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Balmoral Castle. 1866-1999 Covers and cards including large Balmoral Castle c.d.s (9, with early 1903 use on card cancelled at Ballater, “90” for “09” year error), smaller c.d.s (7, one registered), 1999 Court Post Office c.d.s, also 1955 Abergeldie Castle skeleton (2), etc. (30). £100-120
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Abergeldie Castle. 1955 (Aug 20) Covers cancelled by the “ABERGELDIE CASTLE / ABERDEEN” skeleton datestamp, used at the temporary post office open for 2 hours on this one day during a fete to raise money for Crathie Church, one cover registered bearing registration label no. 7 with typed inscription “Abergeldie Castle, Aberdeen”. Also a contemporary news cutting about the fete. The registered cover very scarce, just eight registered covers believed to have been posted. (2). Photo on Page 86. £120-150
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T.P.Os/Railways. 1857-1959 Covers and cards, also two way bills, with T.P.O handstamps including 1890 cover with Caledonian T.P.O c.d.s and “P” in a star, “C.R”, circular framed “C.R / F”, “C.R / P.O”, “C / R.P.O / FD”, “C&G / R.P.O”, “L.C / R”, also two railway letters and a few railway stamps, a few R.S.O and station cancels, etc. (96). £250-300
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Exhibitions & Special Events. 1901-67 Covers and cards, picture postcards and labels including 1908 and 1911 woven silk postcards, 1911 Glasgow Exhibition season ticket, 1937 Alloa Showyard skeleton on registered cover, many 1938 Glasgow Exhibition cards, 1942-59 skeleton cancels for Church of Scotland Assembly (6) or Royal Highland Show (8), 1949 Glasgow Kelvin Hall skeleton on registered cover, etc. (c.200). £200-300
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Air Mails - Lanark. 1910 (Aug 10) Picture postcard franked KEVII ½d cancelled by “LANARK / GRAND STAND” c.d.s, used at the Scottish International Aviation Meeting (the second air show held in G.B), fine and scarce. £100-150
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Air Mails - Lanark. 1910 Lanark Aviation Week, giant sized (302x243mm) picture postcard published by the Daily News, posted from Lanark (Aug 10) to Southport franked ½d. A rare card, especially postally used and in such fine condition. £150-200
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Air Mails. 1929-99 Covers and cards, also some labels and ephemera, the display collection well written up on pages with additional items, including internal flights by Highland Airways, R.A.S, Hillman Airways, Aberdeen Airways, Scottish Airways, N.E Airways, B.E.A and British Airways, 1937 Christmas flight to Fair Isle, WW2 flights to Scandinavia, use of airway letter stamps, scarce WW2 Air Ministry flights to R.A.F units in the Western Isles (8), 1934 Scarp Rocket Post, pilot signed covers, etc., a good lot. (190). £500-600
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Forces Mail & Censorship. 1902-45 Covers and cards including camp cancels (21) with skeletons of Kinross, Doonfoot, Townfoot and Buddon; 1916 cover with Scottish National Red Cross Hospital Bellahouston cachet; WW1 naval mail with defaced Lerwick numeral cancel (2); WW2 censors on civilian and forces mail, etc. (52). £100-120
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P.O.W Mail - WW1 & WW2. First World War P.O.W covers from Stobs Camp (16, two stamped covers with named censor cachets), and postcards of German P.O.Ws at Raasay (5); 1943-49 WW2 covers, cards and lettersheets (138) from 35 different camps, the well written up collection on pages, including items from Polish and Yugoslav P.O.Ws, a few ingoing items, etc. (159). £400-500
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1838 (July 25) Entire from Edinburgh to London, endorsed “by steam” and prepaid the 8d ship letter rate, carried on the S.S “Royal Victoria” from Leith with red “PAID at EDIN” and oval “PAID SHIP LETTER / LONDON” datestamps. Not known in London with various endorsements, redirected to Cheltenham and then Staines with a final charge of 1/6, seven London backstamps, also endorsed “Came here unsealed T.P.P.O” with an official wax seal. Scarce, ship letters between British ports only became legal on 1835. Photo on Page 86. £120-150
