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1883 GB to France with Late Fee datestamp

1883 GB to France with Late Fee datestamp

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
�30.00

Italy to France 1839

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

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’ letter from HM Ship 1838

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

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

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

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

JUGOSLAVIA POSTAGE DUE COVER 1983

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