COMPOUND PRINTED LOTTERY 'PUFF' (PRESUMABLY BY WHITING & BRANSTON) + COMIC PLAIN EXAMPLE; Apr. 1825 small blue & pink compound-printed handbill (neatly fits within an album page; some neatly rebacked thins do not detract) advertising one of the last lotteries of the pre-1900 period (no Agent's name included) without a Whiting & Branston imprint but clearly their style of fancy engine-turned printing around the central text; few of these Compound-printed 'puffs' have been recorded in private hands. Exhibition Item. Plus a plain black printed pictorial comic July 1825 lottery 'puff' (equally suitable for an album-page) with woodcut of a man dreaming of winning, by way of contrast to the coloured example. [Both ex Michael Lockton.] (2 items) (Image)

EARLY PERKINS BACON BANKNOTES/TICKET/SHARE CERT. + ALFRED DEACON BRADBURY WILKINSON PROOFS; 1825 "Perkins & Heath" imprint Wellingborough Bank £5 note (creases and 1826 exhibit details on back) with fine Congreve 1s-3d red/black compound printed Tax Stamp, small blue embossed 1836 Holywell Ball Ticket with "DE LA RUE & CO" imprint inverted at top, c.1840 v. fine Craven Bank (Burnley) £10 note + 1853 "Oriental Bank" share certificate both with "Perkins Bacon & Petch" imprints, and fine pair of fancy engine-turned oval engraved background designs produced in Feb/Mar. 1881 by Charles Whiting's 1821-81 principal engraver Alfred Deacon (recently 'poached' by Bradbury Wilkinson - as of 7 Feb. 1881) from a page of Deacon's proof book (p.copy of the page included). Good group of related items by these famous stamp engravers. (5 items)Cross Reference: ESSAYS & PROOFS, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, LANCASHIRE, WELSH POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

RARE "WHITING & BRANSTON Beaufort House" BICOLOURED COMPOUND PRINTED LOTTERY 'PUFF', ETC.; Oct. 1825 fine small green & pink compound-printed handbill (neatly fits within an album page) advertising one of the last lotteries of the pre-1900 period (for "J.&J. SIVEWRIGHT" broker) with the rare Whiting & Branston imprint at foot within the fancy engine-turned frame to the central text; few of these W&B 'puffs' have been recorded in private hands. Plus 3 pages from a c.1830s scrap-book with applied prints, and a small c.1921 pictorial handbill advertising "THE GROVER CAMEO EMBOSSING MACHINE" for "postage stamps on envelopes" etc. [All ex Michael Lockton.] (5 items) Cross Reference: EPHEMERA (Image)

CHARLES WHITING IMPRINT FORERUNNERS - DESIGNS REMINISCENT OF HIS POSTAGE ESSAYS; 1831/7 trio all with "Whiting" imprints; c.1831 (dated from matching newspaper advert) "MECHI" cutlery dealer advertising booklet with pink engine-turned designs (very reminiscent of the 1839 P.O. PERMIT letter-sheet Essay border) on covers, c.1836 card advert for "BUTLER'S APERIENT PILL" with fancy green engraved background, and Aug. 1839 "CORNWALL Great United Mines" share certificate with fancy blue engine-turned background. Fine trio showing the ancestors/origins of Whiting's Postage letter-sheet Essays' designs. Very fine. (3 items) [All ex Michael Lockton.]Cross Reference: LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, CORNWALL (Image)

THE FIRST (JAN./FEB. 1840) 1d PINK FORERUNNER ESSAY BY WHITING & WYON - IN BLUE (TYPE E11); Fine example of this rare Jan./Feb. 1840 early 1d Blue oval Essay on thin white paper, cut round and lightly attached to white card at top right; this is the design recorded by Whiting as "Mr Wyon's head and legend; our notion of the engine turned pattern to look well" (Huggins/Wicks, 2021, p.90, plate 82). Only a handful of examples of this design in blue have been recorded in private hands; this is similar to another cut-round example in the Bonn Postal Museum's Philbrick Collection. Exhibition Item. Cross Reference: POSTAL STATIONERY, QV (Image)

WHITING & CO. - COMPOUND PRINTED GREEN & RED PROOFS OF "TEWKESBURY OLD BANK" + MATCHING "TEN"; c.1850(?) pair of small red & green proofs on thin cream paper of "TEWKESBURY OLD BANK" and "TEN" - presumably designs from a banknote - in fine bicoloured Congreve patent compound printing; presumably produced by Whiting and Co. and possibly originating from the Alfred Deacon Proof Books. Very attractive. [Both ex Michael Lockton.] (2)Cross Reference: GLOUCESTERSHIRE (Image)

PERKINS BACON PAPER TAX STAMP - LATE USAGE WITH PART "CHARGED ON MAKER" CANCEL; 23 June 1852 usage of the rare Type IV Perkins Bacon 1½d per pound “PAPER LABEL” Tax Stamp (old sellotape on reverse reinforcing cut and small tear needs to be removed) for a single ream of paper. It was used at "MILL NUMBER 614" and approved by Excise Officer “Henry Melville(?)”. It has a partial black “[Crown]/CHA[RGED ON M]AKER/PAPER/DUTY” datestamp at left and is unusually 'cancelled' by a heavy ink "X". The Tax was repealed (and stamps withdrawn) on 1 Oct. 1861. This is the red & black Compound-printed design used in England & Wales. [Ex Michael Lockton.] Cross Reference: REVENUES (Image)