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Post by thegubman on Nov 30, 2020 8:22:31 GMT
Here is a QV penny pink stationery cover, with part night mail carriage postmark from 1877. It is a pity that the left hand side of the postmark is too weak to read. I did find a few other similar postmarks on eBay, which are also attached. Checked out the address and these houses are now in the £2-3 million bracket! Graham
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Post by thegubman on Dec 4, 2020 15:22:28 GMT
A few more nice postmarks to have a look at. Graham
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Post by thegubman on Dec 9, 2020 18:38:01 GMT
GB QEII 5/- castle with lovely Ramsgate postmark 1963. Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Dec 10, 2020 16:15:56 GMT
GB QEII 1965 bisect 31st May postmark to pay posted unpaid cover. An unusual made up cover with bisect 8d and to pay postmark 8d. Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Dec 16, 2020 11:26:16 GMT
GB QV 1d red perf plate 198 lettered PG Cover Glasgow to Paisley 1879. Nice cover addressed to the inspector of the poor! Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Dec 18, 2020 15:50:43 GMT
A few stamps and covers from the King Edward the VIII reign. Four stamps were issued, the 1/2d, 1 1/2d and 2 1/2d on the 1st of September, followed by the 1d on the 14th of September. King Edward VIII reigned from the 20th of January 1936 until he abdicated on the 11th of December 1936 The 1/2d, 1 1/2d and 2 1/2d stamps on paper with first day of issue postmarks (1.9.1936)  A nice cover with the 1d stamp with first day of issue postmark and a marginal block of four    Finally a cover dated 11th December 1936 his last day as king   |
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Post by thegubman on Dec 22, 2020 19:13:52 GMT
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renden
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Post by renden on Dec 22, 2020 19:50:22 GMT
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Post by thegubman on Jan 5, 2021 8:18:02 GMT
A couple of nice GB KEVII postmarks, one from Kinghorn a small Scottish town, the other from Llandudno a Welsh town. Happy new year to one and all, here's to a better 2021. Graham
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Post by thegubman on Jan 21, 2021 8:15:19 GMT
GB KEVIII advertising cover 2 1/2d definitives 1937 from Bury, Lancashire to Denmark. Sent from J.H. Parker, manufacturer of Boots, Shoes and Slippers. Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Jan 21, 2021 8:22:28 GMT
GB KEVIII/KGVI advertising cover 2 1/2d rate 1937 Belfast to Denmark, Sent by Blackstaff Ltd, Flax, Spinning & Weaving Co. Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Feb 3, 2021 18:18:05 GMT
GB KGVI 1940's censor cover (1917) sent to Sweden totally obliterated postmarks. Can just about make out two 1/2d and three 2 1/2d stamps. Can only presume that the censor did not want the postmark to be visible. Interesting, not something I have seen before. Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Feb 9, 2021 14:57:45 GMT
GB KEVII definitive 2d Goldhawk Rd Shepherds Bush W postmark 1910. Goldhawk Road is situated in the west side of London and actually has a tube station. Graham
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Post by thegubman on Feb 12, 2021 12:57:14 GMT
A few more British postmarks. The top two are a "Cornish couple" and the bottom two from the north east. Stay safe, Graham 
Top Row: Left: Postmarked in Fowey on 16-Jan-1912, Right: Postmarked in Redruth on 05-May-1906 Bottom Row: Left: Postmarked in Crook on 25-May, Right: Postmarked in Blyth on 03-Jul-1913 |
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Post by thegubman on Feb 17, 2021 16:12:42 GMT
Here are some nice KGV shaded definitives in blocks of four. First one, 2d orange with Higher Broughton Salford Lancs 1939 postmark. Second, 3d lilac with Manchester 1936 postmark and the last one 1/- brown with London 1936 cancellation. Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Feb 19, 2021 10:47:39 GMT
GB QEII 1958 mobile post office certificate of posting 2 x 1/2d fine used. This is unusual and not one I have seen before. Graham |
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Post by thegubman on Feb 23, 2021 18:32:12 GMT
GB QEII Europa CEPT beautiful blocks of four with first day of issue London September 19th 1960 postmarks. Graham |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Feb 23, 2021 18:41:49 GMT
These mobile post offices I believe could be located at a large show ground or exhibition event .it might be possible to find out where No 3 was in sept 1958 .
