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| 5285 |
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 1842/69: Entire letters/covers (3) to the Cape of Good Hope all addressed to Captain George Broke RN of HMS Thunderbolt, on anti-slavery Patrol in West Africa, with the first cover an illustrated envelope with an engraving of
Burghley House, Northamptonshire franked by 1841 2 d. blue tied by black Maltese Cross with three line "RETURNED / For / POSTAGE" and manuscript "1/4d." prepaid to Cape of Good Hope with Wansford cds on reverse in red - faults but of great rarity;
1844 cover prepaid "8d." from Birmingham with "SHIP LETTER / ♚ / LONDON" in red (June 27) to the Cape, 1845 very similar cover but with VENTNOR undated circle prepaid "8d." with "SHIP LETTER / ♚ / LONDON" in red (Sept 24) and on arrival struck with
framed "TO PAY" in black. A splendid group - the illustrated cover being extraordinary but with faults at top. Note: On 2nd Jan 1844, HMS Thunderbolt captured three vessels trying to take enslaved people from Angola. One of the vessels was carrying
1'200 people in a space so narrow that they could not even sit up and had to crawl on their bellies. On Jan 28, 1844 HMS Thunderbolt arrived at Cape Town with one of the slavers that she had captured. This was the "Josephine" with 457 enslaved people
on board. "Thunderbolt" was wrecked in Algoa Bay in 1845 (Image 1)
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| 5286 |
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 1848 (Oct 2): Cover from London to Prince Edward Island, BNA, unusually sent prepaid with London "Paid" cds (Oct 2) in red and manuscript "1/2d." in crayon and reaffirmed in ink above. Liverpool framed transit (Oct 3) in black
at lower left and superb "PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND" double arc cds (Oct 19) on reverse in black (Image 1)
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| 5287 |
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 1849 (April 26): Entire letter to one Edward Furby, Bolivia, New England, New South Wales endorsed "Ship Letter, Prepaid" and "via Armadale"; struck on despatch with NORTHAMPTON cds in blue (April 29) and rated "1/6d." in
manuscript; "SHIP LETTER / ♚ / LONDON" in red (April 30) and reverse with "SHIP LETTER / ♚ / SYDNEY" in black of arrival (Sept 28). Red charge of "8" (pence) in manuscript to pay (Image 1)
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| 5288 |
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 Advertising 1841: Group of covers/cards (16) with 1840 1 d. black, pl. 3 used on cover from Edinburgh to Glasgow tied by red Maltese Cross with envelope showing blue printed advertising for "Scottish Amicable
Society" on reverse; 1840 embossed stampless cover (probably printed by Charles Whiting) showing a Pied Piper in frame with "Prepaid / 1840" below, 1846 stampless envelope with illustrated Masonic design with "Militia Temple" at top; 1852 wonderful
entire with printed notice headlined "Youth Missing" and details on broadsheet bearing 1841 1 d. red; 1853 cover with full illustrated red and blue advertising for Norwich Union Life Assurance Soc. bearing 1841 1 d. red; 1854 entire letter with 1841
1 d. red from Leeds showing "Prize Medal 1851 / Class XVI" green and red illustrated imprint of the "Spanish Leather & Glue Works", an early coloured motif; 1863 cover bearing 1 d. star showing blue printed "Worth's Improved Knife Machine"
illustration; 1864 cover with printed "The Alliance National Investment Soc." Arms in black; 1868 unused envelope with gold "Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Co. Ltd. / Telegram Immediate" on obverse (the Company was bought out by the Post Office); 1871
cover franked 1 d. red pl. 123 used from Nottingham and advertising on reverse for a "Patterns" in blue by J.W. Haythorn of Nottingham; 1874 cover bearing 1 d. red pl. 137 with envelope printed in green for "Thomas Gee & Co. / City Match
Manufactory" of Gloucester; 1882 cover franked 1 d. lilac with envelope showing printed "William's Alethographic Shorthand" advertising on obverse and reverse; 1890 ½ d. brown stationery card with "Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co."
