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LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
181 cover   image1852 (December 17), Admiralty Crowned Paid cover to Captain William
Henderson, H.M.S. Gorgon, with contents concerning naval patronage
during the fall of the Derby Ministry, struck with fine red crowned
PAID / DE 17 / 1852 London datestamp, signed J. Jackson free frank
at lower left, the reverse with black wax seal and blue Portsmouth
arrival c.d.s. (18 Dec), an attractive official naval usage with
politically significant contents. Captain William Henderson, a
distinguished naval officer and Companion of the Bath, served in
the Mediterranean and South America. Written from the Admiralty on
December 17, 1852, the sender, signed “Geo. Pell...(?)” or similar,
states that he will speak to a colleague regarding an appointment
for Henderson, but cautions that “nothing will be known until Lord
Derby’s return.” Written on the very day Derby’s government fell
following the defeat of Disraeli’s budget, the writer expresses his
own “disgusts” with the political process, declaring that he
intends to “go out free as I came in” and that he would be both
“glad and sorry” to leave office. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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182 cover   image1853 (July 20), Anglo-American transatlantic folded letter from
London to Boston via Liverpool, with S.D. Warren commercial
correspondence, endorsed “pr steamer from Liverpool,” bearing green
octagonal “L / JY 20 / C” datestamp, dated “CB” Maltese Cross,
green “19 CENTS” credit and black “21” rating, with Boston Br. Pkt.
(5 Aug) receiver on reverse, usual filing folds, fine-very fine,
the enclosed letter from S.D. Warren regarding return passage
aboard Niagara, credit arrangements, Mediterranean wool purchases
and shipments involving Malta and North Africa. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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183 cover   image1853 (July 26), folded letter from London to Paris with Old
Cavendish Street branch-office marking, and extensive
patent-business contents concerning Lord Palmerston, struck with
crisp black Maltese Cross-shaped O.C.S. (Old Cavendish Street)
branch-office handstamp (26 Jul), entering the French mails with
ANGL. / 27 JUIL. 53 / AMB. C railway entry marking, charged
manuscript 8 décimes due, the reverse with Paris receiver,
fine-very fine. The enclosed correspondence from E. Jullien regards
a patent business, including meetings with M. Fontaine-Moreau
concerning the “Conclusion of Patents” for slate and mechanical
fabrication, and reporting intelligence that Lord Palmerston, then
Home Secretary, was said to own slate quarries even more extensive
than those of Colonel Douglas, and states his intention to verify
the information “positively and precisely” before proceeding
further. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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184 cover   image1854 (January 30), private-ship folded letter from Liverpool to New
York via Boston, with contents concerning the Admiral Boxer, its
government emigrant charter to Melbourne and the Australian Gold
Rush shipping boom, written by Captain George B. Crow to New York,
endorsed “Per ‘America’ for Boston Paid” and “Paid,” bearing red
Liverpool Paid (31 Jan) datestamp, black “7” cents due rating,
Boston (16 Feb) entry datestamp and straight-line “SHIP,” the
reverse with green crowned Liverpool Ship Letter (31 Jan) datestamp
and intact red wax seal, some toning in places and filing folds,
else fine. Crow reports that merchant DeWolf had purchased for him
the newly built 1,100-ton Admiral Boxer, “chartered by the
Government to take Emigrants to Melbourne,” and estimates that “we
will clear at least £7000 on the voyage.” His observations capture
the demand for ships and passenger capacity generated by migration
to the Australian goldfields: “Ships, Timber, Freights and in fact
everything is now unusually high,” while tea stood “50% higher than
last year.” The letter also discusses prospective commands,
Liverpool merchant connections, forwarding and commission business,
and possible ventures in North America. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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185 cover   image1857 (June 5), California Gold Rush-era stampless folded letter
from Liverpool to San Francisco via New York and Panama, addressed
to Messrs. Daniel Gibb & Co., bearing red Liverpool Paid (5 Jun)
c.d.s. and matching straight-line Paid handstamp, endorsed “per
Steamer via U. Stes,” with Liverpool exchange-office datestamp on
reverse, prepaid 2s5d at twice the 1s2½d British rate to California
and showing manuscript “36” cents credited to the United States for
double-rate onward carriage via Aspinwall and Panama, a few small
stains, sound. The enclosed correspondence from James Starkey
details California Gold Rush-era maritime commerce, including
consignments of earthenware, sample pipes and iron aboard the
Scotland, Johann Martin and American clipper Martha. Starkey
discusses volatile San Francisco market conditions, noting that the
arrival of “three ships at once” created a glut, together with
disputes over captains as vessels were delayed or abandoned by
crews leaving for the gold fields. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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186 cover   image1858 (October 26), H.M.S. Euryalus naval officer’s crested envelope
from Portsmouth to London, redirected to Drem, Scotland, with fine
embossed blue ship’s crest of H.M.S. Euryalus on flap, depicting a
Greek warrior with spear and shield, franked with 1d red, perf.,
Alphabet III, Plate 47, tied by crisp 625 numeral cancel of
Portsmouth, with Portsmouth c.d.s. (26 Oct), addressed to London
and subsequently redirected, with red London transit (27 Oct),
manuscript redirection notation “Captn. J.A. Tarlton / Octr 21/58”,
and blue Drem double-ring receiver (28 Oct) on reverse, light edge
discoloration, fine-very fine. This stationery is associated with
Captain John Walter Tarleton of H.M.S. Euryalus, later Admiral Sir
John Walter Tarleton, K.C.B. The Euryalus was a 51-gun screw
frigate and later became closely associated with Prince Alfred,
Duke of Edinburgh, during his early naval career. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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187 cover   image1862 (March 14), Cunard China maiden-voyage stampless folded letter
from London to Maine, via New York, struck with crisp LONDON / MR
14 / 62 despatch strike and black 19 / CENTS debit handstamp,
endorsed “pr ‘China’” and carried on her maiden voyage, with N.
