EARLY INTERNEE LETTER WITH "DEAL/SHIP-LRE" & HORSESHOE "NEWCASTLE ON TYNE"; Fine 20 Sept. 1794 EL (small closed tear by seal) to "Lord Deleval, Newcastle [on Tyne]" from somewhere in France (Paris? or possibly from Boulogne) written by "John Apreece", an English civilian internee and relation of the addressee; the letter had been entrusted to a friend who had a ship sailing from Boulogne to Newcastle but it was landed at Deal and so has mainly very fine small "DEAL-SHIP-LRE" on the front slightly overstruck by a fine "NEWCASTLE ON TYNE" Horseshoe mark (struck on redirection to "Ford") and there is a 4 Oct. London transit cds on the flap. Apreece says that he has been "in prison these 12 months past". One of the earliest letters recorded from a British internee caught up in the French Revolutionary Wars. Exhibition Item. Cross Reference: NORTHUMBERLAND, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, SHIP LETTERS, KENT (Image)

SWEDEN/NORWAY BY STEAMER MARKS; Trio with 7 Nov. 1879 and Oct 1887 10öre PC (small faults) to Sunderland or London cancelled on arrival by Hull duplex with fine "SWEDEN/BY.STEAMER" UDC on front.and Sep. 1888 10öre Norway PC to Ireland similarly cancelled on arrival by a Hull duplex and with mostly fine "NORWAY/BY.STEAMER" UDC on front. Very scarce. (3 cards) Cross Reference: YORKSHIRE, SWEDEN, POSTAL STATIONERY, NORWAY (Image)

PLYMOUTH - GROUP INC. "SHIP-LRE", STEP-TYPES & C.D.S. - EX PHILIPPINES, INDIA, VICTORIA, ETC.; c.1780 front to London/Durham with "PLYMOUTH/SHIP-LRE" (faults), 1839 EL ex Calcutta (fine red boxed "CALCUTTA.G.P.O./SHIP LETTER" d.s. on flap beside 11 May 1840 London cds) to Halifax (Yorks.) "Per Wanderer" with red boxed step-type "PLYMOUTH/SHIP LETTER" (stain) on the front, 1844 E from "Manilla" to London with black framed step-type "SHIP LETTER/PLYMOUTH" on the reverse, and 28 Feb. 1857 env. ex Melbourne to London "P. Istanboul" with Victoria 6d orange (2; faults) tied by "1" Numeral having a very fine scarce blue-black "PLYMOUTH/B/SHIP-LETTER" cds (filing fold) on the flap. (4 items) Cross Reference: PHILIPPINES, INDIA, VICTORIA, DEVON (Image)