illustrated advertising on reverse (Dobbin Carts & Wheel-barrows) cancelled by Gloucester squared circle; a marvelllous lot (Image 1)
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| 5289 |
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 1846: "Ladies Envelope" with complete illustrated contents (lady at writing desk and harp), written from Cottesbrooke Rectory, Great Creaton to Northampton, the envelope with beautiful blue surround; struck with "GREAT
CREATON" undated circle in black and large "PD 1" in red, the reverse (also illustrated with horseman holding a letter) with square sealing label ("Ever grateful") and Northampton arrival cds (March 6) in black. A delightful and scarce cover (Image 1)
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| 5290 |
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 1846: "Ladies Envelope" with complete illustrated contents (young lady at a piano), written from Cottesbrooke Rectory, Great Creaton to Northampton, the envelope with beautiful gold surround and illustration of a young lady
and her dog; struck with "GREAT CREATON" undated circle in black and large "PD 1" in red, the reverse (also illustrated with birds and a harp) with square sealing label and Northampton arrival cds (Feb 27) in black. A delightful and scarce cover (Image 1)
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| 5291 |
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 1848 (Sept 8): Stampless entire letter from Boulogne-Sur-Mer to Exeter, Devon struck with superb framed "M-B" Mobile Box handstamp in black (Willcocks KT1508). Rated "1/3d." to pay in manuscript (the cover contained a bank
draft), with double arc FOLKESTONE cds (Sept 9), London cds in red of the same dayx and Exeter arrival (Sept 10) in black. An exceptional and extremely rare entire (Image 1)
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| 5292 |
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 Crimean War 1854: Cover sent unpaid from Exeter (Oct 28) to the Honourable Francis Colthorne, Aide de Camp, to Commander in Chief, Montreal, Canada; with italic framed "Returned for Postage" in red, transits of London and
Liverpool (Oct 30). MONTREAL arrival cds and struck with both "7d." and "10d. Cy." handstamps in black. Readdressed to Sevastopol with manuscript "via England to the Crimea" with framed "COLONIES / & ART. 13" in red reverse with three French
Military arrival datestamps "ARMÉE D'ORIENT / BAU. GAL." cds's (Dec 10-17). Due to the charges levied the cover marked "Refusé" on reverse and "Refused" on obverse in manuscript. Numerous manuscript charge notations, a most unusual cover (Image 1)
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| 5293 |
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 Crimean War 1841: 1 d. red-brown on blued paper, imperforate, lettered PK/RK, a vertical strip of three with good margins on three sides and clear to touched at right, used on 1856 cover to Emsworth, Hampshire endorsed "Offrs.
Letter, Crimea, via Marseille" at lower left, tied by London Inland Office "46" numeral obliterators in black. Reverse with "POST OFFICE / BRITISH ARMY" code B cds in green (April 19) and fine "Emsworth" arrival cds in green (May 1). Small
imperfections but a very rare usage of the Imperforate issues on cover from the Crimea (Image 1)
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| 5294 |
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 Crimean War 1854: 1 d. red-brown on blued, perf. 16, a horizontal strip of three lettered AH-AJ, used on 1854 cover from Ryde to a Lieutenant on HMS Queen at Sebastopol endorsed "via Marseilles", tied by "666" numeral
obliterators in black. Ryde despatch cds in blue on reverse (June 4), London transit and notation of receipt "Received June 21st" in manuscript. A fine and attractive cover (Image 1)
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| 5295 |
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 Crimean War 1854/55: 1 d. red-brown on blued, perf. 16, three examples used on 1855 mourning envelope to Captain Crealock, 90th Light Infantry, British Army, Crimea; all tied by London "14" numeral obliterators. Reverse with
Charing Cross straight line in blue and London cds (Aug 27), thereafter readdressed (but deleted) to Scutari, this being the Turkish base and home to a major Hospital and convalescent home for British forces and then to Mullingar, Ireland (Image 1)
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| 5296 |
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 Crimean War 1854/55: 1 d, red on blued paper, perf. 16, a used example on 1855 cover to Manchester addressed to a member of the 3rd Light Dragoons, tied by "Exeter / 285" duplex, with London transit (July 24) and from
Manchester, readdressed to Dublin (July 26). Again readdressed as the addressee's Regiment was the 6th Light Dragoons and endorsed at top "Embarked for the Crimea" and returned to London where struck with framed "Returned for "3" Postage" in red and
the cover returned to sender. Plentiful backstamps on an unusual cover (Image 1)
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| 5297 |