YORK BR. PKT. / 24 / MAR 27 exchange c.d.s. indicating 24c due,
some light edge toning, else fine; the China had a challenging
maiden voyage, reaching New York on March 26 after breaking her
shaft and proceeding under sail for four days. The contents advise
Josiah Merrow of a credit of £136 6/4 remitted from Glasgow on
account of the ship *Lorenzo*. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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188 cover   image1869 (May 25), transatlantic cover from Huddersfield to
Philadelphia, with extensive ten-page American travel narrative
describing Liverpool, Chester and Victorian England, franked with a
horizontal pair of 3d rose Plate 5 adhesives, tied by clear strikes
of the 387 Huddersfield duplex, the reverse with violet PAID /
PHILADELPHIA arrival marking (7 Jun), the accompanying letter
written from the Queen’s Hotel, Chester, fine-very fine. Written by
an American traveller named Joshua to “My dear Em,” Emily
Lippincott, the sender describes landing at Liverpool around
midnight and spending “two hours to get through the custom house,”
refers to Captain Judkins of the Cunard Line, and praises English
hotels as “infinitely superior,” particularly the attentiveness of
servants and the provision of hot baths, offering further comments
of Chester, where he remarks on the local flora and the famous
organ at Chester Cathedral. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8)

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189 cover #33 Pl. 204(2), #67 Pl.10 image1878 (May 3), registered cover from London to Stralsund, Germany,
franked with pair of 1d red and 2½d claret, tied by “383” barred
oval with REGISTERED oval strikes of Hull (3 May) and London (4
May) in red, endorsed “via Ostende”, affixed with ‘Vom Ausland uber
Bahnp. 10 Verviers-Coln’ railway registration etiquette, with
c.d.s. arrival backstamp (6 May), a few small flaws, horizontal
filing fold, but a pleasing mixed-franking. (Sc #33 Pl. 204(2), #67
Pl.10) (Image 1) (Image 2)

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190 cover   image1887 (November 14), postal card from London to Lucerne reporting
the previous day’s Bloody Sunday disturbances in Trafalgar Square,
½d brown-red stationery uprated with ½d vermilion Jubilee issue,
both cancelled by London (14 Nov) datestamps, with blue French
Ambulant transit and Luzern (15 Nov) receiver, fine-very fine.
Posted the day after the November 13 demonstration against
unemployment and coercion in Ireland, the message reports that “70
persons were wounded,” with “4,000 policemen” and military forces
deployed and approximately “20,000 persons” attending; during
"Bloody Sunday", thousands of demonstrators attempting to reach
Trafalgar Square clashed with police supported by troops. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$30.00
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191 cover   image1904 (May 13), British Post Office Salonica to Leeds, registered
cover, franked with 80pa on 5p King Edward VII, tied by clear
British Post Office Salonica c.d.s. (13 May), London transit
backstamp, with Leeds arrival c.d.s. struck on front (17 May) and
back, with full red wax seal on reverse, a fresh and attractive
registered usage from the Levant, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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192 cover   image1919 (May 23), registered military cover from Army Post Office SX22
at Batum to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, during the British occupation,
2d black King George V registered postal stationery envelope,
cancelled by skeleton “Army Post Office / SX22” datestamp, with
matching strike on the R registration label, violet crowned “Passed
by Censor / No. 47” handstamp and red London E.C. registered (4
Jun) transit on front, the reverse with Halifax & Camp. R.P.O.
Night (22 Jun) and Liverpool, N.S. (23 Jun) receivers, fine-very
fine. British forces occupied the Black Sea port of Batum from
December 1918 until July 1920 as part of the Allied intervention
following the Russian Revolution, establishing a military
administration in territory claimed by the Democratic Republic of
Georgia. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$70.00
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193 cover   image1941 (January 16), sea-damaged wartime cover from London to
Khartoum, Sudan, likely carried aboard S.S. Alhena, envelope to the
American Mission Girls School, Khartoum, with London W.C. machine
cancellation and boxed DAMAGED BY SEA WATER handstamp, the reverse
partially resealed with British P.O. / Open or damaged / officially
secured Crown label and showing Shellal–Halfa T.P.O. No. 2 transit
(7 Jun), substantial water staining, wrinkling and edge wear as
expected, a striking piece of disaster mail. The Dutch steamer
Alhena, carrying outward British mails, grounded near South Rock,
County Down, on January 28, 1941, with surviving correspondence
known bearing SALVED FROM THE SEA and DAMAGED BY SEA WATER
markings. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$60.00
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194 cover   image1941 (September 20), salvaged mail recovered from the sinking of
the Southern Railway paddle steamer Portsdown at Spithead,
addressed to West Cowes, Isle of Wight, the adhesive missing and
apparently floated off during immersion, struck with violet
two-line “DAMAGED AS A RESULT / OF ENEMY ACTION” explanatory
handstamp, the reverse endorsed “Mail Boat ‘Portsdown’ / Struck a
mine off Southsea / 4 o’clock Sat Sept 20th 1941” and additionally
numbered “454,” with water staining, wrinkling, and faults as
expected, desirable disaster mail. The Southern Railway ferry P.S.
