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Gavin Fryer Collections - Oct. 2024 continued...

G.B. - PATTERN & SAMPLE POST continued...
Lot Catalog No. Descrip Opening
1121   imageFREE FRONT WITH SPECTACULAR PIERCED DECORATION - SENT FROM "BICESTER" ON LAST DAY OF FRANKING; 9 Jan. 1840 free front posted on the Last Day of Franking (and the last day of the 4d-Post Period) with a most attractive pierced and embossed paper design with fleurs de lys and a geometric frame franked by the "[Earl of] Jersey" (1773-1859) from "Bicester" to "Lady Willoughby de Eresby" (the wife of the Lord Chamberlain at the time) in Bourne with a fine red 2-ring crowned London "FREE" cds of "10 JA 10/1840", the First Day of Uniform Penny Postage. Letters franked up to 9 Jan. 1840 were treated as free mail until they were delivered. Most attractive and rare. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.26.] Cross Reference: UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD, OXFORDSHIRE, PICTORIALS, PRINTED, UNIFORM 4d POSTAGE PERIOD (Image)

Starting at £ 200

SOLD for £220.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1122   imageFANCY GOLD-PRINTED ENVELOPE + MATCHING PICTORIAL CONTENTS SENT FROM COLCHESTER; Very unusual 5 Mar. 1840 env. (with gold edging) sent from "Westwood House" (Horkesley) to Cambridge prepaid 1d (ms "PD1") having a fair boxed "No.9" (Horkesley) RH mark on the flap beside a very fine red "COLCHESTER" cds; the original contents include a letter written on fancy pictorial gold-printed paper plus a brief note on pink paper (from the sender's mother). Postally used examples of this kind of fancy paper with a matching envelope are very rare before 1850. Exhibition Item. [Illustrated in BPPP, pp.336/7.] Cross Reference: UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD, ESSEX, PICTORIALS, PRINTED (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £140.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1123   imageFANCY BLUE-GREY-PRINTED ENVELOPE DECORATED BACK & FRONT SENT FROM LONDON TO DARTFORD; 4 May 1842 env. (minor creasing) prepaid with a faint and overstruck red "..../1D. PAID" Receiving House mark from London to "DARTFORD" (fine cds on reverse); there is a most attractive fancy frame printed around the edges of the address panel and a matching design around the four flaps. It was sealed with a diminutive gold "Emily" wafer (presumably the name of the sender). Postally used examples of any kind of fancy envelopes are very rare before 1850; this example is reminiscent of the famous Buchanan envelopes of 1840. Exhibition Item. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.344.] Cross Reference: PICTORIALS, PRINTED, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY, UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD (Image)

Starting at £ 260

SOLD for £550.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1124   imageDECORATIVE PRINTED ADVERTISING ENVELOPE SENT FROM EDINBURGH PRINTSELLER "HUGH PATON"; Fine 23 Mar. 1843 E prepaid "2[d]" (red crayon) in cash from Edinburgh to a "Writer" (Scots work for solicitor at this date) in Ayr; but it was also prepaid an extra 1d Late Fee with a mainly fine red boxed Edinburgh "PAID/1d EXTRA" on the front (slightly overlapped by the red "PAID at EDINR." cds). There is a most attractive fancy frame printed around the edges of the address panel which is very reminiscent of the famous Buchanan envelopes of 1840; Buchanan was a solicitor and only used his designs for business mail too. It may have been inspired by the 1840 'Post Magazine' design too. The contents are a printed list of books & prints available from Paton and are headed by an attractive coat-of-arms design. This kind of decorative commercial cover is very rare before 1850. Exhibition Item. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.343.]Cross Reference: PICTORIALS, PRINTED, ADVERTISING COVERS, SCOTLAND, LATE FEE/TOO LATE MAIL (Image)