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1839 (June 1) Entire letter from London to Aberdeen endorsed “pr Aberdeen Steam Ship Jun 1” prepaid the 8d ship letter rate, “TP / Curzon St” handstamp with red “SHIP LETTER / LONDON” backstamp. Fine and scarce, carried entirely by ship so exempt from the Scottish additional ½d charge. £100-120
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Campbelton. 1830 (Mar 27) Entire letter from Edinburgh to Campbelton, charged 11d with “Add / ½” handstamp and “CAMPBELTON / STEAM BOAT”, small part back flap missing, otherwise a fine example of this scarce handstamp, illustrated in Robertson. Photo on Page 86. £180-240
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Campbelton. 1830 (Apr 10) Entire to London marked “1½oz” and charged 7/6½, with superb “CAMPBELTON / STEAM BOAT” handstamp. Fine and scarce, used on letters to and from Campbelton conveyed by sea to Ayr, Greenock or Glasgow (for which ships’ masters were paid 2d per letter), only recorded 1830-31. £180-240
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Glasgow. 1833-47 Entire letters (2) and entires (2) with oval “Ship Letter / (crown) / GLASGOW” (2, Rob. S1), or boxed “GLASGOW / SHIP LETTER” with date (S3) or without date (S4), all fine. (4). £200-250
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Glasgow - Packet Letters. 1861-90 Covers from Canada with dated unframed “GLASGOW PACKET / COL. PAID” in blue or “GLASGOW PACKET / PAID” (3), oval “PACKET LETTER / GLASGOW” datestamp (2, one from U.S.A) or “PAID / GLASGOW / PACKET” c.d.s, also three later Glasgow or Grangemouth Paquebots. (10). £120-140
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Glasgow - Packet Letters. 1868-71 Cover and entire letter from San Francisco to Scotland, the large 1871 cover unusually franked 1868 12c + 1870 6c with unframed “GLASGOW / PACKET / PAID” datestamp; the unpaid 1868 letter with unframed “GLASGOW PACKET / UNPAID” datestamp, “6” handstamp obliterated by Edinburgh duplex, charged 1/-. (2). £120-150
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Greenock. c.1778-1847 Entire letters with Greenock Ship Letter handstamps comprising types S1, 3, 8, 9, 12 (12), 13 (3, one in blue), 14, letters from St. Vincent, Demerara (3), Antigua, Jamaica, etc. (10). £200-240
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Greenock. 1802-07 Entire letter from U.S.A and an entire endorsed “pr ship Fanny via Greenock” with oval “Ship Lre / (crown) / GREENOCK” in black (S5) or “Ship Letter / (crown) / GREENOCK” in red (S4), both fine and scarce. (2). Photo on Page 92. £180-220
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Greenock - India Letters. 1835-36 Entire letters, the first from Agra to Edinburgh with fine boxed “GREENOCK / INDIA SHIP LR” (In1), “1” local post charge applied upon arrival, Calcutta G.P.O Ship Letter backstamps; 1836 letter to London with Colombo Post Paid datestamp (June 24) and red boxed “INDIA LETTER / GREENOCK” (In 3), endorsed “p. Overland Mail via Bombay”, London arrival c.d.s (Aug 17, a transit time of just 54 days), file folds. (2). £200-250
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Greenock. 1838 (July 7) Entire letter from Montreal to Glasgow sent on the brig “Isabella”, found enclosed within another letter and sent to the Dead Letter Office in London, finally posted a month later. Endorsed “DLO 11/8/38, Taken out of a Greenock ship letter addressed to Capt. James C. Murray R.N Glasgow & refused”, charged 1/3½, with London and Glasgow backstamps, very unusual. Photo on Page 92. £150-180
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Leith. 1836 (May 18) Entire letter from Leith to Kirkwall “p. George Canning” with fine blue oval “SHIP LETTER / LEITH” with date (S6). Photo on Page 92. £150-180
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Leith. 1838 (Nov 10) Entire letter from Hamburg to Penicuick endorsed “per Leith Steamer”, Schiffs Briefpost Hamburg datestamp and superb blue oval “SHIP LETTER / 15 No 1838 / LEITH” (S6) and matching “Add1/½”. Photo on Page 92. £150-180
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Leith. 1840 Entire letter from Hamburg to Edinburgh “pr Leith Steamer City of Hamburg” with Hamburg Schiffs Brief datestamp and blue “LEITH / SHIP LETTER” (S5), file folds, otherwise fine. £100-120
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Port Glasgow. 1780-1818 Entire letters with Ship Letter handstamps, comprising types S1, 2, 3, 5, all fine, the last two superb strikes. (4). £250-350
