THE MICHAEL LOCKTON COLLECTION OF EXETER continued...
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 SHIP & INDIA LETTER MARKINGS, 1775-1834. INCOMING MAIL TO/VIA EXETER - "DARTMOUTH/INDIA LETTER", "INDIA LETTER/PLYMOUTH",
ETC.; 1823 E to Exeter with "P 61 P/CALAIS", 27 June 1828 E ex "Gunnarum, near Ellore" to Scotland with fine oval "MADRAS/SHIP LETTER" (17 July) and boxed "INDIA LETTER/PLYMOUTH" on the flap, and 1834 E (Part flap lost) to Nottingham "p. [Ship] Duke
of Buccleugh" with partly fine red boxed "DARTMOUTH/INDIA LETTER" & Calcutta ds on reverse. (3 covers) Cross Reference: SHIP LETTERS, INDIA
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Starting at £ 65
SOLD for £70.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. EARLY MISSENT MARKS INC. RARE 1st-TYPE "Mifsent to EXETER" & BOXED TYPE IN RED OR
BLACK: 27 June 1809 EL from Warwick to Chudleigh with faint red "Mifsent to EXETER" mark (rare & not illustrated in Ron Hake's catalogue on Devon postmarks) and ms "mifsent to" above "COLLUMPTON/182" mileage mark; plus 1814/20 EL pair from Weymouth
or Marseille to Banbury or Exeter, both with mostly fine boxed "MISSENT TO/EXETER" marks in black or red. (3 covers) Cross Reference: MISSENT MAIL (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 100
SOLD for £110.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. 1823-39 GROUP WITH DIFFERENT "MISSENT TO EXETER" HS TYPES: Four types of "MISSENT
TO/EXETER" or "MISSENT/TO/EXETER" marks, finely struck in red or black (3), inc. 17 Dec. 1829 Free front to Dover missent to Exeter & forwarded to London. (3 covers + 1 front) Cross Reference: MISSENT MAIL, FREE MAIL (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 95
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Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. 1830s MISSENT TO EXETER MARKS - 3-LINE TYPES: 1830-4 group with finely struck
black missent marks in capitals (2) or italics (2). The italic missent cover & front both Free franks sent on Christmas Day 1834 from Cheshire to Dorset. (3 covers + 1 front) Cross Reference: MISSENT MAIL, FREE MAIL (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 95
SOLD for £100.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. TOO LATES, IRISH/SCOTS, ETC.: 1828-35 mixture inc. 3 covers with fine "TOO LATE"
large or small (2) types; additional charges inc. 22 May 1825 insurance policy EL from Exeter to Limerick then turned 5 years later 21 July 1830 back to Exeter & endorsed "Single Sheet" thus having two different packet rates (originally 2/1, later
1/3); plus others inc. 1819 "PETITION AND SCHEDULE of Samuel Bray Saint Thomas the apostle PRISON"; 1820 printed EL for the "DEVON COUNTY ELECTION [of] MR. BASTARD."; etc. (13 covers) Cross Reference: IRELAND PRE-1922 - POSTAL HISTORY,
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Starting at £ 100
SOLD for £110.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. VERY RARE COMPLETE PRESTAMP "PAR[LIAMENTARY]. PRO[CEEDINGS]." WRAPPER; Fine 13
July 1839 folded wrapper to Exeter (printed address label to "Edward Divett, Esq., M.P.") with printed "Par. Pro." heading and with "(FREE.)" imprint at foot; the address label tied by a very fine London 2-ring "FREE/" datestamp. Very few pre-1840
examples of these specially printed Par. Pro. wrappers - arguably the forerunners of the 1840 Houses of Parliament envelopes - have been recorded. Exhibition Quality. Plus fine 11 Dec. 1839 env. franked during 4d-Post Period from Exmouth to Exeter.
