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For Valour - PNC cover Centenary of Victoria Cross winners, with limited edition $1 coin. The single highest value PNC produced for the Australian market, as the $1 coin was only available in this cover, and was taken out by coin collectors to fill their collection. Highly sought after and very valuable
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Entire 1776 York to Ferrybridge with postage rate 1 crossed out and 2 added, backstamped by single line "FERRYBRIDGE" town mark (type 3/5 £60). Addressed to Sir William Lowther, who was 1st Baronet of Little Preston (1707-1788). Fascinating contents too - "As to the hill ros, I don't know whever Mr Butler wood bea grebell to part with it or not"
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Entire 1825 Ham (London) to Bond St London, then redirected to Heriot Row Edinburgh. Lots of markings and transit marks and charges added to this one - Front has "TP Ham" 2 line boxed in red type 2/22 (£10), instructional marking "3" (type 2/33 £30), "½" Scotland coach travel surcharge, and manuscript postage rate "2/2". Backstamped by "12 NOON 12" double rim oval in red (type 2/9 £4), datestamp type 1/9 in black dated MY 13 1825 code L, and Edinburgh arrival mark dated MAY 18 1825 codes W E. Interesting contents too, Someone trying to solicit a meeting with Donald Horne for a W Wright before he travels to Scotland on a Steam Vessel, this meeting to take place at either his address at Pall Mall or the Countess of Dysart's Pall Mall residence (Ham House, where the letter was written, was the ancestral home of Louisa Tollemache, 7th Countess of Dysart). Fascinating piece with 2 letters, one from the writer trying to solicit the meeting, and an introduction from W Wright.
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Entire 1839 Glasgow to Rothesay with Glasgow Paid town mark boxed in red dated 15 FE 1839. The letter is very sweet, a letter from a little girl to her grandpapa written in quite beautiful writing (letter is grubby, looks like it has been read many times!). My children will never write that neatly! The child was one of the children of James McClelland, one of the founders, and first President of IAAG. Mary Ann, born in 1830, died in 1869 and is buried alongside her father and grandpapa in Glasgow necropolis. A wonderful piece of social history