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Port Glasgow. 1823 (Apr 8) Entire letter from Antigua to Edinburgh handstamped with a fine “PORT GLASGOW / SHIP LETTER” (S5). The writer has just arrived in Antigua after a six week voyage from Gravesend, and leaves for Montserrat the following day. An uncommon ship letter in such fine quality. £100-120
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Port Glasgow - India Letter. 1834 Entire letter and an entire from Bombay, both with fine boxed “INDIA LETTER / PORT GLASGOW” (In1), one with a few edge faults, otherwise fine. (2). £100-150
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Port Glasgow. 1840 Entire to Glasgow “per Mary Campbell”, red Mauritius backstamp, superb oval “SHIP LETTER / G (crown) R / PORT GLASGOW” (S6) and the scarce handstruck “8” charge mark. Photo on Page 92. £200-250
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Greenock & Ardrishaig Packet. 1883-1914 Covers and cards with Iona Steamer or Columba Steamer singe ring backstamps or duplex cancels (all code B), Gk & Ardrishaig Packet double ring c.d.s for the Columba (5, two code A) or Iona (code B), Greenock & Ardrishaig Pkt double ring c.d.s for the Iona (code A), also MacBrayne envelope, notepaper and postcards (2), etc. (26). £240-280
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Greenock & Ardrishaig Packet - Grenadier. 1901-15 Cover and picture postcards, the cover with double ring “GRENADIER STEAMER / 666” backstamp (code A); cards cancelled by large Gk & Ardrishaig Packet c.d.s, similar smaller c.d.s (2) or Greenock & Ardrishaig Pkt c.d.s (all code B), also three postcards of ship, the 1901 cover with faults, otherwise fine. (8). £200-250
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Steamer Cachets. 1904-13 Picture postcards with cachets of the Juno, Fairy Queen (3), Lord of the Isles (4) or Duchess of Hamilton; also postcards of steamers (8), 1962-2004 covers and cards with steamer cachets (14, mostly Caledonian Steam Packet Co.), etc. (33). £200-250
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1697-1839 Entire letters including 1697 letter from Holland to Edinburgh with London Bishop Mark, 1707 letter to Dumfries with 2d charge, 1727 letter to Wigtown with 3d charge, red Bishop Marks, red “G / (crown) / R” inspectors mark, etc. (14). £100-150
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Paid Handstamps. 1790-1864 Entire letters, various Paid handstamps including ED58, 60, 62, 64, 82, 84, 88, 102, 104, 108, also 1861 black “PAID AT EDINBURGH” c.d.s on letter to Denmark, etc. (21). £180-220
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Penny Posts. 1794-1826 Entire letters and entires with Penny Post receiving office handstamps including scarce double ring “CHAPEL STREET / P.P.O” in red or black (ED618a/b), boxed P.P.O handstamps of Castle St. (2), Duke Street (2), Hanover Street (2) and West Nicolson St. in red, boxed unpaid handstamps of Howe Street (2) and Dalkeith and Paid handstamp of Kirkliston, circular unpaid handstamps of Castle Street, Hanover Street, Laswade and Dalkeith (2) and Paid handstamps of Dalkeith and Laswade, also circular Ford P.P.O. (21). £200-250
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Penny Posts. 1785-1838 Entire letters and entires including 1785 Williamson’s Penny Post “E. PENNY POST NOT PAID”, various 1795-1809 time handstamps (24), boxed “PENNY P. UNPAID” in black or red (2), circular “PENNY POST / PAID” (2), boxed late datestamp, “1” and “2” charge marks. (63). £300-350
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Receiving Offices. 1825-60 Entire letters, entires and covers with receiving house handstamps including Leith Walk, Pitt Street, India Street, Dundas Street, Hanover Street, Sandport Street, Duke Street, South Methuen Street, Cross, Canongate, Stafford Street, Stockbridge, Fisherrow, also Portobello Penny Post on a letter to Bahamas, etc. (24). £150-180
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Explanatory Handstamps. 1813-31 Entire letters and entires redirected at Edinburgh, all with “Postage to Edinburgh Not Paid” handstamps, types ED112, 114, 118a in red, ED118b, 120 in black, all fine. Also 1833 entire letter from London to Wardie prepaid 1/1½ but underpaid by 1d, handstamped “TO PAY / ONE PENNY” (ED 178), an unusual use of this handstamp which is usually found on free letters to collect a Penny Post charge. (6). £150-200
