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Argyll Etkin Ltd Sale: 46

Great Britain and British Commonwealth
Christmas

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1908 Post Office handbill distributed in Manchester and Liverpool, printed in red and black, reading "POST OFFICE. IMPORTANT NOTICE. CHRISTMAS ADVANCE POSTING. LETTERS, ETC., intended for DELIVERY ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM MAY BE HANDED OVER THE COUNTER of any POST OFFICE in this District from the 14th December to the 21st December, inclusive. These letters and cards will be stamped with a special Christmas stamp and they WILL NOT BE DELIVERED UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE OR CHRISTMAS DAY.", 157x251mm. Also a 1906 picture postcard to Liscard in Cheshire with "LIVERPOOL / 19 X 06 / MAS" cancel. The first example of this rare album size notice we have seen, although two examples with manuscript alterations for 1909 are known in Post Office Records, and are illustrated in "Posted in Advance for Christmas" by Patrick Campbell. (2). Photo on Page 154. (Image1)



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