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1875: Three destination covers mailed within the first few months of ...mehr
1875: Three destination covers mailed within the first few months of the GPU sent from London through France to Spain, Tunisia and Germany respectively. Comprising lettersheet bearing 1 shilling green and 2 pence blue, an outer wrapper franked with a single 6 pence grey and a tri-colour cover with 6 pence grey, 4 pence vermilion and a 1 penny red paying the late fee with accompanying boxed “L1” in red alongside. Some filing creases and imperfection. In the main fine. Scarce group of this special rates. (3).
Parcel Post 1884: De La Rue High-Values, 2 shilling 6 pence lilac and ...mehr
Parcel Post 1884: De La Rue High-Values, 2 shilling 6 pence lilac and 5 shilling rose, in combination with Jubilee 1888, 5 pence dull purple & blue vertical pair and 1887, 1 shilling dull green together with 1888, £1 brown-lilac, Three-Orbs wmk., all of good colour, perforations mainly fine, tied by oval “REGISTERED LONDON 9 NO 88” to the reverse of a “On Her Britannic Majesty's Service” parcel tag, sent to Berlin, Germany, by the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (signed at top), addressed to “Sir Edward B. Malet, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary”. Front, signed “Salisbury", endorsed ”By post registered" and dated “Nov. 9 1888” with Foreign Office wax seal. Soiling and creasing as might be expected, not affecting adhesives. The odd short perforation, and the lower 5 pence has a clipped corner lower left. The 2 shilling 6 pence side is affected by its proximity to the edge of the tag. A most spectacular franking and great rarity of Great Britain philately. A unique piece. Cert. Louis (1997). Note: This Parcel Post Label bearing the £1 watermark “Three Orbs” was a “New Find” by a German collector and is the only known franking of the £1 “Three Orbs” watermark on either cover or parcel tag. Provenance: “SEVERIN”, D. Feldman, 13 April 2010, lot 20321
1889: Stationery postal card 3 pence red on buff, used with oval ...mehr
1889: Stationery postal card 3 pence red on buff, used with oval “REGISTERED CARDIFF 9 MR 91” in black, sent registered to Halle, Germany, endorsed “Registered”, with oval “R” handstamp in black, and manuscript “6” in blue crayon. Reverse, arrival cds “HALLE A/S 11 3 91”. Fine and scarce card. Difficult to find used. (H&G 19, H&B CP25)Note: Issued on 1 September 1889 the card was obsolete 15 moths later on 1 January 1891 and withdrawn from sale with a postal bulletin dated 27 January 1891. This example illustrates one of the ways this card could still be used. 1d postal card rate plus 2d registration. Reference: The Postal History of the Universal Postal Union: The Postal Card, Worldwide 1869-1975, Volume 1, illustrated pg. 680.
1892: Stationery postal card 1 penny red-orange on buff, used with ...mehr
1892: Stationery postal card 1 penny red-orange on buff, used with duplex “BARBADOS NO 19 94”, sent to Niesky, Ober-Lausetzer-Bahn, Germany (railway), with violet straight-line “POSTED ON BOARD R.M.S”. Fine usage. (H&G 21)
1879: Stationery postal card 1 penny brown on buff, uprated with ...mehr
1879: Stationery postal card 1 penny brown on buff, uprated with 1880, ½ penny pale green of good colour and perforations, tied by duplex “ML/1 L1 MARK LANE SP 28 81” late posting mark, sent to Bremen, Germany with arrival cds “BREMEN 29 9 81”. Reverse, unusual manuscript ‘Prices Current’ list. Two corner creases. Fine illustration of late fee plus the printed matter rate. Intriguing usage. Comes with an additional example of late mail 1877, 1¼ pence brown sent London to Liege, Belgium with boxed “L1” in black and “TOO LATE G.P.O.” circle. Note: Printed Matter Base Rate of ½d with a Late Fee of 1d. The British Post Office had dropped the wording “Post Card” allowing this medium of communication to be used for printed matter of various types.Reference: The Postal History of the Universal Postal Union: The Postal Card, Worldwide 1869-1975, Volume 1, illustrated pg. 465 (Mark Lane).
1875/78: Group of four destination covers all with 1875 2½ pence ...mehr
1875/78: Group of four destination covers all with 1875 2½ pence rosy mauve frankings. Comprising two sent in 1875; one to Germany and one to Italy, an example sent in 1876 to Canada (Bilateral Treaty rate) and an 1878 lettersheet to Sicily with the addition of a 1 penny red paying a late fee, both tied by the Gracechurch Street L1 late fee duplex. A fine selection (4).
1843/90: Group of five covers and three cards. Comprising two ...mehr
1843/90: Group of five covers and three cards. Comprising two stampless examples, one bearing scarce “PAID IN AMERICA LIVERPOOL” tombstone, the other the rare “♚ / PAID AT QUEBEC L.C.”. Three envelopes franked with surface printed issues, including an 1884 5d dull green on cover addressed to a soldier in Singapore; a Jubilee 6d on 1890 cover to Cape Colony paying accelerated transit and a registered stationery 2½d uprated with two 1d venetian sent to Germany. Two unused stationery post cards one with the original wrapper band and also a 1d post card to Belgium together with the reply card sent back to London. The odd imperfection. Mainly fine (8).
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