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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 -
OHMS 1798 addressed to Thomas Prothero Esq, Usk. With treble circle double rim free mark type 1A/7 dated OC-12-98. Noted "G C Office" (General Counsel?) in bottom left and signed C Godly. Interesting item, cat £100 -
Free Front Grantham to Golden Square, London with treble circle single rim free mark type 1A/7 dated AP-3-99 in red, plus GRANTHAM single line town name in black. Nice item, cat £140 -
Entire 1806 Ayr to Glasgow, with town stamp "AIR" in red (used 1805 to 1807), and manuscript postage rate "6". Nice item, cat £40 -
One Penny pink embossed silk thread envelope from Crieff to Edinburgh, with 4-5-4 barred numeral "84" of Crieff, Crieff CDS on back dated JU-15-1856, and Edinburgh arrival stamp dated JN-16-1856 in red. Brightmore's "Postal Stationery of Great Britain" lists this one as No. 3 issued 1850, as it contains the pink seal device on back flap Very nice item -
Entire mourning letter 1876 Crieff to Hemlock Distillery, Campbeltown, with ½d Bantam Pl12 letter EC tied by "84" Crieff three bar duplex dated 20-FE-1876, with Greenock CDS and Campbeltown CDS dated 22-FE-1876. Nice item - and love the name for a distillery! Min cat £62 -
Outer 1858 from Cupar to Newburgh, with pair of imperf 1d reds plate 133 letter IA/IB slightly into LL otherwise large to huge margins and large portion of stamp at base, tied by 4-5-4 bar handstamp of 92 Cupar. Backstamped by CUPAR FIFE 3-MR-1858 in green, and twin arc Newburgh CDS. A beauty! -
Outer 1852 Dumbarton to Edinburgh, with 1d imperf on blued paper 2½ margins tied by barred numeral handstamp 110 of Dumbarton, backstamped by boxed DUMBARTON NO-30-1852 and Edinburgh arrival CDS for DE-01-1852. Nice item -
Entire 1853 Dunse to local Edinburgh Solicitors Davidson & Syme, with 1d red imperf 2½ margins ted by barred numeral 122 of Dunse, with DUNSE twin arc CDS in red and Edinburgh arrival CDS dated AUG-24-1853. Contents re credit note owed to their client. Nice item -
Entire 1847 Edinburgh to Greenock with 1d red imperf letters MJ nice 4 margin example tied by 4-5-4 barred numeral handstamp 131 of Edinburgh, backstamped by double arc Greenock CDS dated AP-3-1847 in blue, and Edinburgh datestamp of same date. Nice item with interesting contents re payments for an estate. -
Entire 1848 Edinburgh to Alnwick with 1d red imperf on blued paper letters NK almost 4 margins (TR corner cut into), tied by barred numeral cancel 131 of Edinburgh, with twin arc CDS of Alnwick dated DE-31-1848 and Edinburgh datestamp of DE-30-1848. Also has a Mae West type "Too Late" handstamp, which according to records was the 2nd last day of use for this mark in Edinburgh. Great item, and late usage such as this is rare. -
Outer 1849 Edinburgh local post with 1d red imperf letter ID 4 margin example tied by barred numeral cancel 131 of Edinburgh. Local transit mark in red dated JUN-29-1849. Stamp is from a worn plate, as no right frame line. Nice item
