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Free Front Carlow (Ireland) to W Lane, Sailor, No. 5 Barry St, London. With Single circle crown inside "Apple" style free mark dated JUL 1 1806, and Dublin Free Mark double circle with "DUB" dated JU-27-1806, and centre inverted! Signed John O'Neill, MP for County Antrim. Very rare marks, and with inverted centre added on. Min cat £325, super item for the specialist -
Outer 1857 Edinburgh to Blairgowrie with experimental "roller" cancellation second type without vertical lines between numerals. Backstamped Edinburgh MAR-10-1857 and Blairgowrie MAR-11-1857 in green. Experimental roller cancels on cover are rare - I found a single with this cancel priced on Bill Barrell for £50! -
1769 Entire to London. Addressed to "Mr Franc Barlow at the Crown Office, London". Post paid 2 on front, plus clean and crisp Bishop Mark "24/IY" type 1/4 (£40) plus 2 line MOR/PETH town mark type 3/6 (£60). 250 years old and still fresh as the day it was written! Translation included -
Free Front 1837 London to Dunse but overweight per regulations. "Above 1oz" written top left, and "Above Weight" framed (type 1A/24 £300), also "1/2" Scottish surcharge (type 4/77 £15). As it was over weight, "4½" postage rate added to front. Signed Hugh Hume-Campbell. A great front! -
Outer from the 1673-1713 period, addressed to "for Mr John Spreat at Chipley near Taunton: Frank: Edw (ard) Clarke". Edward Clarke was the MP for Taunton, and John Spreat was his steward. Beautiful Bishop Mark "FE/4" Type 1/2 (£250). Very nice -
1699 Entire Exeter to London dated 11th June 1699. Beautiful Old English text, which I find very difficult to translate. Crisp Bishop Mark "IV/12" type 1/2 (£250). Stunning -
1704 Entire London to Exeter dated 27th June 1704. Addressed to Richard Carew Esq at Barley near Exon Devon". Lovely crisp Bishop Mark "IV/27" type 1/2 (£250) with "GC" London Receivers hand stamp of Gabriel Collins. Fabulous combination of markings -
1650 2 X Last Will & Testament relating to William Wait, dated 4thApril and 5th April 1650. Written in Old English with a translation on reverse. An amzing piece of social history, over 370 years old and simply stunning! -
Piece with 8 x ½d bantams plate 14 including strip of 5 JB-JF, pr HD-HE and single HF. All cancelled by B16 being the TPO for the Plymouth to Bristol line for Foreign Mails. Backstamp is a portion of a PLYMOUTH CDS dated SP 12 codes M I. The cheapest cancel on the list says £125, so total cat min £1560. So wish it was complete, but nonetheless a rare and valuable piece
