1948 POST OFFICE TRAINING MANUAL: An 'official' notebook (front cover damaged & worn, pp. 62-73 removed) titled "W.R.HORN POSTAL TNG SCHOOL" being a series of post office forms with hand written notes on their use taken while at Post Office Training School 12 April to 7 May 1948. Rare insight into bygone practices. (Image)
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c.1950 RARE EDUCATIONAL POSTER: Large (37" x 30") poster entitled "The Journey of a Letter" illustrated to show the route taken by a letter in the postal system. Folded. (Image)
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PICTURE POSTCARDS
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20th CENTURY PPCs INC. P.O. HANDLING: 1901-24 display collection inc. 1911 large view of Balmoral Castle cancelled on picture side with red "BALMORAL-CASTLE/A/SP 13/11/[crown]" cds; 1908 posted novelty card of a plaice with stamped label; 1910 posted novelty card of boating couple with stamped label; two 1912 PPCs sent to Japan with strips of paper attached written in Japanese to aid the letter sorters in Japan; also aluminium cards posted in 1904, cards liable to p.due with various hs's (3), and examples of different types/designs of PPCs (some unused); A varied lot in fine condition. (29)Cross Reference: ROYALTY (Image)