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Gavin Fryer Collections - Oct. 2024 continued...

G.B. - PRINTED PAPERS BY POST continued...
Lot Catalog No. Descrip Opening
1061   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. LONDON - THE VERY RARE 'ALL-IN-ONE' LARGE BOXED "NOTICE 3d" MARK OF CHARING CROSS B.O.; 25 Aug. 1855 complete large "NOTICE OF OBJECTION" EL sent locally in London with v. fine and very rare large red boxed all-in-one "NOTICE 3d" mark (Mackay fig. 3375) nicely placed on the front with a matching "PAID/C +" MX-framed ds (Charing Cross Branch Office) alongside. Very few examples of this 3d-rate marking have been recorded. Exhibition Item. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.319; detail.] Cross Reference: LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £110.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1062   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. SPOON/SIDEWAYS DUPLEX CANCELS ON 3d NOTICE-RATE COVERS - ONE WITH 1d+2d - ETC.; Unusual 232 Aug. 1856 "Notice" (red ms) EL to Bath (missent to London endorsed "Unknown" with 12 sets of postmen's initials on the flap!) with 1d Red 'stars' strip of three (one creased) tied by mainly fine "GLOUCESTER/312" Spoon duplexes; plus fine large 24 Aug. 1857 Notice EL (endorsed "Notice" in red) unusually and attractively franked by 2d Blue 'stars' & 1d Red 'stars' both tied by v. fine large "BRIGHTON/132" s/ways duplexes. Also a 21 July 1859 Scottish voter objection EL with 1d 'stars' tied by Glasgow duplex [illustrated in BPPP, p.308], and 1856 pair of retained (not posted) copy Notices (one with Penrith cds inside; illustrated in BPPP, p.306). (5 covers) Cross Reference: SPOONS & SIDEWAYS DUPLEXES, ETC., GLOUCESTERSHIRE, SUSSEX, 1854-61 2d BLUES (Image)

Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £170.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1063   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. WORCS. GROUP OF NOTICES WITH 3x1d RED 'STARS' + LONDON 2d BLUE COVER ENDORSED "ONLY A KEY..."; 24 Aug. 1861 group of 5 "Notice" ELs sent on the same day from Worcester each with a strip of three 1d Red 'stars' tied/cancelled by mainly v. fine "816" numerals; one apparently delivered, but the other 4 endorsed "Deceased" or "Gone no address". Plus a curious 22 Nov. 1867 partly printed "LIST OF PERSONS OBJECTED TO..." EL sent from London to York endorsed "only a Key enclosed" on the front and so above weight and prepaid for the regular 2d letter rate with a 2d Blue pl.9) tied by a fine duplex. (6 covers)Cross Reference: WORCESTERSHIRE, REGISTERED MAIL, 1858-69 2d PLATES (Image)

Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £220.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1064   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. LATER QV "NOTICE" RATE COVERS - WITH SURFACE PRINTED 3d FRANKINGS, ETC.; 1864 EL with Small Letters 3d (crease) tied by Reading duplex, 1869/78 trio ex Langport/Shrewsbury/Swindon each with 3d rose-red (pl. 4, 5 or 19), 1885 EL ex Ledbury with 3d Dull Lilac, and 1902 Notice EL registered at the new 1½d rate with KEVII 1½d tied by Cambridge cds. Also an 1870 retained copy Notice with "GLOSTER" cds. Scarce group. (7 covers) Cross Reference: SOMERSET, SHROPSHIRE, WILTSHIRE, REGISTERED MAIL (Image)

Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £240.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1065   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. DERBY PRINTED 'PENNY DREADFULS' - "HORRID MURDER AT DERBY", "WICKED HARLOT", "COURTSHIP", ETC.; Unusual 1818-21 group of thin paper handbills (ideal sizes for an album page; some toning but a rare lot), inc. two with "J. Plant, Derby" imprint, and one of "S. Mason, Belper" (latter priced at 1d), and all with sensational news stories on one side; "HORRID MURDER AT DERBY", "Shocking Discovery... Wicked Harlot... Cruel Husband", "Humphrey Gubbin's COURTSHIP", "Highway Robbery...MURDER", "Dreadful Accident... Colliery... SHEFFIELD PARK", and "...in Derby Gaol... for the Murder of her Infant". The original 'Penny Dreadfuls' and very rare survivors. (6 items) [All ex Cavendish June 2019, lot 1510; realised £480+BP for these six items.] Cross Reference: DERBYSHIRE (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 160

