Mail Coaches/Turnpikes. c.1820-1910 Ephemera with a fine c.1820 printed handbill for the Saracens Head Inn in Liverpool with details of all the mail coaches leaving the Inn; 1842 printed letter posted from Liverpool advertising "Taskers Turnpike Acts, for Toll collectors and others"; 1842-65 O.H.M.S "Turnpike Trusts" covers from the Secretary of State's Office (2, one with letter); large coloured scrap of a Royal Mail coach; Photo of a GR mail coach; postcard of the final London to Brighton parcel coach, etc. (9).

Coaching Receipts - London. c.1800-60 Printed receipts from London coaching inns for the carriage of parcels, from the Axe Inn, Aldermanbury; Bell Inn, Cheapside; Black Bull Inn, Holborn; Boar & Castle Inn, Oxford St. (2); Bull Inn, Bishopsgate St. (4); Bull & Mouth, Piccadilly; Castle & Falcon, Aldergate St. (5); Friday Street (receipt named to Lord Palmerston); King's Head Inn, Borough; New Inn, Old Bailey; Old Green Man and Still, Oxford St.; Old White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly (2); Queen's Arms Hotel and Commercial Tavern, Newgate St.; Three Nuns Inn, Aldgate; White Hart Inn, Borough; also two small receipts from Old Bell Inn, Holborn, which may have been affixed to parcels. A fine group, many with details of coaches. (26). Photo on Page 38. (Image1)

Coaching/Carrier Receipts - London. c.1830-50 Printed receipts for the carriage of parcels, from Thomas Winkworth, the original Isleworth carrier; Green & Archer's Norfolk & Suffolk Vans & Waggons, Bishopgate St. Without (2); Brown's Original Glo'ster Warehouse, Oxford St.; Chaplin's Universal Office, Piccadilly; G. Cross Ship & Coach Office, Charing Cross; Commercial Inland Carrying & Steam Navigation Co., Cheapside; Robert Cheal, Carrier to Her Majesty, Cheapside; Mann & Woodrow's Parcels Despatch and General Shipping and Agency Office, Newgate St.; also a printed receipt for food and lodging from Blossoms Inn, Tavern & Hotel, Cheapside. A fine group, some with coach and wagon details. (10).

Tollgate Tickets. c.1810-60 Tollgate tickets including a fine printed ticket from Diddington on the London & Holyhead Road, others from Dashmonden or Woolpack near Biddenden (7), Welbury (2), Carisbrooke, Goldcroft, Allensmore, Northop, Conway, Wells, Coldbrough, Old Down, Penge Road Dulwich, Abergavenny area (2), Stony Middleton, etc. A scarce group, thirteen clearly used, some others probably unused. (26). Photo on Page 38. (Image1)