Postage Due Mail. 1809-40 Entire letters and entires including letters from Europe handstamped "oz at 5/4 per oz", "oz at 6/8 per oz" (2) or "oz at 8/8 per oz" all applied in the London Foreign Branch, "More To Pay" handstamps (4, one 1840 letter charged single rate deficiency only in error), etc., also Paid handstamps. (12).
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1831 Entire letter from Stettin to Frederick Huth & Co. in London, initially handstamped with dotted framed "oz at 5/4 per oz" (intended for use on letters from Belgium and Holland) and charged 5/4, the error quickly noticed and the incorrect handstamp apparently deliberately smudged and replaced by the correct "oz at 6/8 per oz", the rate altered with the original rate deleted by a large inspectors crown. Vertical file fold at right, otherwise fine and exceptional, the only example of these rate handstamps applied in error and corrected that we have seen. Photo on Page 40. (Image1)
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c.1897-1943 Covers and cards including registered mail (4), forces mail (6) with an unusual unpaid 1940 cover from the French naval ship "Jules-Verne" at Dundee with a 5d charge mark but bearing 4½d in due stamps, 1927 unpaid cover inscribed "Printed Matter" but endorsed "above 260 grammes" and handstamped "Liable to Letter Rate" with a charge of 3/6½, etc. (13).
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1914-70 Covers and cards all bearing postage due stamps, including 1915 registered cover posted out of course and unpaid charged 6d with three 2d dues (one D14 control), 1914 stampless official cover from the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs located at Le Havre charged 5d, air mail covers from India with charges of 1/1½, 1/5½ or 1/9½, demonetised QV stamps (2), 1924 unpaid cover with 3d charge mark but bearing a 1/- postage due (presumably charges for four covers), registered mail posted out of course (3), dues used in Isle of Man (2), etc. (68).
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Europe. 1915-68 Covers and cards from Europe, all unpaid or underpaid with charges ranging from 1d to 1/2, including 1½d charges (12, five bearing 1½d brown dues), 2½d charges (10, two with 1d + 1½d brown dues), 3½d charges (5), 4½d, 5½d, 6½d, 7½d, 8½d, five with due stamps applied at ½d less than the charge shown. An interesting lot, all written up on pages. (50).
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Asia/Australia. 1925-70 Covers and cards from Australia (5), New Zealand (4), India (10), Papua (2), Netherlands Indies (2), Iraq (3), Aden, Sarawak, etc., all unpaid or underpaid with charges ranging from 1d to 5/8, including covers from India charged 9½d (2), 11d (2) or 1/10½ (2), from Persia or Sarawak charged 1/7, from Australia charged 10d, 1/1, 1/8, 3/3, or 5/8, from New Zealand charged 1/4 (2), 2/2, 2/6, from Papua charged 1/1, etc., also a Malaya cover with 1d charge mark but bearing 11d in postage due stamps (probably a bulk charge on several items). A fine and interesting lot with some unusual combinations of dues and uses of 2/6 and 5/- values, all written up on pages. (32).
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U.S.A. 1915-70 Unpaid covers and cards from USA with charges of 1d (6), 1½d (7, two with Paquebot cancels, two with 1½d brown due), 2d (3), 3d, 4½d (2), 5½d (2), 6d, 10d (strangely with 2d + 8d + 10/- dues, possibly a charge for a bundle of items), 1/2, 1/3½, 1/4½ (2), 1/6, 1/10½ or 2/3, some unusual charges and combination of due stamps. (30).
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½d Charges. 1901-53 Covers and cards from abroad all charged ½d, including Canada 1c postcard charged the single deficiency only in error, 1906 Ceylon cover and 1940 KUT cover both sent internally then redirected to G.B charged the single rate difference between the inland and empire rates, 1938 postcard from France with a ½d charge mark but a 1d postage due stamp strangely applied, etc. (24).
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High Value Dues. 1950-70 Covers and forms bearing 2/6 - £1 value postage dues, including 1966 O.H.M.S Post Office cover from Rhodesia with the Postage Paid c.d.s disallowed and charged 11/3, 1970 cover from Rhodesia with stamps disallowed and an exceptional £1.5.8 charge, etc. (10).