SOLD for £170.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1066   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. DORSET - "108 POOL D" 1st-TYPE MILEAGE + "FREE/A/[LAURELS]" ON COVER REF. CONVICTS' SENTENCES; 25 Oct. 1790 EL franked from "Corfe Castle" to Evan Nepean (Under Secretary of State for the Home Office and friend of the 1st Governor of N.S.W., Arthur Philip) in London with a mainly fine rare "108 POOL D" 1st-Type Mileage and a fine strike of the equally rare brown encircled "FREE/A/[laurel leaves]" mark on the front. The contents regard some local gaol prisoners who had been sentenced to transportation (to N.S.W.) but for whom a change of sentence was sought to enable them to work on local Dorset projects. Fascinating and rare item. [Ex Bill Pipe auction; 28/11/2018 lot 438; realised £550.]Cross Reference: DORSET, FREE MAIL, PRISONS & PRISONERS, NEW SOUTH WALES (Image)

Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £140.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1067   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. PRISONS, DEBTORS, ETC. - INC. "BELVIDERE PLACE" PRISON MARK, YORK "Pd2" ON "GAOL DELIVERY" LIST, ETC.; 1817-45 group of covers and documents concerning prisons, sentences, etc. with 1828 EL with the London boxed "BELVI/DE/PL/E/S" Debtor's Prison PO mark, 1841 EL with scarce red York h.s. "Pd2" UPP mark having long and detailed printed list of the "General Gaol Delivery" (listing prisoners, sentences, etc.; illustrated in BPPP, p.584), trio of 1840/1 circulars advocating the abolition of the death penalty, 1823 York "TOO LATE", 1832 small "LEEK" UDC, etc. Good variety of mostly printed items. (13 items)Cross Reference: PRISONS & PRISONERS, YORKSHIRE, UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Starting at £ 110

SOLD for £130.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1068   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. PRISONS, PRISONERS, ETC. - INC. 1846/54 PAIR EX PRISONERS IN GAOL (YORK & CARLISLE), RELEASE WRITS, ETC.; 1846-72 covers (mainly) inc. 1846 EL with tied 1d Red ex "York Castle" from a debtor in Ward 8, rare 1854 EL (printed heading inside with rules about prisoners letters, etc.) with fine Carlisle U.P.P. black hs "2" due mark with "COUNTY GAOL/Carlisle" imprint on front and contents from a sad prisoner [illust. in BPP, p.545], 1848/50 pair of ELs with circular "YORK/1D/PAID" U.P.P. marks with printed writs of release, 1857 EL ref bankrupt with 1d 'stars' tied by mainly very fine scarce Glasgow "GORDON STREET" Scots Local cancel, an 1859 1d Red EL with part printed physical description of female prisoner [illust. in BPP, p.543], etc. (12 items) Cross Reference: CUMBERLAND, YORKSHIRE, PRISONS & PRISONERS (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £170.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1069   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. GUERNSEY - 'ANTI-GRAHAM' PROPAGANDA COVER WITH 1d RED TIED BY "GUERNSEY/324" DUPLEX; 27 Dec. 1869 small env. (some wear; part flap lost) addressed to Plymouth with a 1d Red (pl.110) tied by a partly fine Guernsey duplex having a remarkable printed propaganda text on the front in French which translates as "PENAL CODE, BOOK III, TIT. I, ART. 187. All suppression, or opening, of letters consigned to the Post... by... the postal administration, will be punished by a fine from 16 francs to 300 francs...". Reminiscent of the Anti-Graham campaign of 1844 aimed at the London Secret PO. The only example of this propaganda envelope that we have recorded. [Ex Spink 10 July 2018 auction, lot 2282 realised £272.] Cross Reference: GUERNSEY POSTAL HISTORY, MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS, PRISONS & PRISONERS, FRANCE (Image)

Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £140.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1070   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. LATER QV PRISONS/PRISONERS MAIL ETC. INC. 1d RED EL EX LEEDS GAOL (WITH PRINTED RULES), ½d PLATE Nos., ETC.; 1862-77 covers inc. rare 1862 EL from a prisoner in "LEEDS BOROUGH GAOL" (printed rules on letters etc. as page one) with 1d Red, rare 1862 part printed EL with "ORDER OF REMOVAL" imprint above the address with 1d 'stars' pair tied by London duplexes [illust. in BPPP, p.366], several circulars with ½d rose-red frankings (inc. 1873 tied by superb Glasgow cds, and others ex Sherborne, Chester, Hertford, Barnsley or Lichfield), 1876 York Summer Assizes summons with 1d Red, etc. (10 covers)Cross Reference: YORKSHIRE, PRISONS & PRISONERS, SCOTLAND (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £170.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1071   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. BANKRUPTCY NOTICES/CIRCULARS INC. TWO AT RARE REGISTERED PRINTED MATTER (2d+½d) RATE; Attractive 28 May 1878 printed ("BANKRUPTCY ACT") EL registered to Stockton with 2d Blue (pl.15) + ½ rose-red (pl.12) tied by fine "SOUTH-SHIELDS/704" duplexes with fine blue regd. oval ds nearby, 4 Oct. 1881 blue aper circular registered to Bridgnorth with single 2½d Blue (pl.22) tied by a fine "STOURBRIDGE/750" duplex at the rare ½d + 2d fee rate, and similar but unregistered 1887 EL with ½d vermilion tied by v. fine "BIRMINGHAM" squared circle. (3 covers) Cross Reference: WORCESTERSHIRE, DURHAM, WARWICKSHIRE - BIRMINGHAM, REGISTERED MAIL (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 80

CLOSED
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1072   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. RARE EARLY JURY SUMMONS's INC. TWO WITH QV LINE ENGRAVED FRANKINGS SENT AT SPECIAL 3d RATE; Small 1808 vellum partly printed Jury Summons with 5s/- orange embossed Tax Stamp stapled in place; plus 1870/71 pair of similar QV ELs (latter with creases) with "JURY SUMMONS" imprints on the front sent from Middleham (Yorks.) with 1d Reds strip of three tied by "962" numerals or with 2d Blue (pl.13) & 1d Red tied by Warwick duplexes [illust. in BPPP, p.315]. Line Engraved frankings on Jury Summons 3d-rate covers are seldom seen. (3 items) Cross Reference: YORKSHIRE, WARWICKSHIRE, REVENUES (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £320.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1073   imageLEGAL, PRISONS, ETC.. EARLY JURY SUMMONS'S INC. THREE WITH QV LINE ENGRAVED FRANKINGS SENT AT 2½d, 3d OR 5d RATES; 1872/76 trio of similar QV ELs (from England, Wales or Scotland) with "JURY SUMMONS" imprints (2) or endorsement on the front sent from Haddington (1d Red + 4d Vermilion tied by v. fine scarce "*131*" numerals (3d Summons rate + extra 2d registered fee) [illust. in BPPP, p.315], Carmarthen (½d rose-red + 2d Blue (p.14) tied by duplex for the 2½d rate [illust. in BPPP, p.316], and Preston (3 1d Reds tied by fine duplexes) [illust. in BPPP, p.316 & on the back cover]. Plus similar unusual 1876 "JURY SUMMONS" EL but with only a ½d rose-red and so endorsed "Contrary to Act of Parliament" and charged "5d" [illust. in BPPP, p.317], and 1880/93 regd. trio with 3d rose-red (redirected with ms "1d") or 3d Jubilee (2) ex Edinr., Aberdeen or Hamilton (returned "Gone no address"). Line Engraved frankings on Jury Summons 3d-rate covers are seldom seen. Good lot. (7 covers) Cross Reference: SCOTLAND, WELSH POSTAL HISTORY, KENT, LANCASHIRE (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £260.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1074   imagePOST OFFICE. RARE EARLY P.O. NOTICE - BRIDGNORTH (SHROPSHIRE) - REF. P.O. BOX BLOCKED BY NEWSPAPERS; Very fine small 5 Nov. 1825 Notice (no creases; small closed hole in centre hardly noticeable; 21x17 cms) from Bridgnorth P.O. headed "CAUTION/Respecting Old Papers" regarding the need to wrap up old papers as flat as possible so as to avoid the "stopping up of the Receiving Box against the Reception of Letters", endorsed "Nov. 7 1825" and "50." at foot suggesting that this was the Proof copy (of 50 that were printed) kept by the PO Surveyor "B. CHURCHILL" whose name appears at the foot. The only recorded example; very few pre-1840 PO Notices have survived. [Ex Steph Stobbs; Cavendish 17 June 1989, ex lot 464]. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.92.] (Image)

Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £220.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1075   imagePOST OFFICE. RARE FREE MAIL TO HOLLAND - "Francis Freeling" IMPRINT COVER REF. TRANSIT SHIP LETTER WITH 2s-9d TO PAY; 20 Dec. 1825 EL (part of one flap lost, not affecting contents, marks or address) from "G.P.O., LONDON" with "O.H.M.S. Francis Freeling" imprints on the address side, sent free to "Rotterdam" (charged "10" Dutch postage on delivery; partly fine "Engeland/Over Brielle" on the flap) and so having a fine red 2-ring London crowned "FREE" ds on the front with mostly printed contents advising that "THERE is a [Ship] Letter... at this Office directed to you which cannot be forwarded until the postage of [2/9] is paid...". Very few Free covers to Holland have been recorded. Rare thus. Cross Reference: FREE MAIL, NETHERLANDS, POSTAGE DUE MARKS, OFFICIAL MAIL (Image)

Starting at £ 100

CLOSED
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1076   imagePOST OFFICE. COACHING - "LONDON & DUBLIN PARCEL OFFICE" RECEIPT FOR PARCEL "PER P.O. PACKET FROM HOLYHEAD"; 12 Mar. 1831 printed Dublin receipt (4½ x 7½ins.; Small fault at top and light gum stains at left & lower right) with coach & four horses at top "For Expenses on [a parcel] per Post-Office Packet from Holyhead" listing 8s/- for "Land Carriage to Holyhead", 1s-0d "Freight to Dublin" & 1s-0d for "Porterage" making a total of 10s-0d to pay. Also listing the various Mailcoach services from around England via Holyhead and the Howth Coach. We have only recorded two other examples of this receipt. Rare item from the Parcels firm that used special labels on parcels from the early 1820s. [Similar 1833 example sold in Cavendish Sept. 2021 auction; lot 974, realised £220+BP.] [Illustrated in BPPP, p.334.] Cross Reference: IRELAND PRE-1922 - POSTAL HISTORY, PARCEL POST COVERS/LABELS (Image)

Starting at £ 100

CLOSED
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1077   imagePOST OFFICE. VERY RARE P.O. "CHARGED FOR ERROR" COVER CLAIMING UNDER-CHARGED POSTAGE ON LETTER TO JAMAICA; Exceptional 23 Dec. 1833 EL from "F. FREELING" at the "GENERAL POST OFFICE" (London) with specially printed heading "Charged for Error" and partly printed address:- "The Postmaster of [Sleaford]" demanding the "1/4" underpayment for a recent letter sent from Sleaford to "Mr. John Hare, Port au Prince, St. Domingo or Kingston Jamaica"; endorsed by the Postmaster on the back as to his having paid the 1s-4d resulting from him charging only 11d instead of the correct 2s-3d rate! [See Rex Clark's Rates for Reform, pp.242-243.] Believed to be the only recorded example of this pre-1840 internal PO system for reclaiming underpayments from the Postmasters themselves. [Ex Rex Clark; Cavendish June 2015, lot 342; realised £350+BP.] [Illustrated in BPPP, p.572.] Cross Reference: POSTAGE DUE MARKS, LINCOLNSHIRE, JAMAICA, HAITI (Image)

