Great Britain 1885 8d UPU 2x Weight Folded Letter London Buenos Aires Argentina
Folded letter franked with 4d dull green vertical pair, tied by London hooded c.d.s. (17 JA), to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with c.d.s. arrival and sorting office backstamps (FE 17), the 4d pair paying the double UPU rate for mail under 1oz, likely sent via Liverpool in closed mail, a fresh and fine example of this rate.
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Great Britain 1891 Liversedge Yorkshire Mills Advertising Stationery Cover
2&1/2d rose postal stationery cover, with advertising for Cook & Sons & Co, with illustrations of Brussels & Power Kidder Factory, and Spinning Mills of Liversedge, Yorkshire, postmarked with London hooded c.d.s. (8 MY), to Rotterdam, Netherlands, with c.d.s. arrival backstamp, lovely quality.
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Great Britain 1911 First UK Aerial Post Postage Due Postcard to Deccan INDIA
First UK Aerial Post postcard, franked with 1/2d KGV, tied by "First United Kingdom Aerial Post" c.d.s. (Sep 9), to Deccan, India, with T/10 and POSTAGE DUE / ON ANNA boxed due markings, multiple SECUNDERABAD / DECCAN c.d.s. (30/31 Sep), edge wear and corner bumps, but a scarce destination.
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Great Britain 1931 Experimental Flight “CITY OF CAIRO” CRASH Cover Netherlands Indies
Cover franked with 4d and 1/- KGV, tied by London machine cancel (Apr 3), Imperial Airways Experimental Flight to Australia, carried on the DH66 Hercules "City of Cairo", crashed on the leg from Karachi and Koeping in the Netherlands Indies, with mail being forwarded onwards to Darwin by Kingsford-Smith in the "Southern Cross", Darwin c.d.s. backstamp (Ap 31), scarce and fine.
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Great Britain Postal Agency at Vigo Spain 1850 Stampless Folded Cover to London
Stampless folded cover, rated 4/8 in black, postmarked with neatly-struck VIGO double split-ring (May 30), used at the British Postal Agency, to London, with c.d.s. arrival backstamp (June 4), filing folds, yet a nice example of this scarce strike; the consular office at Vigo, as well as those in Lisbon, Cadiz, and Corunna, handled British mails despatched by sea. In 1837, a contract was signed with the Peninsular Steam Navigation Co. to provide a weekly service between Falmouth (later Southampton) and Vigo,, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar.
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Great Britain Used in Gibraltar 1878 A26 Folded Cover to Palermo Italy
Folded cover franked with 2-1/2d rosy mauve, Plate 10, tied by superior strike of Gibraltar A26 duplex (Type Z5), to Palermo, Italy, with c.d.s. arrival backstamp (10.78), a lovely cover.
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