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LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
141 cover   image1942 (July 26), prisoner-of-war postcard from Pay Lieutenant J.M.
“Mike” Moran, R.N.R., written at Stalag VIII-B, Lamsdorf, during
his transfer to Colditz, German Kriegsgefangenenpost formula card
to Mrs J.M. Moran at Loughton, Essex, identifying the sender as
prisoner 110599 at “M.-Stammlager VIII B,” with Feldpost (29 Jul)
datestamp, violet oval “Stalag VIII B / Geprüft / Nr. 52”
examiner’s handstamp and British octagonal “Passed / P.W. 6322”
censor marking, the reverse with complete message datelined 26
July, lightly toned with minor handling wear. Moran was captured
following the loss of the ocean boarding vessel HMS Malvernian in
July 1941 and was subsequently among the Royal Navy officers
transferred to Oflag IV-C at Colditz. He was considered a
troublemaker due to previous attempts at escape. During his brief
stay at Lamsdorf, a camp intended principally for other ranks, he
wrote: “The least said about it the better-Thank Goodness we are
not staying here,” explaining that there was no provision for
British officers and that they expected shortly to leave for an
officers’ camp, and adds a dry reference to having “had a pleasant
journey of 3 days getting here.” (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Germany (Offices in Turkey)
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
142 cover   imageOffices in Turkey, 1909 (March 18), registered cover from
Constantinople to Schmölln, Germany, franked with a vertical pair
of 1pi on 20pf Germania issues, tied by clear Constantinopel
c.d.s., bearing Deutsches Postamt / Constantinopel 2 registration
etiquette, with Schmölln arrival c.d.s. (21 Mar) on reverse, light
edge creasing, a scarce and attractive registered usage from the
German Post Office in Turkey. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Gold Coast
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
143 cover   image1899 (October 12), cover from Quitta, Gold Coast, to Leipzig,
Germany, via Accra and Liverpool, cover franked with a vertical
pair and three singles of the ½d Victorian key-plate issue, paying
the 2½d rate, tied by multiple strikes of the B27 barred numeral
cancel of Quitta, the front with purple two-line via Accra and
Liverpool route directive, the sender’s manuscript “via Hamburg” at
bottom, the reverse with embossed corner card of Daniel & Nephew,
Harvest House, Quitta, Accra transit c.d.s. (16 Oct) and Leipzig
receiver (8 Nov), fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Great Britain
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144 cover   image1758 (June 27), Seven Years’ War commercial entire from London to
Bordeaux forwarded through neutral Rotterdam, discussing unsettled
accounts, bills of exchange, a draft for 1,100 écus and three
barrels of oil of turpentinehand-rated "23" sols due, with reverse
endorsement "Acheminé de Rotterdam le 3 Juillet 1758" and
forwarding names Veuve Jean Wors and P. E. Aubertin, small portions
removed from the lower margin clear of the principal text and
signatures, complete contents, fresh and fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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145 cover   image1791 (November 24), entire letter from Maybole to Edinburgh, with
Scottish Bishop mark, enclosing legal-financial contents, letter
datelined Kirkmichael, struck with faint black straight-line
MAYBOLE origin handstamp and manuscript 5 pence unpaid rate, the
reverse with red Edinburgh Bishop Mark NO / 27, filing folds, but a
very fine example of this marking. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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146 cover   image1800 (July 22), War of the Second Coalition transatlantic stampless
folded letter from London to New York, containing a first-hand
account of a nine-hour pursuit by a French privateer, datelined
London 21 Jul and addressed to James Morris, Esq., High Sheriff,
bearing bold red London Paid (22 Jul) double-circle datestamp,
manuscript “Paid 1/8” at upper right and large “1/8” accounting
notation across the address panel, the reverse with remnants of the
original red wax seal and faint partial boxed London Penny Post
marking apparently reading “Oxford St.,” a few fold separations
discreetly reinforced with archival tape, else fresh with clear
contents and crisp markings. Writing shortly after arriving in
London from North America, J. Stark Robertson describes an Atlantic
crossing during which his vessel “was chased for upwards of Nine
hours, by a large French Privateer.” Forced more than one hundred
miles off course, the crew threw “the Guns, & other heavy Articles
overboard” to escape capture. Robertson also discusses remittances,
