Great Britain and British Commonwealth 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee
Sale No: 42
Lot No:267
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Ephemera comprising 1889 St. Martins League Bazaar printed souvenir poem and reproduction Mulready to commemorate 50 years of penny postage (but incorrectly stating "Penny Postage founded 1839"); advertising notice "Some Thynge Newe, Toe bee hadde atte ye poste offys, in ye Gildehalle", for the 1790s Post Office at the Guildhall event (some splitting at folds); and "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case" with folder and booklet "Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-writing" by Lewis Carroll, published 1890. (3).
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Sale No: 42
Lot No:268
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Cat No:Collection
Various items including "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case" with its folder, booklet by Lewis Carroll and original envelope; Die Proof in black for a proposed Penny Post Jubilee envelope to be issued at the 1890 Edinburgh Exhibition; Mulready "Lord Holland" forgery printed by T. Hinton in 1890 (faults); Berlin or Hamburg Local Post stationery commemorating 50 years of stamps and depicting Chalmers and Rowland Hill (3, all different); 1903 "Penny Post Series" picture postcards (2), etc. (13).
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Sale No: 42
Lot No:269
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Notebook entitled "Newspaper cuttings concerning postage stamps" with various cuttings, also imitation Mulready card with Christmas Greetings on the reverse and "The Mulready Envelope A Souvenir of the Penny-Postage Jubilee" printed in gold on the front, and Post Office Conversazione advertising handbill (reduced in size). Also three books comprising "Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage", second edition, 1891 (331 pages, hardbound), "Celebration by the Corporation of the City of London of the Jubilee Anniversary of the Introduction of Inland Uniform Penny Postage at the Guildhall, London, 16th May 1890, A brief account of the Post-Office and a catalogue of articles exhibited" (67 pages), and "The Penny Postage Jubilee and Philatelic History" by Phil, 1891 (260 pages, rebound). (4).
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Sold...GBP 130.00
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Sale No: 42
Lot No:271
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Covers and cards with various Guildhall or South Kensington handstamps (7, five C.T.O, two with Tube Post handstamps), unused 1d postcards (2), unused Furniss caricature envelope with insert card, etc., also scarce Furniss New Century insert card (with written message). (16).
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Sold...GBP 160.00
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Lot No:272
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1890-91 Coloured Post Office Christmas cards, the 1890 card depicting the 1890 Penny Post Jubilee postal stationery and handstamps; the much scarcer 1891 card "With Christmas and new year greetings from the Postmaster General and the Officers of the G.P.O" depicting various pictures including the late Henry Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General from 1886 until 1891. (2).