Starting at £ 340

SOLD for £1,000.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1125   imageSUPERB BLACK & GOLD PRINTED DECORATIVE ENVELOPE WITH 1d RED TIED BY DISTINCTIVE DUBLIN MX; Extraordinary and colourful 16 Feb. 1842 decorative envelope used from Dublin to "Mary-Borough" with 1841 1d Red (OI; plate 29, very near 4m) tied by a very fine Distinctive Dublin Maltese Cross and by the partly fine "MARYBOROUGH" double-arcs arrival cds; there is a fine red Dublin diamond d.s. on the reverse. The all-over design of fancy gold/black floral motifs covers both the back & front of the envelope and there is a man in period dress on the front and a matching female figure on the flap. Was this a belated Valentine letter? One of only a handful of recorded 1840s stamped covers with gold decorative designs. Ideal Exhibition Item for any Irish, 1d Reds or Cancellations collection. [Ex M. Whyte auction, 9 Aug. 2014; lot 416, realised £1,742 inc. BP.] [Illustrated in BPPP, p.345.] [AIEP, D. MacDonnell Cert. (2014)] Cross Reference: IRELAND PRE-1922 - POSTAL HISTORY, PICTORIALS, PRINTED, 1841 1d REDS, 1840s CANCELLATIONS (Image)

Starting at £ 650

SOLD for £1,600.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1126   imageFANCY GOLD-PRINTED ENVELOPE-LIKE LETTER-SHEET SENT FROM BISHOPS CASTLE (SHROPSHIRE); Very unusual 25 Feb. 1847 EL (specially designed with an envelope-like flap but made of a single small sheet) with fancy gold framed address-panel and flaps, sent from "Brockton" to Newtown prepaid 1d (red crayon "1") having a fair blue "BISHOPS CASTLE" cds on the front. The contents concern the writer's newly born son. Postally used examples of this kind of fancy letter are very rare before 1850. Exhibition Item. [Ex Samwell, retail c.2018; £850.] [Illustrated in BPPP, pp.350.]Cross Reference: SHROPSHIRE, UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD, PICTORIALS, PRINTED (Image)

Starting at £ 160

SOLD for £500.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1127   imageSAMPLES OF NO VALUE ENDORSED QV COVERS TO FRANCE/ITALY + 6d-RATE TO SPAIN & P.O. NOTICE; 1862/67 trio from Bradford (1862 to France with 2d Blue + 6d) or London (1866/7 pair to Turin with 2d Blue + 6d or 2d + 3x4d's) all endorsed (in French/Italian) as containing "Samples of No Value", but all clearly prepaid at the full letter rates; perhaps they were endorsed to avoid import problems in their countries of destination? Plus May 1870 EL ex Manchester to Madrid with 6d Mauve at letter rate but unusually having 2 strikes (one partial) of the Madrid 'Spider' obliterator on the reverse. Plus a 30 Jan. 1880 PO Notice ref. new size/weight limits for "Patterns or Samples to France or Algeria". Rare group. (5 items) Cross Reference: FRANCE, OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, ITALY, SPAIN (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £170.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1128   imageSAMPLES OF NO VALUE ENDORSED QV 3-COLOUR FRANKING COVER TO ITALY AT 4s-1d LETTER RATE; 9 Aug. 1862 EL (very thin paper to reduce postage weight) from London to Turin endorsed "Samples of No Value" in Italian but franked for the full 1 3/4 to 2oz 4s/- rate plus a 1d Late Fee with 1/- Green (3) + 6 Lilac (2) + 1d Red 'stars' all tied by fair to fine London "13" tall barred ovals. There was no GB Sample Post service to Italy until 1864, so perhaps it was endorsed in this way to avoid import problems in the country of destination? Rare thus. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.485.]Cross Reference: OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, ITALY, SURFACE-PRINTED ISSUES, LATE FEE/TOO LATE MAIL (Image)

Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £160.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1129   imageSAMPLES OF NO VALUE ENDORSED QV LATE FEE PAID COVER TO ITALY WITH BOTH "12" & "13" CANCELS; 24 Sept. 1863 E (very thin paper to reduce postage weight) from London to Turin (same correspondence as previous lot) endorsed "Samples of No Value" in Italian but franked for the regular 1s/- letter rate plus a 1d Late Fee with 1/- Green Small Letters + 1d Red 'stars'; the 1/- tied by the usual London Foreign Branch barred "13" numeral, but the 1d Red remarkably tied by the matching "1"" (for Late Fee mail) cancel. There was no GB Sample Post service to Italy until 1864, so perhaps it was endorsed in this way to avoid import problems in the country of destination? Unique(?) combination of two different London numerals on one cover. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.486.] Cross Reference: OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, LATE FEE/TOO LATE MAIL, ITALY, 1854-65 1d REDS (Image)

Starting at £ 80

SOLD for £120.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1130   imageSAMPLES OF NO VALUE ENDORSED QV 3-COLOUR FRANKING COVER TO ITALY AT 2s-2d LETTER RATE; 14 Nov. 1866 E (thin paper to reduce postage weight) from London to Genoa endorsed "Samples of No Value" in French but franked for the full (½-1oz) 2s/- rate plus a 2d Late Fee with 6d Lilac (2) + 4d Vermilion (3) + 2d Blue (pl.9; filing crease), all tied by fair to fine London "46 46" twin barred ovals (use on 2d Late Fee mail). Even though there was a GB Sample Post service to Italy from 1864, this letter clearly did not weigh from 16 to 24 oz (for the 2s-0d Samples rate) and had writing inside, while not being left open nor readily openable for inspection, as per Sample Post regulations. So perhaps it was endorsed in this way to avoid import problems in the country of destination? Rare thus. [Illustrated in BPPP, p.492.]Cross Reference: OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, ITALY, LATE FEE/TOO LATE MAIL (Image)

Starting at £ 80

SOLD for £160.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1131   imageRARE SPECIAL "SAMPLE" IMPRINT 2d BLUE COVERS EX LONDON TO GERMANY (COFFEE) OR GLASGOW (SUGAR); c.1868 sewn linen env. with printed "Coffee Sample" heading and "Duisburg" addressee having a special openable brass-ring flap at right franked by 2d Blue (pl.5) just tied by unclear London cancel; the stamp has the "H R & Co" perfin (identified by the sender's imprint; "Hayn, Roman & Co."); plus Dec. 1868 patent openable env. ("For Postal Examination open at perforated line - the flap is gummed for re-fastening" printed on reverse flap) tied by messy "19" barred London numeral with part "LO[...]" cds alongside and addressed to "Messrs Murdoch & Doddrell, Glasgow" (a well-known firm of sugar merchants). Correctly posted Sample Post covers such as these are very rare before 1880 and very scarce at any date. Good pair. (2 covers) [The smaller cover illustrated in BPPP, p.494, and again on the back cover of the book - one of Gavin's favourite items!] Cross Reference: OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, 1858-69 2d PLATES (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £500.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1132   imageRARE QV "PATTERN POST" IMPRINT/ENDORSED 8d OR 2d-RATE LABEL/COVER TO ITALY/GERMANY; 1869 thick card front from a heavy package sent from Dundee to Livorno with the address label having "Per PATTERN POST/FROM W.R. MORISON & CO." imprints, franked by 2d Blue (pl.12) + 6d Mauve (pl.8; wing margin creased over edge at top) tied by fair Dundee duplexes for the 8d (above 4oz & up to 8oz) Patterns rate. There is also fine red oval London "PD"; Morison & Co. are recorded as having been "spinners & manufacturers" at this date, so the contents were almost certainly some kind of material. Plus 27 Feb. 1886 open-ended wrapper to Saxony endorsed "Pattern Post" with a 2d Dull Lilac tied by a very fine "MANCHESTER" Squared Circle. Very few QV Pattern Post covers have been recorded. Rare pair. [The Dundee item illustrated in BPPP, p.495.] (2 covers)Cross Reference: OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, 1858-69 2d PLATES, LANCASHIRE - MANCHESTER, SCOTLAND (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £130.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1133   imageRARE SPECIAL "SAMPLE" IMPRINT 2d BLUE COVERS EX LONDON TO GERMANY (COFFEE) OR RUSSIA (INDIGO?); 19 May 1879 sewn linen env. with printed "Coffee Sample" heading and "Duisburg" addressee originally having had a special openable brass-ring flap at right (that flap removed; see the second lot above for a complete example) franked by 2d Blue (pl.15) tied by partly clear London cancel; the stamp has the "H R & Co" perfin (identified by the sender's imprint; "Hayn, Roman & Co."). Plus c.1876 linen env. (some creasing and wear) with bilingual "Sample of no value" imprint and sender's "Karpeles & Co." address on the front; sent from London to "Leczyca, Russia" with 2d Blue (pl.15) tied by unclear numeral. Karpeles & Co. are recorded as indigo merchants at this date. Correctly posted Sample Post covers such as these are very rare before 1880 and very scarce at any date. Good pair at UPU Samples (printed matter equivalent) rate. [The cover to Russia illustrated in BPPP, p.513.] (2 covers) Cross Reference: 1858-69 2d PLATES, OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, GERMANY (Image)

Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £130.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1134   imageSAMPLE POST UNDERPAID PACKET WITH 2d BLUES(3) & "2s/2d" CHARGE MADE UP OF UPP(?) H.S. MARKS; 15 July 1878 part large wrapper (understandable creasing and wear but very attractive) endorsed "Sample Post" back and front and addressed to Manchester; franked with 2d Blue strip of three (pl.15) tied by fair "CARNARVON" duplexes, but endorsed "Over 18ozs" with initials and having a cleverly constructed 2s-2d Postage Due mark (1s-1d deficiency, doubled) beside the partial boxed Manchester "[More to p]ay/above [18] oz/498" mark. The "2s/2d" charge was composed of two separate very fine strikes of the distinctive handstruck "2" of Manchester (not recorded?) that have been applied either side of a manuscript slash with "s" and "d" written above each "2"! One of the heaviest QV underpaid covers that we can recall having seen. It should have had nine 2d Blues and a 1d red! Unique?! [Ex Robert Johnson, Cavendish June 2006; lot 1230, realised £320+BP.] [Illustrated in BPPP, p.503.] Cross Reference: 1858-69 2d PLATES, WELSH POSTAL HISTORY, POSTAGE DUE MARKS, UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD (Image)

Starting at £ 130

SOLD for £320.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1135   imageSPECTACULAR GREEN & GOLD PRINTED DECORATIVE ENVELOPE WITH 1d RED SENT LOCALLY (VALENTINE?); 7 Feb. 1874 env. (slight wear; small scuff beside stamp) sent locally in the village of "Collingham, Notts." with a 1d Red tied by two faint "COLLINGHAM" thimble cds's. The design is exceptional; an 'all over' floral/geometric frame to the address plus all-over matching designs on the flaps; there is a tiny "ENTD. STAT. HALL M.W. & Co." imprint along the LH edge. The date suggests that it might have enclosed an early Valentine? One of the most colourful 1870s covers that we have seen. Exhibition Quality. Cross Reference: PICTORIALS, PRINTED, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, 1864-79 1d PLATES, VALENTINES (Image) (Image2)