bills of exchange, London banking arrangements and volatile
exchange rates. He records the severe grain shortages and inflation
affecting Britain, observing that “Scarcity prevails here more than
I believed, or even imagined when in America.” The addressee, James
Morris, served as High Sheriff of New York. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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147 cover   image1801 (September 15), Edinburgh Penny Post entire from the Castle
Street Receiving Office for local delivery, with contents
concerning a meeting of creditors at the Exchange Coffee House
regarding the bankruptcy of “Col. McSean of Kinlochallan, struck
with scarce red double-ring CASTLE STREET / PENNY POST / UNPAID
receiving-office handstamp, red Edinburgh Head Office 7 O’CLOCK /
PP time stamp and red SE / 15 Bishop Mark with broken line, rated
manuscript 1 penny due for local delivery; a very fine example
struck with three distinct red Penny Post handstamps. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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148 cover   image1807 (February 11), Napoleonic blockade commercial-intelligence
folded letter from London to Norwich, Connecticut, entering through
Boston, addressed to Andrew & Joseph Perkins, with Boston, Ma. (23
Apr) five-star ship-letter datestamp, straight-line “SHIP,”
manuscript “22” rate and “Recd Apr 29 1807” docketing, reverse
endorsed “Sam Williams Esqr / Letter Feby 11 1807,” small piece
missing at left and trimmed at top, neither affecting the contents,
otherwise minor aging and fine. Written only weeks after Napoleon’s
Berlin Decree inaugurated the Continental System, the letter
discusses commerce between Demerara, London and Connecticut through
remittances, protested bills and credit arrangements involving
Drummonds and James Barclay. The writer, Williams, observes: “The
French have not yet molested Neutrals under the Decree of Blockade;
but how long they will forbear is uncertain. Commerce is otherwise
sufficiently embarrassed in Europe,” written shortly before the
United States Embargo Act of 1807. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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149 cover   image1807 (July 26), Leith to Edinburgh Penny Post entire with elusive
“½ PAST 12” time stamp, used only during the brief 1807/1808
experimental period, together with red Edinburgh Bishop Mark, rated
manuscript 1 penny, quite fresh, a desirable example from this
experimental period, the marking introduced to record the handling
time of correspondence and abandoned early in 1808. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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150 cover   image1807 (September 28), Napoleonic blockade and wartime inflation
letter from London to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, via Boston,
addressed to Thomas Lewis in care of Elijah Halls Esq., entering
the United States at Boston with black SHIP handstamp and scarce
five-stars-at-bottom BOSTON MS / NOV 19 arrival c.d.s., rated “12”
cents in manuscript, comprising 10c inland postage from Boston to
Portsmouth plus 2c ship-letter fee, usual filing folds, else
fine-very fine. The lengthy family correspondence from Sarah Lewis
to her son provides a contemporary account of the economic
pressures affecting London during the Napoleonic Wars, including
sharply increased food prices amid drought and disruption to
Continental supplies; she encourages her son to consider
speculative shipments of provisions, particularly pork, to take
advantage of shortages. The letter also records local news,
including extensive sewer works at Cornhill, where some 200 men
were employed, comments on a visit to Bartholomew Fair. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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151 cover   image1811 (April 18), transatlantic folded letter discussing the First
Bank of the United States and Anglo-American relations, including
fears of war, datelined “Hackney near London” and addressed to
Thomas C. Pearsall, Esq., New York, endorsed “By the Packet,” with
bold red London Paid (1 May) circular datestamp, the reverse with
merchant docketing identifying a letter from Daniel Neal Lister
dated 18 Apr, with later office notation dated 24 Oct, the
four-page manuscript additionally endorsed “Original by the Lydia”
and “Capt. Frantz,” vertical filing fold, else fresh and
well-preserved. The letter discusses the American Non-Importation
Act, declining shares in the First Bank of the United States,
transatlantic trade and the diplomatic activities of William
Pinkney and Augustus John Foster, Lister writing, “I hope your
opinion that no War between the two Countries for Twenty Years to
come will be completely realized,” little more than a year before