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 Crimean War 1855: Covers (2), one with 1 d. red-brown, perf. 14, a horizontal strip of three used on 1855 cover to Captain Seegrave, Regt. of Foot, Staff British Barracks, Scutari; attempts to find the Captain
failed with Regiments "6" and "12" in manuscript and "Commandant Abydos" deleted; cover returned to London (care of Coutts) and thence to Wolverhampton; back flap missing but unusual; sold together with September 1855 cover from Rostrevor via Newry
bearing 1 d. red-brown, perf. 14, a horizontal strip of three addressed to the Reverend Crozier, Chaplain to H.M. Forces Balaclava (Image 1)
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| 5298 |
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 Crimean War 1854/57: 1 d. red-brown on blued paper, perf. 14, an irregular block of three used on 1856 cover with full contents to London endorsed "via Marseilles", tied by "48" numeral obliterators in black of the Inland
Office. Reverse with "POST OFFICE / BRITISH ARMY" code B cds in blue-green (Feb 23). One stamp with slightly rounded corner otherwise fine; contents state "I am living in a hut which does not keep out the wind quite so well as an English stable. Two
years of war and a fair view and knowledge of its horrors is enough to make any man an advocate for peace" (Image 1)
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| 5299 |
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 Crimean War 1854: Prepaid envelope to one Charles Montagu on board "HMS Odin" of the Baltic Fleet, endorsed "Prepaid 8d.", struck with poor Swaffham despatch cds in black, London red "Paid" cds (June 20). Small fault at top
and some soiling but a scarce incoming cover to the Fleet (Image 1)
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| 5300 |
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 Crimean War 1855: Covers (2) with rare usage from the Baltic Fleet with 1855 cover bearing 1854/57 1 d. red strip of three, perf. 14, tied by "DANZIG" circular datestamp in black and by London "46" Inland Office
obliterators, but one stamp with fault; also an 1855 stampless cover to Chester endorsed "H.J. Dixon / 7th R.F." (Royal Fusiliers), struck with "POST OFFICE / BRITISH ARMY" cds (Feb 13) in blue with Chester arrival (March 3) (Image 1)
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| 5301 |
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 Crimean War 1855: 1 d. red-brown, perf. 16, a horizontal strip of four lettered AC-AF, used on 1857 cover from Glasgow to Boulogne all tied by two strikes of "STRATHBLANE" Scots Local handstamps (Alcock Type III - rarity E) in
black and by circular 'PD' in red. Glasgow and London cds's on reverse with beautiful coloured "UNITED / 1854" embossed motif showing Union Jack, Turkish Star & Crescent and the Tricolour flags - representing the three Allies in the Crimean
conflict. The adhesives with imperfections but extremely rare - less than a handful (believed to be just four) Patriotic Crimea covers have been recorded (Image 1)
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| 5302 |
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 Crimean War 1856 (Dec 26): Letter and OHMS envelope from the War Department in Pall Mall to the nurse, Miss Emily Anderson stating "Dear Madam, His Imperial Majesty, the Sultan (of the Ottoman Empire), having been pleased to
place at the disposal of Her Majesty's Government a sum of money for the benefit of the Ladies and Nurses who served in the British Hospitals on the Bosphorus and in the Crimea....offering to each Lady entitled to participate in this gift, a personal
ornament commemorative of the service thus rendered by her to the sick and wounded ....engaged in the late war in the East..." with the cover showing manuscript "About the Sultan's present". Sold together with a further 'thank you' letter to Miss
Emily Anderson written in 1859 from a Sergeant late of the Scots Fusilier Guards stating "present in the shape of a couple of chickens of my own rearing and sincerely hope you will do me the favour of accepting same as a token of my gratitude for the
unrelenting kindness shown during my unwearied illness in Scutari Hospital, where your willing hand was ready to assist...". An extraordinary and unique group of great historical importance (Image 1)
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| 5303 |
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 Crimean War 1857: Official cover addressed to Florence Nightingale at the Burlington Hotel, London, struck with oval "ON THE BUSINESS OF / GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE" in black and "♚ / PAID" datestamp (May 7) in red. Flap with
General Register Office seal. Mailed from Dr. William Farr who collaborated with Florence Nightingale regarding medical statistics. A rare usage (see internet photo of album) (Image 1)
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| 5304 |
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 1856/58: 1 d. red, Die II, perf. 14, a single example used on "Ocean Penny Postage / League of Universal Brotherhood" envelope addressed to Oxford, tied by London "51" numeral obliterator in black. Reverse with "Vere Foster /
Wimbledon" label, Charing Cross cds and Oxford arrival (July 11) cds. Scarce and very fine (Image 1)
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