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Explanatory Handstamps. 1813-86 Entire letters, entires and covers with 1835 boxed “MISSENT / TO / EDINBURGH”, 1842-45 red boxed “PAID / 1d EXTRA” (2) or “PAID / 6d EXTRA”, “Too Late” (6), “More to Pay” (4), also 1886 cover with “OVER / 1OZ” and a “1” charge. (15). £160-200
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Uniform 4d & 1d Post. 1839-40 Entire letters and entires, two posted during the 4d Post Period with handstruck “4” or sent within the local post charged 1d, unpaid letter with “2” charge mark incorporating the date “MR 6 1840”, and 1840 (Oct 30) entire bearing a 1d black, IJ plate 4 with four margins, tied by red Maltese Cross. (4). £150-200
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Scots Local Cancels. 1854-58 Entire letters, entires and covers with 1d reds tied by Scots Local cancels, various types from 15 differing city receiving houses, including Cross, Grass Market, Clerk St., Elm Row, etc. (24). £180-220
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Cancellations. 1846-1908 Covers and cards with numeral cancels, duplexs including Brunswick Star and dotted types, 1857 duplex in blue, N.P.B datestamps, rollers, also Paid datestamps, etc. (58). £120-150
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Cancellations. 1863-75 Entire letters, covers and cards with Brunswick Star cancels (12, one to U.S.A franked 6d, including scarce types Ic, IVb, Va, VI), “Posted Since .... Last Night” duplexs (13, various types and times, one to Victoria franked 6d) or “131” rollers (4, all with “Posted Since” backstamps), a good lot, many well written up on pages. (29). £300-400
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Musselburgh. 1787-1890 Entire letters, covers and cards including fine 1787 “Mufsleburgh”, various Penny Posts (15) with circular Paid and Unpaid, boxed Unpaid (3) and oval Paid (3) handstamps, boxed datestamp with P.P.O removed, etc. (25). £250-300
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Leith. 1804-87 Entire letters and covers including circular Unpaid (2) and Paid (2) Penny Post handstamps, blue “1” and “2” charge marks, experimental duplex cancels with the scarce type 1, also types 2 (2) and 3, etc. Also a block of six Edinr & Leith Circular Delivery Co perf 11 One Farthing grey stamps. (26). £200-250
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1679 (June 10) Entire letter to Rotterdam, the reverse with Post Office endorsement “ from Glasgow” and a London “JU/18” Bishop Mark, the front endorsed “Pd to London 5d” with red “XI” Stuivers charge, early and scarce. Photo on Page 92. £150-200
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1682-1741 Entire letters, the 1682 letter to Edinburgh without any rate shown, 1733 letter to London with “2” charge crossed out and altered to “in all 8”, 1723-41 letters to Inverary, Greenock or Lorn all with a “2” charge. (5). £100-150
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1682 (July 6) Entire letter to Rotterdam, the reverse with “Glasgow” Post Office endorsement and a “JY/19” London Bishop Mark, the front endorsed “Post Pd to London” with “5d” added in a second hand, red “XI” Stuivers charge, early and scarce. Photo on Page 92. £150-200
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1692-1833 Privately carried letters including 1692 letter to Dumfries, 1700-01 letters to Coupar (2), 1733 letter to Inveresragan endorsed “pay the bearer 12sh”, others endorsed “with a small paper parcel”, “with 2 cheeses”, “with a parcel”, “too late for post sent by coach” or “John Evans Driver of the Earl of Mars Coach”, 1833 letter to Ayr with a “10” charge, also 1790 letter from Grenada to Glasgow endorsed “Pr the Fame, Capt. James Leitch Q.D.C”. (13). £180-220
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1703-14 Entire letters to Edinburgh, the reverse with manuscript “4d GL” or “Gl 2d”, the rates also shown on the front, scarce early Glasgow Post Office endorsements. (2). £150-200
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1716-22 Entire letters from Greenock to Inverary sent via Glasgow, both endorsed “pd 1d to Glasgow” with a “2” charge. Very scarce letters paid to Glasgow, then forwarded unpaid by the General Post. (2). £200-250
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1731-37 Entire letters from Glasgow to Leith or Inverary (2), or from Irvine to Inverary via Glasgow, all with manuscript “Gl 2”, the Irvine letter also with a second “2” charge for the rate to Glasgow, scarce early Post Office endorsements. (4). £250-300
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