Portsdown maintained the Portsmouth - Ryde service and had
participated in the Dunkirk evacuation before striking a mine and
sinking at Spithead on September 20, 1941, with the loss of 23
lives. Mailbags were recovered by divers and the salvaged
correspondence was delivered two days later. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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195 cover   image1944 (January 27), RAAF redirected cover from Scotland to New South
Wales and redirected back to the U.K., sent at the active-service
concession rate by Pilot Officer W.L. Baker at RAF Milltown to his
brother, Leading Aircraftman R. Baker, with Elgin (27 Jan)
dispatch, two R.A.A.F. Base P.O. No 4 (3 Feb) transit strikes, Glen
Innes (17 Mar) receiver, R.A.A.F. Base Post Office London
redirection label endorsed “W. Bay 31/5” and two further Base P.O.
No 4 (7 Jun) strikes on reverse, some aging, else fine. Sent from
Baker’s training station in northern Scotland, the cover travelled
to Australia before being redirected to the recipient in England,
its final June 7 markings dating from the opening days of the
Normandy invasion. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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196 cover   image1944 (October 2), Royal Signals Headquarters registered economy
re-use cover from London to Belgium, endorsed “On His Majesty’s
Service” and addressed by economy label to “c/o 3252 Signal Service
Coy., APO 230, US Army,” with purple “THE WAR OFFICE / ROYAL
SIGNALS / 2-OCT 1944” dispatch handstamp, circular “ARMY SIGNALS”
marking with manuscript “206,” partial “REGISTERED” handstamp and
registration number “00575” crossed through in blue pencil, showing
three wartime uses with part of an earlier economy label beneath,
quite fresh, with usual expected wrinkling. The 3252nd Signal
Service Company (Radio Intelligence) was a tactical COMINT unit
equipped with intercept operators, cryptanalysts, direction-finding
personnel and translators; it intercepted and processed German Army
field communications. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Great Britain (Offices Abroad)
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
197 cover   image1874 (June 8), British Post Office Alexandria letter to Liverpool
via Brindisi, franked at 8d with horizontal pair of Great Britain
4d vermilion, plate 13, tied by “B01” barred obliterators with
Alexandria (8 Jun) datestamp, endorsed “Via Brindisi,” opening
tears along the upper flap, filing fold crossing adhesives, else a
very good example of mail carried overland from Brindisi. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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198 cover   image1877 (December 20), British Post Office Beyrout cover to the United
States, forwarded from Morristown to Newark and Richmond, franked
with Great Britain 2½d rosy mauve, plate 8, tied by crisp “G06”
barred obliterator with British Post Office Beyrout (20 Dec)
datestamp alongside, red London Paid (29 Dec) transit, New York
Paid All and Morristown (10 Jan 1878), Newark (11 Jan) and Richmond
(12 Jan) forwarding and arrival markings, addressed to Rev. Oliver
Crane, minor edge wrinkling and light toning, else a fine-very fine
cover, pursuing the intended recipient across three cities in two
days. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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199 cover   imageOffices in the Levant, 1906 (February 21), registered cover from
Salonica to Leeds, franked with two 40pa on 2½d King Edward VII
issues of Great Britain, tied by crisp British Post Office Salonica
c.d.s., struck with violet oval R and FEE PAID handstamps, to the
firm of J. Zossenheim & Partners in Leeds, reverse with oval
REGISTERED LONDON transit (25 Feb) and next-day REGISTERED LEEDS
receiver, with large part intact red wax seal, fresh and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Great Britain
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
200 cover   image1861 (November 27), H.M.S. Euryalus naval officer’s letter from
Patras, Greece, describing a grounding in the Ithaca Channel during
Prince Alfred’s Mediterranean tour, five-page letter on stationery
with red HMS EURYALUS imprint, written by an officer aboard the
51-gun screw frigate to his father in England, recounting the ship
striking an uncharted rock with a “tremendous bump” while passing
through the Ithaca Channel, damaging the false keel and causing
leakage severe enough to require continuous use of the donkey
engine before an urgent return to Malta for repairs; the writer
also discusses the expense of excursions to Jerusalem, Cairo and
the Pyramids, social obligations while serving aboard a Royal ship,
visits to mosques with Prince Alfred, the cost of proper uniform
and mess fees, and preparations for his Lieutenant’s Examination in
March, a fine military letter. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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