the outbreak of war. Further contents concern the Peninsular War in
Spain and Portugal, international wool markets, speculation in
Merino sheep, Florida and American territorial expansion. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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152 cover   image1821 (July 28), ship letter from Greenock to Liverpool, reporting
the arrival of the Iphigenia and its West Indian cargo, stampless
folded letter to Messrs. Sandbach Tinne & Co., with bold boxed
GREENOCK / SHIP LETTER handstamp, black Glasgow double-circle
transit (29 Jul), manuscript “via Liverpool” route directive and 10
rate marking, the reverse with Greenock mileage mark (28 Jul) and
intact embossed red wax seal, sound and attractive. The letter,
written to Liverpool merchants Sandbach, Tinne, & Co, refer to the
immediate arrival of the Iphigenia at Greenock, the writer noting
that he was “agreeably surprised to see the Iphigenia’s signals
flying in the Harbour of Greenock,” and including a detailed
manifest of colonial cargo from Berbice, comprising sugar, cotton,
coffee, and rum. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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153 cover   image1825 (August 2), the Panic of 1825, commercial letter from
Liverpool to St. Quentin, France, with contents describing the
collapse of the cotton market, from Thos. & Wm. Earle & Co. to
Messieurs Saint Joly & Fils, struck with red oval PAID AT LIVERPOOL
handstamp, boxed red London PAID / 4 AU 4 / 1825 transit datestamp
and black linear ANGLETERRE / PAR CALAIS entry marking, with
manuscript 1/11 for the double-weight rate from Liverpool to France
and manuscript '11' accounting notation for the French inland
share, the reverse with two clear LIVERPOOL / 2 AU 2 / 1825 / 206
mileage markings partly overlying a French entry mark, the thin
paper showing some ink show-through, else fine-very fine. Written
by Thos. & Wm. Earle & Co. of Liverpool during the Panic of 1825,
the letter describes the “convulsions of extravagant speculation”
and a “sudden and inconceivable drop” in prices that threatened
speculators who had bought heavily at the peak; the writers
attribute the decline to accumulated stocks and a late harvest,
noting that nominal prices had fallen sharply from the highs
reached in mid-April. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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154 cover   image1827 (January 15), stampless letter from Liverpool to Marseille,
France, with extensive contents describing a perilous Channel
passage, bereavement and medical training, addressed Poste Restante
and struck with straight-line ANGLETERRE entry mark in red, with
oval PAID AT LIVERPOOL handstamp, red manuscript 1/11 rate and
large manuscipt '91' in blue, the reverse with two Liverpool
mileage datestamps, black circular entry marking (25 Jan) and red
F.B. / 27 Marseille receiver, some small pieces missing along
internal folds, else fine. Written by Joseph Maylie shortly after
returning from Newfoundland, where he had spent the previous
eighteen months, the letter recounts a “dreadful time in the
Channel,” during which he “never expected to set foot on shore
again," further noting that his son was then in London “walking the
Hospitals,” the contemporary term for the clinical phase of medical
training in which students accompanied physicians and surgeons on
hospital rounds to observe diagnosis and treatment. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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155 cover   image1828 (November 11), double-rate entire from Glasgow to London with
Inspector’s Crown rate correction struck with black GLASGOW / M 12
NOV 1828 despatch marking and red Additional ½d tax handstamp (Type
2A), initially rated 1/2, subsequently crossed through and
corrected to 2/4 beneath a red Inspector’s Crown after discovery of
an enclosure, the reverse with red London receiver (14 Nov) filing
folds, fine-very fine. Interestingly, the letter was first treated
at the single rate before inspection revealed an enclosed £100
draft, requiring reassessment at the double-sheet rate of 2/4. The
enclosed letter by Henry Gordon refers to a “sad state of
melancholy” in the political climate, mercantile failures in
Glasgow and concern over a serious illness affecting Sir Patrick
Murray’s sons in Gibraltar. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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156 cover   image1831 (August 31), Royal Navy anti-slavery operations, triple-rate
entire to Captain Edward Blanckley aboard H.M.S. Pylades, sent from
London to Plymouth, with “Introductory letters Havana & Vera Cruz”
rated 2/9 in manuscript, the reverse with Plymouth arrival c.d.s.
