1d lilac + 2½d plate 23 (SG 157, 172) on envelope cancelled by late fee duplex, with hexagonal d/s ‘L1’; posted London 24 May 1883, Calais à Paris 1e transit cds 25 May 1883; b/s Bordeaux 25 May 1883, an attractive example of this service
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Italy to France 1839
Entire from Milan, 12 December 1839 to Lyon; h/s in red ‘Milano/Dicembre 12’; h/s in red ‘Franca’; h/s in red ‘T.S.1’ (transit Sarde rayon 1); h/s in red LI (lettera Italiana); m/s charge mark 15 décimes; French cachet d¢entrée SARD 2 Pont de B 2 16 December 1839; b/s Lyon 16 December and rate marks
USA to Yorkshire Missent 1983
3 x 40c Philip Mazzei commemorative on airmail envelope from Fort Lauderdale to Harrogate, 21 November 1983; h/s ‘missent to Jakarta’, a mark considered to be used improperly to cover up delay in the mail; on reverse m/s ‘From P&O Canberra”; minor faults to envelope
GB Free Frank, fine ‘Scalloped’ Sunday cds 1836
FREE FRANK, front only, post Bishop mark, scalloped cds for SUNDAY mail in red, from London to Chichester 31 July 1836; crowned Free cds in red 1 August 1836, fine strikes, signed Bagot (?)
GB ‘Free’ letter from HM Ship 1838
Letter written on board HMS Hastings en route for Gibraltar “100 miles N of Lisbon, just met a schooner bound for Falmouth, by whom I send this”; single ring (morning) crowned FREE 26 October 1838; b/s Windsor 25 October 1838; very rare use of Free Frank service from the Navy; signed J.S Whealley (Treasurer and Master of the Horses Dept) to Lady Emily Harding
GB ‘Free’ mail from Malta 1839
Letter from a Naval officer on board HMS Hastings; “As I hear that an India messenger is expected tonight…(bound for Spithead)…I scribble a few lines”. “The Admiral has ordered the ‘Rodney’ ‘Asia’, ‘Vanguard’ & Castor’ to escort us to Maritimo…(in Sicily)”; 2 ring crowned FREE 29 April 1839; signed H. Whealley (cf No S853); no b/s: a fascinating letter
GB Free Frank 1831
intact folded free frank wrapper with complete crowned circle “FREE” with cross at base in red (SG pmks 1A/12) dated 15 June 1831 to Edinburgh; b/s London Maltese Cross h/s VS (Vere Street) in blue (SG pmks 1/15); signed Lord Porchester.
GB Free Frank 1832
Complete free frank with the text, franked with crowned circle FREE (SG pmks 1A/12) 25 October 1832, to Cambridge; endorsed Earl Grey (then the Prime Minister) but the letter is not signed by him, showing possible abuse of the free franking system: folded down the centre, no b/s
Austria wrapper & part letter, re-folded into an envelope 1836
Austria, wrapper & part letter folded into an envelope shape with sealed flap, 24 October 1836 registered official mail, decorative oval h/s Hainburg, to Vienna, b/s Wien 27 October, numerous MS markings, fascinating clean cover
JUGOSLAVIA POSTAGE DUE COVER 1983
4d Jugoslavia small pictorial cancelled Markovci Pri Ptuju (?) to Ljubljana; large ‘T’ taxe h/s; 2 x 100 para small pictorials overwritten with MS italic ‘Porto’ for use as postage dues, cancelled Ljubljana 20 August 1983; nice combination