1713-c.2000 Covers, cards and entire letters sorted by subjects including Bishop Marks (5), camp cancels (40), 1890 cover from Carnoustie to Java bearing six 1d lilacs, express mail, machine cancels including 1912 Wilkinson 1d in the slot machine, maritime mail (50), Mobile Post Offices, R.A.F P.O cancels, registered, skeletons, etc. (c.300).

1742-1969 Entire letters, covers and cards, many from the Birmingham and Worcestershire areas, including 1856 "O35" numeral error used at Smethwick (instead of "O34"), Penny Posts (4), undated circles of "The Trumpet", "Cape of Good Hope" and "Hollywood", WW2 cover from G.B to A.P.O 1575 in Malta with the stamp washed off and violet "DAMAGED BY IMMERSION / IN SEA WATER", 1911 purple-brown First U.K Aerial Post envelope flown from London, 1886 cover to Germany with a fine illustration of the Market Hotel in Birmingham on the reverse, etc. (115).

1755-1901 Entire letters, entires and covers with prestamp letters written up on pages to show various postal rates including three 1824-25 entire letters all from Brecon to Alnwick strangely all with differing rates (1/1, 1/2 or 1/3), 1837-39 entire letters sent by London Cross Post with "Hounslow / Py Post" or "Shooters Hill / Penny Post", 1840 cover prepaid 1d in cash from Liverpool to a child at Bolton with note enclosing a lock of hair, Maltese Cross cancels, etc. (48).

1826-99 Covers and cards including 1826 Returned Letter wrapper with London 2d Post regulations printed inside containing two original undelivered letters, 1840 Deal Ship Letter from Haiti, 1870 postcard with sloper arrow cancel, postal fiscal covers (2), used Mulready (faults), etc. (14).

1857-1900 Entire letters and covers (7) including 1857 letter from Rio Grande to G.B with Rio de Janeiro British P.O c.d.s and "LIVERPOOL" dotted double arc datestamp, etc. Also a few KGVI stamps including 1948 å£1 unmounted mint and used, etc. (7 covers + 11 stamps).

1903-10 Covers, lettercards and a postcard, nearly all addressed abroad including printed Stanley Gibbons (10) or W.H Peckitt (4) envelopes to Italy, 27 covers registered, one also with an "AR" handstamp, various stamps to the 1/- value. (43).

c.1904-90 Long size covers, mainly G.B but with a few foreign including "A.V.2" of Ethiopia, 1942 registered cover from New York to London handstamped "MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT / DOCUMENTS ONLY", many meter marks from air lines or with other thematic interest, etc. (138).

Various official mail, House of Commons covers and postcards, official cachets including Royal Courts of Justice, free fronts, some real or reproduction autographs, receipts with embossed revenue stamps, an unusual postally used anti-Disraeli political cartoon (stamp partly removed), passes for the House of Commons Gallery signed by various M.Ps, 1941 cover and letter sent on behalf of the Prime Minister addressed to Canada with "First Lord of the Treasury" official cachet but no postmarks, etc. (c.135).

Postal and other Ephemera. Larger items in a cover album including 1883 (Aug 11) Illustrated London News with sketches from the first day of the Parcel Post service on the front cover and inside, also other Illustrated London News pages or complete magazines with pictures of the G.P.O sorting room, British A.P.O at Constantinople, Post Office railway, etc., 1916 War Savings poster, Post Office posters for new stamp issues with a proof of the 1978 Coronation Anniversary stamp issue poster, etc. (50).