(2 items) [See the similar 10 July 1839 wrapper sold in Cavendish's 'Gavin Fryer' auction, 30 Oct. 2024; lot 1032, realised £900+BP, which was also ex Adrian Almond; Cavendish Dec. 2012 lot 495, realised £400+BP.] Cross Reference: FREE MAIL,
PARLIAMENTARY MAIL, PRINTED MATTER, UNIFORM 4d POSTAGE PERIOD (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 260
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. RARE TINY EXETER SCOTTISH MAIL TAX ADDITIONAL "½"[d] MARK ON COVER EX REDRUTH TO
EDINBURGH; [4] Oct. 1836 E (part printed Insurance circular) to Edinburgh with a very fine "REDRUTH" UDC on the lower flap and a very fine Exeter Handstruck "½" Scots Mail Tax mark nicely placed on the front beside the "1/3" ms postal rate.
Exhibition Item. Cross Reference: SCOTLAND, POSTAGE DUE MARKS, CORNWALL (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 100
SOLD for £340.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. RARE TINY EXETER SCOTTISH MAIL TAX ADDITIONAL "½"[d] MARK ON COVER EX "MALTA" TO
EDINBURGH; 10 Jan. 1836 EL (chatty family letter) ex "[HMS] Canopus, Malta" to Edinburgh with a faint but legible curved-frame "MALTA" on the and a very fine Exeter Handstruck "½" Scots Mail Tax mark nicely placed on the front beside the "3/-" &
"6/-" ms postal rates (former cancelled with red Edinburgh hs "G[crown]R"). Carried by HMS Pluto to Plymouth (rather than the more usual Falmouth). Cross Reference: MALTA (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 100
SOLD for £150.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. RARE TINY EXETER SCOTTISH MAIL TAX ADDITIONAL "½"[d] MARK ON COVER EX "TORQUAY" TO
EDINBURGH; Nov. 1836 E (toned central vertical fold) ex "TORQUAY" (cds on flap) to Edinburgh with a very fine Exeter Handstruck "½" Scots Mail Tax mark nicely placed on the front beside the "1/3" & "2/6" ms postal rates (former cancelled with red
Edinburgh hs "G[crown]R"; creased). Unusually clear strike of this elusive "½" marking. Cross Reference: SCOTLAND, POSTAGE DUE MARKS
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Starting at £ 80
SOLD for £130.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. WELSH ADDITIONAL ½d RATE COVER EX CORK TO EXTER VIA WATERFORD; 5 Mar. 1838 EL from
"CORK" v. fine cds on top flap) to Exeter with v. fine "WATERFORD/E" transit cds on the lower flap, having the manuscript "1/3½" rate including the extra Milford turnpike road charge. Exhibition Item. Plus fine 4-page 21 June 1836 printed Act (neatly
fits onto an album page) authorising the extra Welsh ½d postal charge. (2 items) Cross Reference: POST OFFICE ACTS/NOTICES, WELSH POSTAL HISTORY, IRELAND PRE-1922 - POSTAL HISTORY, POSTAGE DUE MARKS (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 100
SOLD for £220.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. COACH PARCEL RECEIPTS, INN RECEIPT, NEWSPAPER RECEIPT, HAND-DRAWN VIEW OF 1790s
EXETER P.O., ETC.; 1810/35 newspaper cuttings ref. Exeter Mailcoaches, 1829 T. Russell & Co receipt for a barrel, 1839/44 Bull & Mouth/Belle Sauvage parcel receipts, attractive 1825 "Pratt's London Inn, Exeter" billhead for a week's board (1/-
embossed Tax Stamp on attached receipt) inc. "Postages", Victorian(?) Pen-and-ink coloured drawing of c.1790 Exeter "POST OFFICE", and 1832/3 pair of Exeter Gazette receipts for newspapers. (9 items)Cross Reference: COACHING (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 95
SOLD for £260.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 SPECIAL PRESTAMP MAIL CATEGORIES, 1809-39. PAIR OF RARE PRESTAMP POSTALLY USED PRINTED PICTORIAL COVERS + MAP/PRINT; 24/27
May 1838 EL with a fine "Honiton/Penny Post" and matching cds but also with a fine engraved printed view of "EXETER FROM PENNSYLVANIA" (by G. Rowe of Cheltenham) at the start of the contents (which are an amusing personal letter sent between ladies).