(1 Sep), wrinkled, but a scarce naval usage connected with
preparations for anti-slavery service in the Caribbean and
Atlantic. Captain Edward Blanckley commanded H.M.S. Pylades, an
18-gun sloop-of-war preparing for service in South America and the
West Indies at a time when the Royal Navy was actively suppressing
the transatlantic slave trade. The docketing “Introductory letters
Havana & Vera Cruz” indicates that the packet contained letters
intended to facilitate Blanckley’s official contacts in Cuba and
Mexico, where relationships with local authorities were important
for cooperation in the interception of vessels engaged in illegal
slave trading. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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157 cover   image1831 (March 1), stampless folded letter from London to Genoa,
Sardinia, addressed “Poste Restante”, struck with orange-red
straight-line ANGLETERRE French entry marking, black circular T.F.
/ 3 MARS / 1831 transit c.d.s. and red straight-line 11 MARZO Genoa
arrival handstamp, with manuscript accounting notations on front
and reverse, some small imperfections, fine-very fine. The letter,
written by father to his daughter provides an account of financial
strain during the unsettled commercial climate following the French
July Revolution of 1830, the writer describing himself as being in
“dreadful distress,” and states that “credit is completely frozen” (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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158 cover   image1831 (October 2), Falmouth Packet letter from Exeter to Rio de
Janeiro, with extensive contents on the Reform Bill Crisis,
addressed to H.M.S. Seringapatam via Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Baker,
folded letter to Charles B. Arbuthnot Esq. aboard the 46-gun
frigate H.M.S. Seringapatam, sent under cover to Rear-Admiral Sir
Thomas Baker, Commander-in-Chief of the South American Station,
with bold red manuscript P 3/3 prepayment marking for the packet
rate to Brazil, manuscript '1' arrival notation at upper left, the
reverse with sharp Exeter c.d.s. (2 Oct) and partial red wax seal,
extensively cross-written on gold-edged stationery, a few internal
fold splits neatly stabilized by archival tape, else very fine.
Written at the height of the Reform Bill Crisis, the letter
provides a contemporary account of the tense political climate, the
writer noting that “the Lords are likely to throw out the Bill
which the Commons have struggled over so long” and warning that
“the consequences will be most serious” if it failed. The writer
also remarks that his father had recently left Parliament and is
celebrating academic achievements at Oxford. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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159 cover   image1833 (February 16), 1d sailor’s concessionary-rate letter from
H.M.S. Raven at Plymouth to Sheerness, Kent, with contents
describing a severe gale and fears for the ship’s safety, entire
letter from James Walker, seaman aboard H.M.S. Raven, to his father
at Victory Street, Mile Town, struck with red framed D / PAID / 16
FE 16 / 1833 Plymouth datestamp on front and Devonport (16 Feb)
c.d.s. on reverse, with large red manuscript 1 and vertical 9 ,
endorsed “from James Walker Seaman on board H.M. Ship Raven” and
countersigned by J.J. Birch, Commanding Officer to qualify for the
concessionary rate, small closed tear at top, some internal
wrinkling and minor soiling, else a fine example of this rate.
Walker's letter provides a vivid account of maritime hardship,
writing that the "Raven" had sailed from Plymouth on February 11,
1833, but was forced back after four days of a “very hard gale of
wind.” He reassures his parents that he is safe, fearing they might
otherwise hear reports that the vessel had been lost, and notes
that the ship had lost “some of our large and small spars and a
great many more articles marked with the ship’s name,” as well as
praises Sir George Young. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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160 cover   image1834 (February 24), Parliamentary Free Frank entire from London to
Portsmouth, addressed to Captain James Richard Dacres aboard H.M.S.
Edinburgh, entire signed at lower left by Sir George Henry Rose and
struck with clear red crowned FREE / 24 FE 24 / 1834 London
datestamp, the reverse with red wax seal and manuscript filing note
identifying Rose as the “Late minister to -”, very fine. Sir George
Henry Rose (1770-1855) was a prominent diplomat, long-serving
Member of Parliament and senior figure within the Tory political
establishment, having served as Clerk of the Parliaments and as
British Minister to Prussia. During the Reform Crisis of 1831–32 he
was a firm opponent of parliamentary reform. The recipient, Captain
James Richard Dacres, was then commanding the 74-gun H.M.S.
Edinburgh at Portsmouth and was already well known for his command
of H.M.S. Guerriere during her action with U.S.S. Constitution in
the War of 1812. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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