Starting at £ 200

SOLD for £340.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1078   imagePOST OFFICE. RARE SCOTTISH "POSTAGE RETURN" SENT FREE WITH PRINTED LISTS OF POSTAL RATE ALTERATIONS; 10th Dec. 1838 partly printed EL sent Free on 1 Jan. 1839 with totally printed "Postage Return./C.F. REEVES, Esq. GLASGOW" address with "CARNWATH" mark on the back flap. The contents list all the destinations in Scotland from which the postal rates from "Carnwath" had recently changed, thanks to pressure from Postal Reformers; letters were no longer to be charged by the distance travelled, but by the shortest available suitable routes!! As the printed heading puts it:- "Postage on letters shall in future be calculated according to the distance by the nearest [= shortest] travelled Carriage Road, I have to desire you will carefully examine your Scotch Postage List, and by return of Post inform me what Postages have already been altered under this Order, and what Postages ought to be altered..." Seven destinations are listed as having had their postages reduced. Rare evidence of one of the few pre-1840 Postal Reforms that were undertaken (albeit under pressure from Robert Wallace and friends) by the PO themselves. One of only four such "Postage Returns" that we have seen, and a rare internal PO Free item. [Ex RL PH auction, 28 May 1942, lot 208, which had 7 such Returns including this one; one of the others was sold for £300 in Cavendish's July 2003 auction, lot 277. This example is ex Cavendish Dec. 2018; lot 1140, realised £280+BP.] Plus 1835 EL sent by carrier from "Crieff" to Edinburgh endorsed "With a Kit [barrel] of Butter" charged "3/8" in red (presumably for the letter and the barrel). (2 covers) Cross Reference: SCOTLAND, POSTAGE DUE MARKS, POSTAL REFORMS (Image)

Starting at £ 180

CLOSED
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1079   imagePOST OFFICE. RARE FREE FRANKED "ARMED DAILY HORSE POST" FULLY COMPLETED TADCASTER/SETTLE TIME-BILL; Remarkable Aug. 1836 EL (minor toning and a couple of reinforced places in the folds) sent free from "TADCASTER" (v. fine UDC on flap) to "J.A. Fletcher Esq., G.P.O. Surveyor &c., York, Forward." - rare example of the GPO Surveyors' franking of all mail addressed to them. The contents are a very rare survival from the pre-1840 period; a 2-sided printed "TIME BILL" sheet for the "Tadcaster and Settle... ARMED DAILY HORSE POST". While a very small number of similar pre-1840 P.O. Time-bills for mail coaches have survived, we do not recall having seen one like this relating to a horse-post before. Both sides have been fully completed for both outward and return journeys by each Postmaster along the route (5 in all). Wonderful Exhibition Item. [Ex John Forbes-Nixon, Cavendish Mar. 2021; lot 1368, realised £480+BP.]Cross Reference: EXPRESS MAIL, YORKSHIRE (Image)

Starting at £ 200

SOLD for £400.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1080   imagePOST OFFICE. LONDON "DEAD LETTER OFFICE" RETURNED MAIL & MONEY LETTER ADVICES; 1838-55 group of covers all with types of PO "Returned Letter/Dead Letter-Office" imprints (5), two (ex Minchinhampton/Leicester) with their original returned letters (1838/1855 pair; both with 9 or 6 sets of initials on the reverse to emphasise that the addressees were "Not found/known" - the 1854/5 pair with "ROWLAND HILL" imprints under the flaps; plus 1844/7 pair of red printing PO "MONEY ORDERS" ELs with Edinr. or London Official PAID" cds to Postmasters of Bonaw/Canterbury. [The 1838/39/52/55 items illust. in BPPP; pp.573/4/7/9.] Cross Reference: RETURNED MAIL, POSTAL ORDERS (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £140.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM

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