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Jersey 1816/63: Selection of four items with 1816 entire letter to ...mehr
Jersey 1816/63: Selection of four items with 1816 entire letter to London with fine "JERSEY" first type scroll handstamp in black rated at "11d." to pay in manuscript, 1820 cover to London prepaid "11d." in red manuscript with fine "JERSEY" second type scroll handstamp in black and London tombstone 'Paid' datestamp; 1844 prepaid entire to Somerset with "JERSEY" cds in red and handstruck "1" alongside; and 1863 Telegram envelope and complete contents used to Petersfield.
1869: Line-Engraved 2 pence blue, plate 14, horizontal pair, good ...mehr
1869: Line-Engraved 2 pence blue, plate 14, horizontal pair, good colour and perforations mostly fine, tied by duplex “A25 MALTA 9 JU 76”, to a mourning envelope, sent to Yokohama, Japan. Reverse, with transit cds “HONG KONG - MARINE SORTER / SINGAPORE-TO HONG-KONG JY 15 17 76”. Envelope reduced slightly at top, flap missing and small opening tear behind first stamp reinforced at back and second adhesive perforations trimmed top right. A fine and rare example of the “four pence” rate from Malta to Japan, used within the last month this rate was valid. One of five examples known. Note: The new GPU “India & Far East” rate of 8 pence began on 1 July 1876. Remark: The addressee Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935) at this date was teaching at the Imperial Naval Academy in Tokyo, he was later a Professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, writing some of the earliest translations of haiku into English.
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