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Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd. Sale: 832

Great Britain and British Commonwealth
POSTAL REFORMS
Sale No: 832
Lot No: 1403
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Cat No: Collection

image VERY EARLY POSTAL REFORM PAMPHLET (25 YEARS BEFORE HILL's) - PLAN TO EXPEDITE SCOTTISH MAILS; Fine [c.Dec.] 1822 36-page pamphlet; "Plan for Expediting the Mail from London to Edinburgh so that it shall arrive at one o’clock on the second day (and eventually earlier), proceed immediately for the North of Scotland, and cross at the Queensferry all the year in day-light" (ex-binding; title-page loose so hinged in place). Only three copies of this pamphlet are recorded in private hands, and there are very few in institutional collections. It was a verbatim reprint of the article that appeared in the November 1822 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (pp. 673-680). It seems almost certain that this pamphlet was written by the very early Edinburgh Postal Reformer, William Gallaway (1772-1851), who was the 'Scottish Rowland Hill'. The contents - like Hill's pamphlets - quote Government Reports and statistics, especially the 1822 report from the Committee investigating the London to Holyhead route. It notes the new 1d surcharge for the Conway route from Liverpool to Edinburgh, proposes a similar extra ½d rate for the Scottish scheme, and notes the problems making the London to Dublin mails bypass Birmingham. One of the earliest of all Postal Reform pamphlets; it easily fits on an album page. Rare and Important. [See further details of this pamphlet and William Gallaway, see the new RPSL book by James G-T on 'International Postal Reforms', pp.117-125.] Cross Reference : SCOTLAND, WELSH POSTAL HISTORY, WARWICKSHIRE - BIRMINGHAM, IRELAND PRE-1922 - POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

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Sale No: 832
Lot No: 1404
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image RARE OFFICIAL P.O. PRESTAMP POSTAL-RATES CALCULATOR - WITH ALL RATES ENTERED IN MANUSCRIPT; Fine "March 1830" 32-page printed P.O. booklet "A list of Post-Towns and Principal Places: with the Postage of a Single Letter to or from London, according to the actual routes of the Post" published by J.Hartnell for His Majesty's Stationery Office (with "Francis Freeling... March 1830" imprint on last page); ex binding, the title-page and one other hinged in place; the "SCOTCH TOWNS"/"IRISH TOWNS" section now separate from the "ENGLAND AND WALES" section, but otherwise very fine. Signed twice (one dated "21st Sepr. 1832") by "Rhys Williams" a clerk in the London Inland Office from 11 June 1830 to at least 1846. Each town's mileage from London has been added in manuscript but the postages are printed. Ideal exhibition item to show how high and complicated postal rates were before 1840. Rare; especially from a known GPO employee. Only two copies of this booklet are now believed to be in private hands. Cross Reference : LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, POSTAGE DUE MARKS, SCOTLAND, IRELAND PRE-1922 - POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

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Sale No: 832
Lot No: 1405
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image COVERS TO/EX POSTAL REFORMER ROBERT WALLACE (TO JOSEPH HUME), EX GLADSTONE, TO DISRAELI, ETC.; 1830-97 lot inc. rare Jan. 1835 E franked by "Robert Wallace" (Rowland Hill's mentor) to his friend and co-postal reformer Joseph Hume, June 1839 EL (no postal marks) asking Wallace to frank a letter for "Mrs. Johnston" (!), 1854 OHMS env. to Hume signed "W.E. Gladstone", and 6 other 1827-54 covers to Hume (inc. tiny early envelope (Sept. 1834) franked by "H. Parnell" (Hill quoted him in his pamphlets). Plus an unrelated c.1850 env. addressed to "B. Disraeli M.P.", and fine original 15-page May 1898 article from the magazine 'Nineteenth Century" by the later Postal Reformer "J. HENNIKER HEATON" entitled "A Postal Utopia" listing 50 demands for postal reforms - noting that his battle for 'Imperial Penny Postage' was all but won. Good lot. (11 covers + 1 article) Cross Reference : AUTOGRAPHS, FREE MAIL (Image)

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Sale No: 832
Lot No: 1407
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Cat No: Collection

image RARE "UNIVERSAL PENNY POSTAGE, 1d PER ½oz SUFFICIENT FOR COLLECTION..." PAMPHLET BY W. HASTINGS; Remarkable Sept. 1866 36-page pamphlet (ex-binding c.13x20cms - easily fits album page - some internal spotting mainly towards the end) advocating international 1d Postage by William Hastings of "Huddersfield" which includes the full text of his 30 December 1866 letter to Gladstone: "The question of reducing the rates of Ocean and Foreign Postage, has long engaged my attention… Letters to our most distant Colonies have, as a rule, no more manipulation in sorting, stamping and delivery than inland. Many to, or from, a post town in England to China or the East Indies, have fewer postmarks than if sent from places only 10 miles apart; unless therefore there is a very enhanced cost of transit, there is nothing to justify higher rates…". Hastings was thus some 40 years ahead of himself; the British Colonial rate of 1d per half ounce letter was introduced on 25 December 1898, and then the 1d rate was extended to Australia in 1905 and to the United States in 1908. Only three examples of this rare pamphlet have been recorded in private hands. [Ex Frank Staff, 1995.] Cross Reference : YORKSHIRE (Image)

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