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Post by daniel on Feb 23, 2021 22:32:12 GMT
These mobile post offices I believe could be located at a large show ground or exhibition event .it might be possible to find out where No 3 was in sept 1958 . Now there's a challenge, thegubman  Mobile Post Offices 1956 to 1964 can be found here. On September 11th 1958 Mobile Post Office No. 3/C was at the Agricultural Show at Yeovil. Also, I have found a registered cover to your C M Langston of 84 Allerford Rd, Catford sent from the same MPO, 3/C, from the Richmond (Surrey) Horse Show in June of that year, see here, which sold on ebay this month for £5. |
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Post by daniel on Feb 24, 2021 4:19:19 GMT
This is my Mobile Post Office Registered cover from 18th July 1956. The link in the above post tells me that the vehicle was MPO 1, the cancellation is Mobile Post Office B and the event was the Wavertree Show in Liverpool which ran from 18th to 21st July 1956.  Scan_20210224 by Daniel, on Flickr |
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Post by thegubman on Feb 24, 2021 8:26:59 GMT
Excellent stuff Daniel. Best wishes Graham
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Post by vikingeck on Feb 24, 2021 20:33:04 GMT
1855, OHMS, Crown Paid  Way back in 2016 (page 7 of this thread ) zipper showed this cover , Do you still have it? The name Burgoyne struck a chord and I just fetched out a cover I have to an Officer with the British Army in the Crimea War 1855, Lt Roderick J Hamilton Burgoyne, of the 93rd Highlanders. ( The note I have, has his father ,Burgoyne as "Barracks Master at Weymouth" the gentleman on zipper's cover.)  This one is going from Weymouth at the special Soldier's concession rate of 3 pence , and is routed overland through France via Marseilles which would be quicker than sailing all the way round Spain and Gibraltar The 93rd Highlanders formed a "thin Red Line" of infantry 2 deep which withstood and repulsed a Russian Cavalry charge at Balaclava  |
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Post by vikingeck on Feb 25, 2021 12:15:33 GMT
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zipper
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Post by zipper on Feb 25, 2021 20:49:06 GMT
Yes, Vikingeek, I. still have the cover.
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Feb 25, 2021 21:58:00 GMT
zipper, I'd be interested in matching it up with my Crimea cover to his son , they would make a nice family group .......interested in selling to me ? reply by PM please so we don't derail the thread.
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Post by thegubman on Mar 3, 2021 16:47:49 GMT
A few more GB postmarks. The first a block of four 1/2d wilding postmark Loughborough Leics 1956, second a trio of QV stamps 1900's with Parliament St (London) S W, next two railway related, Poplar S O (station office) 1898 and the final one Galloway T. P. O (travelling post office railway) 1938, a centenary commemorative postmark. Graham |
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Post by vikingeck on Mar 3, 2021 20:53:27 GMT
thegubman I am puzzled by your reference to a " Centenary Commemorative Postmark" As Railways only started in 1830 Liverpool and Manchester I doubt they reached Galloway by 1838 ?? and certainly until much later there were no Travelling Post offices in 1838 .. The description "UP DAY " means a train going in the direction of London ie "UP" and it was a daytime scheduled train as opposed to an over Night . There would be similar cds for DOWN NIGHT DOWN DAY and UP NIGHT. What reference do you have for Centenary?
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Post by thegubman on Mar 3, 2021 21:39:56 GMT
Taken from railwayphilatelicgroup.co.uk/postmarks-of-travelling-post-offices-tposgreat-britain-ireland/The First TPOs By 1837 it was realised that extra time could be saved if, instead of sorting the mail at the head office and then putting it on a train, the unsorted mail was sent directly from the local head office and put on the train (to be sorted en route). An experiment was carried out in a carriage on a passenger train between Liverpool and Birmingham in the January of 1838 … and this was the birth of the Travelling Post Office (TPO). A TPO consisted of one or more specially designed carriages (manned by Post Office staff) attached to a regular passenger train. The full cover highlights centenary of the T. P. O. Graham
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Mar 3, 2021 22:16:22 GMT
WOW Graham thegubman Ok I apologise for doubting! much earlier than I thought, and predates Hill's 1839-1840 postal reforms |
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Post by zipper on Mar 4, 2021 7:11:35 GMT
GB Scott #109 Glasgow September 21, 1894,clear circular datestamp, which adds 25% value to the stamp. Also, the four margins being clear of the design adds another 25% to the value.  |
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