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Lots (1790)
Isle of Wight: 1833 (July) Entire Letter to Windsor in Vermont from Ryde IOW with interesting contents relating to a ship voyage and how passengers in steerage were coming home with bitter disappointment at not finding fortunes in America. Also makes an offer to take over a school in Ryde, New York receiving d/s and 20 manuscript charge mark. Faults but intr.
Isle of Wight: 1835 Entire Letter Newport to Portsmouth bearing 4 charge mark and a crisp NEWPORT / ISLE OF WIGHT dated cancel on reverse.
Isle of Wight: 1837 Entire Newport to Norfolk with 8d charge mark crossed out and changed to 11d for double letter rate weighing over 1/4 oz. Newport part b/s and London transit in red.
Isle of Wight: 1840 Entire Newport to Portsmouth bearing 1 charge mark in red crayon and a crisp NEWPORT / DEC 25 / 1840 / ISLE OF WIGHT dated cancel in red, applied on Christmas Day! First Christmas of the uniform penny post. Scarce.
Isle of Wight: 1847 Entire Letter from Parkhurst Barracks to William Wilson & Sons outfitters supplier in Scotland asking for tartan, garters and other military uniform supplies for the Black Watch regiment. Bears 1d red-brown tied 560 cancel of Newport.
Isle of Wight: 1867-71 NEWPORT 560 numeral cancels on eight covers mainly from the same correspondence bearing 1d plates neatly cancel duplex and NEWPORT D cds. Some mixed. (8).
Isle of Wight: 1869-93 VENTNOR 971 numeral cancels on eleven mourning covers mainly with original contents, mainly from the same correspondence bearing 1d plates neatly cancel duplex and VENTNOR A, B, h & k cds. Some mixed. (11).
MANCHESTER / 185 mileage mark in GREEN on 1813 (13 Dec) E.L Manchester to Rochdale with manuscript 4 charge mark, MANCHESTER 185 green mileage mark on obverse (rare in green).
MANCHESTER 185 mileage round datestamp in red 1816 (24 Mar) E.L to Lincoln's Inn Fields London (public house) with manuscript charge mark, mileage 185 at the top of the circle, name reading outwards, fine h/s.
TOO LATE & TOO LATE / N.P. & MANCHESTER arc post mark in red on 1829 (June) Entire to Burnley with manuscript charge mark & Too Late / N.P boxed h/s in red, plus Too Late oval h/s in red on reverse, alongside MANCHESTER arc cancel.
1840 (13th May) One Penny Mulready Letter sheet Stereo A65 from Liverpool (orange-brown MX cancel in full on obverse) to Hastings with brown-red cds on reverse, scarce 2nd week usage of the Penny Post. Few faults.
1840 1d black (AC) four margin example with neatly struck red Maltese Cross cancel, stain from Linseed oil, sound.
