GB Penny Reds on Cover

good cover - thanks for posting. "Meigle is a village in Strathmore, Scotland. It lies in the council area of Perth and Kinross in the Coupar Angus and Meigle ward." ..... which doesn't mean a lot to me, but it does at least relate to the destination shown on the address.
The spoon cancel shows 444 which is/was Leamington - a town in Warwickshire - and in 1887 its name was enlarged slightly to read 'Leamington Spa' - presumably someone thought the 'waters' worth taking. In the book of data for 'British Post Office Numbers', the entry for the number 444 reads 'Leamington (Wwks.)' - I was tempted to think this was an abbreviation for Waterworks - but that's a guess, it may well stand for something else.

P.S.   the pfennig may have just dropped  -  the bracketed bit more likely is an  abbreviation for Warwickshire:-) 

These last two covers are not as interesting overall as the earlier Scots local and Railway covers. Neither is unusual this time except the blue monogram on the back flap. That is intriguing.

It is probably military. Two branches of the army , the Royal Engineers (RE) and the Royal Artillery (RA ) have the battle honours “UBIQUE” = everywhere , to signify that these services have been involved in every conflict or battle. The monogram looks like a combination of both services.

The full motto continues “Quo fas et Gloria ducunt “. Where Fame  and Glory lead.

Oh they do please me. Nice to see.

Thanks, Steve.

Can't find anything specific about Victory Lodge - could be a private dwelling, though don't think it refers to a Masonic location. The following is a very brief extract from local history records for the area in question.
""Slack Hill, once a twisting road, now redeveloped and straightened also boasted a public house, the "Lord Nelson" long since gone. Slack Hill was known as Amber Hill for the river Amber begins in this area.""
Bearing in mind the rural nature of the area over one hundred and fifty years ago, perhaps mail for local residents was delivered to the pub and then re-distributed to individual premises.

Shame the spoon cancellation hasn't taken well enough to include the sender's Sheffield postal No., which appears in the postal 'cancellation Nos.' book as 700, but can't guarantee that's what it was.

Hi zipper , I guess since you started a thread on "SPOON CANCELS" with a couple of nice examples,
hhttps://thestampforum.boards.net/thread/10290/gb-spoon-cancels
you know what they are, and quite rightly query paul1 incorrect use of the term.
Of course it is a regular DUPLEX, Sheffield does not appear to have ever had a Spoon cancel. Experimental Spoon cancels were earlier than this cover  1851-59. 

A couple of covers with the Glasgow experimental cancel called the MADELEINE SMITH because the judge at her trial accused of poisoning her lover, complained that the dates of the postmark on various love letters was unreadable. Since the sequence and dates were crucial to a conviction the jury returned a “not proven” verdict. Such a verdict exists in Scottish courts where the burden of proof is insufficient to convict but there is a suspicion which means the person may not get a complete “not Guilty” . Currently the Scottish government is proposing removing the ambiguous verdict “not proven” from the Statute book.

Since the trial in 1857 the cancel is called the Madeleine Smith . Madeleine subsequently married twice , moved first to England , later to America and died aged 91 in 1926




The first letter is an account of the AGM and dividend notification of the Forth and Clyde Navigation , a canal company whose construction cuts across the narrowest part of Scotland linking East and West coasts

This Penny Rose Red Cover, dated 18th March 1859. is addressed to William Blackwood, Writer (Solicitor), Peebles and is sent from Edinburgh. This is likely the same William Blackwood of Stuart & Blackwood shown on a previous Penny Red cover here from the same year. The envelope is of a similar type with a diagonal laid paper watermark but showing an ornate design with a post or hunting horn and visible with the naked eye.

1855 Letter from Christchurch to Regent's Park, London.

The page with all the additional info is from a previous owner.





This is only an excerpt from the letter, the whole is fragile when unfolded. Needless to say I can't read it, I don't even know where it starts!