UNUSUAL PRIVATELY CARRIED MONEY LETTER; 14 Apr. 1770 EL (small faults) headed 'Potento' (near Bridge of Dean) privately carried to Edinburgh without markings and endorsed at lower left 'with £20' and unusual thus. Good forerunner to a valuables by post, money letter or registered mail collection.Cross Reference: SCOTLAND (Image)

1844-62 MIXED GROUP INC. PRESTON SKELETON, 'OVER 3OZ' & REG. LETTER RECEIPTS - 15 Oct. 1844 Registered Letter receipt for mail to Milnthorpe with mostly fine blue "PRESTON/†" skeleton, plus another good strike in black on the letter response from Milnthorpe back to Preston; 1846 reg part EL Bath to Shaftesbury marked 'over 3oz' and charged 1/- reg fee & 8d postage; 18 Mar. 1847 reg EL Chester to Oswestry noting enclosed cash and money orders, charged 2d plus 1/- reg fee; 1849 York Registered Letter receipt; and 1862 reg E London to Glasgow fully paid 5d in cash (most unusual as stamps were required to be used for reg mail from 1848). Fine and interesting lot. (6 items) Cross Reference: REGISTERED MAIL, CHESHIRE, LANCASHIRE, SOMERSET (Image)

1849 REGISTERED COVER FROM YORKSHIRE - Aug. 1849 E to London franked with 1841 1d red (PC plate 87, shaved at one point else full margins) tied (just) by Bradford numeral, the 6d reg fee being paid in cash and with BRADFORD-YORKs cds alongside. Cross Reference: LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, YORKSHIRE, 1841 1d REDS (Image)

VERY RARE LARGE RED OVAL “REGISTERED LONDON/FROM/HAMBURG” ON STAMPLESS CASH-PAID COVER TO LONDON - Fine 5 Sep. 1868 EL from “HAMBURG” (fine red c.d.s. on front & oval-framed “P.D.”) to Huth in London endorsed “Registered” and “Paid” having a fancy-framed Hamburg “Recomandirt” and a superb large red oval-framed London F.B. “REGISTERED LONDON/FROM/HAMBURG” ds nicely placed on the front. Very rare; of Exhibition Quality. [ex Vivien Sussex, ex Harper, ex Cavendish 19 Mar 2009 auction, lot 716; realised £660] Cross Reference: GERMAN STATES (Image)