas rents, with a list of places in Lancashire and Westmoreland where rents (ranging from 2/- to 26/3/6) have been paid. A fine well written letter, sent shortly after the start of the Civil War, just four days after the first Battle of Worcester. Photo on Page 108. £200-240
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1668 (Dec 26) Entire letter from St. Stephen (in the Banks) addressed "For Edward Wilson Esq at Dallam Tower these". His nephew, Sir Joseph Otway, writes about the rejection of Wilson's application to the Queen's Council for a lease to Casterton Manor, a decision that evidently took a considerable time as he states it was not due to "the neglect of your sollicitude, or the calamity of the late dreadful fire" (of London, in 1666). Also a print of Edward's stately home, Dallam Tower, near Milnthorpe. £100-120
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c.1770-1970 Entire letters, covers and cards with prestamp, undated circles (18) and other straight line sub-office handstamps (13), many single ring and squared circle datestamps mainly on KEVII and KGV picture postcards, postage dues, etc, many Liverpool and Manchester items, an extensive lot. (c.1,000). £500-600
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Duplexs & Numerals. c.1844-1910 Covers and cards with duplex or numeral cancels, many on KEVII or KGV picture postcards, with many Manchester or Liverpool types. (250+). £130-160
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Skeletons & Rubbers. 1904-33 Picture postcards cancelled by rubbers (29) or skeletons (58), mainly fine. (87). £120-140
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1649 (Feb 27) Entire letter from Roger Stoughton written "from my lodging att one Mr Alliner house, a grocer in Greate St. Bartellmes London", addressed "To his very loveing friende Mr Francis Saule at his house att Penrith". A fine Commonwealth period letter to Cumberland. Photo on Page 108. £180-220
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c.1690 Entire letter from "Ye Katharine Wheel" at Oxford, addressed "To the Lady Drax at Stanmore near Edgworth Middx, to be left att ye post house in Edgworth", charged "2" and "In all 4", reverse with fine "SE/3" Bishop Mark and "M/AFT" heart shaped (solid frame) time handstamp used in the London Penny Post. Paper faults with several small holes to the address panel and piece missing from upper right corner, an attractive example of this uncommon handstamp. Photo on Page 108. £250-300
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1717 Entire letter from Southampton to London prepaid 3d, with "25/DE" Christmas day Bishop Mark on reverse and circular framed "PD", an unusual use of this handstamp on an inland letter. £100-120
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1750-78 Entire letters all with triangular "PAYD / PENY / POST" Dockwra type handstamps from the Temple office, manuscript receivers names, one to Rose Hill in Sussex endorsed "By Hurst Green Bag", another written by the engraver and antiquary George Vertue. (3). £120-140
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c.1753-1858 Prestamp and stampless entire letters and entires including Bishop Marks (9), free franks (8, also many fronts), codeless crown datestamps on mail to official addresses, Sunday datestamps, etc., the 1753 letter written from the "Dog & Gun near the Cross, Leeds" to "Long Lane near the Plume & Feathers in Southwark", another to Furnivals Inn Coffee House. (41++). £150-180
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1764-75 Entire letters posted within London, both to the Foundling Hospital, with fine "Dockwra" type Penny Post handstamps of Hermitage or St. Pauls. The 1764 letter concerns the girl Grace, who went out at 8a.m not returning until 11p.m in a nearly naked state; the writer is mistrustful of her running away again. The 1775 letter reports that Mrs Belcher, a lady quilter of White Gate Alley, Bishopgate St., has agreed to take in Lucretia Joy. (2). £100-120
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Cornhill. 1830-59 Entire letters, entires and covers with various Cornhill handstamps, including straight line, undated circle, Two Penny Post and Paid types, also an 1833 letter privately carried to India where it was put into the post, with oval "FORWARDED BY / J.M RICHARDSON / 23 / CORNHILL, LONDON". (32). £150-180
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