Great Britain and British Commonwealth POSTAL REFORMS
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Lot No: 889
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1794 POSTAL NOTICE - REFORM OF THE LONDON PENNY POST - 30 Sep. 1794 complete 4pp issue of 'The General Evening Post', the front page entirely taken up with a PO notice concerning the London Penny Post reforms, postal charges and a list of collection times from Receiving Houses; edge faults and folding.Cross Reference: LONDON POSTAL HISTORY (Image)
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Lot No: 890
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DOBBS EMBOSSED TICKET TO GUILDHALL VISIT OF WILLIAM IV + CORONATION BREAD TICKETS; Spectacular 9 Nov. 1830 superbly embossed card ticket (237x205mm; fits large album-page) numbered "162" with partially legible Guildhall "[ROTAL ENTERTAINMENT] COMMITTEE" red wax seal at top left; the embossing includes the royal crown at the top and the City's coat of arms at the foot and the central scrolled panel (with tiny "DOBBS LONDON" imprint at the bottom); in the centre is the printed text to "ADMIT [Mr. Underwood Price]... ON LORD MAYOR'S DAY...ON THE OCCASION OF HIS MAJESTY...Honoring the Corporation of London with his presence AT DINNER". There is also the signature of the "TOWN CLERK" ("Henry Woodthorpe") at the lower right. The forerunner of Queen Victoria's visit that resulted in the Wyon medal of 1837 on which the 1d Black was based. Plus two small card "Coronation Tickets" for "Bread"/"Money" for London residents in the City and Greenwich. Rare survivals. (3 items)Cross Reference: ROYALTY (Image)
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Lot No: 891
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MERCANTILE PAPERS - RARE "HENRY HOOPER" CIRCULAR SEEKING PUBLICITY "UNIFORM PENNY POSTAGE"; 21 Mar. 1839 printed circular in the handwriting of (and "signed" by Henry Cole's great friend "Henry Hooper" who printed and published most of the Mercantile Committee on Postage's 'Mercantile Papers' propaganda circulars in 1838/9. It was sent to newspaper editors around Britain exactly one week in advance of the date of the resumption of publishing of the M.C.P.'s "Post Circular" newspaper, asking editors to include full details of the recently published final report from the Select Committee on Postage, as well as asking editors to arrange their own pro-postal reform petitions; "The gratifying recommendation of An Uniform Penny Postage by the Select Committee... seems to them to demand increased energy to obtain its triumphant success... The Committee would feel particularly obliged if you would cause to be inserted in your paper these extracts [of the SCP Report] in your paper and... by the insertion of the inclosed petition [in your paper]...". Highly significant and rare Cheap Postage Committee circular. One of only 4 examples recorded. [Ex George Moffatt's 'Mercantile Papers' set - with Henry Cole's pencil "30" page number at top right - Harmers, 1 Oct. 1988.]Cross Reference: UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD (Image)
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Lot No: 892
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THE PENNY POSTAGE ACT! BAWDY SONG/PIANO MUSIC ILLUSTRATED BY MULREADY CARICATURIST; Complete 8-page 16 Aug. 1839 folio-size printed music and lyrics for this song which was first quoted in the 16 Aug. 1839 'Nottingham Journal' newspaper; "Something I want to write upon, to scare away each vapour, The ‘Penny Postage’ shall I try? why yes - I’ll write on paper! Thy great inventor, Rowland Hill, each person loudly hails. The females all are full of it, and so are all the mails!..." etc. The front cover (neatly folded to fit an album-page) has a large caricature design depicting a Punch-like figure writing a Valentine(?) above a grumpy Rowland Hill who is handing out letters to all and sundry (servants, beggars, soldiers etc.); it is inscribed "Designed & Lithod. by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St., Strand" who went on to design some of the most successful Mulready Caricatures of 1840, those published by J.W. Southgate. We have only recorded three examples of this spectacularly illustrated song that celebrated the introduction of Cheap Postage so soon after it was first announced.Cross Reference: MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS (Image)
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Lot No: 893
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THE WHITING/WALLACE "POSTAGE/[Crown]/VR/STAMP" + "V.R" DOUBLE-OVAL WATERMARK ESSAYS; Three c.1840/41 sheets of thin cream wove paper (originally a single sheet of 524x424mm; some understandable folds) with different large watermark Essays suitable for Postal Stationery; the first is in the form of a large rectangle (130x85mm) within an envelope-sized lozenge frame having "V POSTAGE R" along the top and "V STAMP R" at the foot with a single large Crown device in the centre of what would be the envelope's address-panel. The second has a simpler circular design (diameter 75mm) with a large italic "V.R" at the foot, while the third sheet is entirely plain. Only two other examples of the "POSTAGE/STAMP" wmk. Essay have been recorded; both have an unused cut-out 1d Pink stamp glued on and both have annotations across their 'address-panels' by Charles Whiting or by Robert Wallace (originally enclosed in a letter dated 12 Mar. 1841). It seems clear that these Essays were produced immediately after the 1d Pink stationery replaced the Mulready in Feb. 1841. Wallace's annotation reads; "Look through this and observe how it is Water marked in the process of making" while his accompanying letter (to the Chancellor) read "I enclose such a sheet of paper as I propose shall be made by paper-makers under the supervision of a strict Excise, to be thereafter Stamped, and then sold by all Stationers, as the Covers, Envelopes and loose adhesive Stamps are...". Extremely rare and significant pair of Essays. RPSL Cert. (2007) for the complete sheet.] (3 items) Cross Reference: POSTAL STATIONERY, QV (Image)
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Lot No: 894
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U.S. CONGRESS REPORT ILLUSTRATING BRITISH '1844-TYPE' NUMERALS (QUOTING JOSHUA LEAVITT); Fine 98-page printed U.S. "House of Representatives" "REPORT" from their "Committee on the [U.S.] P.O. & Post Roads" (ex binding in 2 sections; pp.67-98 separated from pp.1-66) ref. 1840s petitions in the U.S. for "a reduction of postages on letters and newspapers". The Report is only 7 pages long but is then followed by a full reprint of the text (and illustrations of British 1844-Type Numerals) of the famous American Postal Reformer, Joshua Leavitt's "Cheap Postage Association of Boston" 1848 pamphlet entitled "Cheap Postage" which extensively quoted Rowland Hill's ideas in support of cheap postage in the States. Rare and attractive item showing the direct link between the Postal Reform campaigns in Britain and the U.S. Cross Reference: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1840s CANCELLATIONS, LITERATURE - PHILATELIC (Image)
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Lot No: 899
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CHARLES WHITING TRI-COLOUR EMBOSSED FRAME & HEAD OF “WELLINGTON” - similar lot though of the Duke of “Wellington” in purple, salmon and blue with “WHITING PATENTEE” imprint vert. twice at right. Minor soiling; rare. (Image)
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Lot No: 900
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CHARLES WHITING TRI-COLOUR EMBOSSED FRAME & HEAD OF "THOMAS MOORE" - similar lot though from Whiting's 'Royal Cameo Scrapbook' and of poet "Thomas Moore" in blue, lilac and gold with "WHITING PATENTEE" imprint vert. at right. Clean and near pristine; rare. (Image)