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Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £750.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1136   imageBALANCE OF THE SAMPLE/PATTERN POSTS INC. "PATTERN POST" 1d RED, REGD. "SAMPLE POST" ENV., ETC.; 1860 env. ex London with 1d Red but also with unusual handstruck crests "FOR MARKING LINEN" back & front (with their maker's address on front), small PC with ½d rose-red ex London with a hs name only as message, 1870 letter (no env.) with very colourful samples of "Wafer Seals" [illust. in BPPP, p.481], rare 1876 1d Red env. (holes from string at each end) ex Perth to Canada endorsed "Per Pattern Post", c.1890 usage of 1d Brown wrapper with London "FOUND IN F.N.D./WITHOUT CONTENTS" [illust. in BPPP, p.513], and remarkable Jan. 1897 usage of the 2d P. Stat. regd. env. with 1d Lilac from "... STREET/W.C" (part cds's) to Spain with "LETTER" of "REGISTERED LETTER" heading crossed through in red and endorsed correctly in the same ink "Opened here" at left. Rare group. Rare group. (6 items) Cross Reference: 1870 ½d PLATES, SEALS/WAFERS, SCOTLAND, INSTRUCTIONAL MARKS (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £260.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
G.B. - PRINTED PAPERS MAILED TO EUROPE
Lot Catalog No. Descrip Opening
1137   imagePRICES CURRENT TO FRANCE WITH 1841 1d RED VIA BOULOGNE & CHARGED "15[decimes]" ON DELIVERY; Attractive and very fine 26 June 1843 EL (printed Prices Current; "Prezzi Correnti") from London to Lyons unusually franked with an 1841 1d Red (4 good to very large margins; just clear of filing fold) tied by a very fine London MX with fine red 2-ring "ANGL./3 BOULOGNE 3" cds alongside. Also having a very fine sender's oval "HEATH, FURSE & Co./London" cachet in the opposite corner and charged "15" (decimes) on delivery. Exhibition Quality; rare example of 1841 1d on cover to France. [Brandon Cert. (2005)] Cross Reference: 1841 1d REDS, FRANCE, PRINTED MATTER, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

Starting at £ 200

SOLD for £480.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1138   imagePRICES CURRENT COVERS WITH TAX STAMPS (G.B. POSTAGE FREE) TO DANZIG/BAVARIA/TRIESTE; 1847 EL Liverpool to Trieste with 1d Tax Stamp on flap and red oval London "PD" On the front, 1849 EL from Newcastle on Tyne to Danzig with 1d Tax Stamp (double impression, on the front) via London/Ostend, and 1852 EL ex Lpool to Bavaria with Tax Stamp and unusually with large part address wrapper-band in place and Red hs "3" (London?; part lost with wrapper). Colourful and scarce trio. (3 covers) Cross Reference: OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS, NORTHUMBERLAND, LANCASHIRE - LIVERPOOL, DANZIG (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £110.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1139   imagePRICES CURRENT COVERS WITH TAX STAMPS (G.B. POSTAGE FREE) TO MALTA (WITH RED HS "3") OR NORWAY; Oct. 1853 prices current folded inside its original address wrapper-band so that the 1d Tax Stamp is visible having red. "LONDON/PAID" cds & matching v. fine rare red hs "3"; plus fine Jan. 1853 Prices Current EL from "NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE" (fine red cds on reverse) to "Laurvig" (Norway) with 1d Tax Stamp (on the front) [illust. in BPPP, p.278]. Rare and attractive pair to unusual destinations. (2 covers) Cross Reference: MALTA, NORWAY, LONDON POSTAL HISTORY (Image)

Starting at £ 100

SOLD for £340.00
Closing..Oct-30, 03:00 AM
1140   imagePRICES CURRENT COVERS WITH TAX STAMPS PLUS 1d POSTAGE PAID WITH 1d REDS TO HOLLAND; Feb./May 1852 pair of prices current ELs from Newcastle on Tyne to Rotterdam each with red Tax Stamp on the front but also having 1841 1d Reds (almost 4m and margins in places) tied by "545" numerals but also having mainly fine triangular-framed "3c" or "1½c" "ROTTERDAM" marks and ms "5" charges. From 1849, the P. Current rate to Holland have the 1d postage paid as well as the Tax. Fine pair. (2 covers) [The first illustrated in BPPP, p.282.] Cross Reference: NETHERLANDS, 1841 1d REDS (Image)

Starting at £ 130

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

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