Plus 7/12 Oct. 1839 EL from Exeter (cds) to Budleigh with a brief message written inside around a fine printed caricature of two men in a pub entitled "Hard Times Jim, when a man can't rise a Ha'porth of Clay" (with "HACKETT, LITHOG, EXETER R.R.S."
imprint), and c.1830 hand-coloured print of a distant Exeter or twin Exeter/Tavistock road-maps. Postally used pictorial letter-sheets are rare dated prior to 1840. (4 items) Cross Reference: PICTORIALS, PRINTED, MAPS (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 80
SOLD for £200.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 UNIFORM 4d-POSTAGE & UNIFORM PENNY POST PERIODS. UNIFORM 4d POSTAGE PERIOD INC. FREES, RED MS "P4" (WITH "EXMOUTH/PENNY
POST"), BLACK MS "4", ETC.: 7 Dec. 1839 to 1 Jan. 1840 group, all but one ex Exeter. Inc. 7/12/14 Dec. trio of fronts, one sent free, others with franking privilege charged ms "1" or with fair "ToPay1D.only" hs; ms "4" charges inc. 23 Dec. 1839 EL
prepaid (red ink) from Lympstone to Poole via Exeter with fine "No 12" RH hs on front & mostly fine "EXMOUTH/Penny Post" hs on reverse. (8 covers + 3 fronts) Cross Reference: UNIFORM 4d POSTAGE PERIOD (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 100
SOLD for £190.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 UNIFORM 4d-POSTAGE & UNIFORM PENNY POST PERIODS. UPP PERIOD COLLECTION INC. FDC, OVERSEAS MAIL, ETC.: 1840-51 group mainly
from Exeter. Inc. 10 Jan. 1840 EL (fragile) from Exeter to Wakefield with red ms "1" - on the First Day of UPP(only one other Exeter cover recorded for 10 Jan. 1840); 18 Aug. 1851 EL from Worcester to Exeter, charged "2" & endorsed "Refused J.G." &
red boxed "[crown]/LONDON/This Letter has been REFUSED" ds; etc. Mostly ms charges but inc. 11/26 Oct. 1847/8 pair of Es both ex Aberystwyth to Exeter with fine or fair red shield "PAID/1d"; etc. (19 covers) Cross Reference: UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE
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Starting at £ 130
SOLD for £140.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 UNIFORM 4d-POSTAGE & UNIFORM PENNY POST PERIODS. UPP/CASH-PAID MISSENT MAIL WITH SCRIPT-TYPE "Missent to/Exeter" MARKS:
1840-7 group with fair-v. fine "Missent to/Exeter" marks in red (3) or black (3). Inc. 29 Sep. 1847 EL from Civitavecchia, Italy to Hayle, Cornwall via France & London charged "10", missent to Exeter & sent onto Hayle the next day. (6 covers)
Cross Reference: UNIFORM 1d POSTAGE PERIOD, MISSENT MAIL (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 160
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 UNIFORM 4d-POSTAGE & UNIFORM PENNY POST PERIODS. RARE CASH-PAID COVER WITH RED MS "1" & EXETER CDS: 6 May 1840 E (small hole
in centre not affecting marks) from Exeter to Wymondham, Norfolk with red ms "1" for prepayment, "EXETER" ds & red London "A/PAID" tombstone.
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Starting at £ 100
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 MULREADY STATIONERY, 1840-48. 6 MAY 1840 USAGE - FIRST DAY 1d MULREADY LETTER-SHEET WITH FIRST DAY USAGE OF THE MALTESE CROSS
+ SENDER'S NOTE "THANK ROWLAND HILL FOR THIS LETTER"; Remarkable 6 May 1840 usage of the 1d Black Mulready letter-sheet (stereo "A11"; minor creasing, small ink mark at lower right of address, and with wear outside the frame at foot) within the city
of Exeter; with very fine orange-red Maltese Cross on Britannia matching a very fine "EXETER/MY 6/1840/A" cds also - rare thus - on the front. First Day Mulreadys with the datestamp on the front are very seldom seen. Together with the separate small
sheet of paper (presumably the only enclosure) with the message - in the same handwriting as the address - "Thank Rowland Hill for this letter". An excellent example of the First Day Usage of both Mulready and Maltese Cross. [Ex Robson Lowe auction
of 19 Jan. 1966, realised £47-10s-0d; ex RL 'Noel Heritage' auction, 19 July 1985, lot 12, realised £2,052; ex R Siegel NY auction, 16 Apr. 2013, lot 3290, realised $6,250+BP.] Cross Reference: FIRST DAY COVERS, POSTAL REFORMS (Image)
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Starting at £ 2,000
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 MULREADY STATIONERY, 1840-48. EARLY MAY 1840 USAGE OF THE MULREADY 1d LETTER-SHEET WITH RED MX + "EXETER" CDS; 13 May 1840
usage of the 1d Black Mulready letter-sheet (stereo "A10"; minor edge-wear) from Exeter to "Buckfastleigh" with very fine orange-red Maltese Cross on Britannia and unusually slightly overlapped by a matching very fine "EXETER/MY 13/1840/D" cds
(scarce to have the cds on the front of a Mulready). Cross Reference: MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS (Image) (Image2)
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Starting at £ 130
SOLD for £190.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 MULREADY STATIONERY, 1840-48. VERY RARE USAGE OF R.W. HUME's MULREADY CARICATURE "No.1" (UNIQUE STATE 5f) WITH 4m 1d BLACK EX
LONDON REDIRECTED VIA EXETER; 22(?) May 1840 usage of the Hume Comic Envelope "No.1" Mulready Caricature (closed tears at top and all folds reinforced with hingeing) from London (mainly fine black "Q/MY-2[2?]/1840" cds on side-flap) to Exeter and 4m
Plate 2 1d Black (NA; has probably been removed for inspection and then put back slightly out of position) tied by a red Maltese Cross. It was then redirected to Totnes and (a second time) to Yealmpton. At some point the caricature figure of
Britannia has been cancelled by another (different?) orange-red Maltese Cross, and 1d was paid in cash for one of the redirections, but there are no other backstamps/transit marks and so it cannot be ascertained where it was posted, or from where it
was sent by private means, because there is only one red manuscript (cash-paid 1d) "1" marking on the front. It seems most likely that it was sent by post from Exeter to Totnes (oddly without an Exeter cds), and then sent for the final leg from
Totnes to Yealmpton (16 miles) by private means. [This is the only recorded example of the State 5f of this design; illustrated twice in Cassell/Hobbs, p.211.] [Ex Ron Hake.]Cross Reference: MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS, 1840 1d
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Starting at £ 2,000
SOLD for £2,200.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
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 MULREADY STATIONERY, 1840-48. RARE "CHARLTON & MEREDITH" MULTIPLE ADVERT 1d MULREADY + FINE UNUSED PLAIN 1d MULREADY; [1840]
privately carried 1d Mulready letter-sheet (stereo under the wax seal) to Exeter having the rare "CHARLTON & MEREDITH" multiple advertiser text inside (SG MA3c; "Miscut at the bottom" as in the present example); plus very fine unused plain 1d
Mulready letter-sheet (stereo A16). (2 covers) Cross Reference: ADVERTISING ENVELOPES, MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS
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Starting at £ 130
SOLD for £300.00
Closing..Dec-04, 04:00 AM |
